The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1865-08-09

stratagem for which lie feels no guilt.
have seen q master BOOSTING Of the fidelity
Of, his servant, and discussing the sub
iect of slavery iu his presence, whilst The
negro waited upon him with an impas.
siFe humility which would make you be,
! lieve no intelligent idea Of freedom had
ever penetrated his brain. Yet have
seen that same negro afterward in camp
transformed into clear headed ally ol
our troops, leading them to his masters
buried stores, or guiding them to the
kaanks of the enemy's lines, with an intel
Iligence and steadiness of purpose which
fleft no doubt as to his understanding Of
the conflict between himself and his
master. ~ l hl
The daily and hourly repetition Of
proofs of this fact, many Of them too sub
tie for description, but none the less con-
yincing to the observer. has fully con-
vinced me that never between Norman
ard Saxon, nor between Gaul and Frank,
was there more conscious hatred, or an
antagonism more likely to prove invete-
rate. than between black and white on
our Southern soil. The negroes will
have no sense of security, nor faith in
their former masters, even if they offer
them political rights; they will fear them
as DanaoS dona terentes.
What does history teach us in regard
to the permanence and durability Of such
preiudices and enmities of race? Speak
ing on this subject, Augustin Thierry,
says: "'''
:" Whatever degree of territorial unity
the great modern States of Europe may
appear to have attained; whatever may
be the community Of manners, language,
and public feeling, which the habit Of
living under the same Government, and
in the same stage Of civilization, has in
trodueed among the inhabitants of each
of those States, there is scarcely one of
them which does not even now present
living traces of the diversity of the races
of men, which, in course of time, have
come together in it. This variety shows
itself under different aspects, with features
more or less marked. Sometimes it is a
complete separation Of idioms. of local
traditions, Of political sentiments. and a
sort of instructive enmity distinguishing
from the great national mass the popula
ton of few small districts; and some-
times mere difference of dialect, or even
Of accent, means, though more feebly,
the limit of the settlements Of races Of
men, once thoroughly distinct, and hos
tile to each other"
II fifteen centuries of common govern
ment and political union have not been
able to obliterate the distinctions and even
the instructive enmity" Of races which
were physiologically similar. what en-.
couragement have we that success will
attend forced political fusion Of bitterly
hostile races from the antipodes of the
human family? '
The process by which even the COM
parative unity of the English people was
achieved, is described by tho same phi,
losophic historian, whom | have quoted,
near the close of his great work, as a
-" complete amalgamatiou" of the Norman
and Saxon idioms, and mixture Of
the two races" which it took four centu.
ries of sanguiuary war to accomplish.
Just stepping, as we are, from the bat
tie field on which descendants of COM
mon ancestry, so little removed from us
that we can literally reach back our hands
to grasp those of our common sires, have
waged the most tremendous and terrible
of modern wars, it does not become us to
argue that peaceful discussions will qui-.
etly settle differences which in former
times were settled by the sword; but the
memory of the almost present, as we'll as
of the remote past, calls upon us to build
our polity solidly upon principles which
experience, as we'll as reason, prove to
be durable, and more than ever to avoid
deluding ourselves with the cry of "peace,
peace. when there is no peace"
AS, during those weary years of war,
| have pondered this problem in the in~
tervals Of strife, or by the camp fire al
night, l have been more and more i'm
PEELED TO the belief that the only basis of
permanent nationality is to be found in
complete homogeneity of people. of man
uers, 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 requisites, aud the
Yankee race I adopt the epithet as an
honorable oue). marked as it is with
salient characteristics, is so complete an
amalgamation of all families from the
eastern boundary of Germany to the
western coast of ireland, that there are
few OF US in whose veins are not mixed
the blood of several. But this unhappy
race Of which we speak does not amalga-
mate with the rest. 1t is entirely i'm
material to discuss why it is SO ; the fact
no one can deny; nor can it be denied
that its salvation or its destruction will
surely be worked out in its family isola,
t;on. ..a.. H....