Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-05-23
WHITE VERSUS NEGRO.
The Conflict Of Races----whaf a Radical
Editor says Of II.

From the Newburyport Mass Herald
Races of men are always in conflict
whenever they come together. There
can be no mixture. That is not in the
order OF nature. II, as some believe,
all the races are of q 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 the races show no marks of
progress, and these two are perhaps
the oldest-the African and the Aus
traIian. No explorations of Africa or
Australia have discovered any evil
denees of a social, or civil condition
among those people above what they
r now. This is not so with any
other race. No other seems to have
been created or destined to live to the
end barbarians, 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 a better condition enjoyed
by them long before the white man
came to their country. They reached
the acme, and had subsidized 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, viii bear a
favorable comparison with own.
In a conflict of raceS@as we say, it
always comes when two are in COM
petitiOn-the superior race OvercOmes
and 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 that they may even
tually be driven out, as they have
from st. Domingo, unless arbitrary
power restraints the inferior. But
where they have any chance the supe-
riors-superiOr in mind, though they
may not be physically-win win the
day If equal advantages may be given.
With the inferior, their language,
their blood, their features, and their
cast Of mind VIII disappear. In AZ
rica, the negro type, within the mem
DRY of man, has not extended 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
aseendency by numbers. So it has
been in the South of Europe. The
MOOrs ut n time were very uumer-
Gus 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 the long
years of Roman triumphs, all disap-
peared. How numerous they were
we have no means Of asceTtaining,
but is estimated 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 the
main stock, and, as in taking food
into the stomach, what would not as
simulate has been rejected and cast
out.
1t is the same in Egypt. There
from the earliest ages the African has
been aslave, and though a few mu-
lattoes are found there, the greater
part Of the people 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 viii be deserted by
whites, in which the negro may
thrive; but in those sections where |
the races will he in competition,
though the African may have the ma
jority now, they will gradually dissp-
pear. When they were slaves they
were kept separate, and the care of
the white man was to have them in
crease; but the more they mix with
the whites the fewer they viii 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 bleaching progress gradually I
works South. Fifty years ago Massa-
chusetts had as many blacks as New
York now has; and one hundred
years hence Virginia viii have no
more than Yew NoTk 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
there Will be no progress.