The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-10
Coming Collision of Races.

Coming Collision OF Races.
The events which are transpiring
around us indicate situation of pc
culiar delicacy, and invest the future
with anxious apprehensions. The
times require of us great prudence
and self-command, 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 the agitators of the day to
bring about the result. The negroes
are piled with incendiary harangues,
and are instigated to throw them
selves in collision with the whites, in
every possible way. They are urged
not merely to insist on equal accom-
mediation, but to demand indiscri-
inmate accommodation; to be rode
IN the same cars; to be seated in the
same schools; to be accommodated in
the same hotels, &c.
Where all this will end, no man can
doubt; and least of all, is it doubted
by the instigators. It is their mani
fest purpose to bring about q conflict
of races, i'll order to make party use
Of the disorders to which it would
give rise.
1t should be the earnest effort of
the white race Of the South to disap-
point this diabolical scheme Let us
bear ourselves with the most con
spicuous prudence and the most cx-
haustless patience And still more
vital is it to the colored people to
shrink from the encounter of races
to which they are urged, and to with
draw themselves from the counsels of
the bad men who would engage them
in 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 it in the late war?
There were men at the North who
encouraged the South to assert indie
pendence, with promise of support.
But when war came, and when it be-
came struggle of North against
South, these men deserted us, and
took sides with their own section and
people. Daniel E. Sickles, for exam
pie, 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 su-
preme ruler in Charleston. We might
mention many other examples, all
going to show that, when it became q
struggle of North against South, the
North united. So did the South.
The former "Union men," when it
became distinctly marked sectional
contest, stood by their homes and
their people, and united to present
an unbroken front.
If this were SO in q conflict Of sec
tions, and IL was obliged to be so,
still more will it prove true in con-
hict of races; for the prejudices of
races are infinitely stronger than the
preJudices of sections. Blood is
thicker than water. Woe, then, to
the black man when the country is
divided into white mans party and
q black mans party! In the country
at large, it will be contest of thirty
millions against four; in the South, q
contest of eight millions against less
than four. 1t would require only n
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 enter, by the malignant leaders
who foment public disorders as q
source of party capital. Hence
already the struggle to enter the
white mans cers, and even the cars
reserved for ladies. Hence the at
tempt to take the seats of the whites
in the theatres. Hence the demand
for o confiscation of the white mans