Note 60 — Chapter XL · Phases of Public Sentiment in New Orleans before Congress met.

The New Orleans Daily South, of 19th November, 1865, said: “Ethiopia has invaded the Mississippi Legislature. Some of the members of that body, favoring Judge Sharkey’s transcendental views on the subject of negro testimony, have been talking about ‘justice to the negro.’ The white man seems to be forgotten in the recent gabble about the eternal negro.

“Negroes care nothing for ‘rights.’ They know intuitively that their place is in the field; their proper instruments of self-preservation, the shovel and the hoe; their Ultima Thule of happiness, plenty to eat, a fiddle, and a breakdown.

“Sambo feels in his heart that he has no right to sit at white man’s table; no right to testify against his betters. Unseduced by wicked demagogues, he would never dream of these impossible things.

“Let us trust that our Legislature will make short work of Ethiopia. Every real white man is sick of the negro, and the ‘rights’ of the negro. Teach the negro that if he goes to work, keeps his place, and behaves himself, he will be protected by our white laws; if not, this Southern road will be ‘a hard one to travel,’ for the whites must and shall rule to the end of time, even if the fate of Ethiopia be annihilation.”