The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1865-08-26
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Saturday Morning, Aug. &C., 1865,
= conflict and Eatc- OF tho Races
.sslavery has hitherto protected tn.
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negro from the fate of the red man.
AS a slave, he had the protection of
the superior, the white race. It was
made the interest Of the latter to pro-
'teec:t him: Released from Slavery, and
that. freedom asserted for hin, which
he could never himself assert he can
no longer claim or COMPEL tho protec-
ton of the white. In Contact with,
the superior race, he no longer chal-
lenges the sympathics or finds the
guardianship of that people to whom
he was so lately subject. Should he
-forbear all insolcnco, presumption and
arrogance, III his new condition, he
still Soffends by rivalry. AS u compc,
titor, having no capital but physical
to oppose to intellectual strength, and
to the various moral accumulations of
the superior race, he cannot hold his
ground except as u subordinate. Will
ne be content with this inferior state
. in relation to the white race? He
naight,sif let alone. But, stimulated
&, by tho urts of faction, party, and
those destructive organizations Of the
North, which, for thirty years, have
boen busily at work for his ruin and
our own, he will hardly be content
with any such position. He will be
found. fussily fishing at everNconG-
ton or.privilcge which he finds in tho
possession of the white people His
itlen OF labor will be associated in
dclibly with his memory of former
slavery. He will re.:-clt at work. His
natural appctites as we'll as necessities
will prompt him to the employment
Of al his cunning, in order TO procure
those laxuries, and Satisfy those wants
which he needs, and for which he
Graves. Those. Who refuse to labor,
having no resources Of fortune, must
swindle Oil steal. There is no escape
for it. There is an inex orable. logic
jill the moral law which r.a!.es it iilcvi-
table that all such must offend AGAINST
ell law and must s-..ir.r the penalty
OF offence. In ab.oi'lte rropinqrity
with q white rlca, and contendinS
With ;taon eqEal terms, without auy,
sort of guardianship, the negro's fate
~ ,st be taat Of tac rel m;tn-i. e., i:
We, are to assume what Judge Chase
seems to deny, viz: that lie is Of inf..-
rior race. The Chief Justice seems
resolved to make it the superior. He
announces, with rare degree OF sym
pathy for the black, and against his
.own color, that, in the South, the
former must not only be the ruling
but the aristocratic class. This is liz
such antagonism to all the ordinary
opinions, feelings, tastes and preju-
dicas Of the white race, that public
opinion may well suspect the speaker
OF desire that it should be so, and Of
q determination to make It so, if this
can be achieved by the operations OF
c. party organization. Free suffrage
may be one process fer this end, bu.
there is another. There may be
cool calculation of the results OF a
physical conflict between the. two
races, III y region where the numbers
Of the two are nearly equal; the in
1eA4oI 1DCc oelllS OPtI1y OF SSCFSt1y
supplied with succour, arms and other
helps by that party which aims at
hrs ascendency. And, with some two
hundred thousand blacks iii arms, and
scattered throughout the South; hay
ing their regular organizations, and
stationed in commanding situations,
it is not difficult to conceive, not only
that the negro may be the ruling race,
but that it will become the sclc exist
ing race. especially when the whites
are denied arms and organization
equally. But, for some such interest
ing calc1llatiop Of the chances and
influences, it is difficult to- conceive of
'nnythAg more absurd than the speou-
lations of Justice Chase, as to the pos
sibilities in the future destination of
his favorite color. According to the