The union Democrat., 1866-07-28
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Is Race an Aeessaen.

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about the injustice of making . the accident
al hue of mans complexiol his qualification
for the txerclse of political power
some who chatter on this subject pronounc'
1t absurd TO do so-that is, in plain English
to refuse suffrage to the negro because of th'
| comp!exrn of his skin. This looseness C
language is indicative of the onsensss o
thought and of ideas of the people VINO use I
in connection with giving to the ignorant
brain dwarfed negro, equal political priv
| ileges with those which are the legitimat,
proaer'y of the Caucasian white man. w
say looseness of language, because mere com
Llexion has not excluded men, in the South
ern States, from the suffrage privilege a
all. Moreover, the hue Of a negro ; skin j.
in no way IN accident, but one of the i'm
mptahle, determinate operations of Nature
hv no means the mnst marked of the radica
d fferenres that have set him apart. from tn,
outset of human history, Us of entirely dit
ierent AMI inferior order of human genu.
to that of the white Indo European, AMI hi.
| offspring. Those who talks thus of the dis
| f,anchisins effects of color, forget that it i
hl ol, not color. that has settled this ques
ton. in The Southern States; and persons a,
white as Senators Sumner and Wilson have
| consequently been excluded from the jeal
ous!y.suarded and valued privileges of the
white p,an. because it was kuown that negro
blood mingled in their veins. And this blood
DISTINCTION ran through all the laws, Just a,
the Deity has asserted it, ip the minutes
p ,s>ible way, down to h pecuiiar characters
tic dscoloration of the fngor nails. The
black complexion in the Divine ECONOMY is
bat the ex eri n badge of an inferior, Coarse,
human orgauiza'ion. phys zeal and intellectual
IL the African, Of the negro type, was as.
signed-not accidentally. but as a part of the
Al wise order oi the creatlon-a black skin.
of coarse. thick exture. crisp, woody hair
>urmuuntins II heat and brain altogether d,s.
tlnct, IN ali It's characteristics. from those oi
the white man. DIFF. .rently formed bones
aud muscles. arms and finger nails, legs aud
Feet, as we'll a mental parts, were given also
10 the negro from tn ,se tnat the Almighty
for His iucrustabie ends. hest"v ed upon the
white man in Sn ricn "A measure. Aud those
who pr.lea If the Injustice of human society
to the Negro. d" il il sheer disregard ut com,
mon sc: -, It MT common hpTesIy of pur.
p,,se. Many are kna,es whn do So. some are
blind, ihia ua'ed, ore-i idea enthusiasts. the
rest ma>s Of self sufficient. shall W -pated,
gnrant men and women. every ready To
concern "m.eives with the rem te, rather
than their own imuediate SOCIAL ami domes-
C dut'es-not to speak of ahquiaut evils
just under their nn>es! But we fear there is
no hop. fur us. for relief from these people,
or from their perpetual agitation aud dii,
N ont negro suffrage. We may as we'll ire.
sign ourselves to it as IN ever yelling source
pf disturbance in our industrial system, an
irrit
Il ns and obstruction upon all Efforts to re.
hahiitatn the rou"trv
Men whose leaders and sense. bearers in the
discussion III que' iauS ii tue highest politl
cal Significance. affecting the aI.tcal life and
social order 0 N Ii ms ,,,f the white race. can
speak of the accidental hearing ot a mere
black skin in controlling the result, will
never heed reason nr ANYTHING else, save the
impulse ot their prejuiiceS and the teachings
of their knavish demagugues. Slavery has
been abolished. but that has in no way di-
mnished the agitation or Silenced the voice
of one ab litnnist. AT present the Southern
people are helpls>s; they must endure as pa.
tiently as possible, recollecting that man pro.
poses but God disposes. WHAT His purposes
are we knw nor, in any wide scope; /; but we
do know that He set impossible barriers be.
tween the negro md the white race-as dis.
tinctsy marked to-day as in the dawn of crea
tion-that have made the former subordinate
in all human relations, and we will nat be
lured or forced to establish an unnatural
equality of the two races among us. Upon
This the Southern people, the ,bravest soldiers
in the world, are resolved. And yet they
are CONVINCED they are the true friends of the
blac,s; those who, if left alone, would do
most to give the negroes that degree of social
ard educational culture. and that scope Of
civilization for which they a,e fitted by ma.
tGre. They believe. sincerely, on the other
hand, the professed friends of the negro are
those who are comprising bis inevitable an.
utilization as an element Of civilized society.
Memphis appeal.