The Texas Republican. [volume] (Marshall, Tex.) 1849-1869, 1867-09-28

Gov. Henry A. Wise, of Va,
who always touches every question
he discusses with flashes Of origin.
ality and genius, thus discoursss, in
= recsn. speech, upon the great issue
OF Black rs. White lie says;
Next to our duty to God and our
country is The duty We owe 10 our.
selves. We art called TO dsftnd the
dignity and status Of our white rsss
OF men in the scale Of being wherein
We are placed by God Not that We
need to attempt the impiesy Of up.
holding the designs Of Deity, The
Omniscient and Omnipotsns will
take care Of His own work in IL due
times and ways Of His ova Provi.
dence, and those who rebel against
His DEGREES will kick against the
pricks.' But God has given ~ the
power, aud imposed upon us the duty
Of guarding ourselves, aud this power
We are called upon now 10 exert with
all our might. There is now = bold
and avowed attempt going far beyond
the emancipation Of The blacks and
the guardianship of freedmen, TO sub
ject the white to the domination of
the black race in the South, and to
make slaves Of free men as we'll as
freedmen Of slaves; to make white
frcemcn the subjects Of black freed.
men, in order to create = balance Of
power to pcrpctuate the amalgamated
and consolidated despotism q a new
and Mongrcl republication. The
white race must now, then, look to
its safety and defense Their Is no
defense in swearing, and the mere
expediency and policy Of party or.
ganiration and operations. The
great fundamental truths are at stake,
and God, and God alone, cen solve
md save them. We must rely on
the truth, on the Constitution, on the
force Of moral power, and on the
caste Of white people, North and
South, If negro equality and domi-
nation can be forced upon US, II can
and must be forced upon the whites
of the northern States. This they
may have the power to prevent But
the example is too hideous to permit
that to be dictated to us which they
would not tolerate for themselves,
II they are northern they are still
whites, and they will never sacrifice
the laws Of nature and Of natures
God to any political prejudice, to any
vengeance Of war, or to any Moloch
of tyranny, black, white, or mulat,o !
Let US, then, rely on an appeal to
Cnsar-to the sovereign white masses
and races Of the North. Shall Viz
ginia be made Jamaica or a San
Domingo Is Guido or Soulouque
to dominate over her? Are her
lands, and temples, and groves to b
dedicated to Congo race? They are
cheaper and fairer for the countless
immigrants than the western wilds.
Here is nothing for tho Ak 10 do, the
fields are cleared, the roads are open
cd, the habitations arc built, the
springs and wells Of sweet water are
cleared and dug, and the proprietorS
must sell At a sacrifice. 8Aall this
inheritance not be open to New Eng
land the Middle States, and the host
Of white foreigners, Irish, Germans,
Swedes, Of al Europe, who ssek asy-
lums ia America Il will not be
open to their choice If they are to BIZ
under tho domination Of the black
race, and We will be obliged to leave
these lands. We must thes appeal
10 the white race st home, and the
white immigrants Of every cline 10
rally to US in this war Of races. This
is not to invade the right Of the ne.
grocs They deserve our sympathies
and our gratitude, but their freed
manship is not freedom, and they are
in danger Of being slaves TO many
masters. They are in tho sudden
dance Of libcrty-thst state Of liberty
they are now in, is better defineda
state Of license. They arc licensed
to labor or to be idle. They arc IL
censed to side with good or bad men,
and they are separated mnst cruelty
TO them from the best Of the white
men, the class Of gentlemen who were
ever thought worthy 20 I'll tho State
and Federal Offices, and who ever
were, and arc still the best friends Of
the blsck race, in it, proper place Of
subordinAtion, II not slavery. They
are now licensed TO vote, and arc ex-
posed to the temptations Of idlsnsss,
Of whisky, and of the demagogue,
They are naturally lazy and un
steady at work, and they arc likely
to be the slaves Of crime, eagsndered
BY their idleness, dissipation, desti'u-
ton, aud consequent degradation.
They arc unit, for self government,
and need training an mere pupils Of
liberty aud they arc the sevsrest
and most cruel task masters when in
vested with power, aud are, there.
fore, abhorrentIy unfit " be allowed
to dominate over q distinct aud gu
perior race For these reasons, it
viii he most unnatural ~ we'll ~ un.
constitutional for the people Of cur
own color aud race to permit them to
make US their slaves, and to occupy
the Inheritance Of our lssda. The
interest Of the white race, North ~
we'll a. South, demands that this
land, OF every land the PRIDE should
b kept open to the white rsss. The
white racs everywhere cassot bst
heed our call to the resevs Of or
race. Let the appeal be u oscs
made with long aud loud sots, ~
Of . trumpet making no ASCERTAIN
sound. l
| A Western Hoosisr called on =
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