The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-11-17
EReconstroctionb by the Negro---A War
E OF Races.


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Reconstroctionb by the Negro---A War
OF Races.
We are courting the fate of Hayti
and Jamaica: for, like elements, GO
verned by the same general forces,
produce like results. This rule of
nature is as irrevocable as the law of
mineral crystalization. There is,
however, q certain. radical power in
the. United States that is ever willing
to dispute fiat of nature. providing
it encroac'le, upon its pet theories.
Ones these pet theories is the su-
periority of the negro race over the
white. That such is the real basis of
radical negroism is very evident.
We're it not SO, why do they boost
the negro up the tree of liberty in
stead of allowing him to climb it
himself, as the white man has been
forced to do? It is with the greatest
difficulty that the most intelligent of
orr people can govern themselves.
If it be conceded that four millions
of uneducated negroes, 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 diff
ference to our republicanism, which
would also be to grant that Hayti is
q republican Utopia. IF, however, it
is argued that the intelligent white
population is the salvation of our
republicanism, and that we can still
exist under q bad admixture of one
eighth African, it is concession that
we, to a certain extent, vitiate the
nation and voluntarily recede in civil
hzation and the perfection of 60
vernment which we seek. We sub
init the question, then, is it
craftsmanship in any century, much
more in this. to go backwards?
AS we are directed now by the
radical element, we photograph upon
. our presentinstitutions and on future
history at least one-third of the pic
ture of Hayti. In that unfortunate
country we have had nothing but q
war of races since its discovery by
Columbus. From the negro empe-
ror jacques I, in 1904, to the present
ruler, Salnave, the Haytien part of
the island has presented even q worse
condition than that which is pre-
sented in the long years of wholesale
Spanish murders which made its hor-
rors q proverb. How rapidly the
country marches to the primitive bar
barism which is the delight Of the
negro race, is best shown by the value
of the exports just previous to the
accession of jacques I, compared
with those of to day. At that time
they reached the large figure of
$27, 1923. 600. To-day they are scarce
: ly $4,000, 900.
But if Hayti exhibits sorry argu-
ment 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 finest and
formerly one of the most productive
of all the West India group lies but
wreck in negro hands. All this has
taken place in thirty four years, not
withstanding the efforts of the Eng
lish Government to prevent it. And
how of Liberia? Large sums of
money, Christian and missionary
eHorb unlmlted, have been used to
little ed dra0tago. The negro there,
forced into a hot-house growth, and
kept upon the plus side of civilization
by constant white effort, is still far
down in the scale. He often runs
eastward to his native barbarism, and
is only kept inside the bounds Of the
colony by large contributions to his
welfare. We dismiss Liberia as O.
mann moth negro poor house.
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 asy-
linn business as We so into every
thing else In America We set the
whole Northern half of the nation to
earning money to maintain the ne