The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-04-17
The Conflict Of Races.
WHAT RADICAL EDITOR SAYS ABOUT TT.

{ From the Newburyport (N1ass.) Herald ]
Races OF men are always ia 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 of common origin. that
origin must have been so many millions
of years back that to us it is as though
they never had been one. Two of tho
races show no marks of progress, and
these two are perhaps the oldeSt-the
African and Australian. No explora-
tions of Africa or Australia have discov-
cred any evidences of a social or civil
condition among these people above
wha: they are now. This is not so with
any other race No other seems to have
been created and destined to live to the
end barbarians, as except where hi Oh
rr race not only lifts them up but every
moment sustains them above that level
With the Indians we find the remains
of a better condition enjoyed by them
long before the white man came to their
country. They reached the acme and
had suhsidtd before We knew them. The
Mongoians. too, of eastern Asia, though
they have made no progress in thousands
of years, vet have civilization Of their
own, which, in some respects, will bear
2 favorable comparison with our own
In a conflict of races-as, we say, it
always comes when two are in competi-
| no o,,l
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 they may eventually be driven out,
as they have from St. Domingo, unless
arbitrary power restrans the inferior.
But where they have any chance the
superiors-superior in mind, though they
may not be PHYSICAL 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, the negro type,
within the memory of man, has not ex-
tended north of the Great Desert, where
the Arabs and the Moors prevail. They
have been brought there as slaves, and
been brought there as captives in war.
but they have never mixed with the peo-
pie to adulterate the blood or gain the
ascendency by 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, they were destroyed
Or exiled. In Italy, the Africans that
were brought to Rome during tie long
years Of Roman triumphs. all disappear
ed. How numerous they were we have
no means Of ascertaining, but it is esti-
mated that no les than million negroes
were brought there and mixed with the
people but to-day the Italian shows rot
the slightest faint of African blood. The
African has been absorbed in the main
stock. and, as in taking food into the
stomach, what would not assimilate has
been rejected and cast out. 1t is the
same in Egypt. There from the earliest
ages the African has been slave; and
though few mulattoes are found there,
the greater part of the people show no
tracce of. African blood. 1t will be the
same in this country. There may be
swamp lands in Louisiana, Florida, or
other States, which will be deserted by
whites, in which the negroes may thrive;
but in those sections where the races
will be in competition, though the Afri-
can may have the majority now, thy will
gradually disappear. When they were
slaves, they We're 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 white is bound to do for
them the quicker they will sink. So We
see that in all the Northern States they
have rapidly disappeared, and the bleach
ing process gradually works South. Eff
ty years ago Massachusetts, had as many
blacks as New York now has; and one
hundred ears hence, Virginia will have
no more than New York has to-day 1t
is the order of Providence-the law of
God, that the higher shall overcome the
lower, the superior occupy where the
inferior have been otherwise would be
no progress.
A bluff old farmer says: 1T man