The Tiffin weekly tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1859-1868, 1865-08-24

On the part Of the freedmen, il
is manifest in an utter distrust OF
the dominant race, and an enmity
which, although made by circum.
stances more passive and less op
only manifested, is as real and i'm
placable as the other. They have
the mutual attraction ofrace among
themselves, and repulsion OF the
the whites as another people, de-
vclopcd to n degree which surpris.
cd me. II is not as individuals Of
q nation common to us all that
they speak OF themselves, but, to
use the language of one of them,
speaking to myself, they feel that
they shave long been an oppressed
and down'trodden people"
Ilildreth, in his "Despotism in
America" declared slavery to bo
in itself a state of war, and this
character is indclibly impressed
upon both races in the South. The
captive learns duplicity toward his
captor, and in the slave it has be-.
come marked characteristic. 1t
is fair stratagcm for which he
feels no guilt. / have seen a mas
ter boasting of the fidelity of his
servant, and discussing the sub jcct
of slavery in his presence, while
the negro waited upon him with
an impassive humility which
would make you believe no intcli-
gent idea of freedom had ever pen
etratcd his brain Yet have ecen
that same negro alterward in camp
transformed into clcar.hca1cd
ally ofour troops, leading them to
his masters buried stores, or guild,
ing them to the fanks of the enc
my's lines, with an intelligence
and steadiness o: purpose which
left no doubt as to his understand
ing of the conflict between himself
and his master. .f5r .I Dr..
The daily and hourly repetition
Of proofs oithis fact, many of them
too subtle for description, but none
the lees convincing to the observer,
has fully convinced me that never
between Norman and Saxon, nor
between Gaul and Frank, was there
a more conscious hatred, or an an.
tagonism more likely to prove in.
vetcrate, than between black and
white on our Southern soil. The
negroes will have no sense Of Sc.
curity nor faith in their former
masters, even if they offer them
political rights; they will fear them
as Ddnaos dona ferentes. .e
What does history teach us in
regard to the epcrmanence and dura.
bility Of such prejudices and cnmi-
ties Of race! Speaking on this
subject, Augustin Thierry, in his
history Of the Roman Conquest
says: Whatever degree of terri
torial unity tho great modern States
Of Europe may appear to have at
tanned; whatever may be the com
munity Of manners, language, and
public feeling, which the habit o
living under the same government
and in the same stage of civiliza
ton, has introduced among the in.
habitants Of each of those States
there is scarcely one ofthem which
does not even now present living
traces Of the diversity of the races
OF men, which in course cf tim,
have come together in it. Thi,
variety shows itself under differen
aspects, with features more or les
marked. Sometimes it is a com
plete separation Of idioms, Of loca
traditions, Of political sentiments
and n sort of instructive cnmit,
distinguishing from the great ma
tional mass the population OF few
small districts, and sometimes 9
mere difference Of dialect or ever
Of accent, marks, though NOR
feebly, the limit Of the settlement
OF races of men, once thorough,
distinct and hostile to each other.
| Ii fifteen centuries of common
government and political Unioi
have not been able to obliterat
the distinctions and even the Sin
stinctiye ehmityp Of races whicl
were physiologically similar, villa
encouragement have we that sue
cess will attend a forced politica
fusion OF bitterly hostile races from
the antipodes OF the human fami
Ily3
The process by which even tn,
comparative unity Of the Englisl
people was achieved, is described
by the same philOsophic historian
whom have quoted, near the clos
of his great work, as 'complet,
amalgamation OF the Norman AM
Saxon idioms, and q mixture o
the two races which 1t took fou
centuries Of sanguinary war to &C
complish. ..1
just stepping as we are from tn
battlefield on which the descendant
ola common ancestry, 80 little re
moved from us that we can literal
y reach back Our hands to grasl
those Of our common sires, hav'
waged the most tremendous anC
terrible of modern wars, il does no
become us to argue that peaceful
discussions will quietly settle diff
ferences which in former timet
werc settled by the sword; but th,
memory OF the almost present a.
well as Of the remote past calls up
on his to build our polity solidly
upon principles which experience