The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-08-11
TIL e PILOT
The Negro Suffrage Question.


General Cox, the Republican candidate
for Governor of Ohio, in letter to the
"Oberlin com nittse OF radicals" makes
most powerful argument against Negro
Suffrage in the Southern States, and in
favor Of colonizing the Blacks, from which
We give such extracts as our space this
week will permit:
As during those weary years Of war. have
pondered the problem in the intervals Of strife
or by the camp fire at night. | have been more
and more impelled to the belief that the oniv
basis Of permanent nationality Is t. be found
in complete homogenity Of people, Of manners,
and Of laws. The rapid fusion of the races of
western Europe. a. they have met upon our
shores has secured the former of these reaui-
sites. and the Yankee race adopt the cpithet
a. an honorable one-marked az il is with ST.
lent Characteristics, is 20 compete an amalga-
nation Of all families from the eastern boundary
of Germany TO the western coast Of Ireland.
that II ere are few Of rs in whose veins are not
mixed the blood Of several But this unhappy
race Of which we speak does not amalgamate
with the rest. 1t i entirely inmatcrial to dis
cuss why it Is so-thc fact no one can deny.
nor can it be denied that its salvation or its
destruction will surely be worked out in its
family isolation
Because there could be no real unity Of pco-
pie between the southern whites and the
southern blacks, it seems manifest to me that
there could be no political unity but rather a
strife for the mastery, in which the one or The
other would 60 to the wall.
The struggle for supremacy would be direct
and immediate, and | see no hope whatever
that the weaker race would not be reduced to
hopeless subjection, or utterly destroyed.
There Is no reason to suppose that Missouri
border rufiansm could never be repeated On
new fields. and the strife once inaugurated, the
merciless war would continue as LONG rs the
obnoxious race had an existence We have
expressed your anticipation Of such a result in
one state Of the case, how is it that You do not
see that direct struggle for power at the bal
lot box would make the contest more deadly?
hold that there is great philosophic truth in
the words Of Guizot, in summing up the eight
centuries ofbloodshel ont Of which the French
emerged into nationality from the strife ofpcttv
races and tribes. lie SAYS : IN the life Cf
nations, that union which is exterior and visi-
bic, the unity Of name and Of government,
although 'tant. is By no means the first in
importance, the most real, or that indeed which
makes one nation. There Is q unity which IS
deeper and more powerful it is that which
results not merely from identity Of ofgoycrnmcnt
und Of destiny, but from the homogencity of
social elements, from the likeness Of institu-
tions, Of manners, Of ideas. Of tastes, Of
tongues the unity which resides in the men
themselves whom society assemblies. and not in
the forms Of their association in short, that
moral unity (tuntte moraie) which is far more
important than political unity, and which is
the only solid foundation for the latter.
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|, starting from the same principles. and
after four years Of close and thoughtful obscr
ration Of the races whore they are, say | am
InwIllngly forced to the conviction that the
effect OF the war has not been simply to . Cm
bitter " their relations, but to develops rooted
antagonism which makes their permanent
fusion in political community an absolute
impossbility, The sole difference between
us. then. is in the degree of hostility we find
existing between the races. and its probable
permancncc. You assume that the extension
Of the right Of suffrage to the blacks. leaving
them intcrmixcd with the whites viii cure all
the trouble. | believe that it would rather be
like the dccisious in that outer darkness Of
which Milton speaks, where
''Cha0s umpire sits,
And BY decision more cmbroils the fray"
Such Arguments As are here used by
General Cox, while they have their due
weight and Influence with the lovers Of or
der and good government, will only inpel
those fanatics who called them forth, to
persis; in tLeir mao course-for they must
make noise 10 the world-tur it upside
down if possibie-substitule chaos for
order-and play hell generally.