The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1865-12-23
[From the Ohio CrisIs.l
THE FUTURE o. THE NEGRO

II Dc
In q conversation with native Of Ohio.
always an Abolitionist now Federal Of
iice holder in Georgia, the other day, he in
formed US that the negroes in that State
would perish by the thousands this win
ter of neglect, idleness aud disease. He
travelled extensively throughout the State,
had excellent opportunities Of observing
the real condition Of the freedmen, and
the picture he gave us Of il was terrible
to contemplate. With oil bis fierce phil
anthropy and eager desire during years
past to see the negro free, cur informant
confessed himself staggered at the appal.
ling results Of practical Abolition. His
own opinion is that the negro has pur.
chased his freedom with his existence
OF in other words, that those who have
insisted upon his emancipation have simp.
ly demanded that the negro should be
punished from scryitude into the grave.
As it is, the Northern Abolitionists re.
Gently settled in the South, are more pre-.
JUDGED against the negrO. more Crnel in
their treatment, and more overbearing in
their demeanor than are the native South
rons. While these Abolitionists will &c
to any amount of trouble and expense to
interfere in the affairs Of master and sery.
ant, and to create disturbance by their
officious mcddlesomeness, they are the last
persons in the world 10 whom negro can
10 for charity or assistance. The mission
of philanthropy is considered flushed
when the ignorant blacks have been tax.
en- from their masters, filed with wild and
vicious ideas about freedom aud left e
shift for themselves, with the probabili,
ties altogether In favor Of their speedy
starvation aud ultimate extinction. The
best commentary that can be made upon
the hideous philanthropy Of Abolitionism
is the universal wish among the negroes
themselves to be restored to their formeI
position of warranteeism and security
Could vote be taken upon the question
among the black people Of the South, We
believe great majority Of them would
vote for return toslavery. The violent
revolution in their relations forced upon
these miserable people by the misguided
fanatics of the North is probably, taken
all in oil, the most monstrous crime evei
perpetrated in all the record of human
wickedness and error.
The destiny of the negro race, and What
is 10 be It's immediate future, are questions
of the utmost gravity to the Southern
people-problems whose solution mus
materially effect themselves. They ars
the people most interested and most ca
pable of deciding the questions correctly
and TO them the matter must finally b
left. They have always possessed NOR,
kindly and friendly feelings for the Afri
cans than any 0sher people, and il
not still their friends then the sons o
Ham need not look elsewhere for succol
or protection. In considering these ques
tions the Southern people are free from
the prejudices, the errors and the un
reasonable fanaticism with which Aboli
ton palaver and nonsense have surround
ed the subject in the North. They viii
not go to Phillips, Sumner, Garrison OF
Beecher, for counsel or advice, for theN
understand that these men use the negr'
for political purposes, and have no dis
position and no capacity to cope with th'
practical question presented BY the pres
ent condition of the blacks. Their PLAN
of education, miscegenation, colonization
suffrage aud equality, are sheer humbugs
good enough to keep political parties ant
anti-slavcry societies in perpetual fer
mentations at the North, but utterl,
worthless, impracticable and absurd a
plans to benefit either race. The whit
people of the South first require that thei
own condition may be assured by the re
cognition of their State Govern mcnts
clothed with sufficient power to protec
themselves from the execrable and off
cious intermeddling of Yankee philan
thropists which has already produced sucl
dreddful effects upon the negroes; ant
then they will be able to consider and de
eide upon what need be done with tn
blacks. 1t is a subject for each State t
legislate upon for itself, ana to have an
other authority to interfere can result il
nothing more than making confusion
worse confounded.
The opinion is entertained by many 0
the ablest men of the South, who hav
studied the problem carefully, that tn
negro race viii die out and become ex
tinct, as has the race Of Indians. Tn
only philosophical reason to be PRESENTS
against this, is the difference in the char
acteristics of the African race from thos
OF all other races, which everywhere con
fronts us in the history Of the African
The Indian receded and finally disappear
ed +; but the African clings to the ASST
citation of his superiors with instinctiv
Itenacity. But human wisdom win eel
tainly have proved failure when ther
can be found no other solution Of poli
ical or social difficulty than the absoIut
determination of four or FIVE millions Z
I people. The negro is indispensable t
the cultivation of the staples of the South
ern States his labor is not available 0
long as he enjoys g impartial freedom !;
and this freedom is the disease whic
consumes him, These facts make it ol
viously necessary that any practical an
humane solution Of the negro questio
involves the return Of the blacks to th
mastery of the whites, and the conditio
of subordination which the experienc
of two hundred years has proven to }
the only one in which they can prosper {
be useful.
This is but glance at q subject whic
threatens the people of the whole couI
try portentiously, but more especially th
people of the Southern States, whose 9,
cial organization--now in chaotic stat
lis to be effected for years to come b
the nature Of the decision they are |
make upon it.
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