Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1868-05-12

best and only hope is that when the mad caree
of Radicalism has met its logical fate and an i'm
perial master steps upon the scene, he will sep
| arate these hostile elements and remand th
negro to his own continent or to some hom
provided by the nation. Justice to the whit
race and mercy to the negro alike declare tina
this is the only remedy which can prevent al
appalling catastrophe. To keep the two race
in juxtaposition and on social and politica
equality, is simply impossible. 1t is not on &C
count of his color that We declare association
with the negro impossible, but because it is the
index of an irreconcilable antagonism. Rome
England, Russia could free their slaves at one
blow, for however debased, they were of the
ization; but here it is impossible The two
races are entirely distinct, and God has sealed
the inferior one to separate civilization, and
man cannot join together whom God hath put
asunder. The negroes themselves, both in their
speeches in the convention and in the hideous
constitution they have put forth, display this
consciousness. They evince an unalterable su.
spicion Of the white race of the South, and ac-
knowledge that they cannot stand on the same
platform
I have always deprecated this conflict of races,
but, if ignorantly, rashly, and under the advice
of wicked and deluded men, it must come, there
is no course left to any man who would not
shame his name and lineage, but to take his
position promptly and resolutely in the ranks Of
his own people prepared to share their fortunes
or to meet their doom.
Of the ultimate result of all this turmoil there
can be no doubt Through what variety of
untried being" we must pass before the conclu-
sion do not dare to prophesy, and still [ can
not allow myself to believe that the American
people, the representatives of the great Anglo
Saxon race, will consent to pause much longer
whilst wicked men or besotted fanatics indulge
in this foolish and perhaps fatal episode of ne
gro domination. l have an abiding faith that
the Union was preserved for higher, nobler,
better purpose than to elevate an inferior race
and to crush out gallant people, and that the
time will soon come when we shall no longer be
CONDEMNED as needy suppliants to wait,
Whilst women interpose and slaves debate" :"
l cannot believe that God in his infinite mer-
cy has brought us through the fires of civil war
only to perish in the smoke of faction, or that
He will allow one-half of a nation to laugh at
the calamity and mock at the sorrows of the
other. If England, after an experiment of
land, surely the North will have the good sense
to follow the later and nobler lesson, and avoid
that retrlbution which sooner or later falls upon
the exercise of lawless and unjust power. Pru-
dence, if not patriotism points to that magni6-
cent future which awaits the Lation if it will
but walk in the path where truth and justice
lead the way, and point to the picture of a
mighty people reposing in peace and prosperity
under that grand arch of Empire which, ftly
upholding the rights and interests of every por-
ton Of this great country, shall glow with all
the vivid hues of the first promise, and yet
stand fast with all the strength of the everlast-
ing granite,
"Condensing in fair free Commonwealth,
Not Rash Equality, but Equal Rights
Proportioned like the pillar to the temple,
Giving and taking strength reciprocal
And making firm the whole with grace and
beauty