The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1865-08-10

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fusion in one political COM
muRity an absolute impossibility. The
sole difference between us then is in the
degree of hostility we End existing be-
tween the races, and its probable per-
manence. YOU assume that the extern
sion Of the right of suffrage to the
blacks, leaUiHg them iHternsised 'oih the
sohites, will cure all the trouble. I be-
lieve that it would rather be like the
decisions in that outer darkness of which
Milton speaks, where r.-
'tChaos umpire site, -
And ly decision more smbroils the Fray
Yet, as affirm with you, that the
right to life and liberty are inalienable,
and more than admit the danger Of
leaving laboring class at the entire
mercy of those who formerly owned
them as slaves, you will say am bound
to furnish some solution Of the prob.
lem which shall not deny the right or
incur the peril, So am, and the only
real solution which 1 can see is the
peaceabls separation Of the races. But
you will reply, foreign colonization will
break down hopelessly under the very
vastness Of the labor, even if it were
not tyrannical to expel those unfortu-
nate people from the land of their birth.
1 grant the full weight of the objection,
and therefore say the solution is thus
narrowed down to a peaceable separation
Of the traces on the soil eohere they no0
are.
The essential point in the discussion
thus appears to be the actual relations
Of the two races in the Southern States
as question Of fact, and the probable
future consequences of those relations
as question of theory.
Upon the question of fact 1 think 1
may with all modesty claim that my an
tecedentS and my opportunities of OBJ
servation entitle my testimony to have
some weight, even with the most radical
anti-slavery meh of the North.
, The antagonism Of which l have
! spoken is not entirely one-sided. On
the part Of the former master it takes
the form of an indomitable pride, which
utterly refuses to entertain the idea Of
: political or social equality, mingled
with hatred intensified by the circum-
e stances and the results of the war;
n This feeling is not confined to the slave
d owners alone, but the poor whites share
g it fully, and often show 1t more pas
Is sionately!
On the part of the freedmen, il is
II manifested in an utter distrust Of the
g dominant race, and an enmity which,
'e although made by circumstances more
te passive and less openly manifested, is
10 as real and implaoabe as the other
g They have the mutual attraction of race
'e among themselves, and repulsion of the
whites as another people, developed to
8 degree which surprised me. tbs not
D. as individuals of a nation common to
!" US all, that they speak of themselves
T. but to use the language of one of them,
30 speaking to myself, they feel that they
ID "have long been an oppressed and down
a trodden people,"
u Hildreth, in his Despotisnl IN Ameri.
D. ca, declared slavery to be in itself STATE
~ of war, and this character is indelibly
Ae impressed upon both races in the South
The captive learns duplicity toward his
lst captor, and In the slave it has become :
a marked characteristic. 1t is fail
h stratagem, for which he feels no guilt
in have seen master boasting of the &
p- deity Of his servant, and discussing tn,
ar subject of slavery in his presence, willis
the negro waited upon him with an i'm
tsS passive humility which would make yo
believe no intelligent idea of fresdor
aSt had ever penetrated his brain. Yet
re- have seen that same negro afterward i
lps camp, transformed into a clSar-heade
do ally of our troops, leading them to b
In masters buried stores, or guiding theI
iv' to the tanks of the enemy's lines, wit
tly an intelligence and steadinsss of pul
IA pose which left no doubt as to his uu
ed, dOrsta tanding of the conflict betwee
be. himself aud his master. 49,.
out The daily and hourly repetition
the proofs of this fact, many of them to
5 of subtitle for description, but none the le
dg- convincing to the observer. has fully co
the vincsd me that never between Norma
the and Saxon, nor between Gaul aud Frar
now was there a more conscious hatred
hey an antagonism more likely to prove
han veterate, than between black and VII
anne on our Southern soil. The negroe-
lose have no sense of security no. h,tt
aces their former masters. ever, If tbov !
lgly them political rights they will I
heot them as Da@aos aO"a foreates.
'em-l What does history teach us in ,oo