New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1868-02-01
THE WAR OF RACES,

There is but little doubt that Andrew
johnson designs war of races. Obtain
ing all his historical knowledge from cor
ner groceries, where it is generally held
that TO knock down Niger is the surest
way to secure an entrance into the Demo-
cratic paradise, he imagines that all the
great wars of the world have originated in
differences of race aud color, overlooking
the great fact that family quarrels among
kings and emperors of the same blood have
resulted in greater human butcheries than
all other causes combined. Under this
head, and in speaking of the master motive
in Mr.. Johnson's mind, the New York hide
pendent says:
What are called wars of races never
occur except among sayages of the same
race, or where one race is cruelty op-
pressed by another and, in such cases,
race means nothing more than difference
OF condition, or of religion. Ii we desire
an instructive example o. war Of races,
we need only look to ireland, where the
people are in perpetual condition OF
deadly strife, though natives Of the same
soil, speaking the same language, sprung
from a common ancestry, and subjected to
the same laws. The cOntending races hate
one another with an unconquerlble hatred;
not because there is any ethnie difference
between them, but because one side is COM
PEELED to pay for the religious teaching Of
the other The Catholics do not enjoy
equal privileges with their Protestant
countrymen; and hence the war Of races.
Let these bitter foes 10 their own country,
which keeps them at war by giving to one
rights which are denied to the other, but
come across the Atlantic, and all their ami
mosities Of race disappear the moment
they land upon our shores, where they
stand equal before the law. En-
glish statesmen are beginning at last
to see what is the true remedy for
Irish disturbances, If the recent speech of
Mr.. Gladstone may be taken as an indiea-
ti5n Of the sentiment of his party. If the
duke Of Wellington, when be carried
through the much-vaunted Irish emancipa-
ton act, forty years ago, had made the
emancipation of his couHtrymen thorough,
there would have been no more wars Of
races in Ireland than there are now in
Scotland. If we would save the South
from war Of races, which will have as ter
rible an effect there as the war Of races has
had in Ireland the emancipation of the
negro must be made complete, and class
distinctions must be legally abolished.
Until the end Of the war taught our
Southern brethren better manners, if it
did MT teach them a much more impor-
tant lesson, they were continually indulg-
ing in ridiculous rhapsodies about the
superiority of their race to the race of Yam
KEGS. They inaugurated what they pre-
tended to consider was war of races; but
since the war was ended by their utter de-
feat we have not heard whisper from them
about the differences Of race between them
selves and their Northern countrymen.
But they are still anxious to perpetuate a
war of races between themselves and their
former slaves. They will have to succumb
now, as they did before; and in time they
will learn that there is but enc race, which
is the human race, and the only way to
prevent wars is to confer upon all the
race equal rights before the law, as they
stand equal before God.