Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-02-22
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ments made, since mankind commenced
10 commit follies; which they did, we are
assured, even in the Garden Of Eden.
Men haze gone mad in the attempt to
/ discover the Philosophers stone, the
Universal Solvent, the great Aroanum
and Universal Elixir, that should change
! the base metals into gold, and confer
/ immortality. They hsvebecome so in en-
d~eagoring to produce perpetual motion,
to invent mechanism by which to fly,
and to square the circle. One eminent
/ Philosopher, we are told by an irrever-
ent poet, boiled fleas, to prove that they
were identical with Holsters, and was
I Disguised to find thatthey did not become
red by the operation. The attempts to
extract sunshine from cucumbers, to
make silken purses out Of s0ws' ears, TO
extract blood from turnips, and TO wash
4 Philippians white, all meHhave heardCG.
All thsse are surpassed by the new
experiment, in which 8 very large num-
Der Of persons, estimGbIe and otherwise,
are now seriously engaged, with a zeal
not according % wisdOm,-tO-wit max
ing intelligent voters out Of negroes, and
thus adding to the amount Of common
sense and honesty employed in csfT
on the Legislation and government OF the
country. We az perfectly well know
that. with rccaNBhal and very rare ex-
ceptiors, the negro race is not and
never will be any more dt 10 be entrusted
with the power Of voting, than a stark
maniac is to be entrusted with a razor.
We know, by its history for fifty years,
that the Mexican race is not fit TO be eu-
trusted with political power, and that
universal suffrage among them is a
mere farce. OF course, in every race,
even the lowest, there will be now and
then an individual immensely Superior
to the residue of the race. There are
such exceptional cases among even the
H0tteutOts, and the savages Of Van Die
mans Land. The negroes are among
the lowest OF the human races. What
initiative civilization they have con
tracted while slaves is merely c~Utaneous.
1t is hardly skin-teep and, left to them
selves, they would soon become barbara
ans again. II they ever become semi
civilized Is separate communities, il
will be under a system Of which uuiver-
sal suffrage shall form. no feature.
The experiment Of universal suffrage
Of uhits men, is not yet a decided and
assured success. The experiment is
hardly commenced and already il
seems quite likely 70 be a pitiful failure.
It is very certain that the fabric bailt
upon it is frail and insecure enough,
without any further extension Of the
right.
Emancipation has already diminished
the number Of the negroes by more,
probably, than a quarter Of a million.
Il has checked the increase Of the race,
so that the deaths outnumber the births.
OF the children hereafter born, few will
be reared. Half the negro women care
as little for their infants as the tortoise
for its eggs laid in the sand. If the right
Of suffrage is given them, does not every
sane man know that the struggle for
political power between the races will
breed a war Of races, in which event one
or the other must submit or he extermin-
ated. There is no community, North or
South, in which the white man will
submit to be legislated for and governed
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he ought himself to become an ape.
Man can cannot repeal Gods laws; and
one Of He laws, as infiexible Is fate, is
that the superior race shall govern
the inferior one. The white race
was made by Him 10 govern the red aud
the black. The bitterest hatred, with
how devilish soever an ingenuity,
could invent DO plau 50 merciless and
work their destruction, as that Of arming
them with the ballet, ard creating a
struggle between them aud the white
race for power. IL an1azes us that any
man a be found, ia a Southern State,
so utterly msddened by political or
personal bate or ambition, AS to propose,
for the sake OF temporary success for
himself or his faction, to do that which
must inevitably produce consequences
frightful to contemplate. 1t would be
far letter for the whole black breed to be
swept away by 8 pestilence. This may
sound harsh but it is true. Certainly
we do not write under any influence Of
passion or excitement but as coldlv
and impassiyely IS memorable Fate
itself could utter its DEGREES /: and we say
what the very men who demand negro
suffrage themselves know TO be true, that
if one had the power and could not
otherwise prevent that curse and
inconeeivable calamity, in many of
the Southern States, it would be
a solemn duty for him to snnihilate the
race. For, sttbe best, 10 adopt the negro