The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-05-23

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with Snxious app%rebensions. The
times require Of us great prudence and
self-comiuand in the presence Of thel
irritating questions thut are thrust up
on us.
The tendency at this time seems very
distinctly towards u conflict Of races.
1t is evidently the anxious effort vi
the agitatOrs ofthe day, to bring about
this result. The negroes are piled
with ~incendiary %bEraDgues, n are
instigated TO throw themselves in, col
lision with tho whites In every posi-
bio way. They are urged not merely
TO insist on equal accommodation; but
to demand iHdiscrinindtire accommo-
dation; to be rode ia the same cars; to
be seated in the same schools; to be ac-
~cAmmodated in the same hotels, &c.
Where all this will end, M man can
doubt; and least Of all is it doubted by
the ~instigators. 1t is their manifest
purpose 70 bring about u conflict OF
races LIN order to make n party use
oftha disorders to which it would give
rise.
1t should be the earnest effort of the
white race Of tho South, TO disappoint
this diabOlIcal 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 hat fatal step.
Let them delude themselves by no alb.
surd calculations. liza war Of races
should be joined, let them not suppose
that they will receive any white sup
port. When once the cry of the black
man against the white man is raised
it will quickly be the blacks on u
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 vast
IN the late war? There were men at
the North who encouraged the South
TO assert independence, with promise Of
suppoTt.-But when war came, and
whom it became y struggle of North
against South, these men deserted us.
and took sides with their own sections
people. Daniel Z. Slckles, for ex-
ample, who was one oil these, even set
himself to raisetroops, and lost II leg in
the battle while fighting Us; and now
ven after peace has come, he is tyr
anniZIng in Charleston. We might
mention many other examples, all go
ing to show that when it became Il
struggle OF North against the South,
The former Union men, - when II be-
came a distinctly marked sectional
contest, stood by their homes and their
people, and unite to present an unbro-
ken front.
If this were so in Il conflict of SEC
tions-andj il was obliged to be so
still more will il prove true IN o con
hict Of races: torthe prejudices Of races
are infinitely stronger than the pr,ju-
dices of sections. Blood is thicker
than water. Wo, even, TO the black
man when the country il divided INTO
white mans party and Il black mans
partyl In the country at large it will
be . contest Of thirty millions against
four; in the South, Il contest Of eight
millions against less than four. II
would require only n short sum ia
arithmetic to calculate how soon the
contest would end IN black extermi-
Dation.lG4A4.. TO -I-t- Ska
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 fonlent public disorders as IL
source ofparty capital, Hence already
the struggle to enter the white mans
cars, and even tile cars reserved for
ladies. Hence the q attempt to take
the seats OF the whites in the theaters,
Hence the demand for a confiscation
OF the white mans property, that il
may be shared among them.
1t Is obvious that peace between the
two races, demands that, while rec
ognizing equality Of privilege, thcr,
shall be social separation. To set asid,
this principal is to declare war, and {
warm which, while tho whites will
suffer, the negroes will perish. IF tn,
latter are wise, they will unite will
the whites in ven demanding this SO
cial separation. This distinction 0
the two races would BY no means pre-
vent friendly relations or the inter
change Of kind Offices. 1t would pro
mote them, by rendering them posi-
bic and easy. 1t would establish
peace and amity between the races
instead Of collision and war, in whic'
the weaker would perish. We trus
pains will be taken.to5 explain thes
truths to the colored people. 1t wi
be much better to deal thus frankl
and nationally with them, than to en-
courage delusions and errors, by van
ly bidding against the bad and recl
less agltators who are mlsIeadingthen
The well-disposed can be won b
what is reasonable, while those who's
thonRhta haya hnen filed with mi