Clarksville chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 186?-1872, 1868-04-17
TIE WAR OF RACES.
a Northern View of the Condition Of
the south.

the South.
The following article may appear to
take too dark and gloomy a view of
the state of affairs father South of us,
but the causes are in operation to pro-
ducc the rusults predicted:
We are no alarmists. but we cannot
ignore the fact that nothing can be
done now to prevent war of races.
And to the Radicals must be ascribed
this terrible prospect for the South
They and their cmissaries have in
famed the minds of the negroes
which cannot be obliterated except
by the stern and bloody experiences
of the battlefield. They have goad-
ed the Southern whites into despera-
ton; forced them, as means of pre-
serving their race, to initiate the eX-
ample of their black antagonists by
organizing n powerful secret society,
and they have planted the seeds OF
the most fearful conflict that this con-
tinent ever witnessed. Unfortunate
ly, the races are nearly balanced,
numbering, as they do, some six mil
lions of whites and over four millions
of blacks. A war between them will
be much worse than any of the insur-
rections in st. Domingo or Jamaica.
In the South the whites are numerous;
they possess superior intellectual pow
ers, and have won worldwide repu-
tation for valor But they have to
contend against horde of semi-sav-
ages, backed up by the entire power
of the Radical party and half crazed
by the pernicious teachings they have
received. An army costing three
hundred million per annum will not
suffice to keep the peace between the
two races. The inf1eXibility of the
whites and the logged determination
of the blacks never to submit to each
others rule appear to render in ad-
vance any attempt at II reconciliation
or restoration of kindly feeling utter
ly impotent.
The situation in the South is a sad
one; the future offers nothing better
than intcrnecine war. In the "black
belts,u rs they are called, of the diff
ferent Southern States, those whites
who can get away are already leaving
the homes of their nativity and seek
ing safety elsewhere. They are for
tunatc in being able to leave; fol
those who are compelled to remain
will have to bear the brunt of the
storm; and for this impending con-
flict-fOr this certain humiliation OF
one and possible destruction of both
races---the Radicals are alone rcspOn-
siblc. They attempted to over-turn
the laws of nature, 10 strike down the
barriers which God has placed be-
| tween the white man and the negro
and to elevate the inferior race into
the position of ruler of its superior
That this attemptmust eventually fail
we firmly believe; but before its inn
possibility of success has been demon
strated the wretched people of the
South will have to front another and
more terrible struggle, and another
and greater hecatcomb of graves must
! be reared from the Potomac to the
| Rio Grande. Such will be the results
of n Radical policy of reconstruction
and we claim no remarkable presi.
ence in seeing il. The Radical party
| in the effort 10 perpetuate their pow
or, have organized hell in tho
South.u When the fruits of theil
measures have doomed, they must
prepare to receive from the entire peo-
pie that eternal infamy their own acts
will have brought upon themselves
and to sink into oblivion amid the eX-
ecrations of the thousands in tho
South whose kindred will have beer
murdered and whose homes will have
been dosolated through an insane at
| tempt To compass an hnpossibility.-
| Netp York Herdid