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Title: The Southern states of North America: a record of journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: King, Edward, 1848-1896
Subjects: Southern States -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Blackie & son
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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a hundred negroes politicallyhostile to him on any remote plantation, fears for his life. A kind of tacitconfession of his superiority pervades his dusky dependents, and he might killhalf-a-dozen of them without incurring any danger of Lynch law. In the MORAL GRADES AMONG THE BLACKS. 779 cities where the negroes flock together idly and become more vicious thanin the country, occasional cutting and shooting among themselves are notuncommon; and now and then w hen a white man kills one of their number, theyresent the slaughter by riot, but they rarely bring the offender to justice. Itwould, I think, be perfectly fair to say that not half-a-dozen white men havebeen hung in the South since the war, for the murder of negroes. I believeconviction for such a crime would be quite impossible in the present state ofopinion in some Southern States. That there is a large class of negroes who are intrinsically mean andgravitating steadily downward towwrd the worst phases of rascality, there is no
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Southern Types — A Little Unpleasantness. doubt. About one-third of the negroes in the South is in a very hopefulcondition; another third seems to be in a comparatively stationary attitude ;another third is absolutely good for nothing, prefers theft to honest labor, andmakes no steady progress in morality, refinement, or education of any kind.The religion of the negroes in many parts of the South appears prettycompletely divorced from morality. It is difficult to persuade ones self that the blacks as yet deserve recognitionas a moral race. Their best friends will admit that, though very religious, theyare also very immoral. Adultery, which is a mortal sin among the Northernand Southern white religionists, is simply venial to the black man. His conver- 8o THE X E G K (J S CONSCIENCE, sion to the religion of the Lord does not seem to build up the negros conscience.The tough moral fibre of the Anglo-Saxon, -which came only by slow growth, isnot perceptible in the negro; neither could i

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