The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-05-29
HOSTILITY OF THE RACES,

HOSTILITY OF THE RACES.
! The incendiary speeches Of itinerant
Radical orators at the South, and the
disturbances which they have created
in manyrplaces, leavenoroom for doubt
that 1t is q cherished object of the
Black Republican party to create a
kperflament division between the two
races, and to array the blacks in dead
|ly hostility against the whites. The
negro is taught that the white man,
who has held him in slavery, is his nat
fural enemy and that, therefore, lie
should never cultivate friendly rela-
tions with him. "A moments reflection
should satisfy the most ignorant that
these men are urging on the negro to
Ehisown destruction, and that conflict
between the, two races must end in the
annihilation Of the one that is the weak
er in intelligence and in physical pow
Ter. Let the two races, as they now
exist at the south-the one intelligent,
possessed of the landed property and
superior. in numbers, the other igno-
rant, poor and scarce one-third. of its
rival in numbers--be permanently ar
rayed against one another, and it is a
simple problem in Arithmetic which
race must succunfb, and how long it
could hold out against the other. The
negroes unable to Unemployment from
the whites, and unprovided for by their
Radical deceivess, who are fishing only
for their votes, must soon be reduced
to want, and gradually die out for want
of the means of subsistence. And if
such is the case now, the odds against
the blacks will be greatly increased by
the influx ofemigration which will take
place as soon as the politics Of the
county shall have been permanently
settled. These immigrants will come
from the Northern States, where there
has even existed a greater prejudice
against negro equality than at the
South. They wall come from among1
those who have fought against negro |
equality at home, and who are opposed
to it's establishment at the South
Thousandsof them viii be mechanics
and day-laborers, who think the negro
interferes with their prospects of OBJ
tanning work, and who VIII join any set
of men who hold out to them induce
ments to better their condition. They
will naturally coalesce with the South
ern planters, whom the nego had de-
serted, and who has lands to cultivate,
but no laborers TO work them. Thou
sands also from European countries
will find their way among us, with the
same principles, and in search Of the
same objects. In few years the i'm
migration will be SO large, that the ne
gro will be scarcely felt as a disturbing
element in the Southern social and po-
itlcal fabric. The white race firmly
united in interest, and permanently
hostile to the negre, is it difficult to
zee what must become of the unfortu-
nate class of freedmen9 And il the
Radical incendiaries should succeed in
on a collision between them,
which they are so anxious to do, does |,
my one doubt that the negro race
would be exterminated in the struggle
We therefore, in all kindness, would !,
lrge the colored race to cut loose from ;
hose pretended Northern friends, and !,
o seek advice from those who have 1t
n their power to be Of substantial ben
Gt to them Let them cement the ties {
f friendship with those who are iden- !
ical in interest with them before it is ,
90 late. A permanent union can be I
ffected now; little later white /
,an's party may be formed, the sue t
ess Of which will put an end to negro !
rosperity if not to the negro race /
self. Ir
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