Middletown transcript., 1870-10-15

set bounds between the white man and the
black, which cannot be passed with impu-
nifty, The white man cannot overcome
his natural repugnance to the negro, there
fore it is unwiso in our lawgivers to enact
laws having tendency to bring the two
races upon plane of equality, and there
fore into antagonism. Equals they cannot
be, for nature has made them SO dissimi-
lar that itis doing gross violence 70 her.
laws to attempt 10 make any approaches
towards equality. This is as true in a
political and social sense as it is in nat
ural sense. The two races cannot live
peaceably and tremendously together, ex-
cept the black race be in state Of subor-
dination. The 14th and 18th amendments
have placed it in q state of insubordina-
tion. state which will develop more and
more the natural incongruity and antipa-
thy between tho races, and their irrecon-
cileable incompatibility. The Republi-
cans, as well as the Democrats, will ac-
knowledge this truth, in time. For tho
present, an unworthy partizanship has i'm
PEELED the Republican party to take the
negro by the hand, and to court his sup
port in party sense This evil will ulti-
mately cure itself. The blacks will not
continue to support the Republican party
without share Of the offices. To accede
to their demands would cause such wide
spread detection in the Republican party,
| as to give the Democrats an easy victory
over them. 1t is needless to say that the
Democratic party. reinvested with political
power, would speedily restore this gov
ernment to what it was intended to be by
its founders-a government for white men
and would brush away as cobwebs, by a
mere resolution of Congress, those frauds
which are known as the 18th and 18th
amendments, and all the "enforoement''
and reconstruction" acts which have
polluted our statute-books under the deba-
sing rule of Radicalism. The 18th amend
ment will stand. No one desires to sec
the negro slave again, not even his for
mer master upon the plantations of the
South. We would protect him in all his
rights of person and property, under the
law. but political and social equality with
the white man, he cannot have IF the
negro is not satisfied with this state of
things, let him betake himself to his own
native cline, Liberia, or to Hayti, where
he can enjoy the largest liberty and graft
| fy his highest aspirations without interfe-
renee from the white man. Is there any
hardship in this !? No, it is the dictate
of reason and of common sense, that he
should 60 to that cline where the author
Of his being intended he should live, and
to which he is adapted by nature. No
white man has part or lot in the govern
ment of Liberia or of Hayti. They are
the governments of the black man, and
the soil as we'll as the institutions are his.
If he sighs for perfect freedom. let him go
there, where his highest aspirations may
be grati6ed. We would even assist him
to 60, as an act of simple justice to the
descendants of those who were brought.
against their will, from Africa here.
There, genial cline and the spontaneous
fruits of the earth combine to render life
more easy and more agreeable to him.
There, no winters cold will chill him, and
no wintry season has to be provided for,
but the earth yields her increase all the
year round, and he has but to stretch forth
his hand and pluck and eat. There let
him go. If he will stay here, it must be
in position of subordination to the white
race, and it cannot be otherwise. He
himself will come to see this in time. The
Republicans will solicit the votes Of the
negroes to keep their party in power, but
they will not share with them the spoils
of Office, or treat them otherwise than as
menials and interiors. The negroes will
see this, and will withdraw their support
from the Radicals. and will set up in 9
political way for themselves But they
will ultimately find how futile are all their
efforts in that direction. Disappointment
and discomfort will ensue. if not actual
strife between the races But let us cast
veil over this view of our subject-"suf-
fcient unto the day is the evil thereof ,,
But such reflections will obtrude them
: selves upon all thoughtful minds, and are
; not to be ignored. In the event of war
L of races-a thing not the least improbable
the blacks would be forced from, the
country but their exodus would b,
= through blood. Much more preferable
VI would it be in peace and amitv