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Friday, April %, 1870.
Autagonism Of Races IN America.

Autagonism OF Races IN America.
The above is tho subject Of very
interesting article in late number 81
BIuek,rood's Nogasine, in which the
writer tells some unpalatable truths
for the benefit of our Northern breth.
rem. they are facts which cannot be
gaiRsayed, going to show that preten.
ded love to tho negro has been con.
tesnod with bitter cruelty to the In.
alan, and that the policy to both
races has been dictated BY unmitiga.
ted selfahness.
With the Indian, the war has lasted
for more than three centuries and is
not yet concluded. He has been
Driven alike from the sca-hoard and
the interior, from tho lakes and the
Gaaf, and is being fast pressed to the
slopes of the Rocky Mountains. Ot
the powerful Indian tribes who once
Inhabited this country not more than
100000 remain, and tho policy of to.
tai determination has been seriously
urged, as "the cheapest and most hu-
mano method of managing Indian
affairs.
With regard to the black man, the
policy Of the North, (whatever
may bo now pretcndcd) has been ever
dictated by something Of the same
spirit-often times cruel, and at all
timcs selfish. She claims monopoly
OF. good will to the colored race. But
what arc tho facts?
IL slavery sinful2 Yet it seems that
tho very Puritans that landed in the
Nayfowor esteemed it divine insti-
tution, and enslaEed tho wives and
children of the conquered Indians !;
and the North equally with tho South
contributed to fix the institution of
negro slavery upon this country. No
,ons at that day thought slavery was
a sin or any thing elso than right and
proper, and tho modern ideas on the
subject arc the fruit not 80 much of
philanthropy as of party politics. and
economic views of sectional advance
ment. =,
Why did tho North cmancipate at
homer She claims. to have done it
from Christian charity to the enslavcd
from love "to tho man and the broth
err" Is this SOP No, it was because
negro labor was costly, inefficient and
improbable in tho cold Northern
elimate-it was because white labor
was discovered to be best, and that
negro slavery did not pay. That it
was anything elso than philanthropy,
is shown by the fact that tho more
far-seeing among them, in anticipation
Of emancipation, sold their abL-bod-
isd slaves to the South, and left be-
hind to be emancipatcd only tho aged
and inftn. And even after slavery
was abolished at home, Northern
capital contributed largely to sustain
the African Slave.trado, and tho trade
in slaves between tho States.
That emancipation at tho North
was not prompted by love to blacks,
10 further shown by their condition in
the Northern States, after c,nancipa.
sion-without political or social rig hts
--tsbcosd politically and socially
excluded from Office, and cut off from
IN association with the dominant
ssee in tho theatres, churches, street.
cars and omnibuses. Even IN Mas
saehusetts whore they were allowed
70 vote, Disseminated against by q
property qualification. All of this
told upon the prosperity Of tho raco,
and by the census returns, it seems,
that that from 1850 to 1860, the annual
increase Of tho whole free colored pop
aiation was only one per cent, whilst
10 some States there was either no
sieegessse or q positive diminution. In
. tha mean while tho slave population
wss Increasing moro than three per
cent snnnallx-ip Afty years from one
ITO naas feur millions. a.
Wss It love to the blacks that
iSsenptsd their emancipation at the
'sYotah2 1twaselsar1ly . war-measure;
Jaad tbs j. too patent. to be controver.
'tad |Rs Mncoln's proclamation was
eissasa IN the hope that The slaves
wStld ffes fh ipsurTection against their
RaSSt, IN this he was mistaken
ths hIaaA Oct him have the .aredit)
gaasa aiaed Sjthfdl. We might have Of
fessd AtaA the Same boon as tho North
ma thss "ofeahized victory" BY tho aid
pr y. Saa blset sstiiiatiss.q But this is
an1 open sgpestion Yhich can now
Rsvek b ssstlsd. Bot as. toe the. mo.
psdnaptsd the North to
yspsptsffAss tie blftksL there W. no:
'assstoat MSgfsaes sessass M sasstiii II sAr: vsAr not
lore 10 tho blseksh s4.aYaa;.,.ys.Ii
lroAs III waanat Nsrthern lose which7
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