New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-08-03
GEN. cox on THE PROBLEM.

| A committee of citizens OF Oberlin, Ohio,
having required Of Gen. Jacob ID. Cox. Union
candidate for Governor, bis opinion on the cues
ton of Black Suffrage in the South Gen. Cox
replies, taking ground against it, and in favor
of separation of the White and Black races
on our own soil, assigning to the Blacks por.
ton of our country for their exclusive use-o
scheme which, we predict, will be found utterly
impractcable. If we had Texas and Florida
to-day unpeopled and their soil the property OF
the Nation, it might be possible to give the
Blacks the option of migrating thither and en-
joying the rights of self.govcrnment or staying
where they are and going without them; but
we have no such vacant territory and cannot
now provide any that would be suitable Gen.
Cox's suggestion, therefore, docs not solve the
problem-it only evades it.
Gen. Cox says Of the social difficulty:
1.-THE antagonism OF which have spoken Is not en-.
tirey one-sided. On the part OF the former master
takes Le form Of iHdo7iab prid nhich Beiy refuses
entertain he idea Of political or social equouy mingled
h hatred HfensGed By Tie circumstances and rtsuks If
the rar This feeling is not confined to the slave.
alone; but the poor whites share II fully and
often show II more passionntely
VI
utter diarust Of e Dominant rGe and on enmiiy rhie
ahhoE9h made By circundnces more pdsstrt and less
opv raan.esfed is as real and mpdcabie as the otter
They have the mutual attraction OF race among them.
selves and rerulion to the Whites as another people,
developed 10 "a degree which surprised me-
THE daily and hourly repetition Of proofs OF this
fact many of them too subtle for description. hnt none
The less convincing to the observer has fully convinced
me that never between Norman and Saxon. nor be-
tn cen Gaul and Frank. was there more conscious
hatred or an antagonism more koly to prove inveter'
I..fxr nd m nurN
The negroes will have oil security. nor NTH in
their former masters"
1t seems to us that Gen. Cox here confounds
the very obvious and natural antipathy between
master and slave, between dominant and sub
ject races, with an antipathy between Whites
and Blacks, which is quite another matter. He
says that the Freedmen have manifested "an
utter distrust Of The dominant race" No, Gen.
Cox; the facts arc otherwise. We could quote
you from reams of letters and editorials by OBJ
servers Of all parties who assert that the Blacks
have eyinccd not distrust of but an overwecn-
ing and indiscriminate confidence in those who
came among them as dclivercrs. Only let q
White be known as anti-Slavery, and he at once
is regarded by the Blacks with bOundless con-
fdencc and affection. Hence, We have been
moved to caution these ignorant, simple,
credulous people not to trust too readily
and too far to yankees" because many
of them are hypocrites and knavcs, who would
gladly make money out of their misplaced con-
fdence. And now for any proiessed Abolition
ist to assert that the Southern Freedmen have
cyinced can utter distrust Of the dominant
race" save as that race presented itself in the
character of Shareholders and upholders Of
Slavery, and that they have further evnccd
toward the White race "0n cnmity" "real and
is most untrue and unjust And
the negroes of the South will cvince abundant
" faith in their former masters" whenever those
masters shall have fully abandoned Slavery and
all its Outworks and cvinced living faith in the
and inalicnablc Rights OF Man.
We hope aud trust that Cen. Cox will yet be
chosen Governor; but VIC think hc would have