The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-08-09
Union is just as great secessionist as the per
son who would take State out"
The Contest OF Races.

The contest OF the white ana black races IN
this country, originating from the miscegena-
| ton schemes of the abolitionists, has begun in
Connecticut negro married white woman,
which so incensed the neighbors that frequent
| difficulties arose, and finally eliminated in an
attack upon the black mans house by parcel
of boys, during which black woman shot one
| of them dead. The cOroner's jury discharged
the accused upon the grounds of justification.
| This is the commencement of succession of
similar conflicts between the two races for
which the miscegenationists have been 80 long
conspiring. It would be the glory Of the
niger worshippers to reproduce the same
| scenes here, and all over the country, and they
will succeed in doing 30 If the mscegenation
journals in this city are not suppressed. The
rebel journals are bad enough, but they are
not half as dangerous in the present crisis of
| affairs as the miscegenation organs. The rebel
press of New York has lost its fangs now that
| The rebellion is over, but journals of the other
class referred to are encouraging and directly
bringing about social condition, in the North
and South alike, almost as bad as the rebellion
through which we have just passed. They
should, therefore, be stopped before the bloody
work enacted at Greenwich goes any further.
President Johnson has positive information
that the abolition radicals, such as Wendell
Phillips and other agitators of the miscegena-
ton idea, are trying to stir up an instruction
in the South. Mr.. johnson knows how to deal
with these Jacobin revolutonists, and we hope
he will handle them promptly-both the agita-
tors and the miscegenation newspapers. He
should put down the papers and put up the
agitators higher than Hannah.
The labor question now agitating the coun-
try and perplexing the policy OF the govern
ment, as well as the late murder in Con-
necticut, which. as we said, is the begin
| ming OF war of races, naturally brings up
for review the subject of African colonization.
What to do with the emancipated negro is
query not very easily answered. II it were,
| the reconstruction of the South would not be
| such difficult task as 1t presents itself TO
| President johnson, nor such a mischlev0us
| engine as it places in tho hands OF the Jaco-
bins. The President of the American Colonial
ton Society, Mr.. Latrobe, published letter
in these columns on Sunday, replying to the
assertion of General Cox, candidate for Gov
ernor of Ohio, that African colonization was
hopeless and tyrannical. Mr.. Latrobe con-
tends for the colonization of Liberia by tho
negro. It must be admitted that the emigration
of this race, being Voluntary, is not tyranni-
cal measure. They are not compelled by any
law Of Congress nor any proclamation Of the
| Executive 10 abandon this country for Liberia
or anywhere else. That they have hitherto
exhibited disposition not to do so ia true, and
| the colonization scheme so far has not been
great success. 1t might, indeed, in view of the
| anticipations created for it, be denominated q
failure; but in the present state Of affairs the
negro might be found more willing to return to
Africa It would be less hardship, ono
would suppose, for him to emigrate TO
his native soil than for the Germans to leave
Fatherland or the Irish 10 desert the Emerald
Isle.
However, there is another question involved
in this colonization scheme which affects more
interests than the future of the blacks. The labor
| Of the three millions of negroes now made free
was always made productive to the extent of the
cultivation Of the Southern States. They were
never half cultivated at the best, and the de-
mand upon their resources, and indeed of the
resources 81 the whole country, is greater now
than before tic Var, fer we hAyY z essvS ma y.
tional debt to liquidate: Now, the SSneS!.oa !.
can we spare the labor Which, African colonies
lion would draw OFT We lost by the war IN
various ways-by death on the battle Held, ny
wounds and broken constitutions million o
workmen in both sections. immigration cSnno
supply this deficiency in five years, even al
hitting that it attains ON average Of two hun
dred thousand year, which it reached in
1864. because less than half the immigrants are
not adult laborers.
Circumstanced as this country is, with it,
rab;d progress and the inexorable demands
uuorA it for the fulflment CT its destiny, we can
not afford to wait for the manufacture or the
slow impo -tation Of a working population. Il
NAV anti the nations of Europe TO wait twenty
one Years for a, Q child to become man; but
we must have me,. g labor instantly or the pro
grcssiyc machinery O. the country would stop
Our gold and silver would slumber in The
bosom Of the earth, our lew territories and
States would lie barren i'm t.'e SHADOW OF the
forest, and our magnificent river run idiy 70
the sea. The half worked Southern STATES
now more than ever in need Of skilled labor
would remain proftless waste. All this e
contrary to the spirit of the country; sc that,
in fact, we require o working population more
to-day than we ever did before. Apart, then,
from the humanitarian question of the future
prospects of the African race, we think II is
manifestly our interest as well as theirs to
keep the black laborers in the country, ailot-
ting to them, of course, their proper position
as voluntary workmen but not forcing upon
them, as the Jacobins insist upon doing, an