The Nashville daily union. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1862-1866, 1866-05-19
Negro E0UaIity.

5lAbg bubuEduu OuA4dIb d CdIs Lie SlLz
under polished mahogany, eats of
beautiful china and solid silver, and
buTies his slippers in the soft pile OF
velvet carpets fit for the parlors of a
prince. He has never been known to
deny himself for purposes of charity.
If, during the war, he contributed TO
raise regiment or support a soldier S
family, we have yet to learn it. If he
has made any donation from his abun-
dant wealth to the fund for supporting
the freedmen at the South, we stand
ready TO record the fact upon sufficient
proof.
This bookworm philosopher and the
oretic humanitarian muses. panegyrics
of labor in an atmosphere of daintiest
luxury, and compOses eulOgies upon
poverty with all the surroundings of
enormous afiluence
At the recent anti-slavery meeting
in New York, Phillips made an address
which was distinguished by insane
propositions even beyond his usual eff
forts. After denouncing the President,
the Secretary of State, the Secretary
Of War, and numerous Senators, in that
billingsgate address of which he is
such master, he proceeds to state
what are the demands of the reform
ers on behalf of the freedmen of the
South. First, they must have the suf-
frsge. After that, comes social and po-
itical equality. They must have the
right to intermarry, to 60 into bust
ness, to hold office. There will be ne
gro merchants, negro lawyers, negro
Governors, negro Senators. White
statesmen must consent to sit beside
black statesmen, upon a common plat
form. And this prospect, the doughty
Wendell regards with serene satisfac
ton, as though such contamination
were devoutly to be wished
1t is neither wise nor humane to as
sumo these possibilities. Providence
has ordained that the white shall rule
this land. BY virtue of laws that can
not be avoided, his position is main
tanned. All the ordinary rights of hu-
man nature, the black may have. The
political franchise necessary to secure
these rights, will be bestowed upon
him. But further than this, the nation
will never go. There are to be no ne
gro Presidents, or Governors or Sena-
tors in the future. The fearful degen-
eracy which would follow such an adj
mixture of races, is not reserved among
the destinies of this Republic.
Look at Massachusetts, for proof
There, the negro is free" in the sense
which excites Mr.. Phillips admiration
He has the right to vote. He is not
disqualified for holding Office. He may
marry any woman whose necessary
consent he can procure. What is the
result? Are there negro representa-
tives in the Legislature; negro officers
in municipalities; negro students in
the universities, or negro leaders in so
ciety2 Does not the universal princi-
pie of antagonism between black and
white, inherent in our very nature,
separate the races, and keep the one
which was destined by the Almighty
to be inferior, in its ordained and sub
ordinate Felstion2
We cannot by fine spun homilies and
brilliantly conceived theories of senti-
mentalism, alter facts that lie at the
foundation Of all being. When Mr..
Phillips and his co.reformers seek to
make black and white equal, they must
prepare to reconstruct the universe ;
until that is done, there will be differ
ences in social and political power, as
there have been.
We of the North will not recognize
the equality of the black. We do not
elect him TO office We do not allow
him to associate with US. We grant him
certain rights, but demand thathe shall
enjoy them in isolation How can we
expect or ask the South to do with It's
freedmen what we have for generations
rufused to do, without its prejudices,
its traditions, its manifold reasons fol-
despising and degrading them2
The poor African has reason to say
of such monomaniacs as Phillips, "SaYe
me from my friendsp In the despera
ton of their sentimental frenzy, they
demand for him SO much that they en-
danger the prerogatives he might 9th
erwise receive from the justice or the
magnanimity of the nation.-ABang
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