The Oxford falcon. [volume] (Oxford, Miss.) 1865-18??, 1866-08-09

North or the South. Ia the Old World |
or the New, would be regarded as
'lunulic OF a monster and hence, as
logical sequence, there remains bot
the other alternative Of the proposi-
ton, that whenever and wherever the
two races collide, the inferior must
succunb or perish. SO infexible is
thus law, that were the malignanls in
the country who seem to cherish an
insane hatred towards their own color
in the South, to succeed to the extent
of their wishes in comforting tempo
raiy ascendancy upon the negro and
in investing him with all The property
interests of the South, and the right
of suffrage superadded, no sooner
would this outside influence be with
drawn than this dollhouse of false
sociology would fall to pieces, and in
The restoration Of the parties to their
former respective positions, the great
law of nature would indicate its
eternal supremacy. ffi''
II isa mere begging of the question
TO assert that the superior capacity of
the white man is owing TO the negrO's
having been imbruted for generations
by the Institution of slavery. The
difficulty remains to be anet,-how
was this advantage first acquired, and
bow has it happened that always and
everywhere this disparity has existed
where the two races came IN contact?
So universally true is this that the
conclusion is irresistible that the ne
gro is an inferior not because of
slavery, but he was enslaved because
of his inferiority.
Experience has also established the
fact that, for the benefit of both
races, il is not only necessary that the
inferior should in a general sense be
subordinate to the superior, but the
latter must be clothed exclusively with
the governing power, and must to a
great extent regulate and direct the
labor of the former Il is true that
the negro has wrought miracles in
the slaveholding States In developing
the resources of the country, and az a
great producer he has contributed IN
calculably to the progress of civiliza-
ton. and to the material wealth of
lhe country and the world; but let il
be remembered that the labor by
which these results were achieved,
was syslematized and directed by the
intelligence of the white man, and
that as a historic fact, no where, from
the tropics to the poles, has it been
found that systematic labor, agricul.
tural at least, will be performed by
the negro except upon cOmpulSion.
Now. If this supervising power j:
withheld, aud three or four millions
of helpless creatures are turned
: adrift to shift for themselves, with
! their strong passions, their menia
imbeciliIy, and their proverbial indo
lence, laying aside all anlipaIhy Of
race and distinction of co.or, and re
garding IL simply as a struggle fol
Subsistence, what other fate is before
them in Their contest with the intelli
gence, the energy, and The Industry
Of the white man, than that Of desti
tuition and death
To rescue them from this impend
ing doom. they must either be remov
ed entirely beyond the reach of lhi
collision aud unequal competition, a
J the Indian was, and placed where,
9 may be, they viii soon lose all lhl
benefits they have derived from thei
connection with US, and relapse int
= primitive barbarism or they must re
main The perpetual wards Of the Gov
eminent, a horde of national pauper
u to be clothed and fed at the publ
: expense. an enormous burden upo
the Treasury, aud an incubus upO
i the prosperity of the country.
d The plan which would seem to b
D dictated alike by policy and tru
philanthropy is, that the two race
y here in the South should be left, with
out The surveillance and iDtermeddlin
q of third party, to work out togethe
a their respective destinies. and 70
q each one TO adapt itself to that levt
Il where the great law of moral gravits
J. ton will sooner or later inevitabl
J. place it. This plan, il is conceded, j
z like every thing human, liable
n abuse, and may give rise to instance
IS of hardship and Injustice; but if th
/ two races are to live together. it
/, the only feasible mode by which co
IS lision and conflict can be avoided, Ii
l. capacity of the negro for labor utilii
II ed, and he rendered comparalivel
e respectable member of Community.
r, But as the probability is that Ii
J! policy adopted by the law'n.akin
y power at Washington will be adhere
u to, by which the negro will inevitabl
D. become more and more unreliabl
l. and inefficient as a laborer, prueenc
e IL not an imperative necessity, require
. that we should, in view Of this contiI
70 genCy, make systematic and perseve
g. log efforts to fll U? the channels I
, industry from other sources, and wit
n those Of our own color, who can |
$, assimilated and identified with as
le homogeneous element both OF pro
perity and power; treating the neg
y, 10 the meantime With humanity al
't kindness. a aeursging his mental an
g moral cnItuf and extending TO on
= without stint or grudging all the RICH