Charles City Republican intelligencer. [volume] (Charles City, Iowa) 1861-1864, 1862-05-08
NUMBER 10.

We have but to restore the subject
race to the same, or to region simi-
lar to that from which it was brought
by violence, to make it operative; and
such separation Of races was tho
condition which the immortal author
of the Declaration himself declared td
be indispensable to give it practical
effect. A thcorist, not living in u
community where diverse races are
brought III contact in masses may sti.
fle the voice of nature in his own boz
som, and from determination to live
up to a mistaken view of the doctrine,
SO so far as to extend social inter-
course to individuals Of the subject
race. But few even of such persons
would pursue their theories so far as
almagamation and other Legitimate
consequences of their logic. Indeed,
for the most part, such persons in our
country, like the leading spirits i.t
Exeter Hall are so far removed, by
their circumstances, from any practi-
cal equality with working people ofany
race that they have little sympathy
for them, and nothing to apprehend
for themselves from the theory of
equality. Not so with the white
working man i'll community where
there Sre many negroes. In such cir
cumstances, the distinction of caste
is the only protection of the race from,
hybridism and consequent extinction,
That this jealousy of caste is the
instinct of the highest wisdom, and
is fraught with the highest good, is
abundantly attested by its effects or
our own race, in which it is stronger
than any other. We conquer and hold
our conquests by it.
The difficult question with which,
we have to deal is, then, the question:
Of race, and do not think it is dis
posed of or that our difficulties will
be lcssened by emancipation by Con-
gress, even if such an act were con-
stitutional. 1t would certainly add tr
the evaporation of the non-slavchold-
ing whites of the South, and might
unite them against the Government,
and, if so, they would be unconuuera,
bic. As matters stand, we can nut
down the rebellion, because the peo-
pie of the natural strongholds of the
Southern country are with us. 1t is
chiefly in the low lands accessible front
the ocean and navigable rivers and
bays that treason is rampant. Tho
mountain fastnesses, where alone q
guerrilla war can be sustained. are
now held by Union men, and they are
more numerous and more robust, in
telligent and independent than the reb-
els. tits chiehythe more degraded class
Of non-slavcholders, who live in tho
midst of slavery, who are now enga-
ged against the Government. But
the non-slaveholdcrs of the mountain
and high land regions, while for ths
Union, are not free from the jealousy
of caste, and the policy | object to
would, if adopted, | apprehend, array
them against us. Nor would we sue
ceed in our object if they were finally
subducd and cxterminated, if we left
the negroes on the soil; for other
whites would take the country, and
hold it against the negroes, and reduce
them again to slavery, orcxtermiuate
them.
| am morally certain, indeed, that TO
free the slaves of the South, without
removing them, would result in the
massacre of them. A general massa-
ere was on the eve of taking place I'M
the State of Tennessee, in 1856, upon
rising Of some of them on the Cum.
berland and have been assured by
Hon. Andrew Johnson, who was then
Governor of the State, that nothing
but his prompt calling out of the mill
tia prevented it.
But this antagonism of race. which
has led to our present calamities, and
might lead to yet greater, if it
continues to be ignored, will deliver
us from slavery in the easiest, speeds
est, and best manner, If we recognize
it as it is-the real cause Of trouble
and invinciblc, and deal with it ration-
ally.
We have but to propose to let tile
white race have the land intended for
them by the Creator, to turn the fierce
spirit aroased by secessionists to de-
stroy the Union to the support of it,
aud at the same time to break tip the
slave system 10y which the most fer
tile lands of the temperate zone are
monopolizcd and wasted. That is the
result which the logic of the census
shows is being worked out, and which
no political management can prevent
being worked out. The essence of
the contest is, whether they shall be
held by the black race, in the name of
few whites. The blacks could nev-
er hold them as their own, for we have
seen how quickly that race have dis
appeared. Experience proves, what
might have been inferred from their
history, that II has not maintained and
cannot maintain itself in the temper
ate zone; In contact and in compete
tion with the race to which that region
belongs. 1t is only when dependent
that it can exist there. But this SER
vile relation is misehievous, and the
community so constituted does not
flourish and keep pace with the spirit
of the age. 1t has scarcely the claim
to the immense area of land it occu-
pies which the aboriginees had for
though the Indians occupied Target
space, with fewer inhabitants, they
did not waste the land as the slave
system does. No political manage
ment or sentmentalism can prevent
the natural resolution of such a sys-
tenn, in the end any more than such
means coui1 avail to preserve the In.
dian Possession and dominion.
The rebellion, like the Indian out:
break, is but a vain attempt to stem
the tide of civilization and progress:
The treachery, falschood, and cruelty
perpetrated to maintain negroe pos-
session, scarcely less than that of the
savages, marks the real nature of the
contest. Nevertheless, | believe it
might have been averted if we had
adopted Mr.. Jeflerson's counsels, and
made provision for the separation of
the races, providing suitable hon,sa