The daily clarion. [volume] (Meridian, Miss.) 1863-1866, 1865-11-18

in the United States broad anu ini
: ble barrier. 1t has ever been the IRA
policy, founded In the nleheSt
wisdom to preserve the natural oiF s
of races. And to prevent the aoSor
and amalgamation OF the one NV -
80 T'his of a verify is the white mans
country. | am aware that amlast 'ue
bigh excitements that have obtained IN
the last few wears over the negro question:;
Tho flows of fanaticism have suomel geo
the sobaietv and reason OF one or more
Of the Northern States, and have III
6ucad them to abandon the wisdom OF
fbair fathers and to venture the experl
r,on+ of imnroyIng their blood. Such |
violations of The natural laws : such out.
pa oas on the decorum and morality OF
the are. serve 10 show how low, bigotry
and fspaticism, may degrade people.
We are not without the hgnt OF eApe-
rience and history on this suGJect.
Spain and Great Britain planted COLO
MES in America about the same tiiiio'
Tbev continued dependencies on the
rasnectiva mother countries for long
while Nearly the same policy was 90
served by the parent governments to-
wards them. They are all now separate
nationalities. Compare their hls'ory'
their progress and present condition with
one another.
The States of Central and South Amer
lea have been continually rent and torn
nv intestine factions and wars. Revolu-
ton and counter revolution have marked
nearly every year of their national ex-
! jstence. Commerce has languished, agri
culture has fallen into decay, and life
aud property are the prey and spoil OF
/ the robber and banditti. These coun
/ tries, rich in mineral, rich IN soil, capable
| of producing in profuslon the cereals OF
/ the temperate and the staples OF the
| tropic, are yet comparatively 10 the nor
NAL state of forest and wilderness. Their
populations are de based in ignorance and
! VIC. idleness and bigotry.
Whilst the United States have spread
over more than half of North America,
subduing forest and prairie to tiliage,
! linking the remotest confines to the centre
by railroads and canals, vexing every
river with steamboats,, whitening every
lake and sea with the wings of com
merce, going in the advance OF all the
nations in national progress and wealth,
and keeping abreast with the foremost Of
them in arts and letters.
The late war has shown a colossal pow
er in the North and South, which has
amazed both sections, astonlshed the
world, and which united, has no parra.el
in any former age In the world. Many
causes have contributed to make the
United States, great and powerful.
Specialists may essay an explanation
of tue contrast i'll the assumption that
the Anglo Saxon, is the superior stock,
and transplanted more vigorous branches
in the New World. But | appiehend this
IS inadequate to solution. / would
rather refer the disparity to the violation
| e fp law Cf latuIe.
The Spaniard has admixed his CaucasN
sian blood with The negro and Indian,
luntIl the mixed Mongrei, Mexican, Bo
Ilvian and Peruvian OF to day, is debased
tar below the inhabitants OF the cold
countries of Europe, who osubdued the ma
lives, and possessed the country, this cor
ruptlon of blood has been going on so
, long, that the nature Of the interior races
now predominates in the popul ulatons.
How long the Indians had been here
befere the white man-hlstory cannot
, tell. If in a remote age, far back In the
! cycles OF time, he had been civilized, he
r had relapsed into barbarism. In the
% very presence and contact of the white
man Tor four hundred years, he adopted
+ none of his arts, accepted neither his let
,ers. nor his civilization; but adherd with
S tenacity to his bow and arrows, and
l rosmed the forest and praries as his
fathers had done before him.
! I. .hiopia has no histOry-a perpetual
4 cloud of darkness has enveloped her from
p the beginning, her people age after age
e have lived and died, and that is about al
- that we know of them. In the long line
= of centuries, she has never emerged t.
the notice of the enlightened world. A
cruel, savage barbarism seems always tC
have entbralled her. This population
) has never shown the innate capacity ano
= energy to elevate itself, out OF its low anC
miserable state. A wall of fire should for
h ever make it impossible to mingle tn.
= flood of these races, incapable thus far
t. of high moral and intellectual attain
IS ment from commingling with ours. l
e in the far off future such erroneous wick
e edness and crime, against the best hopes
5 and interests of humanity, should be per
i petrated by degenerate posterIty, th'
history of Central and South Amt ric
e foreshadOws, what will be the sad fate anC
:, condition of this country. think tn
: course we pursued on this subject, will b
d continued in France and Germany, ther
e can not exist legal marriage between
0 a colored and white person. Such con
= neciion is known in the civil laws, as tn
1T degraded state of concubinage. In tn
a. first naturalization law, passed by Con
gfesS just after the adOpuOn Oh lH9 Con
er stitution, 1898, its privileges were Offer
N red exclusively to the white race; and a
> often as the subject has been legislate
y upon since 1902, 1913 and 1920, and later
le The privilege of citizenship to foreigners
Iy has always been limited to them, OF tn
le white races.
as FUTURE OF THE NEGRO.
When look into the future, ard a
u tempt to trace the future and destiny
10 the negro, for fifty or hundred years,
= = confess that philanthropy is startled &
lS the gloomy picture, tnat rises up to th
rs imagination. He is subjected to
z most hazardous protection, without pr
!, iminary tuition and preparation, he
aS at one bound, release from dependence
= and thrown on his own resources. Ii
Il will be in daily contact and competitio
~ with his superiors, he will pursue the rae
of life, in a parallel, but interior sphere.
N Will the wheels of progress roll owe
lie him, leaving him behind crushed an
;, mangled incubus to perish by the war
ly will he in his sphere harmonic wit
~ the onward move vement-contributing b
g part and performing his duty. The il
'h struction OF history is that the fate of a
OF inferior race, inhabiting the same coui
IS try with a superior, has been gradu