Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1865-07-07
NEGRO DESTINY.

Negro slavery in the United States Is
now virtually q thing Of the past. The
war has forever blotted out the institution,
and no power can resuscitate it. But the
negroes remain and since they have been
the subject of contention and strife, it is
proper TO consider what position they are
to occupy in the future. Previous to the
war, slavery was an element that gave
power and influence to an oligarchy at the
South; yet it fettered the prosperity OF
the Slave States, and checked that ad-
vancement and improvement which char
acterized the North under q system Of
free labor. It was q urce Of power to
the landed proprietors, because it gave
them political prominence, and invested
them with q kind Of petty monarchy-the
/ ayes being their subjects. On the other
hand, the poorer classes Of whites were
debased under the system, their condition
being but little preferable to the vassalage
endured by the negroes. The war has
leveled all this distinction. The South is
now substantially free from the system OF
servitude. The negroes are no longer
chat,els, and the poorer classes Of whites
are no longer subject to the communicating
influence of bondage. 1t is not difficult
10 foresee that the change will be an
emancipation of both these classes, and
that the whites being placed upon a level
with the industrial classes of the North,
will soon press forward, and in the end
reach n corresponding degree of advance
ment. The negroes. however, are n differ
ent race. They have none Of the Anglo
Saxon spirit Of enterprise, perseverance
and ambition, except so far as has resulted
from a~malgamation. Heretofore, they
have not been brought into competition
with the progressive element Of our own
industrial classes, and how they would
fare in such competition can only be in
ferred. With freedom will come self-de-
pendence-the necessity Of providing for
themselves and managing their wi affairs.
They are competent to earn q good living
and provide for the future, and their
wants being few and simple, there is no
reason why they should not become a
valuable accessory in the future develop
ment of the South. They are peculiarly
adapted to the class of employment to
which they have been subjected; their
habits, manners and customs fit them for
life in the South, and they will therefore
remain where they o are, with their
future depending upon their ability to
compete with the white labor that will
naturally Aow to the South upon the con
clusion Of the war. As before remarked,
the tendency Of Anglo-Saxon ambition
and enterprise is to crowed away all OPP
position and every impeachment in its path.
It is quite probable, therefore, that the
negro race in the course Of time will be-
come exenc in this country. Not By
oppression or warfare, but by the slow
and steady process Of decay which has
marked the progress of the Anglo-Saxon
race through history. The decay of the
negro race from this cause will not pro-
badly be 50 rapid as has been that of the
Indian race, but the manifest destiny"
of America points to a nation that shall
be of one nationality, without distinction
of race or color.