There is no reason to believe that the two races cannot live together comfortably even though the blacks be in a large majority, but there must be no question of white control of the local government and of the machinery of justice.
The Englishman in England is chiefly impressed by the stories of Southern outrages upon the blacks and he gets therefrom an erroneous idea of the character of the Southern white.
And yet the defense of these eleven Southern States with their five million white population and four million blacks was a task to stagger the imagination of the greatest statesman of any age.
These poor ignorant blacks kissed the hand that bound them and called him their best friend.
The gallant little bay broke and fell behind; Brann gave a loud laugh; the blacks trotted on, their splendid pace unchanged.
The blacks broke wildly, but, strange to say, the old sorrel increased his speed.
He turned to see what Brann meant by it; he did not see that the blacks were crowding him to the gutter; his hands felt numb.
In taking this step, however, Congress did not intend to allow the legal and constitutional rights of the blacks to be waived without a contest.
A crowd of negroes attending a convention in New Orleans in behalf of suffrage for their race became engaged in a fight with white anti-suffragists and many of the blacks were killed.
Rumor was widespread that the government was going to give each negro forty acres of land and a mule, and the blacks loafed about, awaiting the division.
Nevertheless, the result was merely to delay the gradual elimination of the blacks from political activity, not to prevent it.
Vagrancy laws enabled the magistrates to set unemployed blacks at work under arrangements that amounted almost to peonage.
Sumner and other radicals were determined that the blacks should be enfranchised in order that they might protect themselves from hostile local legislation and also in order that they might form part of a southern Republican party.
In the South, in Alabama and Mississippi the blacks sang it when they rolled cotton bales onto the steamers in the rivers.
In Chicago, for the most part, the blacks lived crowded into a few streets on the South Side.
How far away he had got from his own people, from the blacks of the African forests!
Young blacks in boats floated down rivers and came to a town they intended to attack at dawn.
Look out," one of them gasped, "the blacks are out.
Snakes are bad, doctor, and the blacks are worse; but it was a free and healthy life out there, and one always felt as if one was getting on.
The next day she wandered on and on, helplessly lost, ever changing her course, and fleeing in dread from the blacks she felt assured were on her trail.
But still no further attack was made, it seeming evident that the blacks were holding a consultation amongst themselves in the shelter of the trees and bushes but a short distance off.
The luscious blacks and pale reds and the neutral cream silk cape make for a colour harmony seldom achieved.
The blacks call it a rain-maker, for if any one steals its eggs it cries out incessantly "Bougoodoogahdah" until in answer to its call the rain falls.
The blacks knew a goolahgool, amongst other trees, by the mark which the overflow of water made down the trunk of the tree, discolouring the bark.
Then he asked some of the other blacks to give him some doonburr seeds that he might make durrie for himself, But no one would give him anything.
The legends were told to me by theblacks themselves, some of whom remember the coming of Mitchellan, as they call Major Mitchell, the explorer of these back creeks.
The two little dogs were changed into dayall minyah, a very small kind of carpet snake, non-poisonous, for these two little dogs had never bitten the blacks as the other dogs had done.
At last some of the black fellows raised their spears and their moorillahs or nullah-nullahs, saying: "If you do not tell us where the blacks are gone, we shall kill you.
After their descent from having hidden the smouldering fire stick, Bibbee and Murrawondah found the blacks and told them what they had done.
After theblacks had been gone about three days, one night came their enemies, the Gooeeays, intending to surprise them and kill them.
When the net was fixed, some of the blacksmade a wide circle round the emu's nest, leaving open the side towards the net.
The old blacks laugh now when they tell you how frightened their mothers were of the first wheel tracks they saw.
The blacksat Hilton Head, who have had our Indian-meal given them as rations, cannot eat the "red flour.
Footnote 39: The "Brick Church" was a Baptist Church which had always been used by both blacks and whites.
In short, I don't regard the blacks as of any account in a military light, for they are not a military race, and have not sufficient intelligence to act in concert in any way where firmness of purpose is required.
The auctioneer is at Washington trying, not to have the sale postponed, but to have lands set apart and given the blacks beforehand, and we dread lest any day we should hear that it has been delayed.
If we succeed financially, it will prove that free labor is self-sustaining, and that the blacks are capable of becoming a useful laboring class immediately after leaving their masters' hands, and this fact is of vast importance.
Boston is wide awake on the subject, and I am determined to see if something can't be done to prove that the blacks will work for other motives than the lash.
They ridicule the idea that these blacks can ever again be claimed by their runaway masters, which is a satisfactory foundation for our exertions in overseeing their labor and general deportment.
If we can have blacks to garrison the forts and save our soldiers through the hot weather, every one will be thankful.
Some of the blacks mean to buy--we don't wish them to till the war is over, as our tenure here is too uncertain for them to sink their money.
The starving, naked condition of the blacks was much exaggerated when we started to come down here.
The colonists referred to at the beginning of the next letter were a thousand blacks from the island of Edisto, which the United States Government, after taking, had evacuated, as too troublesome to hold.
The blackscertainly behaved extremely well, and Moll told the men they might have the corn, which of course they refused to take.
Neither do I believe that the war will terminate slavery unless the blacks will voluntarily take a part in it.
You know that the Yankees are trying to make you blacks all free, don't you?
It was reported that the organized charities of Macon, in dealing with the question of the unemployed, urged whites employing negroes to discharge the blacksand hire whites.
New blacks have been added to all of the negro residential blocks.
The delegates believed that the time had come for the best element of the whites and blacks to unite to protect the interests of both races to the end that more effective work may be done in the upbuilding of a greater South.
The consensus of opinion is that the blacks are profitable laborers, but that their efficiency must be decidedly increased to compete with that of the white workers.
The older generation of whites and blacks avoided much friction by a sort of mutual understanding.
Throughout the South there was not only a change in policy as to the method of stopping the migration of the blacks to the North, but a change in the economic policy of the South.
The school registration of the city showed that the largest numbers of these blacks came from Mississippi and West Tennessee.
Accordingly, joint meetings of the whites and blacks were held to hear frank statements of the case from speakers of both races.
Importuned for help, the National League on Urban Conditions among Negroes supplied these planters with respectable southern blacks who met this unusual demand for labor in Connecticut.
It seemed to him that the russets were more appropriate anyway, but the blacks were easier to lace.
Had I noticed whether the men on board were wearing russet or black as a rule, and did Alice remember whether it was one of the russets or one of the blacks that he was saying the other day pinched his toe?
Mill was a prominent member; but Punch defended Eyre throughout and heaped scorn on the "fanatics" and "noisy quacks" who thought so much of the blacks that they could not think of the whites.
We paint the devil black; the blacks will have him white.
About forty whites and blacks were thus killed, and about one hundred and sixty wounded.
About forty whites and blackswere thus killed, and about one hundred and sixty wounded.
In fact the blacks who were loyal made up for their loyalty by a lack of common-sense.
But,' said Fielding, unconsciously resisting the influence which Drake exerted, 'I thought you took a whole army of blacks with you on these expeditions?
And how many of these blacks would believe that he had been hanged?
The feuds of the Blacks and Whites broke up the city into factions, and produced such anarchy that at last it was found necessary to place the republic under the protection of foreign potentates.
I don't care what the Blackswould say, nor the Yellows nor the Blues either.
She told of their arrival in Scarford, of the kindness shown by the Blacks and Mrs. Lake and the rest.
Also it is doubtful if the little dinner given by the Blacks to Mr. and Mrs. Dott would have taken place within the week.
Phelps Blacks would say if they saw Azuba trotting through the grand front hall with her kitchen apron on?
It was just Providence, and nothing else, that kept her from telling the Blacks what you said and how you acted at dinner.
The Blacks called at the Dott mansion with the car, Mr. Black not acting as driver this time, and the journey to the hall was made in that vehicle.
In another fortnight the Blacks would have been here and we could have gone right to their house.
The Blacks and the Kellys and--er--that Miss Dusante!
The next evening the Blacks called--called in state.
Repeated calculations made from previous returns show that there are usually four and a half times as many souls among the blacks of Virginia as there are males over 21 years.
The census of 1850 distinguished the full blacks from the mulattoes, both among the slave and free.
The frightful proportion which these elemental maladies have reached among the wretched free blacks of abolitiondom, does more to reveal the misery of their condition there, than volumes of description.
The estimate then formed became traditionary, and prevailed after the partial training and civilization of the blacks had wholly removed its grounds.
Of free blacks in the North, one person in every five hundred and six was in one or the other of these sad conditions!
Of the slaves in Virginia the ratio of mulattoes toblacks was about the same.
Meantime, the miserable free blacks of New England, in the midst of the boasted philanthropy of abolitionism, only increase at the rate of one and seven-tenths of one per cent.
And in nearly every case, these sittings were more ample than the blacks could be induced to fill.
Churchill says the blacks are to be safe-guarded, that's the word.
They say the man's a blackguard out and out--in Greenland too; has the blacks murdered.
It was already evening when the blacks awoke us, and placed before us a mess of rice, pork, and bananas.
I therefore followed more leisurely, and at length caught sight of the fire, with several blacks near it, some apparently collecting wood, others cutting up a deer.
On inquiring, however, of the blacks what had happened at the camp during our absence, one of them presented me with a small piece of paper, saying that an Indian had left it to be delivered to the young white stranger.
The schooner was hove-to, and two blacks stepping in to pull, we wished the skipper farewell, and shoved off.
But the blacks were active and cunning, and knew the country, which was more than their pursuers did.
One of the blacks advanced, while the other stood gazing at us with no very friendly expression.
The blacks had in the meantime lowered their weapons, but showed no inclination to follow their leader.
All very fine, Mr. Kearney; but people don't go about the country with a troop of blacks at their heels without intending mischief.
When I heard this account, I was almost convinced that the party were those blacks who had placed themselves under Rochford, and that he, of course, would not permit them to injure the settlers.
At the back of the house were outbuildings and huts, in which the blacks on the property lived; and the whole of the rest of the island was occupied by an orange grove and garden, in which grew a great variety of vegetables.
Had I been captured dressed as a hunter, at the head of a party of blacks or Indians, my conduct might have been open to suspicion.
Nor have the Blacks been more unreasonable in this particular.
Besides I do not find that the Whites in Morocco ever imposed on the Blacks any necessity pi altering their complexion, or frightened them with inquisitions and penal laws in case of obstinacy.
The blacks were very far from being the true type of African.
The most casual observation tells us of vast, unreasoning waste of money on the beautiful island, and one cannot but pity the patient blacks who have suffered so much from the poor administration of their white brothers.
I cannot believe that it is right to go and enslave whom we will; but the blacks being here, I can see that it may be the very best thing for all concerned that they should be owned.
I reply that it would be in perfect accordance with it, as the blacksat the South are now situated, for the whites to be their humane owners.
Compare with this the condition of the free blacksin South Carolina.
They describe the life and condition of the blacks in Canada as miserable in the extreme.
The British people and the French, looking at the blacksin a colony, settle the question of emancipation in their own minds without much difficulty.
For long years the constant efforts of the North, and a certain foreign country, to spread among the blacks incendiary pamphlets and tracts have powerfully contributed to suspend every Southern movement towards emancipation.
Indeed, allowing these statements, so unfavorable to them, to be mostly false, it reveals the antipathy of the white to the colored race when the blacks come to seek equality with the whites.
If Northern resistance to slavery had ceased, perhaps the South would have rid herself of the blacks sooner than would have been for their good.
The condition of those blacks is assuredly better than that of the agricultural laborers in many parts of Europe.
One is, the insurrection of the slaves, the massacre of the whites, and the forcible seizure and possession of power by the blacks throughout the South.
He takes these four millions of blacks as he finds them, in bondage, and he asks, What shall we do with them?
All tribes of natives appear to dread evil spirits, having the appearance of Blacks (called in the Murray dialect Tou, in that of Adelaide Kuinyo).
Davis considered it, therefore, exceedingly dangerous for us to proceed to the north, mentioning at the same time, that two white men had already been killed by blacks in consequence of poisoning.
He could, if it were necessary, make out a list of five hundred blacks who had been slaughtered by the whites, and that within a short time.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
