The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1868-06-20
The Destined Pr"pOmderance Of
Whites.

of the New York Times says in rpcea
n letter:
f. In the district in which Columbia is sir
If ated-Richand- there is a small settlemo
l. of German farm-laborcrs. 1t is calledsE
4 mantown, and is located 25 miles cast
=, this city, npon the Wateree river. Thesb
ginning was made the first of last over
> ber, nnder the management of Mr. Herman
) Lejding, native of Germany, and res
dent of Charleston. The start was mac
/ with four families, and a negro laborer W;
: hired to do some kinds of farm work. Wit
: twelve laborcrs they have put in for th
E present years crop, with abundant prorli>
of good yields, over 200 acres as follows
so acres in small grains, (wheat, oats an
,, rye,) 20 acres in corn, 30 acres in cow-neas
Is acres in cotton, / acres in potatoes
} Iri>h and swect) These Items 90 to in
form the foreigner as, to Whatsgtrstlr,lan,
soil usually grows. 1t is the intention @
Mr.. Leiding to make this nucleus, f
which he hopes by its success in few year
to attract to 1t as many lAborer> as can nos
sibly be accommodated Similar move
mentS are afoot-one in PIcket $ district
ard one in its incipiency in \cwberrv. I'm
migration Is the weapon with which tn,
Cansasan purposes to contest the rulcrshir
of the coun ry with the Africans. The con
test cannot last many years and the dark
er and inferior race must 90 to the wall.
This point has already hal its Influence ,,uoa
the negroes in some parts OF the State rs.
pecially within twenty miles of this Ger
mantoWn. In these localities rerroes- are
joining political leagues with the whites,
seeing that cooperation with the whites is
the only chance for the existence Of the
blacks Legislation need not attempt to
interfere with 'his law of races
The radical scheme of suhjrctine the
Southern States to the control of black
votes has the double iniquity ofheaping
instant wrong on one race and preparing
ultimate ruin for the other. This is
seen and admitted by every Intelligent
and candid Northern man who observes
the excessive lengths to which the ne
groes, under radical Indictment, are dis
posed to carry the exercise of political
rights, and it begins to be seen by every
we'll informed colored man who reflects
on the ssnumerical relations, present and
prospective, between the white and black
populations. The average prcponder-
ance, in the whole South, of whites over
b Jacks, is at this time hardly less than
the proportion of three to one. In the
United States at large the number of
negroes does not exceed four millions
while there is total population of about
forty millions. Assuming the extremely
doubtful proposition that the natural in
crease of the two races will be equal, the
ratio of blacks to whites must relatively
decrease from year to year under the et-
feet of immi grafton which will bring ac-
cesSions to the whites and none to the |
blacks. And after no great lapse of
time, this relative decrease must reduce
the negro element from one tenth in the
entire country to about one-twentieth,
and from one-third in the entire South
to about one-ffth or sixth. Now, if the
Southern negroes should act hereafter III
accordance with the political tuition
which they have already received from
the radicals they will insist on off citing
he larger increase of the whites by dis
Franchising a corresponding number of
he latter population Disfranchisement
tor the purpose of putting the blacks in
political ascendency, is precisely what
'adical Legislation has done from the out
set, and it'need not be surprising if the
African pupils Of radicalism extend that
Example into settled policy which they
will pursue at all hazards to the bitter
sequel. The fact is, they cannot accept
he radical theory ofnegro suffrage with
'ut declaring a political war against
ace, and that to the utterance. For
his theory assumes that there is an un-
antagonism on the part of
he whites to the rig ghts and interests of
he blacks, and that these can never be
ecured in legislation and administration
nless the whites are politically and 9TH
rwise disabled from assailing or OBJ
tructing them. Hence the obvious ten
ency of those negroes who are deeply
nbued with their radical tuition is not
} be satisfied with mere civil and politi-
al equality, but to make deadly strug-
lie for exclusive and universal power;
'r supremacy everywhere and in all re.
'tons; for predominance in affairs of
ate and in affairs of business !; for mas
ry in religion, in edu-ation, in amlse-
ents and recreations, in social inter-
'urse, and in the furthest and most sa-
ed recesses and retreats of private and
'mestic life. Of course, this is mad
7ss; yet it is nothing more than the
'plied logic of radical precrpt and ex-
nple. If the mass of the Southern ne
'oes should commit themselves to so
'treme and desperate movement, The
lrtlal and temporary successes which
ey might obtain would be purchased
the price of looming their race to per-
ton in this country. For such move r.
ent looks to the accomplishment of So
al impossibilities and the subversion of
ture. 1t opens war in which time
1daRkeEs, social instincts and natu-
1HNs! afs against it. No intelligent
gro who wishes well to bis people will
rticipate in it; forevery intelligent
gro must know that a combination of
cks which takes advantage of intes-
e strites and divisions in far more B
merous race, to crush down that race
| crush out its civilization, would be
tain at length to excite a reactionary
nbination fatal to the aggressors and
oressors.- Crescent.
WORTH REMEMBERING.-"I If a man
Mt away" says Halls Journal of
alth, instead of yelling out like
age or running to him to lift him up, r..
hlm at full length on his back on the -'
W loose the clothing, push the crowd
~, so asto allow the air to reach him,
let him alone. Dashing water over
person in a simple tainting fit is
barity The nhiloSoDhv of f.;,+