The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1869-04-15
IDAHO WORLD.
THE CONFLICT OF RACES,

Races of men are always in conflict
whenever they come together, There
can be no mixture. That is not IN the
order of nature, If, as some believe,
all the races are from common origin,
that origin must have been so many
million years back that to us 1t Is as
though there had never been one Two
of the races show no marks of progress,
and these two are perhaps the Oldest
the African and the Australian. No
explorations of Africa or Australia cv-
er disclosed evidences Of a social or a
civil condition among these people SUI
perior to what they are now. This is
not so with any other race. No other
seems to have been created and des-
tined to live to the end barbarians, as
except where higher race not only
lifts them, but every moment sustains
them above that level. With the lndl-
ans we find the remains of a better con-
dition enjoyed by them long before the
white men came to their country. They
reached the acme and had subsidized be-
fore we knew them. The Mongolians,
too, of Eastern Asia, though they have
made no progress in thousands OF years,
vet have a civilization of their own,
which, in some respects, will bear ia
vorable comparison with ours.
In conflict of races-as, we say, it
always comes when two are in compe-
tition-the superior race overcomes and
roots out the inferior, unless the former
are so weak in numbers as to have no
chance of success. Such is the case in
the West Indies, where the whites are
so few that they may eventually be
driven out, as they have from st. Do
mingo, unless arbitrary power restraints
the inferior. But where they have any
chance the superiors--superior in mind
though they may not be physically
will win the day, if equal advantages
may be given. With the inferior, their
language, their blood, their features,
and their cast of mind, will disappear.
In Africa, within the memory of man,
the negro type has not extended north
of the Great Desert, where the Arabs
and the Moors prevail. They have
been held there as slaves, and been
brought there as captives in war, but
they have never mixed with the people
to adulterate the blood or gain the as
cendancy in numbers. SO it has been
in the South of Europe. The Moors at
one time were very numerous in Spain,
and highly civilized, but in the conflict
with the Caucasians were either dcs-
troyed or exilcd. In Italy, the Afri-
cans brought to Rome during the long
years of Roman triumphs, all disap-
peared. How numerous they were we
have no means of ascertaining, but it
is estimated that no less than a million
negroes were brought there and mixed
with the people ; but to-day the Italian
shows no faint of African blood. The
African has been absorbed in the main
stock, and as taking food into the stom-
ach, what would not assimilatc has
been rejected and cast out. 1t is the
same in Egypt. There from the ear
Hest ages the African has been slave,
and though few mulattoes arc found
there, the greater part of the people
show no traces of African blood. 1t
will be the same in this country. There
may be swamp lands in Florida, Loui-
siana, or other States, which will be
deserted by whites, in which the negro
may thrive; but in those sections where
the races will be in competition, though
the African may have the ma iority at
this time, they will gradually disap-
pear. When they were slaves, they
kept separate, and the care of the white
man was to have them increase, but
the more they mix with the whites the
fewer they will become; and the less
the whites are bound to do for them the
quicker they will sink. So wcscc that
i'll all the Northern States they have
rapidly disappeared, and the bleaching
PROCESS gradually works South. Fifty
years ago Massachusetts had as many
blacks as New York now has; and a
hundred years hence Virginia will have
no more than New York has to-day. It
is the order of Providence-the law of
God-that the higher shall overcome
the lower tho suneriOr Occunv whore