The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-08-11

| present traces of the diversity of the races of
men. which in course Of time have come to.
gether in it. This variety shows itself under
| different aspects. with features more or less
marked. Sometimes it is a complete separa-
ton of idioms, of local traditions, of political
| sentiments, and o sort of instructive enmity
distinguishing from the great national mass the
population OF q few small districts and some.
times mere difference of dialect or even of
accent marks, though more feebly, the limit
thoroughly distinct and hostile to each other. .
II nfteen centuries of common government
and political union have not been able to Cd
literate the distintions and even the lnstinc-
tive enmity" of races which were physically
similar. what encouragement have we tnat sue
terly hostile races from the antipodes of the
human family?
The process by which even the comparative
unity Of the English people was achieved, Is
described by the Same philosophic historian
whom have quoted, near the close of his
great work, as q complete amalgamation" of
the Norman and Saxon idiOms, and mixture
of the two races, which it took four centuries
of sanguinary war to accomplish.
Just stepping as we are from the battlefield
on which the descendants of q common ances-
try, so little removed from us that we can lite
rally reach back our hands to grasp those of
our common sires, have waged the most terri
Dle anu IeWcuuOuS VI lAOOcIu WaIe, ~ OOcS
not become US to argue that peaceful discus
sions will quietly settle differences which in
former times were settled by the sword; but
the memory of the almost present, as well as
of the remote past, calls upon us to build our
polity upon principles which experience as
well as reason prove to be durable, and more
than ever to avoid deluding ourselves with
the the cry of peace peace when there is no
Az d-r3nr fhoaa xuoarv vooro of NOR r hovo
pondered this problem in the intervals of strife
or by the camp fire at night, have been more
and more impelled to the belief that the only
basis of permanent nationality is to be found
In complete homogenity Of people, of manners
and Of laws. The rapid fusion of the races of
Western Europe, as they have met upon our
shores, has secured the former of these requi-
as an honorable one) marked as 1t Is with salt
ent characteristics. is SO complete an amalga-
nation of all families from the eastern bound
airy of Germany to the western coast of Ire
land, that there are few of US in whose veins
are not mixed the blood of several. But this
unhappy race of which we are speaking does
not amalgamate with the rest. It is entirely
immaterial to discuss why 1t is SO; the fact no
one can deny; nor can it be denied that its sal
walton or its destruction will surely be worked
out in its family isolation.
Because there could be no real unity of peo-
! pie between the southern white and the south.
ern blacks, it seems manifest to me that there
could be no political unity, but rather strife
for the mastery, in which the one or the other
| would go to the wall.
The struggle for supremacy would be direct
and immediate, and see no hope whatever
that the weaker race should not be rdnced to
hopeless subsection, or utterly de- tA0od.
| There is no reason to suppose that M Arl
border ruffanism could never be repeated or
new fields, and the strife once inaugurated the
merciless war would continue as long as the
obnoxious race had an existence. You have
expressed your anticipation of such result in
one state of the case how is it that you do moi
see that direct struggle for power at the bal
lot-boNowould make the contest more deadly
hold that there is great philosophic truth
in the words of Guizot, in summing up thu
eight centuries Of bloodshed out Of which thu
French emerged into nationality from the pet
ty races and tribes. He says: In the life O
nations, that union which is exterior and visi
BILE, the unity of name and of government, al
though important, is by 40 means the first il
importance, the most real, or that which
makes indeed one nation. There is o unity
which is deeper and more powerful: it is tina
which results not merely from identity of gov
erDment and of destiny, but from the homOge
nifty of social elements, from the likeness o
institutions, Of manners. of ideas, of tastes, o
tongues the unity which resided in the mer
themselves when society assemblies and not il
the forms of their associations in short, tina
moral unity (ruaite morale) which is far more
important than political unity, and which j:
the only solid foundation for the latter"
have watched with deep interest the edu
cational effect of the war upon our own army
and / assure you that whilst our white soldier:
have uniformly and quickly learned to appre
ciats the fact that the existence of our fret
government could only be preserved by thu
4f IL
became radically and thoroughly anti-slavery
the tendency of battling for the old flag wa
almost equally uniform in increasing and deep
ening their pride of race. The fact is ont
which cannot safely be overlooked in any cal
culation involving their action upon the polit
ical problems before the country, and it is ont
in regard to which think can hardly be mis-
taken.
The details of any system of separation
could only be determined by careful study ant
wide comparison of views Suppose, how
ever, that without breaking up the OrganiZa
ton of any State, you take contiguous terrific
~ in South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama an,
Florida, and there, under the sovereignty O
the United States, and with all the facilitie
which the power and wealth of the govern
ment can give. we organize the freedmen in
dependency of the Union analogous to tn
western territories. Give them schools, law
facilitating the requirement of homesteads, Il
be paid for By their own labor, full and exclu
sive political privileges, aided at the start
should it seem necessary, BY wise selection
from the largest brains and most philanthropy
hearts among anti-slavery men, to join them
| judiciary or executive which would command
their confidence in the first essays of politica
existence oa a
There need be no coersive collection of tn
colored race in the designated region; the ma
jority are there now, and the reward of p0liti
| ou1A Arox thor ho ind
quite as rapidly as their place could be sup
piled by white immigration into other States
The forts and seaport cities could remain I'm
der the direct control of the Federal Govern