Wilmington journal. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1844-1895, 1870-05-13

can nv 16 majority. Peru, in the same
State. gave O Democratic majority OF l3l
a Gain of $50. Terre Haute also has
gone Democratic. The Democrats elected
all their city officers in Columbus, Ohlo'
by III majority. Last year il was Repub-
lican.
Relations Between the Races-Social and
Political.
The political prejudices with which de-
signing men have filed the minds OF the
colored people of the South towards the
whites, have been and are attended with
many evils both to the social and material
welfare Of the country. Many of these
have been felt and will continue to be felt
to the common detriment of all classes SO
long as the blacks permit themselves to be
the victims of mental slavery, more ex-
netting than that from which their persons
have recently been emancipated. In some
portions of the South alienation, extending
beyond political separation, has grown up
and been fostered between the races under
the pernicious tutelage Of protligate adj
venturers and designing and avarlc1ous
demagogues. We are glad to know, how
ever, that this has been the exception
rather than the rule. Doubtless there has
been no want of effort in all communities
TO bring about such strife between whites
and blacks, but generally 1t has been
found impossible TO burst asunder the
old ties OF sympathy and interest which
have bound our people SO firmly to their
former slaves. To-day it is no rare case to
find existing between employer and en-
pIoye the same kindly attachment which
formerly united master and slave.
Especially is this the case in this partlc- !
uIar community. Nowhere In the South
are the colored people more firmly leagued
together in political sympathy against
their white friends nowhere have they
had more inscriptions and dangerous
leaders and teachers nowhere have they
been more thoroughly drilled CT gone
through with more exciting campaigns; nc
where have they had the cOuntenance OF
more unworthy Southern whites in their
political crusades. Yet to-day the reia-
lions of whites with blacks IN every other
respect is controlled by bond Of sympa-
thy and union which IS more powerful ana
we believe will be more lasting, than al
the political prejudices and talsehoods
with which the minds Of the colored PEG
nle have been filled. ~ no period oi"eo
.l.u We. l-..., .I-e.o been any cessation OF
these pleasant relations here, except pro
badly for short time during the cam
paigr of 1865, when our coIored cltlZens !
were led astray by few bad and coWardly
white men, but which was checked by the
prompt and decisive action of our people.
We hope that there will not be repetition
in the coming or any future campaign, and
we do not think there will be.
In some portions of our own State and
elsewhere in the South these pleasant Re
lations have not been maintained and 1t
has universally been attended with much
evil and serious consequences. Riots, &C
with the destruction of life and
property and crimes of greater and less |
have resulted therefrom. 1t
has extended even to the loss of sympathy
and the refusal of aid IN suffering and dis
tress. We noticed in q late number OF the
Chester South Carolina) Reporter that at
a fire which occurred in that place, by
which the houses Of several citizens were
destroyed and those of others placed IN
great jeopardy, the negroes generally re- |
fused their assistance to stay the ravages
Of the flames Crowds Of able-bodled !
colored men stood off with folded arms, |
XriK fIoCIiSh do !
light at the destruction of white folks !
property. There were q few notable ex
captions, but very few. Many of them
were appealed to, and asked to assist IN
bringing water. They fatty refused, some
Of them giving rs their reason that they |
had promised not to help in case of fire, |
and that they intended to keep their prom |
ise.'
We heartily rejoice that no such feeling |
exists between the races here, and We do
not believe that our coIorod people could
De induced to enter into any obligations
or promises not to extend aid to their |
white friends when in need of it. The |
sympathies implanted in their breasts IN !
past times are too firmly rooted to be eradi- |
Gated by designing men, and any attempt
at interference Herewith would rather
tend to wean this class of our citizens
from such persons and to overcome pres
emit political prejudices than to ALLEVIATE
the blacks from the whites.
As We have said there is no place where
the colored people are more violently and
compactly united in political opposition to
the Southern whites than III this city and
county, land still nowhere in the United
States is there stronger attachment between
the races. However violent and unreason- /
able the colored employe may be in his
political opposition to the social and
material interests of his white en-
ployer it causes no conflict in their
business relations, and though in
connpetent worthless and corrupt Off