The colored Tennessean., 1865-08-12


to the western territories. Give then
schools, laws, facilitating the acquifemen
bof homesteads to be paid for by their owl
labor, full and exclusive political privileges
aided at the start, should it seem necessary
by wise selection, from the wisest brain.
and most philanthropic hearts among anti
slavery men, to join them, a judiciary O.
executive which would command their con
tdence in the first essays of political exis
tence.
He does not propose to compel them
to 60, but thinks they will do so OF thei
own free will. This means we will not
" ct arn'ts, make you leave your present
homes, but by ignoring everything but
your right to labor freely, by all the ar
guments and appeals we can make to
the whites, inAaming their prejudices, by
the nameless prosecutions which sur,
round pariah class, we will efectually
compel you, the colored people, to go to
this territory The scheme is not new
one Both before and since the war the
idea has been broached and discussed,
of such territorial organization. Sena-
tor Jos. Fl. Lane, Of Kansas, during the
Congressional session, of 1861 made
an elaborate argument in favor of south
western Texas. His plan was better
matured and more full than that of Gen
eral Cox. Jim Lane proposed to give
us representation in Congress. We find
nothing said about this by General Cox.
Neither did he claim that there was an
difference between the ra-
ces, as does General Cox. In fact, Lane
knew better. He had been raised among
slaves, and for years was one of it's advo-
Gates. He desired separate territorial
because he thought the ne.
groes would have less to encounter
and would win a fair position more ca
'ily.
But all such arguments and plans are
allacies We don't intend to separate.
We are Americans, born on the soil,
md with inherent rights, which we know
ull well this great Republic will yet
,rant and defend US in possession.
There are no such race-hatreds as
General Cox so forcibly paints. We
re bone of one bone, blood of one blood;
ge are part of this race, though our skins
ave darkershue. This may be unpala-
ablselk, but 1T is nonesthe less true.
w, does not the General know, that
Re best blood of the naughty South runs
the veins of her darker children.
hese white men have ye5 some natural y
fection left If we remove to the ter. t
tory mapped out for us by General Cox, Fl
lr white relatives will follow us. P
Blood is thicker than water" and the Il
es Of consanguinity will assert them \
Ives. +,
Nor is it alone among the Southern
hites that the most strenuous efforts
I'VE been made to practically demon, d.
rate that there is no such thing ''below IL Il.
e girdle" as colorphobia. Such efforts ST
we not been confined to them. No VI VI
server of our armies during the four w
'ars of the war,pca have failed to per- 81 81
i've that prejudices Of race are as the ce
e mutterings Of the summer wind, of Of
1en passion demands qualification. re
lese are tabooed subjects perhaps, but on W,
time has come to speak "out in the ce
,eting." 1t is not the fault of the is. Ea
of the Southern whites be
nerally, or of the mass of the North ou ou
l soldiery, that the races do not assim- tn
te. These classes have made the most oh oh
enuous efforts ITO make the blacka-
'or white" ini
Fannie Kemble, in that remarkable M NJ
ok of hers, "a Diary of Residence thi
Georgia Plantation" records, with 1at Irl
|, characteristic frankness of an Eng wi
| woman, almost pertinent reply she me me
de to her husbands (Mr. Butler) is
tement of this race hatred. We have for 6y
the work by us, and cannot give the sP'
rds exact but in substance they wefe: an an
cannot perceive this to be true. Pa
lthern gentlemen, in fact. al men in n.e n.o