The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1869-05-14
From Nrwburyport, Massachnseii. Herald.
THE CONFLICT OF RACES.
What Radical Editor Says of 1t.

Races of men are always in conflict
whenever they come together There
can be no mixture. That is not in tho
order of nature. If, as some believe all
the races are of common origin, that
origin must have been so many millions
Of years back that to US it Us thongh
they never had been one. Two of the
races show no marks OF progress, and
these two are perhaps the oldest--thc
African and the Australian. No expla-
rations Of Africa or Australia have dis
covered any evidence Of a social, orciv-
il condition among those people above
what they arc now. This is not so with
any otherrace. No other seems to have
been created and destined to live to tho
end barbarians, except where a higher
race not only lifts them up, but every
moment sustains them above chat teyci.
With the Indians we find the remains Of
better condition enjoyed by them long
before the white man came to their coun-
try. They reached the acme, and had
subsidized before we knew them. Tho
Mongolians, too, of Eastern Asia, though
they have made no progress in thousands
of years, yet have civilization of their
own, which, liz some respects, will bear
a favorable comparison with our own.
In a conflict Of races--as wc say, it
always comes when two are in COMPETE
tion--thc superior race overcomcs and
roots out the inferior, unless the former
arc so weak in numbers as to have no
chance of success. Such is the case in
the West Indies, where tho whites arc so
few that they may eventually be driven
out, as they have from St. Domingo, I'M
less arbitrary power / cstrain the inferior.
But where they have any chance the
supcriors-superior in mind, though they
may not BIC physically--wil win the day
if equal advantages may be given.
With the inferior, their language, their
blood, their features, and their cast of
mind will disappcar-ln Africa, the ne
gro type, within the memory of man, has
not extended north of the great desert;
where the Arabs and Moors prevail
They have been brought there as slaves.
and been brought there as captivcs in
war, but they have never mixed with
the people to adultcratc the blood or
gain the ascendancy by numbers. So
it has been in the South of Europe
The Moors at one time were very nu-
merous in Spain and highly civilized,
but in the conflict with the Caucasians
| a. Il In1
In Italy The Africans that were
brought to Rome during tho long years
of Roman trumphs, all disappcared.-
How nu nervous they were we have no
means of ascertaining, but it is cstimat
cd that no less than a million Of negroes
were brought there and mixed with the
people but to-day the Italian shows
not the slightest faint Of African blood.
The African has been absorbed in tho
main stock, and, as in taking food into
the stomach, what would not assimilatc
has been rejected and cast out.
1t IS the same in Egypt. There from
the earliest ages the African has been a
slave, and though few mulattoes are
found there, the greater part Of the pco-
pie show no traces Of African blood. 1t
will be the same in this country. There
may be swamp lands in Louisiana,
Florida or other States, which will DO
deserted by whites, in which the negro
may thrive; but in those sections where
the races viii be in competition, though
the African may have the majority now,
they will gradually disappear. When
they were slaves they were kept separate
and tho care of Tie white man was to
have them increase but the more they.
mix with the whites Inc fewer they will
become, and the less the white is bound
to do for them the quicker they will
sink So we sec that in all the North
ern States they have rapidly disappear
cd, and the bleaching progress gradual
ly works South. Fifty years ago Mas
saclnsctts bad as many blacks as New
York now has and one hundred years
hence Virginia will haze no moro. than
New York has to-day. tits The ordor
of Providencc-thc law Of God, that tie
higher shall overcome the lower, tile SUI
perior occupy where the inferior have
been: otherwise there would he no pro-
grcss.