The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1866-06-07
A White Mans Government.


There is theory aired sometimes
In Congress, sometimes in theological
'eminaries, and sometimes in gin
mills, that Providence designed this
country exclusively for White Men,
How three or four millions of Black |
men got here, and seemed likely to re-
main here, in spite of the five hun
dred annually sent to Africa by the
Colonization Society, and admirers
and champions of Divine Providence
do not condescend to explain to us. 1t
strikes us that the best proof of this
providential proposition would be
found in the decency, good behavior,
honesty and elevation of the favored
class but, taking those who are con-
Venient for comparison, because they
are side by side, which behave the
bestpolitically and socially, the Whites
or the Blacks? There are none of the
latter in COngress-it is pure White
theoretically at least-yet we do not
find Congress always wise, iudicious,
dignified and orderly. There are no
Blacks in the Legislature of Tennes-
see; yet Honorable Members there on
the 18th inst, got into furious alter
cation, the lie direct being most liber-
ally given and returned. Who got up
the late "shindles" in Richmond, in
very sight of the statue of George
Washington Whites. Who are
killing, wounding, tormenting the
Freedmen? Whites. Who origina-
ted the Rebellion Whites. Who
stand in the way of perfect recon-
struction of the Union Whites.
1t is unmanly, it is indecent, not to
give the Freedmen fair play. They
are watched with Sharp eyes; and
every individual excess is set down tc
the discredit of the whole class. NJ
race could stand for moment agains
such a burlesque of criticism as this
a dozen Blacks cannot get drunk anC
break the peace in Louisiana, hut tn
petty affair is telegraphed all over tn
country, with such twist as som,
telegraph operators know how to give
it. Nothing whatever is said of thu
millions just emancipated who are de
manding themselves creditably, strug
CLING with want, resisting temptation
forgetting old injuries, anxious fol
work, praying for the opportunities o.
industry, trying to keep together thei
families, and all the while made tn
objects of suspicion, of fraud, and O
stony-hearted cruelty. They are urgeC
over, they are talked about, thei
smallest foible are discussed, they ar
to be sent here, they are to be sen
there, this gentleman is for doing thi
with them, and the other gentleman i
for doing that-and still they remain
quiet, industrious, patient and peacea
bic! 1t will be shame to us if w,
cannot find place for a race so simple
atfectionate and well-disposed.
Providence certainly did not design
North America for White Men to pla,
the devil in-did not keep this cont
nent for us, that here all our evil pas
sions might have their foul fling, ant
wrong and injustice be profitable =
Neither did Providence bring owe
here from Africa four millions O
Blacks--or rather the ancestors of fou
millions-that we might show ou
skill in navigation by carrying then
all back again. They must stay here
or, like the Indians, they must be ex
terminated. A due consideration O
this fact may save an endless amour
of speech-manufacturing and of speech
making. The problem is not how t
get rid of Blacks, but how to keel
them without utterly wasting the re
source of their labor. And we ar
among those who think the problem
will be satisfactorily solved. TN. y
Tribune.