The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-08-07
MR. EproM: Honorable W. B.

MR.. EpHoa: Honorable W.. B.
Nash seems 70 be sorely exercised, as
do other negroes, at the idea that he
is Q negro, despite all the white
washing that his mongrel friends can
give him. 1t is no disgrace to a
negro that God made him black,
(and he never made one mu ch black
er than Nash;) nor is it any disgrace
to q negro that his Creator has
stamped upon his brow the ineradi-
cable badge of inferiority to the
white man, any more than it is a
disgrace to the little garter snake,
that it was created inferior to the
great anaconda of South America; or
to the little house cat, that it was
made inferior to the majestic lion; or
to the white man of mediocre capa-
city, that God did not see proper to
endow him with the capacity of n
Bacon, a Milton, or o Newton.
"Order is Heaven's fret law, and, this
confessed,
Some arc, and must be, greater than the
rest"
The disgraceful part of the affair is
that this African semi-barbariap.
feeling, as he does, his inferiority, in
point of intellect, to the white nun.
suffers himself to become inflated
with the idea of his self-importance
which is engendered alone by the
adventitious surroundings of his
present abnormal condition, assumes
to aspire to the control of this vast
country-the white mans inherit
ance and possession-of which he,
(the African, is an inhabitant only
by sufferance, and whose tenure of
inhabitance is entirely dependent
upon the circumspection and pru-
dence with which he conducts him
self while in possession of the tenn
porary greatness which has been, so
unfortunately for him, thrust upon
him. This is plain talk, Mr.. Editor,
but l am one of those who believe
that honesty is the only true princi-
pie of action, and that, in the long
run, it is ''the best policy" Believ.
ing in that saying of the wise King
OF Israel: "Open rebuke is better
than secret love-" I am satisfied that
L am showing more true friendship
to the negro, when L tell him the
plain, unadorned truth in reference
to the inevitable tendency of things,
than ! should show by sitting silently
by, when [ see him rushing madly
on to destruction, and uttering no
voice of warning in reference to
'the impending crisis"
The plain truth is, that the days of
the mongrel party arc numbered.
Its bestial excuses have thoroughly
disgusted all decent white men
North, South, East and West. The
Democracy of the country are bound
to triumph in tho Presidential cleo
ton. OF this the negro may rest
assured, distnsteful as the idea may
be to him. With the triumph of the
Democracy comes the triumph of
law and order, and the restoration
of white supremacy. No more ar
rests, without warrant, of American
citizens on their own native soil; no
moro trials by irresponsible military
commissions, of free white men, for
violations of the laws of hospitality;"
no moro sweat boxes to be used for
the purpose of extorting from inno-
cent victims of tyranny confession
OF guilt in connection with assassina.
tions, of which they know nothing at
all; no more elevation, upon the
points of Federal bayonets, of be-
sotted, ignorant negroes above the
superior Caucasian race. All these
appliances of despotic rule in free
country will be swept out of exist
ence, returned
sUnwept, unhonored and unsung,
10 the vile source from which they
The government of these Southern
commonwealth will be again placed
in the keeping of the white race, and
the negro will be left to find his
proper position of inferiority, to
which he will as naturally sink, When
outside pressure is removed, as
water, in accordance with Gods law
of gravitation, seeks its level, when
left untrammeled by external influ-
ences. When this takes place, and
the natural order of things is re-
stored, the negroes will find tbot