The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1866-03-03
Summers Bloody Manifesto.

The keynote of the blood-thirsty
wishes of the Abolition radicals was
struck in the United States Senate re-
Gently by Senator SUMNER, Of Massa-
chusetts, when he said
"The freedman, though forbearing
and slow to anger, will not submit to
outrage always, He will resist resist
ance will be organized, and here will
begin the terrible war of races foreseen
by Jefferson, where Col IN all His ottri-
Jates, has none which Gun tuke part with the
oppressors. The tragedy of st. Domin-
60 will be renewed on q wider theatre,
with 6looaier incidents. BE warned by
this historic precedent. 1t was the de-
NAL of rights to colored people, after
excessive promises, which caused that
fearful insurrecton. After various
vicissitudes, during which the rights OF
citizenship were conferred on free peo-
pie Of color and then resumed, the slaves
at last rose, and here the soul sickens
at the recital.
"The name of Toussiant LOuver-
ture, black Of unnixed blood, who
placed himself ut the head of his race,
showing the genius of war and the
genius of. craftsmanship also. Under
his magnanmous rule the beautiful is
land began to smile once more; agri-
culture revived, commerce tooka new
start, the whites were protected in per
sons and property, and q constitution
was adopted acknowledging The author
ity Of France, but making no distinc-
ton on account Of color or race. In
an evil hour this policy was reversed
by decree of Napoleon Bonapartc:
war revived, and the French army was
compelled to succomb; the connection
of St. Domingo with France was bro
ken, and this island became black re-
public. .......
"All this dreary catalogue ofmurder,
battle, sorrow and woe, begun in the
denial of justice to the colorcd race.
And only recently we have listened to
similar tragedy from Jamaica, thus
swelling the terrible testimony. Like
causes produce like effects, therefore all
this will be ours if we madly persist in
the same denial of justice.
The freedmen among us are not
unlike the freedmen of St. Domingo or
jamaica they have the same organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions,
and, above all, the same sense Of wrong,
and the same revenge passing from the
necessity of the CASE
TO which the Cincinnati Enquirer
says:
"The Eastern Infernals having sue
ccedcd in exciting war between the
white races of the North and the South,
are now doing their best to stimulate
the blacks to rise upon the whitss, and
commence an indiscriminate murder
and pillagc, for Il colored insurrection
means that and nothing else. If that is
ever commenced, let not Mr., SUMNER
and his compeers suppose that it will
end as it did in H;yti and Jamaica. lii
those unfortunate islands the negroes
were ten to one of the whites, but in
the South they constitute but little
more than third Of the population,
and in only two States do they number
as many as the whites. A war of races
would lead to the determination or
reinstatement of the black. There is
nothing, in our Judgment, more Ger
tain than that. Mr.. SUMNER has made
q fatal error if he supposes the negro
will ever walk to the ballot-boX over
the corpses Of the whites, or that
he will ever obtain social privileges by
the light Of pillage and conllagration. \