Abbeville press. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1860-1869, 1866-03-16

not only direct, but form government itself
Hence, the fierce contests at the ballot.box
even among those Of the same race and
color: Imagination cannot picture what il
would be with voting population ball
white and half black. It is impossible 10
''miX oil and water"-colcr would be m.
pealed to by demagogues, and certainly as
herrings run in shoals, white would Join
white, and black rally 10 black. The end
would be war of races, in which one OF
the other would be destroyed.
"straight behold the throne
OF Chaos, and his dark pavilion spread
Wide on the wnstefu Deep"
If negroes have the right Of suffrage will
they not upon the same principle, claim the
kindred right of representative to hold
office and sit in Congress? Can any one.
not mad with fanatical frenzy, believe
that such an unnatural mixture would con.
tribute either to the harmony of the people
or the Government We understand that
the body polite is a sort of partnership,
formed by the mutual consent of the par
ties. The inhabitants of the earth have
divided themselves unto many subdivisions
having different governments, manners and
laws. These associations are supposed to
have been formed originally by agreement.
sometimes called tho "social compact."
This assent of the parties is certainly true
of the trainers Of ont Government, both On
account of the manner Of it's origin and its
peculiar structure. Our forefathers form.
ed political association, which was one of
their own choice, both as to the form of
government and their associates under it.
The Government was established BY them
for themselves and their descendants and
shall we now introduce into it an extraneous
element-shall we force black ingredient
into tho body polite, against the remon-
strances of the original associates? This
seems go manifestly inequitablc that if We
had proper tribunal we would undertake
upon the established principles of equity.
to maintain bill for injunction against a
proceeding so derogatory to the rights of
the white electors. Shall We break the uni.
ty of our electoral body, by making a COM
pound like Lord Chatham's famous admin
$50 checkered and speckled:
A piece Of joining SO Grossly indented and
Whimsically doye-tailed-a cabinet SO vari.
ously
Inlaid-such piece of diversified Mosaic
Such a teselated pavement without cement
Here bit Of black stone and there bit of
white,
That it would be indeed very curious show.
But utterly unsafe TO touch, and unsound to
stand upon."
Our government rests not only on the
but upon the honaogeniety of
its citizens. The people voluntarily associ.
ated together are the sovereigns and tutors.
As they are fellow citizens, they ought to
have fellow feeling. A house divided
against itself cannot stand. We make
bold to say that in lhe history of the world
no instance can be found where two races
as different rs tho white and black, the nm
tipodes of each other; have lived together
peaceably as equals. Moses was adopted
into the family and reared in the house Of
King Of Egypt, yet when he saw an Egyp-
tian shifting one Of his brethren, "he slew
the Egyptian and hid him in the sand."-
When in the course Of events different peo.
pies have been thrown together, one has
always, from necessity, become subordinate
to the other. TIE Normans and Saxons
could occupy the same soil only on condi-
ton Of the subordination of the weaker
After the battle of Hastings the Normans
alone governed, and without the exclusion
of the Saxon, they could not have lived to-.
gether siagle day. The inscription on
the collar of Gurtb, @the born thrall OF
Cedrick Of Rotherwood," !" indicated the uni
versal condition of hiscountrymen. They
were of the same color and of the same
race, the only difference between them was
that of conqueror and conquered, and they
finally amalgamated; yet it required GEN.
turies to fuse them into one people. The
whites and the Blacks, as We have showu,
can never amalgamate, and, therefore can
never live together as equals in political
power. One or the other, ard not both,
must govern. Mr.. Jefferson said: o
Nothing is more clearly written in the
book of destiny than the emancipation oi
the blacks; andi Is equally certain that
the tsoo races apiN neUer live tn q state OF
equal freedom under the same government
50 insurmountable are the barriers which
nature, habit and opinion lave establ0hed
between them."
One part of this remarkable prophecy is
now realized. and we believe that the othe,
will as certainly be fulfilled. !: the ne
groes are to remain here the only possible
course will be 10 give them the benefit oi
wise and humane laws, affordsng full pro-
lection 10 their persons and property, but
TO- exclude them from participation 10 the
Government Indeed il will be difficult to
avoid disturbances with them acknowledged
as subordinate, and thus protected. Sud.
den emancipation has thrown upon us q
problem 10 difficult that we prefer, sepsra
ton and colonization, II practicable. W.
are Of opinion ttiatit would be better fol
both races if the negroes could be sent oul
Of the country, to some place where they
could have a Homogeneous people, and en-
JOY to the extent Of their capacity q govern
ment of their own. But ifthe negroes ar<
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