Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-18
THE BLACK MANS PARTY AND THE
WHITE MANS PARTY.

From the Charleston Mercury, August 18th.
That state of things, which all thought
full men in the South feared, and all hu-
name men deprecated, (Ihe antagonism be
tween the races in the South is now in all
probability, about to take place 1t is not
the policy of the Radical party of the
Northern States thai these races should
live together in peace. If they did, their
party would fall to pieces and be destroyed.
1t is the poisonous growth Of contention,
disunion, war and blood, and withers away
in the benign light Of peace. They have
put over the Southern States, military
despotism; and under the cover of this
despotism they have sent their emissaries
into every part of the Southern States, to
organize and band the negroes against the
white race. 1t is absurd 10 talk of princi-
pies in this organization. 1t is simply an
expedient to unite the negroes against the
white race; and by their instrumentality
to rule the whole United States, by the
eleven negroized Southern States. What
will become of the poor negro, after they
have pitted him against the white race-or
of the whole South, conyulsed with the
contest of races-or of the United States
with the despotism they will spread over
them-appears to be with them matter of
no concern Whatever. Indeed they seem
to snuff the carnage from afar, and like
Jobs war-horse, TO say, Among the
trumpets. Hal ha~
In this state Of things, what course must
the white man pursue to save his race and
his country? He must do as the blacks are
doing-stand together and act together
An enlightened despotism, like that of
Austria or of Russia, may be supportable
because it protects persons and property
and, by the gradual development of civili-
cation, may even reach large degree of
liberty, like that which exists in France;
but the despotism under negro and the
Puritan, is a combination of Ignorance,
hate and robbery, which must destroy itself
by its own enormities. 1t must be tempo
rary, like storms, and floods, and pesti-
lences.
But to hasten on its brevity, Its victims
must unite their couusels and their power,
for its overthrow. Ifleft single handed with
the white race Of the South, it would soon
end. Indeed it would never exist; it is
upheld by the power of the United States,
which imposes it upon US. That must be
withdrawn from the Southern States, or it
must involve all the States of the United
States in one common political and finan-
cial ruin, with the law of the conquerer
over all.
The South under military despotism to
be ruled by negroes have the people of
the Northern States comprehended the pur-
port of such an influence upon their own
destiny? Instead of eleven States embra-
cling eight millions Of white people acting
in harmony with the Northern States-to
be separated from them politically, with no
bond of union but the sword Here is dis
union in the most trightful form possible
Disunion between the States of the United
States, which leaves them in peace and
harmony with each other, with their re-
ciproeal interests protected and secured
by amicable arrangements, they have de-
clared to be intolerable; and yet, they set
up over these same States, disunion be-
tween the conqueror and the conquered
between provinces and master owners-be-
tween negro ruled, and white men ruled
communities-and talk of union and peace
The one great bond of union between peo-
Piles or States, is confidence and love
the great element of disunion, is hate.
Here is hate, cherished and quickened, and
burned as it were with red-hot iron, into
the hearts of one people against another
A weak semi barbarous race which, since
the creation Of the world, has never been
able to produce or preserve a civiliza-
ton of the lowest form, based upon
fixed laws, is to be put over
the master race of the world, whom they
are taught to believe, are their natural en-
emies, and yet talk of union and peace
1t is disunion 1t is war and nothing
can prevent these catastrophes but the
timely Intervention of the Northern peo-
pie in behalf of their interests and liber-
ties. If they are content to keep dowH the
white race Of the South by the sword, be it
so but let them not be deluded with the
idea that the sword will only be the instru-
ment of rule for us. 1t must soon become
the instrument for their rule also. Com
handing eleven States in support of its
authority at the centre of despotism, it will
by force or fraud soon subject the United
States to its domination. In the meantime
the white race of the South, forced into
utilization by common oppression, will
stand together and await their time.
Amidst the troubles and contentious which
will loom up over the whole land, under
the sway of military despotism domina-
ting in Washington, the Northern people
will have enough to do to take care of their
own difficulties. The negro and the Puri-
tan will then test their power against the
white race in the South. But let us hope
that these catastrophes may be averted by
a change of policy in the North To con-
tribute to this result, the white mans party
in the South must be trle to itself. If it
allows itself to be negroized, it viii be use
less 10 save the North or the South.