Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-05-31
The Conflict of Races-What A Radf'
cal Editor Says of IL.
From the Newburyport (Mass.) Herald.l

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 of a common origin, that
origin must have been so many millions
of years back that to us it is as though
there never had been one. Two OF the
races show no marks of progress, and
these two are perhaps the Oldest, the
African and the Australian. No explora-
tions of Africa or Australia have discov:
cred any evidences of a social or civil
condition among those people above
what they are now. This is not so with
any other race. No other seems to have
been created or destined to live to the
end barbariaDs, except where a higher
race not only lifts them up, but every
moment sustains them above that level.
With the Indians we find the remains OF
better condition enjoyed by them long
before the white man came to their
country. They reached the acme, and
had subsded before we knew them. The
Mongolians, too, of Eastern Asia, though
they have made no progress in thousands
of years, yet have a civilization OF their
own, which, in some respects, will bear
favorable comparison with our own.
In a conflict Of races-as we say, 1t
always comes when two are in eompeti-
tion-the superior race overcomes and
roots out the inferior, unless the former
are so weak in nun bers as to have no
chance of success. Such is the case in
the West Indies, where the whites are 80
few that they may eventually be driven
out, as they have from ST. Domingo, un-
less arbitrary power restraints the In
ferior. But where they have any chance
the uperiors-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 the
negro type, within the memory of man,
has not extended north Of the great
desert, where the Arabs and Moors pre-
vail. They have been brought there as
slaves, and been brought there as cap
tives in war, but they have never mixed
with the people to adulterste 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
cohhiet with the Caucasians they were
destroyed or exiled.
In Italy the Africans that were brought
to Rome during the long years of Roman
triumphs all disappeared. How numer-
ous they were we have no means Of as
certaining, but it is estimated that no less
than a million of negroes we're brought
there and mixed with the people, but
to-day the Italian shows not the slightes.
taint 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 ssme 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 peo-
ple show no traces of African blood. Ii
will be the same in this country. There
NAV be swamp lands in Louisiana,
Florida, or other States, which will be de.
serted BY whites, in which the negro may
thrive; but 10 those sections where the
races will be in competition, though the
African may have the msj ority nov, they
will gradually disappear. When they
were slaves they were 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 man 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 bleaching
process gradually works South. Fifty
wears ago Massachusetts had ss many
blacks as New York now has and one
hundred years hence Virginia will have