The weekly Panola star. [volume] (Panola, Miss.) 1857-1881, 1868-06-13

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"Adel' whleh aitempls, ny grngt
afEumehi, n vrvye the Negro q ANIL.
lee beasi The erueI and hitter M.
tfsd u IieIIrr aad Ariel hr ihe
blaek race, ! am conhdeni, IL not
shared IN The lsast degrse by The peo-
pie u the south generally. Tho
prevalent feeling Of our popoIaiIon
towards their iofmer slaves !. that u
kindness and good sill II l. not of
emancipation that We complain, but
the anwise and wicked aiiemp, that
l. nov being made to take the elec.
tive franchise out Of The hand. Of The
white man, who alone is capable II
using 10 for The general good, and
placing Il In the hands Of the negro,
who has no conception Of its duties
and responsibilities, and who cannot,
therefore, be safely entrusted with II.
II Is very certain that the people
Of Mississippi do not wish 10 deny
the colored people any right or priv
ilcgo allowed them by the Northern
States; there, as a general rule, they
are excluded from the polls and from
the jury box, and from all participa-
tion in politics, and Il cannot be that
an enlightened and magnanimous
people will permanently inaict upon
us a policy which, for themselves,
they reject, and which, so recently as
in the elections last fall, they con-
demned by overwhelming majorities.
1t is Of great Importance that har-
mony and good feeling be preserved
between two races inhabiting the
same territory, and 70 some extent
dependant upon each other, and
whose interests, therefore, are insep-
arabic. The whites, l repeat, will
find their own interests advanced in
the progress Of the colored popula.
tion of the State, in education, NOR.
ais, industry and wealth. II will be
best for both races that only compc-
tent, faithful, and good men be elect
ed to Office, that right and justice be
invariably maintained, and that the
peace, prosperity, and happiness Of
all classes be permanently established.
But, sir, il feuds and antagonisms
grow up, none need feel at loss as
TO the sequel, or as TO whether the
ascendancy will finally remain with
the Caucasian or African. In what
were the slave States, there are now
not less than eight millions Of whites,
to not exceeding four Of Africans /;
and ii we look to the whole United
States the disproportion is yet greater,
there being about thirty millions Of
the former to about Iour millions Of
the latter. And then, the natural
increase of the whites Is much great
er than that of the blacks. Since
emancipation there is every reason to
believe that the deaths among the
blacks have largely exceeded the
births, whilst among the whites the
reverse is true. In soil, climate, and
productions, the Southern States are
unsurpassed. Hitherto, the existence
Of slavery has been a barrier to i'm
migration to the South; this barrier
has now been removed, and the tide
Of emigration into the South from
the Northern States and from the
Old World will assuredly set in at
no distant day. All accessions from
these sources will, Of course, be white,
since there is no country under the
sun from which a colored immigra-
tion can be expected. Many intelli-
gent persons now confidently predict
that the melancholy fate Of the In
dian but foreshadows that of the
African race on this continent.
The eolored population Of the
Northern States have long enjoyed as
free persons, equal protection with
the whites but It's increase In num-
bers and progress in mental, moral
and material advancement has GER
tainly fallen greatly below that Of
the Caucasian. On this subject, the