The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1869-06-16

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the; Bane OF His Raees9'o 'i'tr1
4n M the design Of the radical party is to
annihilate the colored race in this coun-
try, ie has adopted the snfest means to
bring about that result. HThe1 time will
come, and that n5t many yehrs hence,
when, the blaeks of the South will be re-
ducsd IN ~ number , so greatly. that their
total; extinction win be simply d matter
OF mathematical calculati6n-Athe fact
being n dofegohe Observation-Disclosures plain
and patpable.; that none but Jthe erveriest
ignoramg1gs ran gY will haye the herdihood te,
deny is. It is useless, in the words Of
Hamlet, asto try and circdmvehti God. .
LtI.iS.useless to expect that the white
race iii America. with all its, vim, and
vigpr, consequent on marriage and inter
marriage with Saxon, Teuton and Celt,
will hold back ID its onward career, In
order that the African may attain, In
company with it, to- that higher ciyiliza7
tion which, reason as we may, is reserved
only for the Caucasian, in this new
world, at least. II Not all the quasi.phiI
lanthropio' sohsmes that have been, or
may be, envolved from the workings of
Ppritanism; can alter the fiat which has
gone forth-we use it, now, In no mere
party sense-this is, and ever must be, q
white mans government. AS the power
oflthe ;aborigines has, year by year, faded
aEay ia the glare of white civilization,
80 will the number OF Afrio's sons de-
crease, until the remnant that may be
left will only mark more forcible the
truisms that no race can ever set itself
MP against the white without either sub
lection or extinction being the sequence.
it is not by any means consoling refiec-
tfon, to feeF assured that race which
might have done much in aid of itself,
OF the country and OF. mankind, H. had
those VINO took it under their especial
care dealt with it as natural law Requires,
- doomed TO become extinct, but there
10 no man who, calmly ,surveys the eondi-
ton OF things sn among MS to!day that
ds not convinced |of The Verityo6f o,ir
aaseftiehH Radicalisna inRariable aots
ftEitlout regard to reason, and is unable
Sto Profit byr experience, It has placed
the negro in O, sphere which Providence
neithef designed for him nor fitted him
Net9 1t has endeavOred to impress him
with the vain, false and frivolous idea
that ne can overcome the many and
mountainous obstacles that forbid his
rising to an equality with the more intel.
lectuRl and stronger brother, and seeks
to force him into emulating achieve
ments of the white man; while all his
tory and .experience teach that such a
course can only end In his destruction.
Had the dominant party pursued a
different policy; had it, when the aboli-
zion Of slavery was accepted by the
whole South as, an accomplished fact,
LEFT the, negro question to be dealt with
by the States and people interested in
solving it to the mutual advantage of
both races, the future of the negro would
pear 2 much more hopeful aspect than it
does now. The South needed his labor
would gladly have profited by it; while
ct the same time it would have thrown
ground him protection, and educated
him by successive steps to the attain ment
and enjoyment Of higher civilization
thhfRpf was ever before vouchsnfed him in
any age or nation. But radicalism chose
the me contrary course, simply because
there, was well5fpunded hope that by
ipprsNulnng 1t party power would be tenn
iporarily Increased, and because the ne
gro would be used as, the facile tool
be retained in radical hands. Instead of
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briefly and frugality as tile triple means
whereby, he. could secure freedom from
want, and render himself respected by
the white man, radicalism has foo!ishly
TO metamorphose him into a
Legislator and an, administrator of politi-
cal pPwer-has rendered him rot, OILY
worthless to himself, but n positive in.
cumbrance in the way of an increasing
civilization. The natural result followed
In the South the presence of the negro.
thus out of his sphere, is regarded as an
obstacle to the advance of material
wealth and stumbling block in the path
'of4prosperity. Ut is not to be wondered
ut, therefore,, that steps are being taken
everywhere throughout the South to- 80
'ofgahize measures that the labor of the
negro can be- dispensed with entirely.
and society no longer be kept dependent
on his ilioonsistent Willingness to earn
his bread by tha sweat of his brow. So
ctetles have been already formed in every
southern State to supplement the negro
by an immigration of Europeans. These
societies are backed and sustained by
che most prominent Southern men: the
inducements offered are of d character
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