The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1869-04-22
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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 ola 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 Aus
tralian. No explorations of Africa or
Australia have discovered any eviden-
ces of 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
and destined to live to the end bar
barians, as except where q higher race
not only lifts them up every moment
sustains them above that level. With
the Indians we find the remains of 3
better condition enjoyed by them long
before the white man came to their
country. They reached the acme and
subsidized long before we knew them.
The Mongolians, too, of eastern Asia,
though they have made no progress
in thousands of years, yet have civ
ilization of their own, which, in some
respects, viii bear a favorable com.
parison with our own.
In q conflict of races-as, we say, it
always comes when two are in compe-
tition-the superior race oyereomes
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
tualIy be driven out, as they have from,
st. Domingo, unless arbitrary power
restraints, the inferior. But where
they have any chance the superiors-
superiors in mind, though they may
Not be PHYSICAL will win the day, il
equal advantages may beEiven.. With
the inferior, their language, their blood
4 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 the Moors pre-.
vail. They heve been brought there
as slaves, and been brought there al
captives in war, but they have never
mixed with the people to adulteratt
the blood or gain the ascendcncy by
numbers. So it has been in the soutl
of Europe. The Moors at one. tiin'
were very numerous in Spain and high
ly civilized, but in the conflict witt
the Caucassians, they were destroyed
or exiled. In Italy, the Africans tina
were brought to Rome during the Ions
years of Roman triumphs, all disap
peared. How numerous they wer
we have no means of ascertaining, bu
it is estimated that no less that q mil
lion negroes were brought there ant
mixed with the people; but to-day tn
italian shows not the slightest taint o
African blood. The African has beel
: absorbed in the main stock, and, as i
! taking food into the stomach, wha
would not assimulate has been rejecte
and cast out. 1t is the same in Egyp
There from the earliest ages the Afri
can has been slave; and though
few mulattoes are found there, th
greater part of the people show n
traces. of African blood. 1t will b
the same in this country. There ma
be swamp lands in Louisiana, Florids
or other states, which will be deserte
: by whites, in which the negro ma
> thrive; but in those sections wher
the races will be in, competition
though the African may have the ms
jority. now, they will gradually disaE
pear. When they were slaves, the
, were kept seperate, and the care of th
t white man was TO have them increase
E but the more they mix with the white
the fewer they will become and the lei
l the white is bound to do for them th
9 quicker they win sink. So we see tn.
in all the northern states they hav
D rapidly disappeared. and the bleachin
, process gradually works south. FIT
r years ago Massachusetts, had as man
!, blacks as New York now has; an
: 100 years hence, Virginia will have n
. more than New York has to-day.
: ia in the order of Proyidence-the la
4 of God, that the higher shall overcom
the lower, the superior. occupy whel
the inferior have been; otherwis
{ there would be no progress. aae sl