The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1865-10-20
The Conflict OF Races.

The Conflict OF Races.
People who for lifetime have attended
abolition meetings and read little If any
thing but abolition papers, may be very
excellent people in their wsy, but perhaps
not the best qualified of all the world to
settle the ''irrepressible conflict" between
white men and colored men, whether in
the North or South. This world is made
up of hard facts, end With these states
men have to deal. The ,ries were easily
framed, but not so easily put in practice
to anybody's good. The lecturer in his
study will write beautifully about what
should be-; these who attempt to provide
government for men are forced to deal
with ,ohM is, and which it is utterly be-
yoad human power to change.
If articles containing facts, like the fol-
lowing, were more generally printed and
read, how much more reasonable would
people become, and how much of fruitless
effort to supercede Gods laws by human
laws, would be spared. We copy from
the Boston Courier.
The Four RACES Mr. Bowles, in recent
the Chinese population in the Pacific States,
now numbering not far from eighty thousand,
and rapidly increasing. They are q very in
dustrious people, frugal, orderly, inoffensive,
minding their own business, and yet they are
the subjects of constant abuse and iH-usage on
the Part of the dominant race among whom
they live. They are not allowed to vote, their
testimony Is not received in court of Justice
against white man, if they engage in mining
they are subject to a heavy tax, and their daily
life Is embittered 10y insult contempt, and not
unfrequeRtly personal outrage. This is q sad
record, but though it grieves us, 1t does not
surprise as. 1t is but renewal of the lesson
stern lesson of race, without which the teach
1ngs Of history can never be learned, or the
problems of politics solved.
We have at this moment on the soil of the
United States men Of four different races,
white, red, yellow and black; or in other
golisn, and the African. The Caucasian Is rep
resented by the so-called Anglo Saxon race,
which has always been remarkable for the
care with which !, has kept its blood pure and
unmixed, and fer the naughty, infexible and
stern cOuntenance it has turned towards every
inferior race with which it has been brought
into contact How has the white man here
other races abOve named? The red man has
always been his enemy; the red man would
never be the white mans slave or the white
mans drudge, and SO the white man has ex-
terminated him. To this task he has set him>
self with the logged determination with which
he has felled the forests and plowed the fall
lows, and at this moment the process Is going
on IN the far west with the most satisfactory
results-we mesn most satisfactory to the
white man.
The black man he was brought from Africa
against his will aud compelled to work for
him. He has fe,; him, clothed him, nursed
him in sickness, and supported him in old
age, and as an equivalent, has exacted from
him enforced lai,or. To this relation the
black man has I"eekly and INTERESTINGLY SUBJ
ioitted.
The yellow man has come from Asia of his
OWE accord. He is industrious, frugal, and
narnless. BE is ready to labor to the utmost
extent of his capacity, and willingly engages in
those repulsive aud disagreeable forms of labor
from which the naughty and dainty white man
recOils. Him the white man, on these condi-
tons. allows to live and nothing more. He
gives him the lowest wages and the worst
treatment He never recognizes between him
and them the tie OF a common humanity.
Every day and every hour he drives into his
soul the iron Of contempt. The yellow man
Is made to understand in thousand ways that
he must never aspire to social, civil, or p6liti-
cal equality with the white man.
We are simply stating facts and not giving
our opinions about facts. We are not consid-
ering at this moment how the white man
ought to treat inferior races but how he has
treated them, how he does treat them. But
we here in the north, where there are no Chi
nese and almost no Indians and no Africans.
have shut our eyes to the generic fact that all
these inferior races are treated more or less i'll
by the superior race. and opened them only to
the specific fact of he i'll treatment which the
African has received in a state OF slavery. All
our pity has been expended upon the African
and none of it upon the 1noian or the Chinese:
and yet it will not be pretended that the Afri.
can Is higher on the scale of race than the Chi.
nese or even the Indian.
Not that slavery was not In itself q great
wrong, not that ii was not an added wrong,
not that the abolition of slavery is not a result
to be grateful for, at whatever cost effected |;
but what we mean to say is, that If the African
has been treated Ill, the Chinese and the In
dian have not been, are not treated well, and
that we have no right to ask the white man in
the Southern States to treat the emancipated
black man as man and a brother when we
have never recognized the humanity or the
fraternity of either the red man or the yellow
man. In other words, we have no right to de-
mand OF Others virtue which we do not prac-
tice ourselves