rike a blow for liberty, the good
nigger would inevitably be there to join in the shaping of plans, only
to go out and hang his fellow-conspirators.

The San Domingons in their struggle for liberty found this good nigger a
most formidable barrier, and those who are familiar with the history of
that bloody struggle know just how heart-sickening was the taking off of
this creature wherever found. In many instances they cut off his toes,
his fingers, his ears, his nose, stuffed pieces of these extremities
into his mouth, and left him to die a slow death. The emancipation and
the consequent opportunities for intellectual advancement have not
changed this good nigger, for in numerous instances you will find him
well educated, and often swaying quite an influence in a community. But
he is generally an ignorant, shiftless fellow, forever lamenting about
his freedom, flaying the Yankees for taking him away from his master,
who took care of him. He still likes to sit around on the back steps of
the whites' residences to talk about good old days when he was free from
the responsibility of "keerin' fer mase'f." Or, in higher walks of life,
from pulpit and public rostrum, he's bewailing the shortcomings of his
own people and magnifying the virtues of the whites. He stands among the
ashes of the victims of a mob's fury to abuse the Negro for having been
killed, and to praise the whites for the crime.

George R. Shaw, a prominent negro, writes a card to the public, in which
he says:

"One reason why such crimes are committed by negroes is that there is no
discipline over negro children. From ten years up they are allowed to
loaf about from place to place and with all kinds of characters. They
have no moral restraints. Book learning in colleges dooms the negro to
be fit for nothing. They think they cannot do manual labor. What my
people need is an industrial, moral, common school training. Lynching
does no good, and makes bad worse. The brute who will commit these
crimes never sees a newspaper. Sam Hose and all such should die, but not
at the hands of a mob. The negro must be taught to abhor crime from
principle, not through fear. Let critics take this Sam Hose case home to
themselves. If the same crime was to happen in my immediate vicinity
most any of us would do very nearly like those Georgians did. If we did
not lynch him we would hold the clothing of those that were doing the
lynching."

Shortly after the burning of Sam Hose