The national Republican., 1866-07-20

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A WAR oR RACES 10 DE DEPRE.
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THl Phn,Drsr, whilst he rejoices with the
most philanthropic Of our people that sla
vsry ns been sbolished in the United States
dssizss 70 sazs he South, II Il be possible 70
do so, from the. scsurge and horrors Of wal
between the European and African races
fthe heat Of the public temper is SO great
that the people cannot sriwill mot now per
ceive our ezpossre,to such . danger, the time
il not far distant, we spprehend, when it will
be discovered end appreciated. b. - 5s8
The sudden abolition Of slavery as sud
denly forced the people Of the States where
IL existed into the trial Of IN experiment
which has inever yet peacefully succeeded
the experiment Of 90 adjusting The laws and
modifying the tempers, habits and bearings
Of AngloSaxpns and freed negroes dwelling
together upon terms Of civil equality (sooial
equality 10 out Of the question: in the same
communities as to satisfy both and produce
condition Of mutual contentment.
To sealots unadvised of the struggles
which have occurred heretofore under such
or similar circumstances, it appears to be q
subject Of no concern whatever. To the rad
ieals in and out of the present Congress,
judging from their fippsnt method Of treat
ing it, il appears to be an experiment which
may be resolved by the application Of the
dreams of THADpEus SrEvsSs--an enforced
application Of the equality doctrines of the
Declaration Of Independence. But our best
informeda and most sagacious and considerate
statesmen, whilst they are equally philan-
thropic, are painfully apprehensive that the
furore with which impudent reformers push
their notions upon and into the communities
where slavery has recently existed, before
their present wounds are cicatrized, will pro-
duce war Of races Of a very terrible charac-
ter. The reasons for this apprehension are
too numerous for newspaper article. They
would fill volume. r-..,. ...
The slaves Of the ancients belonged to the
same race as the masters. They were tro-
phies Of war, and frequently, as in the cases
Of EsoP and TERENCE, the superiors of their
masters in intellect and learning. Freedom
was the only distinction between them, and
when this boon was conferred they came
upon common level. And, although it
was found that prejudice against those who
had been enslaved lasted long after the pc
riod Of their enfranchisement, the freedmen
bore 30 close resemblance to the free-born
that it became after while impossible to
distinguish one class from the other. Sla-
very in the United States has been united
with the visible badge of color. The negro
has been the subject of it. Doubly dishon-
ored by color and the fact that his race has
been enslsved from time to him out Of mind,
the colored freedman is in a fur worse condi-
ton for enjoying equal civil rights with his
former master than were the slaves of an
tiquity. This led De ToceuEvrLLK to remark
that the law may abolish in form the insti-
tuition of negro slavery, but God alone can
obliterate the traces Of its existencesa
In attempting to bring our freedmen into
harmony with the white men we have, beside
the fact Of former servitude, three sorts of
prejudices to contend with-the instructive
prejudice Of color, the prejudice Of the for
mer masters, and the prejudice of the race.
These, separately or combined, have in all
known instances Of negro emancipation been
fruitful and never. ending causes Of discon-
tentment and discord, so that wherever the
whites have been the most numerous they
have found it necessary to their personal
safety to keep the blacks in subordinate
and servile position; and wherever the ne.
groes have been the strongest they either
have, or have striven to destroy the whites.
And when we remember how difficult and
slow has been the process in every country,
inclusive Of our own, Of roofing out the dis
tinctions Of aristocracy which we inherited
from the Old World and Of preventing the
growth Of others, such as aristocracies of
wealth and Of sect, scarcely less prejudicial
to everything like equality and harmony, we
are compelled to acknowledge that it is not
strange that no experiment of the kind we
are now trying has ever succeeded. There
have been, and yet are, rightfully we do not
say, but actually, nevertheless, these in
trinsic differences hitherto between the two
races, which statesmen, and particularly those
IN charge Of our Government, are not at lib
erty to disregard. 1t is the full knowledge
Of these, and Of the horrid massacres and
wars they have heretofore produced, which ad-
THE PRESIDENT of the necessity of
moving in the work Of freconstructing South
ern society according to the altered condi-
ton of things, with the utmost circumspec-
tion. tits, therefore, cruelty unjust to him
for GARRISON or PHILLIPS or FRED. DOUGLASS
to say, as they continually do, that he is ad-
the Government in the interests
Of slavery.
fiGOING AHEAD BACKWARDS.