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Show A MONSTROUS PROPOSITION. According to a statement which we find quoted in the Washington Post, the feeling of the Southern white man against the black Is undergoing a series of progression In Infamy. It quotes Ex-Governor Ex-Governor Russell -of North Carolina as saying this: The truth Is, v the negro Is" goinjr to fare best and be happiest when his position Is most subordinate. Financial and Industrial Indus-trial equality is as bad In the eyes of tho whites as social equality. The negro who gets very prosperous is to bo pitied, for straightway ho Is in a situation where danger confronts him. Lot him but own a fine farm, bloocTfd horses and cattle, and dare to ride in a carriage, and if I wero an insurance agent I wouldn't make out a policy on his life. In plain English, to got above his ordained station In life Is, generally speaking, to Invite assassination. assassina-tion. ; The negro, according to the ethics of the Southern white man, must not be heard of socially; next, he must be obliterated ob-literated politically; and these may in a measure be conceded to be local affairs with which the most of the country need not especially concern Itself, save only that It undoubtedly has the natural, the 'political, and the constitutional right to Insist that representation In Congress based on the politically suppressed sup-pressed race must be given up. But this further demand, that the negro ne-gro must not accumulate property, must not cultivate habits of thrift and fore-handedness, fore-handedness, is so monstrous a proposition, proposi-tion, so utterly contrary to all Ideas of economic virtue and of decency, that we do not believe for one moment that the Southern whites can possibly wish to enforce or defend it. The idea that a black man must be on guard for his life merely because he has shown In his life and conduct that he Is a good citizen, Industrious and carefu,l of his money, .and able to accumulate property, Is too atrocious for any but a crazy man to utter. |