The Opelousas courier. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1852-1910, 1867-12-14
Reconstruction by the Negro. :
A War~of Races.
From the N, Y. Herald

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We are courting the fate of Haytl ana
Jamaica; for like elements, governed by
the same general forces, produce like re-
suits. This rule of nature is as irrevoca-
BILE as the law of mineral erystallzation.
There is, however, certain radical
power in the United States that is ever
willing to dispute fiat OF nature, pro-
yided it encroaches upon it's pet theories.
One of these pet theories is the superiori-
ty of the negro race over the white. That
such is the real basis of Radical negroism
is very evident. Were it not SO, why do
they boost the negro up the tree of lib
erty, instead of allowing him to climb it
himself, as the white man has been forced
to do? 1t is with the greatest difficulty
that the most intelligent of our people
can govern themselves. If it be coaced-
ed that four millions of uneducated ne
groes, with brains undeveloped, and even
sterile, are capable of self-government,
then it must also be acknowledged that
if the balance of the nation were of the
same material, it would make no differ
ence to our republicanism, which would
also be to grant that Hayti is a republi-
can Utopia. II, however, it is argued
that the intelligent white population is
the salvation of our republicanisni, and
that we can still exist under a bad ad-
mixture of one-eighth African, it is con-
eession that we, to certain extent,
yitiate the nation and voluntarily recede
in civilization and the perfection of gov
ernment which we seek. We submit the
question, then, Is it craftsmanship in
any century, much more in this, to so
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As we are directed now by the Radi-
cal element, we photograph upon our
present institutions and on future histo-
ry at least one third of the picture of
Hayti. In that unfortunate country we
have had nothing but q war of races
since its discovery by Columbus. From
the negro Emperor Jacques l., in 1904 to
the present ruler, Salnave, the Haytien
part of the island has presented even a
worse condition than that which is pre-
sented in the long years of wholesale
Spanish murders which made its horrors
a proVerb. How rapidly the country
marches to the primitive barbarism
which is the delight of the negro race is
best shows by the value of the exports
just previous to the accession of Jacques
L, compared with those of to-day. At
that time they reached the large figure
of $2 ,s2a, 900. To-day they are scarcely
$6,OO0,O00. st m a sstEas zaaA s-x .l5lss
3 Butt if Hayti exhibits sorry argument
for negro domination, what does jamaica
show? Since the island was given up to
negro rule its march has been rapid from
bad to worse, until to-day one of the
ductiye of all the West India group, lies
h..f ho,, n h,e
taken place in thirty four years, notwith-
standing the efforts of the English Gov
ernment to prevent it. And how of Ii
and missionary effort unlimited, have
been used to little advantage. The me-.
gro there, forced intoa hot-h0use growth,
and kept upon the plus side of civiliza-
tion by constant white effort, is still far
down i'm the scale. He often runs east
ward to his native barbarisnl, and is only,
kept inside the bounds of the colony by
large contributions to his welfare We
dismiss Liberia as a mammoth negro
poorhouse. Il ree ess.1a NJ ssssads s
But Liberia is nothing to the negro
poor-house we are establishing; in the
whole Southern half of the United States,
We go into this negro asylum business as
we 60 into everything else i'm America.
We set the whole Northern half Of the
nation to earning money 20 maintain the
negro. We make huge appropriations
for the benefit of the negro. We bury all
material progress to embody all our.
ideas in the progress of the negro We
take no time to legislate upon our ruined
commerce, for we are occupying every
moment for the negro. We approach a
financial panic, but try to hide 1t by
holding before it the negro. We recon
struct the South, not for the common
benefit of white and black, relative to
the whole nation, but entirely for the
negro. The Radicals go SO far that
uide Ben. Wade they say that we may
have a war of caste, and even hound ON
the negro-5 We have gone negro o-mad !;
and the madness threatens to wind up
by "a war of races, which, when it comes,
will sweep the negro out of existence.
The nation Is not powerful enough, with
all its vig0r, to. stand under this negro
load. We must shake it off, or down we
go to the level of Hayti, San Domingo,
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