Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1865-08-12

leaving them intermixel with the whites,
will cure all the trouble. believe that IL
would rather be like the decisions in that
outer darkness OF which Milton speaks,
where --.-a =.
''Chaos umpire sits,
And by decision more embroils the fray.
80 Yet as believe. with .yon, that The right.
to life aud liberty are inalienable, and more
than admit the danger Of leaving a loboring
class at the entire mercy Of those who for.
merly owned them as slaves, you will say l
ON bound to furnish some solution Of The
problem which shall not deny the right or
incur the peril SO am, The ouly real so
luton which can see is the peacable sepa.
ration Of the races. But you will reply,
foreign colonization will break down hope.
lessly under the very vnstness Of tbe labor
even II Il were not tyraunical enough to ex-
pei these unfortunae people from the land
of their birth. grant The full weight OF
the objection, aud therefore say the solu.
ton is thus narrowed down to q peacible
separation Of the races on The soil where
they now are. 7n .a0e ta ~ -eF'4~t
The essential point in the discussion thus
appenrs to be the actual relations of the
| two races 10 the southern Stu,es as a ques.
iion of fact, aud the probable future couse-
auences Of those relations as question Of
theory. 2i sH.j 11c ,s39t8 ga a.a
Upon the question Of fact think / may
with oil mod,sy clainithat my sn,ecedents
and my oppor' uni'ies Of observation, euti.
tie my testimony to bays some weight, ev.
en- with the most radical autislavery men
Of the North. sfHse a 80 -.afss sd
The au,agonsm Of which have spoken
is not entirely one sided Ga the part OF
the former mas er it takes the form of an
in1onitsble pride, which utterly teftses TO
entertain the idea OF political or social
quality, mingled with a hatred intensified
by the crcumst pces aud the results of the
war. This feeling is not confined TO the
slave.owners nlone. but the poor viii, es
share it fully, aud often show il more pas
siouately. sa'a' egg "a s+a9.aoas 5.s 81.
On the part Of the freedmen, IL is m ami.
tested in an nt,er dstrust of the dominant
race, and an enmity which, although made
by ci cumsrances more passive openly man.
il, sted, is as real and implacable as The
other. They have the mutual attraction
of race among tbemselvs, aud iepulsion of
the whites as another people, developed to
II degree which surprised me. 1t is not as
individuals of a nation common 10 US sIl i,
that they speak OF themselves, bat, 10 use
the lorguage of one of them, speaking to
myself, they feel that they have long been
on oppressed and down tr0dden people 8.
IIldre'h, in his Despotism IN Americ,,
| declared slavery to be in itself a state of
war, and this character is indelibty i'm
pressed upon both races in the sou;b.-
The capatise learns duplici,y towards his
cap.or, and 10 the slave it has become a
marked characteristic II is fair strata
gem for which he feels no guilt. | have
seen a master boas:iug oil the fidelity OF
his ser want, and discussing the subject Of
slavery in his presence, whilst the negro
waited upon him With an impossible III.
! ty which would make you believe no in
ted his brain. Yet have seen that same
negro sfterward in camp. transformed into
a clear headed ally of our Troops, leading
them to his masters bn' led stores, or guild
ing them TO The q INKS Of The enpmy.s lines
with an intelligence and s,eadiness Of pnr
pose which LETT no doabt as 10 his under.
standing of the cohf CT between himself and
his master s..s.
The daily an1 hourly repetition of proofs
CT this fact, many of them too subtle TO"
description. hut none the less convincing
10 the observer, has fully convince d ut
tha. never between Norman and S,xrn.
nor between Gaul aud F,ank was there
more conscious hated, or an aotagonism
more likely to prove invc.erat te than he -
ween black and white OF our Sou hetn
SOIL The negroes will have no sense o.
security nor faith in their 70 mer mas ers,
even it they off rihem political rights; they
will fear them as Danaos dona ferentes -.
The details of any system of separation
could only be determined by careful study
and wide comparison of views Suppose
however. that without breaking up the or
ganization Of any State. you take con
tigious territory in South Carolina, Georgia
Alabama, and Florida. aud there, under
the sovereignty of the United States, and
with oil the facilities which the power aud
wealth Of the Government can give, we
organize he freed men in dependency of
| the Union analogous TO the wes,e err, terri
| tories. u We them schools, laws facilitating
L
he aeqni emant of home eats to be paid
for by their own labo-, iull aud executive
polticalprivilege aided a, the s'art, should
| it seem necessary, by wise election from the
largest brains and most pblanihropic hearts
among anti slavery men, TO j,in them, a
judiciary or execu'ive which would com
mand their confidence in the first essays of
political existence. There need be no
coe Give collection Of the coored race in
the designated region, the majority are
there now, and the reward of political
power would draw ihitber the remaiDder
quie as rapidly as their place could be
supplied by white 'imigralion into other
States. Tue forts aud seaport cities could
remain under direct control of the Federal
Government as he basis for that common
trade aud Intercourse with othe paris Of
the couatry and the world, v hich wond be
necessary. The fullest opportunity TO de-
vslop The highest civilization they are
capable Of. would then be given. Culored
meu Of talent and Intelligence wonld bot
then make vain struggle for eWpty name
Of being lawyers without briefs. ner chants