in exactly the opposite direction.


WISER VIEWS.

There are men, however, in the South, wise, conscientious and "to the
manner born," who take entirely different views of this great problem.
The Hon. J.L.M. Curry, once a General in the Confederate Army,
subsequently the efficient Secretary of the Peabody Fund, more recently
our Minister in Spain, and now again at his post as Secretary of the
Peabody Fund, utters himself in this forcible language:

"I want to say to you, in perfect frankness, that the man who
thinks the Negro problem has been settled is either a fanatic or
a fool. I stand aghast at the problem. I don't believe
civilization ever encountered one of greater magnitude. It casts
a dark shadow over your churches, your government of the future.
It is a great problem which will tax your energies. Your
ancestors and mine a few years ago were cannibals and pagans.
They have become what they are, not by virtue of white skin, but
by improving government and good laws. You let the Negro
children get an education where yours do not, let the Negro be
superior to you in culture and property, and you will have a
black man's government. Improvement, cultivation, education is
the secret, the condition and guarantee of race supremacy. I
will astonish you, perhaps, by saying that if the Negro develops
and becomes in culture, property and civilization, superior to
the white man, the Negro ought to rule. You see to it that he
does not become so. The responsibility rests with you."