Indianapolis Sentinel, Volume 34, Number 123, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 May 1885 — Page 12

THE INDIANAPOLIS DAILI SENTINEL5 SUNDAY MOENING MAY- S 1885.

' i ir i I" .V. 2 ? n ! t Y -yx-rrr TE DEDil. The poem "Te Dean" by Emily Taoratou Ch&rle, Is zinnias hUh praise tor Its author, as Ihe following will testify John Swinton, the noted Near Yorx editor say: "The Te Deura Is indeed a fine poaa, full of xcnslc and majesty." Mr. J. It. Murray, editor Musical Visitor, say of it: This poem apart from 'its intrinsic merit U rexaaikable as a specimen of raymnln?, a facility which the aathor of the poem poessas in a wonderful degree. We leava the reader to discover the 'crls cross' ietatiou of the words to each Other." The following is the poem : Zephyrs are playlnj? over the meadow. hlle light and shadow chequer the gren ; Thronet leafy cover are sunbeams dancing, Brightly enhancing with beauty the sceuv. '.SVath branches swaying, the dew Is layin?, Emerald waving the setting of flowers; As plea of lover with rapture tnritls me. Amotion stills me eaiarallj for hours. O'er bcndlnt; Brasses where dewdrops Rllstcn, I lean and listen, while breath of prin With incense laden, from tleld and flower, from sylvan bower, Heaven's prais3 doth sing. O craceful masses I O lovely blendlns! U theme unending of mead and flower! B-.ililer of Aldenl my soul uplifted From shadows sifted, proclaims thy power. In sheltered hover the bird are slnjin?, the homage Lrinilus; of worldleM voice; Like barp-atrinzs lalry, that zepäyrs play on, Ju voiceless pii-an, my thouguis rejoice. i-'roia mead of clover, tuosa thoughts upsoar ing. To find the!r moorlns:. o'er perfumed bloaa , On piuions airy, Heaven to lnnerit, snail lift mr spirit abors tue tomb. Emily Thornton Charles. TUE COLORED J:ACE IX TUE SOUTU TV BOB ROY. The Century Magazine for January and April, rf EpectiYely, contained papers from two Southern writers upon the race question In tha South. "The Freedtnan's Caae in Equity" by George W. Cabla, held that a strong prejudice on the part of the whites artiest the negro has mad9 inoperative laws enacted for the protection of the latter; that the latter's interest demanded the breaking dewn of all distinctions between the races, and that white and black shall intermingle, indiscriminately, everywhere. The3e propositions were maintained by Mr. Cable's unctions pen in a manner to carry conviction where the error of his premises is not understood. "In Plain Black and White,'; In the April Century, Mrl Henry W. Grady, of Georgia, traverses Mr. Cable's arguments. While not so widely reputed in the sphere of letters as is the author of "The Grandlssemes," Mr Grady is, nevertheless, the more competent judge of the question, and even brings to the dltcusjion and conclusion the wore persuasive pen. In the editorial chair of the South's first newspaper, the Atlanta Constitution, the mcst trenchant cf South rn writers, he Is a liberal spirit, practical and thoroughly posted ca the race question. Ue challenges Mr. Cable's Imjiariiality. "Born in the South," he says of him, "ef Northern parents,he appears to have had little sympathy with bis Southern environment, as in 1S32 he wrote, 'To be in Hew England would be enough for me. I was there once a year ao and it se8ai3d as if I had never been home till then.' It will be suggested that a man so out of harmony with his neighbors as to cay, even after he had fought Bido by side wita them cn the battle-field, that he never feltat ho-ne until he had left them, can not speak uachrfciendirgly of their views on so vital a subject as that under discuisicn." He thinks Mr. Cable docs not truly represent tha South ; that he has not even a dreaming theorist there to endorse his via 3. He sa;s: "Amocg the thonhlfal men of the South the nr.en who felt teat all brave msn m:ght quit fi'btinjr, when General Lee surrendered -who, enshrining in their hearts the heroic jnemorie3 of the cause they had lost, in ood .faith accepted ths arbitrament of tbe STcrd to which they tad, appealed who b?stirred themselves cheerfully amid the rains of their hemes, ana set abont the wort cf rehabilitation v. ho have patched end rr ended and buildod anew, and fashioned out of a r-itifal ie?onrca a larger prosperity than thev ever knew b!cre7ho have fet their homrs on tie old red hills, and sttked the'r honor and jrcsyerity and tho po.ice and ell being ol the child who shall come after them on the clear and fquitab'o solution cf every eccial, industrial, cr political problem thit concerns tha South among thote rnea who control ard will cent nun to central, I do know, there ij jieneral pretest sgiinst Mr. dole's etatemrat cf the case, and universal probst scair.st his soggsstir.ns f t the future. Tne mind of thes men I shall attempt tr sp?akt znaintainice my riiht to speat from th? t'edp that,' having except'onal roeat!3 for knowing their views on thl3 subject, and twine irarcd no rains to keep fallv inforned thereof, I sh write down notbia in their naro on wh'ch I have, f und even a fractional difference of opinion." With engsgine frankness Mr. Grady sab znlts that the South will never adopt Mr. Cable's succeEtien of the social Intermingling of the races; that it can never be driven into it. This might be, by a rabid Republican,

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IIEADQu AUTEE3 es's 6S. ftUI 00LLAR;ST3RE, ..;. ' i i i i i m i i in p and 45 East W&Vaias'.on 8. enstrued into a violent R&umplioa or even hi fat tut for his next lines: ' The intelligence of both races is moving farther from that pronosition day by dy. It is more impossible (it I may shade a superlative) now than it was ten years a?o; it will he lets possible ten years hence. Neither race want it. The Interest, as the inclination, of both races is against it. The South replies that the assortment of the races is wise and proper, and elands cn the platform cf equal accommodation for each race, but separate." Mr. Cable admits an antagonism between the two races when they are forced into mired essemblagcs, v;hich sinks out of eight if net out cf existence when each race moves in its own sphere. Mr. Cable donbt3 if this antagonism is Inst in ctive. Mr. Grady holds that it is inst ructive deeper than prejudic or pride, and bred in the bone and the blood. He illustrates it by the ineffectiveness of the mission to the South of Bishop Gilbert Haven of the Methodist EnUcopal Church, to break up the assortment of the races there. Within a short time after the good bishop had brought the races together, two separate churches were established and each race worshiped to itself. The spirit for separation was alixe in black and white. '.Rio spirit is strong in both that "the white and black races in the South must walk apart. Concurrent their course may go ought to go will go but separate. If Instinct did not mate this plain in a flash, reason would spell it out letter by letter." Mr. Grady, premising the instinct that gathers each race to ittelf, writes the question that he may answer it: "Is it possible to cirry forward ou the eame soil and under the eame laws two races equally free, practically equal in numbers, and yet entirely distinct and separate?" From his answer are reproduced the following extracts: "Let us examine briefly what the South has been doing, and study the attitude of the races toward each other. Let us do this, not to much to vindicate the past 83 to clear the way for the future. Let us eee what this situation teacbe3. There must be in the experience of fifteen years something definite and suggestive. We begin with the school! r.nd school management, as the basis of the rest. "Every 8ontkern State has a commonschool system, and in every State separate schools are provided for the races, Almost every city of more than five thousand inhabitants has a public 6chool system, ana in every city the schools for whites and blacks are separate. "There is no exception to this rule that I can find. In many cases the law creating this8vstem requires that eeperate schools ehall be provided for the races. This plan works admirably. There is no friction in the administration of the schools, and no suspicion as to the ultimate tendency of the system. The road to school is clear, and both races walk therein with confidence. The whites assured that the school will not be made tne hot-bed ol false and pernicious ideas, or the scene of unwise association?, support the system cordially, and insut on perfect equality in grade and elliciency. The blacks, asking no more than this, fill the schools with alert and eager children. So far from iesling debased früm the separateecbcol sjstem, they insist that the separation bell be carried further, and the few white teechersjet presiding over r.egro schools sapplated by nero teachers. The appropriations fcr public echools are increasing year after year, and free education grows continually in strength and popularity. Cities that were afraid to commit themselves to free schools while mixed rchools were a possibility commenced baildtng schoolhouses as soon as separate schools were assured. In 1S7Ö the late Benjamin II. Hill found his matchless eloquence unable to carry the suggestion of negro education into popular tolerance. Ten years later nearly one million black children attended free fchcols, supported by general taxation. Thonh the whltea pay nh:eu -twentieths of the tax, they insist that the blacks shall share its advantages equally. Tne schools for each race are opened on the same diy and clcsed on the same day. Neither i3 run a single day at too expense of tee other. The negroes are satisfied with the situation. ? Tne educational proolem, which 13 their special care, has already been settled, nd the settlement tccepted with a heartiness that precludes the possibility of its disturb tnce. Frcm the standpoint of either race 5 he experiment cf diatiuce but equal schools .'or the white ami black children of the South has demonstrated it3 wisdom, its policy and us justice, if any exneriraent ever nude plain its wisdom in th hands of finite man. "I quote on this subject Gustavns J Orr, cze of the wisest and best o! men, and lately ejected, by spontaneous movement, presi cent of the National Educational Associa ticn. He says: 'The race question lathe schools is already settled. We give the negroes equal advantages, but separate echooli. This plan meets the reason and satisfies the instinct ol both races. Under it we have spent over ?3,OöO,COO, in Georgia, and the tyMem grows in strength constantly. I aktd if the negroes wanted mixed schools. His reply was prompt: They do not. I have qut6tioned them carefully on this pointand tney make but one reply: They want thalr children in their own schools and under their own teachers.' I asked what woild b9 tl:e e Sect cf mixed schools. I could not maintain the Georgia system one yar. Bitb. races would protest against '.t. My record as a public-school man is known. I have dsvotf d my life to the wort of education. Bat I am so sure of the evils that woald oiae from mixed schools that, even if they were possible, I would see the whole educational sjBtem swept awty before I would ee then established. There is an instinct that gathers each race about itself. It is ai strong in the blacxa as In the whites, though it has

not asserted itself so strongly. It is making ittelf manifest, since the blacks are organizing a social system of their own. It has long controlled them in their churches, and it is cow doing eo in their schools.' "In churches, ai in schools, the separation is perfect. Ths negroes, in all denominations in which their membership is an appreciable percentage oi the whole, have their own churches, congregations, pastors, conferencei and bishops, their own missionaries. There is cot the slightest antaonieru between thsm and the white churches of the, same deucmipsttor), On the contrary, there is sjnipatbfrlic interest and the nlniöit friendliES The separation is recognized as not enly Instinctive but wise. -There is no disposition to disturb it, and least of all on the part of the negro. The church is with him the center cf social life, and there he wants to find his own people and no others. "In their eocial institutions, as in their churches and echcols, the negroes have obeyed their instinct and kept apart from the whites. They have their own social and benevolent societies, their own military companie?, their own orders of Masons and Odd Fellows. They rally about these organizations with the greatest enthusiasm and support them with the greatest liberality. If it were proposed to merge them with white organizations of the eame character, with equal rights guaranteed in all, the negroes would interpose the stoutest objection. Their tastes, associations and inclinations their instincts lead them to gather their race about social centers of its own, I am tempted into trying to explain here what I have never yet seen a stranger to the South able to understand. The feeliDg that by mutual action, separates whites and blncks when they are thrown togetherin social intercourse Is not a repellent influence in the harsh sense of that word.!It is centrippetal rather than centrifugal. It is attractive about eeparate centers lather than expul

sive from a common center. There is no antagonism, lor example, between white and biacK military companies. On occasions they parade in" the eame street and have none of tb ff elinc that exists between Orancemen and Catholics. Of courr e ths good sense of each race and the mutual recognition of the possible dacgers of the situation have much to do with mantaicing the good-will between the distinct races. The fact that in his own church or society the nero has more freedom more chance for leadership and for individual development, than he could have in association with the whites, has more to do with it. But beyond all this is the fact that, in the segregation of tha races, blacks as well as whites obey a natural instinct, which, always granting that they get equal justice and equal advantages, they obsv without the slightest ill-nature or withcut any sense of difgrace. They meet the whiie people in all the avenues of business. They work tide by tide with the white bricklayer or carpenter in perfect accord and friendliness. When the trowel or the hammer is laid aside, the laborers part, each goiDg his own way. Any attempt to carry the comradeship of" the day Into private life would be sternly resisted by both parties in interest" After reciting in detail tho satisfactory requirements, by the recent laws, from common carriers, for equal accomodations for races and tha accession of colored citizans to jury duty, Mr. Gr ady concludes with this round up: So much for the relations between the races in the South, in churches, schools, social organizations, on the railroads, and in theaters. Everything is placed on ths basis of equal accommodations, but separate. In the courts the blacks are admitted into the iury-box as they lift themselves into the limit of qualification. Mistakes have bsen made and injustice has been worked, here and there. This was to have been expected, and it has been less than might have been expected. But there can be no mistake abont the progress the South is making in the equit able adjustment of the relations between the races. Ten years ago nothing ,was Eettled. There were frequent collisions and constant apprehensions. The whites were suspicious and the blacks were restless So simple a thing as a negro taking an hour's ride on the cars. or going to see a play, was fraught with possible danger. Tha larger affairs school, church and court were held In abeyance. Now all this is changed. The era of doubt and mistrust is succeeded by the era cf confidence and good-will. The races meet In the exchange of labor in perfect amity and underetandiDg. Together they carrv on the concerts of the day, Knowing little or nothing of the fierce hostility that divides labor and capital in other sections. When they turn to social life they separate. Each race separate. Each race obeys Its instinct and congregates about its own centers. At ths theater they fit in opposite sections of the same gallery. On the trains they ride each in his own car. Each worships in his own church and educates his children in his own schools. Each has bis place and fills it, and is satisfied. Each gets the same accommodation for the same money. There is no collision. There i3 no irritation or suspicion. Nowhere on earth is there kindlier feeling, clcser sympathy, or less friction between two classps of society than between the whites and blacks cf the South to day. This is dne to the fact that in the adjustment of their relations they have been practical and sensible. They have witely recognized what was essential, and have not sought to change what was unchangeable. They have yielded neither to the fanatic nor the demagogue.ref usirg to be misled by the one or misused by the other. While the world has been clamcriDg ever their differences they have been quietly taking counsel with each other, in tne field, tha shop, the street and cabin, and settling things for themselves. That the result bao not astonished the world in the sreedicess and the facility with which it ha3 ben reached, an i the b?nsBc?nc9 that has come with It, is due to the fact that tin result has not been freely proclaimed. It hai ben a dep!orah!e condition of our polttigs that the North lias been misinformed as to the true condition cf things in the South. Fclitical greed and passion conjured pestilential mists to becloud what the lifting smoke oT battle left clear. It has exaggerated where there was a grain of fact, and invented wbera there was none. It has sought to establish the most casuil occurrences a the settled habit of the section, and has pruns; endless jeremiads from one sinele tiisorder, as Jenkins filled the courts ot Christendom with lamentations over his misrepresentations over his diesevered ear. These ruiErepre?entnt!oos will pass awav with the occasion that provoked them, and when the truth is known it will c?me with the fcrcs of a revelation to vindicate those who Lave bapoken for the South a fair trial, and to confound tho-e who have borne falsa witness f gainst her." A Pictured Leaf. We uraitp li.Vs book with eager hand. Through love no brief, through joy and pnef. To obr nee from bty-laij J. . Our thoughts dwell on thlspictured lea!: A faint perfume, a moraine mist. u : if wr:ca m the ne:a taveemnea. An Feuern sky by Glory kissed. A branch of palm, a little caild. A crown of thorn where shadows p&lL GethFerrne in deep repose Biit Love sleeps not and outlasts all When time bhall come the book to close. -Frank Daniel Elisa la New York WorlL

JEFFEXtSON'3 RELIGION.

Views ot the Aathor of the Declaration on L.lfe Beyond the Grave. There is probably no one conversant with th history cf Thomas Jefferson bat who has heard of the various charges brought against his religions doctrines. The following documents, throwing light upon the subject, have never appeared in print but once, and then very few reoDle had an ODnortnnitv to TPrl them. They consist of a letter written by Win. Canby, an eminent member of the Fiiendi' Society, to Thomas Jefferson, and his reply thereto, and will be read with interest as revealing the religious thoughts and feelings of one who hE3 occupied the Presidential chair: - MR. CAXCr's LETTER. Eighth Moyrn, 23, 1313. EsTzn.MED Friend Thomas Jefferson. I have for years felt at times affection for thee, with a wish for thy salvation, to wit: Thy attainment while on the stage of time (In the natural body) of a suitable proportion of divine life, for otherwise we know little more than the life of nature, and therein are in danger of becoming inferior to beasts that perish in the offer of divine life made to every rational being. But I have lone had better-hopes of thee, and have thought, particularly in our little quiet meeting of yesterday, that thou hadst teen faithful In heart in a few things, and wish thou mayest become ruler over more, and enter into the joy of our Lord and into His seat. And it occurs, in order thereto, that we should become Christians; lor he who hath not thti spirit of Christ is none of His, and knowledge is strongly insisted, I tiink, by divers of the Apcstles who had particularly ssen and were eye witnesses of His majesty, particularly in tho mount and of others who had not tbat view, which, however, was sllicient to perfect them, and was to d taken away, that they might ba more effectually turned to that spirit which lead?th unto all truth whoe power alone i3 ablo to redece the spirit of nature into suitable silence and subjection. W.n. Casüv. ME. JEFFFRSON'S REI'LY. Sib I have duly received your favor of August 29, and am sensible of the kind intentions from which it flows, and truly for them the more so as they could only be the result of a favorable estimation of my public course. During a long life as mucn devoted to duty as a faithful discharge cf the trust confided to me would permit, no object has occupied more of my considera tion than our relation with the beings around us, our duties to them ami our future prospects. After hearing and reading everything which probably can ba suggested concerning them I have formed the best judgment I could as to the course they prescribe, and in the due observance ot that course I have no recollections which give me any remorse. A subsequent preacher of your religious tociety,Kichard Mott, in a discourse cf much unction and path03, is eaid to have exclaimed aloud to hia congregation that he did not believe there was a tjaaker, Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist in Heaven. Havicg paused to give his audience time to stare and wonder, he said that in Heaven Gcd knew no distinctions but considered 8ll gcod men as His children and brethren of the same family. I believe, with the (Quaker preacher, that tnose who steadily observe those moral precepts in which all religions concur will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in whicn they differ that on enteritg there all these are left behind uj. The Arietidesea and Catos, Penna and Tilloteons, Prssbyterians and Baptists, .will find themselves united in all principles which are la concert witn the reason of the supreme mind. With all the systems of morality, ancient and modern, which have come under my observation none appear to me so' pure as that ot Jesus. Ha who follows this steadily need not, I think, be uneasy, although he can not comprehend the mysteries and subtletl ?s erected in His doctrines by those who, calling themselves His special followers and favorites, would make Him come into the world to lay snares for all understandings but theirs. The metaphysical heads, nnsurping the judgment seat of Gcd, denouncing as His enemies all who can not perceive this geometrical logic of Euclid in the demonstration of Anthanaslus tbat three are in one and cne in three, and yet that three are not one nor the one three. In all essential points, you and I are of the eame religion, and I am too old to go into inquiries and charges as to the unessential. Repeating, therefore, my thankfulness fcr the kind concern you have been eo cood a3 to express. I salute you with fiier-dship and brotherly love. Tnos. Jefferson. Monticello, Sept 17, 1S13. John Randolph's log4. Cleveland Leader. John Kandolph, cf Roanoke, was as peculiar when it came to dogs as he was fa many other respects. Mr. Henderson, the intelligent barber under the American House, lived in Richmond, Va . when, he was a little shaver he is a big one now, and a very good one, by the way and often saw old John, and heard his piping voics. Randolph had relatives In Richmond, and frequently drove up from Roanoke to visit them. His carriage was very large, very fhowy, and very much admired. It had great leather straps for springs, and a high seat in front for the driver. When he came Into Richmond Randolph kicked up a vast amount of dust, and people ran to the windows to see him pass. Three horses dragged the carriage. The leader was ridden by Juba, a black man, while John, the driver, sat on the eeatand drove the other two. Randolph on such occasions would lean back and gaze about him the Eame as if he had been a king or a conquerer. Trailing behind the carriage were five or eix immense greyhounds, who eeemed to recognize the pomposity cf their situation, for they turned up their noses at the other doss and said nothing. Juba was invested with tbe exclcsive care -of the?e dos, and as ordered by his mastsr to furnish then1, wilh clean platea to eat fro-n, and wiih tbe best stfaks that the market afforded. Ucd-r no circumstances woaJd liinrlolph pern-it hie dogs to eat scraps from the table. Tfceir tnates were tickled with choice cuts, and their thirst quenched with rich milk. Do4s were very numerous in thess days, and men were paid premiums for catching ai d killing tbem. . As the Randolph caravan was approaching Richmond one day, the handsomest dos in the procession ran aheai to see what he could 6ee. Presently he encountered two catchers who threw a net over bis head and then proceeded to tia a rae around his neck. He whined and Dirked, aid Jcba. hearing the cmimotion. dus his epura into the flanks of his leader, while John cracked his whip, and the whole partv, Randolph, Juba and John, were borne along on a run to the rescue. The catchers were just about to disappear m tha woods by the tide of the road with their pr?zs when Randolph drew up. Taking in the situation he prcdncfd a pi3lol and ordered the release of his dc- The catchers compiled at ones, whereupon Randolph screamed oat in his psculiarly shrill manner: "Jubi, O Jub, fetch oule water and wash the dog -fcfcere the pcor white men bad hold of him." Women are invading the domain oi the "drnmmer" in England. Or the cat, bear and tquiml the latter only can run down a tree head first.

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