American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1868-05-02

power ulldU may OBTAIN Tor these in
StrumentS the forms of a nominal
adoption, may obtain for the minori-
ty of blacks in the South the forms
Of nominal supremacy. But what
would be, in reality, the resulting
political domination ? Analyze it,
and at the bottom will not be found
the negro but the same conspiratOrs,
uSurpers and revolutionSts, which is
now Subjecting the South to mill
tary despotism. The enforcement of
tie radical Constitutions against
the wishes of the white majority,
will be, i'll effect, the mere continu
auce with certain notifications of
this deSpotiSm; for if the military
arm is necessary to establish those
constitutions, it will be necessary to
maintain them. The nominal supre.
macy Of the negro, therefore, will
be the real supremacy of the sword
representing the white power in the
North which chooses to impose the
law of the conquerOr upon the South.
The predominant elements Of the
Situatio remaining the same, there
is no reason why the policy and ten
dency of our people should undergo
"a complete revolution. And that
policy and that tendency have been
to stick to their country, to cling to
their homes, and, come what may,
to look with brave faces to the future
with indomitable faith in the coming
dawn of better day.
There are two other possibilities
in which few alarmists are diSpos,
ed to find arguments for anticipating
a general exodus OfSOuthern whites.
1t is argued that the South will be
the scene of war of races, and
that it will be cursed for an indefinite
period with revolutionary agitation
and tumult. Mr.. Stephens, of Geor-
gia, is represented as saying that, III
case of such war, which he deems !
certain to come, the white people of
the South must do one Of two things
"quit the country, or remain and .
fall" We fail to see the necessity of |
either alternative. If the whites re-
mainland the bulk Of them must re-
main, for there never was such a
thing as the migration Of a whole /
people-they will not, they cannot, |
eventually fall. 1t iSan arithmetical
as well as moral impOSsbility for .
eight millions of people to 90 down
in conflict with three millions TO |
whom they are superior in all apti-
tudeS for either war or peace. But ,
there is to be no war of races of the /
kind that is apprehended. Remove |
the military arm of the federal gov
ernment, and the Southern freedmen /
would not dream of making an on
upon the white population /
surrounding them. The only war to .
be anticipated is that whose bitter
edge our people have already felt,
and which is now piuning them with
bayonets to the policy Of sectional
and tyrannical party.
AS for revolutionary agitation and
where within the limits of
the United States, orr upon the Amer
lean continent, or in the compass of
civilization, can immunity from evils
Of that kind be found? The age is
revolutionary. The spirit is abroad
and at work in every part Of the civ
LIKED world. You cannot aviod it
by flying to the North or to the West,
to South America or to Europe. 1t
IS infinitely wiser, infinitely Drawer,
more patriotic, to stand
where you are and await the newt
able result, be that what it may
n. o. Crescent.