The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-08-11
Rspnblicsn Antseonisms.

for Governor in unio, recently made az
impo:,ant speech. showing the antag
oirsn1s that " II soon be Developed in tht
Repubiican-pariy on the negro question
General Cox does not a. ree with The
O5erlin comnsittee on the question o
negro suffrage, as will be seen by the fol
lowing extracts from his speech:
Addressing himself 10 the committee
Gen. Cox writes
'sYou, judging from this distance. say,
/ D.Iiver the four millions of freed people
into the haLds of their former oppressors.
row embiftered by their defeat, and they
will NAL lxe their condition worse than be-
| FORE I. starting from The same princi
| pies, and after four wears of close and
| thoughtful observation of1ihe races where
they are. say am unwillingly forced to
| The con nviction that the effect of the war
| hssnot been simply to 'emb their
| relations. but to develop a rooted antag
onism hich makes their permanent fu-
lion in or political community an ahso
lute impossibiiity The sole difference
between US, then, is in the degree of hos
| tility we fad existing between the rae :,
and its | rohabie permanerce. You as
sumo that the extension of the right of
suffrage to the blacks. leaving them IN
termixed with the whites, will cure eli
the trouble. ] believe it would rather be
like the decisians in that outer darkness
of which Milton speaks, where
Chaos umpi sits,
And by dec sion more emb oils the fray.
+" Yet, IS | believe, with you. that the
right of liberty are inallenable, and NOR
than admit the danger Of leaving a labor
ing class at the entire mercy OF those who
formerly owned them as slaves, you will
say an bound 10 furnish some solution
of the problem which shalt not derry the
right or incur the peril. So ! am, am
the only real solution which | can see l.
the separation of the Two races. Bur YOU
Will rtp.y. foreign colonization will break
down bopele-sly under the very vas,n4s.
of the labor, even if ii were not tyran
nicai enough to expel these unfortunat-
people FROM the land of their birth.
grant he tul weight ot the objection
and therefore say The solution is thus mar
rowed down 10 pa-ceqbLs separation of tie
races on tie soil phsfe they no0 are"
Further along he writes:
"The antaconlsm of which I have |
spoken is not entirely one sided. On tn, |
part of the former master it takes the !
form Of an irdomitable pride, which ut |
terry refuses to entertain the id a OF 30 /
liticil or social equality, mingled With a |
hatred intensified Lv the circumstances,
and the results of ,he war. This feeling |
is not contined 10 the slave owners alone
but the poor whites share it fully, an4
often show it more passionately.
"On the port of the freedmen, it is
u 1
nant race and an enmity which, although
made by circumstances more passive and
less openly manifested, is as real and i'm
placable as !he other. They have the
mutual attraction of race among them
selves, and repulsion Of the whites as an
ocher people developed to degree which
urprised me. Il is not as individuals of
hailoh ooenrzaon to us all that they speak
)t themselves, but to ust The language OF
me OF them, speaking to myself, they
EEL that they have long been an on
pre- ssod and down trodden people,"
"Because there could be no real unitv
u people between the Southern whites
md Southern blacks, it seems manifest
0 me that there could ha no politjc,I
lnl'y, but rather a strife for the mastery
n which one or the other would go to
be wall.
Tue struggle for supremacy would BE-
Iirect and immediate, and | see no hop
7hatever that the weaker raca would 20,
'e reduced 10 hopeless suhjhctiop, or IA
erlY destroyed There is no reason to1
uppose that Missouri border ruffiani m
'uld never be repeated on new Fl Id>.
nd the strife once iuauguraied the n.r :
iiess war would continue as long as the =
bnoxious race bad an existence. Yon t
~,
result in one state Of the case how il /, :
nat you do not see a direct struggle for
over at the ballot box would make the a
optest more deadly?'
And still further along, he adds:
As, during these weary years of war, ] :
ave pondered this problem in the inter
ais ot strife or by The camp fire at pight,
nave been more and mere impslled Ia Y
ne belief that the only basis of y .rnja / :
ent nationality is to be found in con
LPte homgenity of people, of manners
I'd OF laws, The rapid fusion of the
ICES OF western Europe "a they have m
pon our shores, has secured ihe form r
these requisites, ard the Yankee rsc.
'G"pt the epithet as an honorable onel
afk-d IS it is with salient eharacteris st
., IS 5" complete an amaigama.ion O
'amiiles from the eastern boundary OF
= many to the western coast Of Ireland a.
at here are few Of u in whose veins are
u mixed the blood of several. Bat x
Is unhappy race Of which we are speak
z, does not amalgamata with the rest
Is entirely inlnl tteriaI 10 d scuss why j.
so; TIE fact no one can deny. nor can
be denied that its lvarion or destrrc
m will surely be worked out in its fam.
isola ton
Ex Governor Clarke, of Missis<inn: