The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-05-30
A War Races.

retlC mountain may loom up ana I'M
press us with an idea of its reality
and perlnanence, but an ounce offaet
may in moment dispel the mirage,
and near approach to the mon
tame idea reveals nought but blank
level of monotony and common
place. How many Of these imagin-
AIRY creations have engaged the at
tention Of the human intellect we
have no means of knowing, but their
wrecks are strewn thickly along the
high way of time, and lina6"s .fatuo-
ram is peopled with them. History
has found her principal occupation
in recording their birth, increase
and disappearance,y yet etnotwithstand-
ing the damaging effects upon them
of the light of truth and human pro-
gress, they are still occasionally
showing their forms, and drawing
after them numerous supporters.
One of the most recent additions
to the long list of defunct humbugs
is the. theory of the ''war of races"
that was to follow the enfranchise-
ment of the negro, and deluge the
land with blood. This theory drew
to it's support many Of the promi
nent political leaders in the country
and they urged it upon every occa
sion with pertinacity and zeal that
indicated their full belief in the real
ity of their position. Gen Morgan,
the distinguished standard bearer of
the Democracy in the campaign Of
1865, on assuming the mantle of
Vallandigham gave utterance to the
following language
''He who votes for negro suffrage,
votes for the Inauguration of the
most cruel, merciless and deyastat-
ing Of all Wars-a war of races; a
war which can know no peace until
one race or the other has been swept
from the earth war which would
make the West and North, as well as
the South, scene Of fearful blight
and desolation."
After conjuring up SO bloody a
picture, who can doubt that the
doughty General fully helieved in the
reality of the terrible image in the
distance, from which no tetreat
could save him, and no valor deliver
him. And then waxing more elo--
quent he proceeded to invoke 'the
spirits ofthe mighty dead-of Wash
ington, and Adams, and Franklin,"
and a lot more Of those old fellows,
to come forth and aid him to pre-
vent this ''horrid proclamation against
humanity, against the Constitution, -
and all that sort ofthing.
Democratic Conventions resolved,
Democratic editors wrote endlessly
to prove that negro suffrage was Ger
tain death, and that the ''war of ra
ces" which would surely supervene
would result in ''the determination
of our countrymen in the South, :"
and ''the erection Of the black man S
home upon the white mans grave -
Never were deceitful grove and
sparkling pool in the parched des-
ert more real to the longing gaze of
the famishing pilgrim than was this
bloody mirage to the demo ocratic
gaze, and never in the history ofSa-
lara was pilgrim more cruelty de
ceived. They have approached the
dread spot and 10 +! instead Of aGol-
| gotha, all is peace. Where they ex-
pected to find charnel house they
see school house, where the child
Of the freed man learns to qualify
himself for higher civilization than
a democrat ever knew. What they
would have sworn was a great hear
Of skulls, proves to be humble chapel
wherein the simple and devout
freedman asks the forgiveness Of 8
common Father for the wrongs he
has suffered The din of battle and
the shrieks of women and children
were threatened us and which dem
ocratic terror in its fancy heard
proves to be the happy hallelujahs
of the enfranchised, dancing above
their broken shackles, and rejoicing
in their newly found freedom.
We listen in vain for any threats
Of vengeance, and we see no prep
arations for the determination of the
late oppressors. Every sentiment
breathes the most earnest loyalty
and every action indicates the mos
absolute forgetfulness Of the past il
the joy Of the present and the brieh
hope for the future. Their perfec
trust in their emancipators, and thei
earnest effort to deserve our conf
dence are the most touching event:
in the history ofany race, and inspire
confidence even in the adamantin,
democratic heart.
Gen: Morgan. during his brief so
i journ., in " ashington, enjoyed al
j admirable opportunity to test tn
orthodoxy of his pet theory of {"
i war Of races on. the OCCASION of th
municipal electionin Georgetown il
: February last. No doubt his feel
ings on the night before that elec
) ton were somewhat akin to those 0
J loyal citizens of ashington on
j. certain rainy night in July, 1861
when they fearfully looked out oye
:. the Potomac, expecting, to see th
head of the rebel column fling owe
!. the Long Bridge But '.the wa
; of races, like Beauregard after Bu
l Run, didn't come. Failing thai
h however, the General must have ha
1 serious misgivings>of the reality {
: the. hobby which he so gallantly be
: strobe, in, his campaign of 1865, an
7 doubtless compared it to the ,".magi
} couch Of the conjurer, where th
: lady is made to repose SO comforts
! bly, upon nothing Il ri .esa st'
# But the South was to be the. fel
C of all the bloodshed, and the white
o were to be exterminateIt, wiped ou
+ and generally done for.o No or
/ who has travelled, much. in the lat
!. slave States and, had an aplireci;
L tive eye fer the different shades b.
Il tween a. new, saddle. and qua
Il of.molasses. of which the, comple,