Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1865-11-09

untrameled, we viii see greater cal.
| antilles in the future, than have YET
occored. Two people as distncein
their characteristics as the whites
and blacks, can never live in harmo-
ny-sas the. same territory enjoying
equal rights if they are near eqaal
in number, until the principles taught
/ byJssus are better, understood, > bet
terappreciated and more correctly
] practiced than they are likely to be for
thousand years to come. They are
distinct in color, in anatomical for
nation and nsympathy, consequent
ly in physiological influence. They
have not as much sympathy for the
whites as We haye for them. They
naturally and instinctively desire to
have their own churches, schools,
and social parties and of course their
own government. This desire is
above human control. 1t is an ema-
nation of their inmost so1ls; if they
did not possess it they would not be
human beings. 1t may be restrain
ed bu 1t can never be extinguished
for it is an integrel of their immortal
souls. Hence if they have not a
country under their own control,
strife will arise between the whites
and the blacks in the South, attend
ed with the most barbarous cruelties
ever. heard of; the whites in the
North and West will be divided,
part siding with the Southern whites
and part with the blacks, and this
will carry fire and sword to every
mans door throughout the nation. We
narrowly escaped just such catas-
trophy within the past year, and the
same elements exist yet both North
and South. The serpent is only
wounded he is not killed. The blacks
possessing the desire they do which
will increase as they become more
enlightened, it would be cruelty only
equaled by the prison pens of the
South, to not give them the right of
suffrage in q country of their own,
and it will be equally cruel to the
whites to grant them that right
where they are mixed in large num-
bers with the whites. Give them a
country of their own with a fertile
soil and climate congeniai to their
constitutions it may be in Florida,
as suggested by Gen. Sherman in his
recent speech at Indianapolis, or it
may be in southern Texas, but it
must be somewhere if this nation is
ever to be blessed with peace. Give
them country of their own, protect
it with the Ameri can flag, let them
bear the same relation to our govern
ment Canada does to the British, for
a season at least, and we will do them
a kindness that will command their
gratitude as long as they remember
the name of Lincoln, and relieYe our
selves of a vexatious. burthen that
has been a curse to us ever since we
have been people. If our rulers
will look to Him for wisdom who
giveth to all literally and upbraideth
not, they will thereby be enabled to
bring our difficulties to a close in
harmony with tie will of Heaven and
prevent the flowing of rivers of blood
in the future There never was a
time when it was more needful for
the chief of 4 nation to look to
Heaven for council than the present
David was taken from the sheepfold
and made ruler of great nation; our
own chief magistrate was raised by
the hand of the Most High, from as
humble position and mnde chief
of greater nation; but not without Il
purpose. God saw in him the lnan to
execute his will and if he keeps his
eye single to that power that has led
him by the hand hitherto avoiding
the influence of Northern extremists
and of Southern scycophSats, the
one but imperfectly informed of the
case in hand, consequently incompe-
tent to judge of what oIght to be
done, or how to do it; the other a
little more rational would prefer col
onizing the blacks, rather than they
should be allowed to vote where they
are, but above all they prefer retain
ing them in some sort of servitude il
possible If our President can steer
clear of these parties and the coun-
try will sustain him in the course his
own conscious dictated, all will be
well.
No man can upbraid me for being
unfriendly to the black people, /
risked my life on their account near
fifty years ago, when there was none,
(or but few to plead their ca~se but
Benjamin Lundy and myself. And
now in my old days under the inau-
ence of the same spirit that directed
and protected me az that time, l raise
my warning voice to the people of
this nation, and proclaim that if you
do not give that people country of
their own, and assist them in becom-
ing colonized on it, all that this ma
tion has suffered is but drop in a
bucket compared with the future.
Most of the people In the South In
eighteen hundred and sixteen, treat
ed my message as the effusions of a
crazed or visionary brain. and.it is
possible this may be viewed in the
same light by the American people;
to me individually it matters not, l
have eversought nor obiained the
honor of men, it is too. late in the day
for me to think Of doing so; the
honor THAT cometh from God only,
through the ministration of his holy
Angels sufficeth to satisfy my soul,