The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1865-08-30
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to that oico, and to disband and remit the others
TO their homes. With respect to the last clause o.
this proposition wo have nothing to say 1t is
perhaps, tho desire of tho whito troops to retire
from further military service, and return again tc
the comfort of their several homes, and we have
every wish that they shall be indulged in this de-
s1re- But the assumption that there is this senti-
ent and condition Of hostility towards the colored
in this section of the South at least is entire
ay gratuitous.
1t is true, that we have submitted to emancipa-
&on with reluctance; true, that between the races
anus thrown unpreparcd into relations new AID
strange, for which they were prepared by po eH-
Qeriehce or intellectual preconccption Of It's con-
ditions, there diversities Of views, conflicting
conceptions Of right, and naturally and necossa-
ry disturbances between them; brt it is not true
Sthat there is the disposition in tie whites to CO.
.erce, oppross, and pcrsecute tho Blacks. On the
contrary, there is conception Of the situation,
and the rights and obligations roaulting, infinitely
more accurate and just than Gin possibly exist
among any other people. To us it is a vast and
vital subjeot-not for speculation but for action
We arc here brought face to fa,c with another
xace, with whom it is of the verylast Importance
that our relations should be frieldly.With whom
it is of the worry last Importance that shall
cur in every enterprise, 60 hand il hand to all pur
snts, whose Nrcll-beng is indispensable to ovory
interest, to every hope, in fact Of progress and
nrosperity-and in whom, therefore, and whose
welfare, we have concern infinitely greater than
can possibly be felt by the people who SO compla-
gently solace themselves with tSe lucubrations Of
4hat journal to which we have referred. To
them the fate of the negro is n speculative ques-
lion; to us it is intensely practica;-to them it is
not important it, like the Indian, he shall expire to
htpoint moral ndorn talo;" to us it is of the
aast importance that he shall stand and prosper.
He is yet part of our population; he is part OF
society; his labor is tho condition of existence
Ito all our operations and interests. If he shall
continue cheerful worker, valuable member OF
pour aocety, cheerful and accordant constituent
4of our social state, We yet in prosper
lty and peace; but if he shall motif cstrange-
n1ents occur and antagonism and hostility result,
t,ere is no hope for us-no hope for the prcserva-
Sior of our interests; every State becomes battle
ground, the preservation of individual existence
becomes the subject of the contest and the negro
Hails if fall he must, draped with every interest,
hope, and prospect Of the land.
10 men pledged by such fearful considerations,
70 proper and becoming acts towards tho negro,
1t is an outrage that their conduct should be the
subject. of such fippant comment and that our
course should be disturbed by the acts such COM
xnent is likely to inspire. We had not sought our
hate relation to the negro race. Their presence
here rather tho result of accident than of any
effort of our own. When no longer profitable at
aas North, they were sold to us. While with u.s.
we have given thom the discipline and form Of So
aal government which seemed suited to thoir
wants The propriety of that government is ex-
hihited in career of peace, order and wel-be-
ing between races in contact so distinct, which is
sHithout parallel in human history and even now
though oyerruled in our course, instructed by mon
%of less experience, forced to act the thoughts of
Others rather than our own-to moye, too in ac-
>c5rdance with the conceptions of men less influ-
aenced-wo arc forced to fear, by precepts Of phi
dsnthropy than considerations of political SUD
ress-8e still solicitous for tho negro. We
hare kind remembrance Of tho relations that
have heretofore existed. We recognize his claim,
aa q human being, to common share of human
sympathy. We would preserve him for this-or if
nj be too much to assume even this virtuc-we
~ouid spare him from vital interest in his pre-
eervation; and in the name Of common humanity
We protest against the course commended to the
Government by this and other journals at the
North. ~" "..s'tr..s,--T12,. ~IE' =
20 were too much, perhaps to claim considera-
zion for oufselSe Vfo eictis is, perhaps the
rule for us as it has often been for others, And
THAT for those who throw the gage OF BATTLE with
out tho forces to sustain them, thcro is no re-
dsmption from irrevocable doom. 1t is for them to
cay. We have not assumed this to be true, and arc
unwilling to baeyei It. Butwe have no right to qucs-
xou power and Of consequences to ourselves thote-
Bore. We say nothing. But OF consequences to tho
olored race We have the right spenk It isin their
namei that terrible da1aities have,been inflicted,
Their good alone can Justify these actions in the
night of God and man, and to them the measures
INDICATED. are pQt, and cannot, come to good. We
are ottmore bound in them than they in us;
10 us it s vital that the races shall here constitute
one continuous and accordant society," but it Is not
Eess so to them; segregation will not be less fatal
10 them than to us. And can this measure, como
without iii Can the negro be instructed that he
as Injured and in danger,-that his rights are
"Khrcatened,-hi life in peri, that pow9r: must
ae always present to protect him. that he may
may arraign the white man,-that he at least sllal
be favored and sustained without inspiring In
him sense Of irresponaibility to right and law
IN the white man senso Of insecurity hnd liability
Ao wrong-in both a sense of estrangement, an
nagonism hostility, and the feeling that Of all the
sEofid they have the most to fear and suffer from
<each other? '';'~.H: ri -
no relation Of society, tho dearest, can stand
sess like this A tribunal such as this, to sustain
! .=fres against IthehI husbands children. agains
aaasir pnren.s--wopld break oven those two grea
Entaations Of society, and bring social anasob,
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