The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-06-10
SOMEBODY'S GOT TO LEAVE"

1t is stated BY number Of newspapers that
some philosopher Of African descent in that
rather broad locality known as "down South
recently expressed his views of the situation
a. follows: Ode darkies is gettin' dissatis-
fed. De fac is we're beginnin' to tink dere
is too many kinds of people here. Dere is
de white, an de blacks. an de Yankees.
OATS too many to get along we'll, an some
body's got to leave" The views Of this
chronological freedman, we perceive, are re-
garded a. exceedingly novel, and somewhat
ridiculous; but, batting the lingo in which
they are expressed, they seem to US to be
precisely similar to the avowed and tenacious
" defended opinions of several light colored
sages who profess to have mastered all the
greatest questions Of social science, and to
have arrived at precisely the colored mans
conclusion. Years ago the project Of co.oni-
zation was started upon exactly the theory
that " somebody must leave" it being as
sumed that the "somebody" was black.
Then after the termination of the rebellion,
a great number of whites being in dissatis-
fed and unsettled frame of mind, declared
that they must leave ard go to Brazil or
Mexico, or some other far distant and alien
shore. 1t does not appear to US to be at all
extraordinary when SO many Cadcaslans are
declaring that they cannot live with " mig
gers" that here and there an individual Afri-
can should be found proclaiming that he
cannot possibly live with Caucasians. Now
unless a remedy can be found for the discon-
tent and dissension which alone can account
for this passion for leaving. it is pretty clear
that, sooner or later, somebody must emf
CRATE Shall it be the blacks or the whites
Shall it be the majority or the minority
Shall it be the oppressed or the opPressors
Shall it be the workers OF the loafers ? Shall
it be the producers or non-producers Which
can the South. if it would recall its ancient
prosperity, spare best, the tillers of the soil,
the cultivators of cotton, rice, corn, sugar,
and tobacco, or the men who hang about
taverns, who consider labor to be degrading,
but who do not consider it to be degrading to
subsist upon the unreQuited Industry OF
others the men who are ready to devote
themselves to daily, cheerful industry, OF
those who are best pleased to pass their
time in smoking. drinking, horseracing, and
the discussion of politics. We will suppose.
by way of illustration, something which is
really impossible, i. e., that all the blacks in
the southern States have +" left" and that
only the white population remains. Who,
then, will do the work 1t may be answered
that there will then be an influx Of white
laborers. But what has been gained, unless
the change has made labor respectable, or,
more accurately speakins, genteet' You
will merely have substituted white pariahs
for black pariahs-the old, orr ginal blue
blood will be quite as lazy, greedy and I'M
productive, quite as unreasonable and domi-
neering as ever so that, in few years, you
will have repetition of the cry that "some-
body must leave" Nothing will satisfy
these pauperized aristocrats except restora-
ton of the old and unnatural relations, by
the virtue, or, rather, by the vice of which the
non-worker appropriates the workers wages.
That is what they want, and that Is precisely
what, through no possible concentration Of
changes, can they have in the new and regen-
Grated South. This being the fact. the soon
er then leave the better for their respective
localities, and the worse for the lands toward
which they may turn their faces.
That which we mainly want in reconstruct |
ing Southern society is time and patience. II
is an absurtlity surprising the absurdIty of
to expect country SCARED and |
desolated by civil war, and affected by great
social changes, to blossom instantly like a
rose, and to advance in moment to the
nights of productive prosperity. Most of the
trouble at the South, it is evident, is ere ated |
by a class small in numbers, and which |
must, in the nature of things, rapidly disap
pear, partly because it has lost and never can |
recover its old artificial position, and partly
because it is cut off from the possibility of
by its own faults, habits and
vices. We DO not expect men of this de-
based character ever to consider the Black as
ANYTHING but a nuisance, and, IN turn, the
Blacks will necessarily regard the thriftless
and naughty whites as their natural enemies.
But all this is of to-day. All this is the re-
suit of struggle for life or death between a
doomed aristocracy anu = democracy just
rising to a sense Of its natural rights. There
will he no trouble when equity has become
fam ar, and general justice between man
lnC nan has made toll sweet and labor
pleasant and honorable.-Ne,c YORK Tribune.