The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1868-09-30
WILL THERE BE A WAR
OF RACES ?

This is the most terrible question
that rational and conscientious man
can ask himself, ). and it should be thun-
dered in the ears of the Northern mil
lions with the voice of an earthquake.
There are eight millions of white peo-
pie and four millions of negroes in jux-
ltapositioa in the South. God made
the first, superior and the latter subor;
dinate the most perfect and exalt
led of all the species of human kind,
and the other simplest, grossest, least
developed-in short, one that He has
endowed with capacities for progress
unlimited, the Other forbidden by its
organism to take single step in what
we call civilization, and therefore, in
millions Of ages, cannot invent an alp
habet or advance in my respect what
ever beyond the condition of the first
generation of negroes ever created
Among all these four millions, there is
not an idea, tradition, name even, of
their own origin, though many of them
arc the desce ndants of African parents;
aud left to tEeir own, volition, isolated
lin word, made tree-a hundred
years hence there would not be one
among all these millions that retained
a tradition, mental habit idea or name
even, that he has now, and Abe Lin
coin, the Emancipation" proclamation,
Thad' Stevens and Congress would be
as utterly lost to them as if they had
never heard Of them, or indeed had
never left Africa. In their normal
condition, in domestic suberdinatIon to
the white master. they fulfill an essen
tial role in modern civilization, enable
US to open and cultivate those vast re-
giops, frnm the Potomac to the Gulf,
and supply us with those great tropical
products, cotton, sugar, coffee, &c, SO
necessary to our welfare, and still more
important, this natural distinction of
race teaches us the wrong and folly, if
mt sin, of monarchy or class distinc
tious in eur own race, and thus enables
US to establish republican. institutions.
Epery man that oaons the tser0ice'
of a negro becomes OF necessity Dem
ocrat-a defender of the producing
interests, an opponent of National
debt, of special legislation, by means
of which the great toiling millions are
made beasts of burthen in other lands
to the favored few, and from which
they have only been saved here by the
,so-calied slaveholders-. the Jeffersops
and Jacksons of the South. Without
negroes, or without so-caled slavery,
without the Washingtons and .Jeffer-
sons, and Calhouns of the South, there
would have been no Union orrepublic-
can institutions, and We should still be
Provinces of Epgland like Canada, and
everywhere else. Without this so-eal-
led slavery now, Democracy, liberty,
indeed civilization, is, in the nature OF
things, as impossible as life without at
mosphe eric air. Or, in other words,
without the natural relations, of human
society in the South. there must needs
be chaos 10 the North as well as in the
South. i- III s s1 1-iS 12i 81 Ils.i24 4
The European enemies of Democracy
know this, know it by their, instinct if
not by their reason, and therefore they
have expended five hundred millions,
and labored for half a century TO bring
this awful social cataclysisson the coun-
try. Their tools and agents, under a