The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1869-06-23

The Future OF the Negro
Radicalism the Bane Of His
Race. -
Kthe design of the radical par
ty is to annihiIate the coloreo
raesin this country, it has adopt.
ed the surest means to bring about
that. result. The time will come,
and that not many years hence,
when, the blacks Of the South will
be.redueed in. number so greatly
that their total extinction will be
simply q matter of mathematical
caleulation-the fact being a fore.
gone conclusion so plain and pal.
pable that none but the veriest
ignoramus will have the hardihood
to deny it. 1t is useless, in the
words Of Hamlet, "to try and cir
eumvent God" 1t is useless to ex-
pect that the white race in Anne
riea; with all it's vim and vigor,
Consequent upon it's marrige and
iuaermarriage with Saxon, Teu-
ton and Celt, wall hold back in it's
onward career, in order that the
African may attain, in company
with it, to that higher civilization
which, reason as we may, is re-
seryed only for the Caucasian, in
this new world at least. Not all
tho quas;-philanthropie schemes
that have been. ar may be, evolved
from Puritanism, can alter the
fat which has gone forth-we use
iG, now, in no mere party sense
this is, and ever must be, a white
mems government. As the power
ofthe aborigines has, year by year,
faded awsy in the glare of white:
~ ;s;;az 8 4. % VII the punber of
aires sons decrease, unta the
remnant that may be left viii only
mark moro forcible the tru'sm,
that no race can ever set itself up
against the white without either
snhiection or extinction being the
sequence. 1t is not by any means
q consoling reflection, to feel as
sured that a race which might
have done much in aid of itself,
3of the country and of mankind, had
those who took it under their es-
peeial care dealt with it as natural
law requires, is doomed to become
extinct: but there is no man who
calmly surveys the condition of
things among rs to-day that is not
convinced of the verify of our as
sertion. Radicalism invariably
acts without regard to reason, and
is s.rnable to profit by experience.
It has placed the negro in a
sphere which Providence neither
designed for him nor fitted him
for. It has endeaTored to impress
him with the vain, false and frivo-
IONS idea, that be can overcome
the many and mountainous obsta-
Giles that forbid his rising TO an
equality with the more intellee,
tual and stronger brother, and
seeks to force him into emulating
achievements of the white man !;
while all history and experience
teach that such q course can only
end in his destruction.
Had the dominant party pur-
sued g. different policy; had it
when the abolition of slavery was
accented by the whole South as
an accomplished fact, left the ne
gro question to be dealt with by
the States and people interested
iH4solving it to the mutual advan.
tags Of both races, the future Of
the negro would bear q much more
hopeful aspect than it does now.
The, South needed his labor
would gladly have profted by it !;
while. at the same time it would
have thrown around him protec-
ton, and educated him by success
siVe steps to- the attainment and
enjoyment Of a. higher civilization
than was ever before. vouchsafed
him in any age or nation. But
radicsiism, chose the contrary
course, simply because there was
awsll-founded hope that by pur-
saing it party power would be
temporarily increased, and because
the negro would be used as the IA
cils tool whereby the rcins of Gov
ernment might be retained in rad
icaf hands. Instead of teaching
him to rely upon industry, sobrie-
ty and fugality as the triple
nseaus whereby no could secure
freedom from want, and render
himself respected BY the white
mar. radiealism has foolishly en-
deayored to metamorphose him
into q legislator and an admins
traitor Of political power-has rem
dersd him not only worthless to
himself: bat 6 positive incum-
bsanes in the way Of an increasing
civilization, The natural result