Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1868-04-12
THE WAR OF RACES.
A Northern View Of the Condition q
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A Northern View Of the Condition OF
the south.
The following article may appear to
take too dark and gloomy a view of the
state of affairs farther South of us, but The
canses are in operation to produce the re-
suits predicted:
We are no alarmists, but we cannot
ignore the fact that nothing can be done
now to prevent a war of races. = And 10 the
Radicals must be ascribed this terrible
prospect for the South. They and their
emissaries have inhamed the minds of the
negroes which cannot be obliterated except
by the stern and bloody experiences of the
battlefield. They have goaded the South
erg whites into desperation; forced them,
az means of preserving their race, to
initiate the example of their black antago-
nists by organizing powerful secret soci-
ETY., and they have planted the seeds of the
most fearful conflict that this continent
ever witnessed. Unfortunately, the races
are nearly balanced, numbering, as they
do, some six millions of whites 10 over four
millions of blacks. A war between them
will be much worse than any of the insnr-
rectiOns in st. Domingo or Jamaica. In
the South the whites are numerous
they possess superior intellectual pow
ers, and have won worldwide
reputation for valor. But they have
to contend against a horde of semi
savages, backed up by the entire power of
Radical party and half crazed byth PERM
cious teachings they have received. An
army costing three hundred millions per
annum will not suffice to keep the peace
between the two races. The inhexibility of
the whites and the logged determination
OF the blacks never to submit to each
others rule appear to render in advance
any attempt at a reconciliation or restora-
ton of kindly feeling utterly impotent.
The situation in the South is sad one,
the future offers nothing better than inter
necine war. In the "black BELTS" as they
are called, OF the different Southern States
those whites who can get away are already
leaving the homes of their nativity and
seekingsafetylelsewhere. They are fortunate
in being able to leave; for those who are
compelled TO remain will have to bear the
brunt Of the storm and for this impending
conhict-for this certain annihiIation
of one and possible destruction of
both race8-the Radicals are alone
responsible. They attempted to over
turn the laws of nature, to strike down the
barriers which God has placed between
the white man and the negro and to elevate
the inferior race into the position of ruler
of its superior. That this attempt must
eventually fail we firmly believe; but be-
fore its impossibility of success has been
demonstrated the wretched people of the
South will have to front another and more
terrible struggle, and another and greater
hecatomb of graves must be reared from
the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Such
will be the results of a Radical policy of
reconstruction and we claim no remark
able prescience in seeing it. The Radical
party, in the effort to perpetuate their
power, have organized hell in the South"
When the fruits of their measures have
bloomed, they must prepare to receive
from the entire people that eternal infamy
their own acts will have brought upon
themselves, and to sink into oblivion amid
the execrations of the thousands in the
South whose kindred will have been muir
dered and whose homes will have been
desolated through an insane attempt to
compass an impossibility York Her
aid.