The Jeffersonian Democrat. [volume] (Chardon, Ohio) 1854-1865, 1865-08-11

"paltering with the edges of tho difficulty"
Believing, as we do, that the country can
not rost secure until tho equal rights of all
loyal men, irrespective of color, In every
State, sba u be vindicated, our rcgre, at the
position of Gen. Cox is mitigated rather
than dispelled by the reflection that the
question 10 one mot included in tho plat.
FORM" and "can in no sense be matter fo-
Executive action in >riris State"
Con. Cox has fallen into the common or.
ror of supposing that. because his military
duties. during tho past four years. have
brought him 10 personal con tact with the
people of the South, he is better prepared
than any man, Judging from this distance,
can be, to solve the problems involved in.
tho war and reconstruction. Whom we
consider the numberlsss and varied facili.
ties enjoyed by our Northern poople for &C
quiripg correct information respecting the
condition of affairs at the South, many of
which are denied to the soldier on duty, wo
cannot help thinking that there is danger
of attaching too much Importance to the
results Of ones own experience and observ.
alton. especially when they are widely at
variance with tho views Of majority of the
larges, and most liboral minds of tho conn
try. Gen. Cox claims to have discovered,
whilo at the South, an inveterate and inc.
radcable antagonism between the white and
black races, which will forever preclude the
possibility of their remaining together on
terms of politcal.o or social equality. Now
this is moro matter of theory than of fact,
and. as il forms the basis of his whole
schomo for disposing of the question of Ne.
gro Suffrage. should be carefully examined
Upon this point, the Tribune we'll says:
ut sooms to us that Con Cox here con.
fouDds tho very obvious and naturai antip.
athv between master and slave, between
dominant and subject races. with an antipa
thy between Whites and Blacks, which ia
quite anotber matter. He says that tho
Freedmen bave manifested 'au utter dis
trust Of The dominant race No, Con. Cox;
the facts are otherwise. We could quote
you from reams Of letters aud editorials BY
observers Of all parties who assert that tho
Blacks bavo evinced not distrust of. but
an overweoDing aud indiscriminate conf
dence in those who came among them as de-
liverers. Only lot White be known as
anti Slavery, and he at once is regarded BY
the Blacks with boundlcss confidence and
affection. Hence, we have been moved to
caution these ignorant, simple, credulous
people not to trust too readily and too far
IN NIB ~
hypOcrites and knaves. who would gladly
make money out Of their misplaced conf
dence. And now for any professed Aboli-
men have evinced AN utter distrust of the
dominant race save as that race presented
itself in the character Of Shareholders and
upholdors of Slavery, and that they have
further eviuced toward the White race AN
enmity' real and implacab,e,' ia most un,
true and unjust. And the negroes of tho
South will evince abundant faith in their
former maslers' Whenever those sters
shall have fully abandoned Slavery and all
its outworks, and evinced living tai.h In
tho universal and iDaiionable Rights OF
Man"
We might 60 even farther than the 7'rib
une, and assert that there 10 no necessary
antipathy between master and slave, except
in cases wherein tho personal treatment or
tho seuse of the servtude of the latter is in.
volved. A peculiar intimacy has always OF.
isted between the white and black races, in
all slaveholding communities. Tho chill
dren Of white masters, nurtured BY black
slaves, initiate their ways, catch their dia
lect and learn to love tbem; and, we're II
not for the spirit of freedom which burns il
the breast OF every slave, however low OF
degraded, and which a sense of wrongs en-
durec may kinde into fame, there would
rarely exist, on either side, any other feel
ing than ono of attachment. .s...r1,.-
Gen. Coxs argument upon the antago
nism of the races proves too much. 1t il
very obvious that no just judgment respect
ing the state of feeling naturally existing
between the Whites and Blacks at tn,
South. can be formed solely from observa
tion OF the rivalries and antipathles engen
dercd by the results of tho war. Gran
that Gen. Cox has seen intense hatred man
Tested between tho Freedmen aud thei
late masters: has he not seen hatred u
intense manifested by the Rebels of tn,
South towards the "Yankces" ofthe North
II feoling or wounded pride must foreve
ALLEVIATE the white and black races from
each other, why not also tho North an,
SOuth7 We confess to horror of this doc
trine of "homogenlty." for We remembe
how strongly it has been advocated in tb,
interests of Secession.