Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Wiroa-Week-3 Title A name given to the resource This Week in Reconstruction, January 15-21, 1871 Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Megan Wiora Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource January 15-21, 1871 Description An account of the resource The week's papers dealt with race relations. The rights of African-American people on railcars was very prevalent, for the state government discusses issues pertaining to railcars, however apparent racism deterred government officials from voting for the rail companies to have better quality railcars for Black customers. Other articles were written on this issue, for a citizen proposed that people should be fined and imprisoned if they discriminate on railcars, but it was dismissed. There were also police court reports for assaults against a black child that was dismissed. The paper disregards these claims, and concludes that these people are out of line and should be more grateful and claims that only a few African-Americans feel this way. Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound We have not yet seen that Negroes have been in favor of amnesty. They are too much inclined to slavery to be independent, and they follow the commands of their malignant leaders like dog's their masters. They do not perceive that they are making war upon the only people who can help them, and siding with the descendant and heir of the slave-trader upon the high seas, who bought their ancestors, at the rate of a gallon of New England rum for a dozen of them, and imported them to this country. This, of course, nobody can be surprised at. Such blindness and willfulness, however, is capable of any imaginable caprice and infidelity, and those who use the negro now may look to become the objects of his hate and execration at some future time. The mulatto, Downing, who keeps the rant in the Federal Capitol, and who smuggles whiskey to guests, against law, in plated metal cups, has recently honored Richmound with a visit , and he illuminates the New York Times with a letter, giving his impressions of the state of things in Virginia and his conclusion against amnesty. What impudence! What insufferable assurance ! No white man, not blinded by prejudice and brutalized by malice, could read what he says without indignantion. Downing arraigns the white people of Virginia upon the accusation that they don't give bread and board to negroes. The accusation is false; for the farmers have nearly ruined themselves in their effort to turn free negro labor to advantage-treating negroes with the greatest kindness, sharing their meat and bread with them. and at the end of the year they have not made enough to pay the wages of the negroes and their taxes. What more can they do? Shall they give their lands-all that they have-to the negro? When the Government deprived them of their property in negroes, it took from them what was under the Constitution as much property as the land or anything else that the northern farmer holds as property. Was t he southern farmer required to support the liberated slave ? Was not the sacrifice forced upon him enough as his part of the contribution to abolition? The negro is free, lie knows how to work. He ought to be able to take care of himself. The effort to take care of him has been a failure. Let him try to manage his own affairs. He will be liberally treated : and when he shows his capacity to improve lands and pay for them be can easily buy them. Slavery was a sort of "cooperative" labor system. The master furnished the head and directed movements, the laborer sharing results at least to the extent of sustenance, clothing, and shelter. Now he is deprived of these advantages of "cooperation," he must see how he can secure them by his own independent industry. The great bulk of masters, as .John Randolph once said, were slaves to the negro. They cannot he expected to give up their estates to him. But there must be no amnesty because of alleged injustice to the negro! Downing, the mulatto-who, "If lie was in Hayti, would have to take refuge in a little corner among the mulattos to avoid the hostility of the negro-protests against it, and so do negro conventions. It is a great piece of impudence as well sis injustice in these people. Without employment from the white man they cannot live; and why should they causelessly war upon him?-upon their best friend?-nay, the only man who can do them any solid and lasting good? Well, these things will all have an end. The negro will find out his interest as well as his place after a time, after having wandered through the bogs and brambles in pursuit of the Jack-o-lanturn of political delusions which has been held before them by detestable hypocrites and impostors for their own personal advantage. URL http://virginiachronicle.com/cgi-bin/virginia?a=d&d=DD18710117&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------# Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1871-01-17 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context WioraMegan-18710117-TheNegroAgasintAmnesty.pdf Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Richmond Daily Dispatch Title A name given to the resource The Negro against Amnesty