Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — THE NEGRO PROBLEM. [ARTICLE]

THE NEGRO PROBLEM.

At Charleston, on the 3d, Rev. I. S. Lee delivered an address to a large number of people, during which he said: “We make a great mistake when we suppose that the Anglo-Saxon gave us our enfranchisement for the love he had for us. He did it because he thought he could use us. Whenever the white man does, anything for’ Us, "the Northerner,’ or Southerner,’ mark my word, it is only be cause he thinks he can use us as his tools. No more faith can be put in Republicans than in Democrats. They are both AngloSaxons and do nothing for us unless it it to their advantage to do so, and will throw us overboard, ‘like Uncle Ben’ in Johnson’s story, as they find us too heavy. v “We must show our independence, and the sooner we do this the better. Let some of us leave—go to Africa if necessary, there is plenty of room there, and show that we can get along without the Anglo-Saxon, and by this spirit of inde pendence make them learn and appreciate our value. Independence and emigration are, in my opinion, the only solution oi this great question. ’•