Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-09-10
The Ansagonfsm Of ii,e Races.

The AntagOnfsm of the Races.
THERE is, always has been, and in the
nature of things, always will be deadly
antagonism between the dark and the fair
races."-Gen. Morgan's Speech.
There never was more foolish and nn-
founded ssumption.-Journ
Two years ago Gen. Cox, then candi-
date for Governor, put forth in his famed
Oberlin letter platform of principles upon
which he proposed to fight the campaign.
That platform was never repudiated, and
the editor of the Journal, then candidate
for the Legislature, was careful not to say
single word against it.
In that letter, speaking of the war and
the negro, Gen. Cox said:
"You, judging from this distance, say,
Deliver the four millions Of freed people
into the hands of their former oppressOrs,
now embittered by their defeat, and they
will make their condition worse than be-
fore.' l, starting from the same principles,
and after four years of close and thought
ful observation Of the races where they are,
say am un,oillingly forced to the conuiction
that the effect Of the todr has not been simply to
'embitter' their relations, but to develop a root
ed dntdqoniSpl arhict makes their permanent fus-
ion in one political community AN ABSOLUTE
IMPossIBILITY. The sole difference between
us then, is in the degree of hostility we fiud
existing between the races, and its proba-
BILE permanence. You assume that the ex-
tension of the right of suffrage to the
blacks, leauing then, intermired toih the tohites,
will cure al the trouble. believe that it
,oould rather be ikethe decisions in that outer
darkness of ,ohich Milton speaks, where
".Ghaos umpire sits.
And by decision more embroils the fray
"Yet, as affirm with you that the rights
to life and liberty are inalienable, and more
than admit the danger of leaving a labor
ing class at the entire mercy of those who
formerly owned them as slaves, you will
say am bound to furnish some solution of
the problem which shall not deny the right
or incur the peril. So am, and the only
real solution which can see is THE PEACE
ABLE SEPARATION OF THE RACES.
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because there could be no real unity Of
peopte oes'oeeh Me ooaa.Sfn eotses dma .s eon-
co,,,d he NO noIiticai ~rii,, 6,t rother strifs
for the mastery in ,ofich the one or the other
would go TO the ,oaH. ...r IT :.
be d;reot ~ ;n ad;o,a ~. ; pd 0ao bona
whatever that the weaker race would not
be reduced to hopeless subjection, or utter
ly destroyed. There IS no reason to sup
,oSsor poSe .1ao hs raneotad o ,,a, fn,ds anS tha
strife once inaugurated, the merciless war
would continue as long as the obnoxious
race hau an eAIstence. iTu nave 9A press. e
state of the case, how is it that you do not
see that direct struggle for power at the
9aliot-oox Wouio make the contest more
s.The eAno,o-A mer;can and A Africo- Amerl
lean races now stand face to face upon the
Southern soil in trreconcttable hostility.
nme rev voioreu nen WHO'LL we haSe
waits and strsvs of the great bodv
which is nation in numbers, and
and in its isolation by mental and physical
cnaraSeeriseies' s ie IL IS as unit CnaG we
the eflges of tho difficnItv will avert the
doom which all history teaches us will fol-
low wrong solution" :a-r. -7--u4
If the assertion of Gen. MORGAN, that
there is an antagonism between the races,
is a "foolish and unfounded assumption"
what think you now of the one broader
made by Gen. Cox? -
Both these gentlemen are sustained in,
what they say by history. So much do the
negroes fear it, that in Hayti and Libe-,
ria, the latter Republic owing its exist
ance to the efforts of the American Coloni-
cation Society, a white man is not allowed