The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-02-25

Rich lands never mere tAsn scratched viii semi
ssIbsrous tillsge. viz invite. indusxious and
intelligent farmers with fabulous crops. Cheap
w in every quarter. Thousands Of sturdy men
viii come 70 build railroads, cad dig canals, sad
repair levees. Active business men with capital
5le mines viii gather thousands Of workers.
With all this immigration, from the North and
from Europe; with the colored population
swelled By no immigration and increasing much
less rapidly from other causes than the white
the Offices, and al the culture and presses and
telegraphs in the hands Of the whites; are We to
be tod that this proud white race or ours cannot
sustain itself against the black, in . contest 80
unequalf The very idea is an infamous insult to
Anglo-saxon blood. II the negro States do not
speedily become white States, then the Southern
whites are q disgrace TO their color and blot
upon civilization, and ought to be speedily ex-
the race that can outsirlp them in spite Of such
immeasurable advantages. The idea Is nonsense.
Men who talk about NEGRO States" do not use
the little sense that God has given them Per-
bsps, to them, the fear Of negro supremacy Is not
unreasonable. But the whites Of the South. with
every power and advantage in their hands, except
the power to enslave or disfranchise. and REIN
forced by flood Of immigration, VIII either be
msssIs Of the South By peaceful and ;w S
masters at all. The cry OF NEGRO States " Is
nursery tale TO make children stare. The Afrite
may be black, b1t he only bears us through the
air 10 palace of beauty, and then, obedient
slave Of the lamp, he yanishes from sight.
Now, what has prevented all the above de-
scribed conditions of Southern prosperity
from being realized? Nothing but radical
policy and its logical sequence of negro SUI
premacy. What has stood in the way Of the
Southern phite people becoming masters of
the South, without immigrant reinforcement
or any sort of extranaous aid. -"by peaceful
and lawful means?" Nothing but the duress
of military force to which the party controll-
ing congressional legislation has subjected
them, in the hope of obtaining Southern
basis for its future ascendency. While this
shall last, mailing these States with bayonets
to the monstrous anomaly of African barbar-
ism enthroned over white Intelligence and
civilization, it is idle to talk about floods of
immigration and capital pouring in from
Europe and the North and effecting the polit-
ical, social and industrial salvation of the
South; and it is a mockery for radical sheet,
while this horrid policy of the radical party is
enforced, tosay that "the whites of the South
will either be masters of the South by peace
full and lawful means, or will prove that they
are not fit to be masters at allf" At the same
time we agree with the st. Louis Democrat
that the idea of fastening negro supremacy
upon these States is an illusion. And, hence,
we are convinced that the radical scheme of
continued dominion contains the elements of
its certain failure; for in this very illusion
does it seek such counterpoise to Northern
reaction as may avert defeat Meanwhile ne
gro States, issuing from pending reconstruct
ton, are likely to have all the reality which
the carpet-bag emissaries of radicalism, pro-
tected by military power, and working under
congressional guarantees of success, can give
them. But the time viii come when our peo-
pie will look back upon the horrors of the
present crisis as strong man may look back
upon the agonies ola nightmare which reached
their elimination in that deepest darkness
which heralds the dawn; the nightmare in
deed, of q sickly and fevered sleep that was
next door to death, but destined to end in the
waking of the sleeper to battle in the light
that streams through the ivory gates of life.
Depend upon it, there is life for the old land
yet, and against its gates the gates of hell and
of radicalism cannot finally prevail.