Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-16
IFrom the Richmond Enquirer-l '1
Coming Collision of Races.

The events which are transpiring around
us, indicate a situation of peculiar delicacy
and invest the future with anxious appre-
tensions. The times require of us great
prudence and self-command, in the pres
ence of the Irritating questions that are
thrust upon us. IN -,-s---rr
The tendency at this, time seems very
distinctly towards a conflict of races. 1t is
evidently the anxious effort of the agitators
of the day, to bring about this result.
The negroes are piled with incendiary
harangues, and are instigated to throw
themselves in collision with the whites in
every possible way. They are urged not
merely to insist on equal accommodation,
but to demand indiscrinaindte accommoda-
ton; to be rode in the same cars; to be
seated in the same schools; to be accommo-
dated in the same hotels, &c. @
Where all this will end, no man can
doubt; and least Of all is it doubted by the
instigators. 1t is their manifest purpose to
bring about conflict of races-in order to
make party use OF the disorders to which
it would give rise.
1t should be the earnest effort of the white
race of the South, to disappoint this diabol
ical scheme. Let US bear ourselves with
the most conspicuous prudence and the
most eXhaustleSS patience. And still more
vital is it to the colored people to shrink
from the encounter of races in which they
are urged.and to withdraw themselves from
the counsels of the bad men who would
engage them in that fatal step. Let them
delude themselves by no absurd calcula-
tions. Ii war of races should be Joined.
let them not suppose that they will receive
any white support. When once the cry of
the black man against the white man is
raised-it will quickly be the blacks on one
side against the whites on the other
The very white men who are now lead
when the storm bursts. How was it i'm the
late war? There were men at the North
who encouraged the South to.assert inde-
pendence, with promise rot support
But when war came, and when it became
struggle OF North against South, these men
deserted US, and took sides with their own
section and people. Daniel E. Sickles, for
example, who was one of these, even set
himself to raise troops, and lost leg in
the battle while fighting us; and now,
even after peace has come, he is tyranniz-
ing in Charleston. We might mention
many other examples, all going to show.
that when it became a struggle of North,
against the South, the North united. So,
did South. The former 'sUnion men,
when it became a distinctly marked sec,
tional contest, stood by their homes and
their people, and united to nresent an nn-1
broken front. ~'.''''. 81, ~. go. - d. ----
If this were so in conflict of sections
and it was obliged to be so-stiIl more will
it prove true in conflict of races for the
prejudices of races are infinitely stronger
than the prejudices of sections. Blood is
thicker than water. Wo, even, to the black
man when the country is divided into
white mans party and black mans party !!
In the country at large it will be contest
of thirty millions. against four; in the
South, contest of eight millions against
less than four. 1t would require only a
short sum in arithmetic to calculate how
soon the contest would end in black exter-
mination. S-A. ----
And yet this is the contest on which the
vast majority of the blacks in the cities and
towns, have been induced to enter, by the
malignant leaders who foment public dis
orders as source of party capital. Hence
already, the struggle to enter the white
mans cars, and even the cars reserved for
ladies. Hence the attempt to take the
seats of the whites in the theaters.~ Hence
the demand for confiscation of the white
mans property, that it may be shared
among them. - -+
1t is obvious that peace between the two
races, demands that, while recognizing
equality of privilege, there shall be social
separation. To set aside this principle is to
declare war, and war in which, while the
whites will suffer-, the negroes will perish.
If the latter are wise, they will unite with
the whites in even demanding this social
separation. This distinction of the two
races would by no means prevent friendly
relations or the interchange of kind
offices. 1t would promote them, by render
ing them possible and easy. 1t would
establish peace and amity between the
races, instead of collision and war, in which
the weaker would perish. We trust pains
will be taken to explain these truths to the
colored people. 1t win be much better to
deal thus frankly and nationally with them,
than to encourage delusions and errors, by
vainly bidding against the bad and reckless
agitators who are misleading them. The
ell-disposed can be won by what is rea-
sOnable, while those whose thoughts have
been filled with mischief and their hearts
with hostility, cannot be conciliated by
anything, and must needs go on to their
ruin.