The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-08-21
Coming Collision of Races.

US indicate SITUATION OF pecullar uellca-
cy, and invest the future with anxious ap-
prehensions. The times require OF us
great prudence and selfcommand, in the
presence of the irritating questions that
are thrust upon US.
The tendency at this time seems very
distinctly towards conflict of races. 1t
is evidently the anxious effort Of tho agi-
tators of the day to bring about the re-
suit The negroes are piled with incen-
diary 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 ac-
commodation, but to demand indiscrim-
nate accommodation to be rode in the
Same cars to be accommodated in +he
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 pur-
pose to bring about conflict of races, in
order to make party Use of the disor-
ders to which it would give rise.
1t should be the earnest effort of she
white race of the South to disappoint this
diabolical scheme. Let us bear ourselves
with the most conspicuous prudence and
the most exhaustlcss patience. And still
more vital is it to the colorcd people to
shrink from the encounter of races to
which they are urged, and to withdraw
themselves from the counsels OF the bad
men who would engage them i'll that fatal
step. Let them delude themselves by no
absurd calculations. If war of races
should be joined, let them not suppose
that they will receive any white support.
When once the cry Of black man against
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 leading them to ruin will desert them
when the storm bursts. How was 1t in
the late war? There were men at the
North who encouraged the South to as
sert independence, with promise of sup
port. But when war came, and when it
became struggle of North against South,
these men deserted us, and took sides with
their own sections and people. Daniel 4;
Sckles, for example, who was one OF
these, even set himself to raise troops, and
lost leg in battle while fighting US; and
now, even after peace has come, he is SUI
preme ruler in Charleston. We might
mention many other examples all going
to show that, when it became struggle
of North against South, the North united.
So did the South. The former 'Unon
men," when it became distinctly mark
ed sectional contest, stood by their homes
and their people, and united to present an
unbroken front.
If this were so in conflict of sections,
and it was obliged to be So still more will
it prove true in conflict of races; tor the
preiudices of races arc infinitely stronger
tt.an preiudiccs of sections Blood is
thicker than water. Woe, then, to tho
black man when the country is divided
into the 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 short sum in arithmetic to
calculate how soon the contest would end
in black determination.
And yet this is the contest on which
the vast majority of the blacks in the
cities and towns have been induced TO en-
ter, by the malignant leaders who foment
public disorders as q source of party capt
tai. Hence already the struggi ie to enter
the white mans car, and even the cars re-
served for ladies. Hence the attempt to
take the seats of the whites in the thea
tres. Hence the demand for confscation
of the white mans property, that it may
be shared among them.
1t is obvious that peace between the
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zing equality of privileges, there shall be
social separation. TO set aside this prin-
ciplc is to declare war, and warm which.
while tho white people will suffer, the ne
rrocs will perish If the latter are wise,
they will unite with the whites i'll 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
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 will be
much better to deal thus frankly and ra-
tionally with them, than to encourage
dclusions and errors, by vainly bidding
against the bad and reckless agtators
who arc misleading them. Tho well-ds
posed can be WON by what is reasonable,
while those whose thoughts have been
filled with mischief, and their hearts with
hostility, cannot be conciliated by any
thing, and must needs go on to their ruin.
Richmond Enquirer.
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