The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-14

tiOHs LHut rest upon us All 10 sCO tHHt no !
harm befalls that race which has ben ele-
waited from slavery into freedom. The
north Is justly proud of its great act of
emancipation. 1t shed its blood and ex-
pended its treasure freely to give liberty
to four millions of human beings, and II
would again encounter many dangers be-
fore it would see that work undonc. For
this reason, If for no other it Is now in
cumbent on its citizens to interpose and
rescue the colored race from the disasters
that must insue if the policies of the pres
ent administration are to prevail in future.
The safety of the civil rights of the
black man at the south is wound up in
the life-strings Of reconciliation. His
constitutional guarantees, whether national
or state will be strong when the people OF
the whole land are in fraternal accord un
til then there will always be found those
who generate disgust in himself or others.
His suffrage will be permanently safe
when the culored vote divides never
when welded unitedly as n caste. To d.
vide is TO assent to the force of reason
rather than yield to mere dictation. To
divide is to respect the force of law rather
than rely on the law of force. To divide
is to accept the mutual good Offices of
social state rather than encounter any ar
ray of enmities that cannot but end in mu-
tual loss. To divide is to recognize that
there is somewhat else in this world be-
sides politics, and that only the foolish or
infatuated will sacrifice all Of life and its
yearnings 10 an intolerance thus cum
jured. If it shall divide the sack of coll
ored asyums in northern cities, it will find
thereafter no countenance in partisan
malignity. If it shall distrbuteits intlu-
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help fot educational wants on every side.
II it shall go to different parties as indi-
vidual choice dictates, all parties will seek
its support, no party will assail its privil-
eye. If it merges into our political life
from personal standpoint, the exercise of
colored suffrage will cease to be contro-
verted in our national or local politics.
But if it refuses to do so, and sets the claim
of race above any of The interests of So
ciety, it will invite aggression and chal-
| lenge its own indemnity with our repub-
| ican freedom. The coloied race has been
elevated from an exceptional state, and
bears trace of its former life. Ignorance
renders it largely subject to imposition,
while century has not banished the
fierce Afrc heat that pulse through its
veins. But the appeal to race is ever an
invocation to hostility and envenomed
hatred. Its bond is the bond of aroused
antagonism-its purposes are all arrayed
Extensively. Think you that such appeal
signifies no danger where the whites are
many and the blacks are few? Summon
back as witness out ola righteous oblivion
the catalogue of violence done the latter
from Illinois to Massachusetts, and which
left no refuge for the fugitive short of
| Canada soill Think you that such incanta-
| ton signifies no danger where the blacks
are many and the whites are few-that the
vague apprehension which burdens the
silent air when that spirit mounts is but a
| ghostly dread If so, feel sanguine if you
may, and bid your southern brothers
feel that no distempered leaders, won to
wild ambition, shall thrust forward those
whose blood born Of the burning sunshine
thrills at the touch OF passion, whose brain
turbid with memory of many wrongs
leaps at the promise of retaliation, to vio-
lent assertion of black republic over the
ruin of some dismantled state. The APP
peal to race may mean all this, it can
never mean regulated freedom or a well
ordered community. Nor is this exclu-
siyely question bred of color. The same
would befall any other race that should
aggregate such isolation and caste organi-
cation in IA mixed society. Is not our his
tory already full full of illustration on
this point, where only charges were al
legei without any sufficient warrant in
fact? Have we not seen the prejudices OF
the whole community sought to be ar
rayed against the Celtic race and the Ger.
man race under that pretext? Have no,
the most violent local commissions proceed
ed from expressed apprehensions of such
antagonism to our democrotic estate
Has it not been capable to break down
great national parties and give ephemera
power to counter organization 1t may bC
assumed then that whilst our people are
strong enough to protect the black mar
against other interference, they may mo-
be equal to the emergency of protecting
T him against himself when he spurns thu
liberty that has been wrought out fol
him and sinks it in the vassalage of race
To become Indifferent of free speech in on,
. of his own color, as recently at Clncin'
natl to insist on denial of civil rights tC
others by way of security for himself al
: now in Arkansas; to know no hating
place between the condition of slave ano
. the assertion of mastery as shown in South
! Carolina, is to destroy the very argument
ON which his own liberty rests.
When held responsible for having con
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edge of such emergency rs now conironts
il, the response vouchsafed by the admin
tration is that in all it has done it has but
reflected the will of the north. Ii this be
} true, and whether true or false, does it no,
impose IA double duty on northern men, tC
y correct such administration, and dismiss
I from power party which has no imperil
n led the situation. If knowing how fla
: grant has been the overture to the bad pas
u siOns of n race not yet Injured to seli-con
y troll, they may doubt ITS power to extricat
q itself from the coils thrown around it, doe
y not humanity demand that they shoul,
10 take in hand themselves the rescue2
u by permitting great political organi2A
r tion to be diverted to such base uses the
n have already endangered what that wa
a designed to save, does not true courag
u call for severance? A distinguish
y colored orator has passionately exclaimc
i that for his race the republican party wa
N the deck-all else the sen. But when tn
H. ship is headed upon the breakers, and til
e. life boat puts OF, would any but u mad
~ man refuse Its safety? Liberalism is tina
u, life boat. 1t has cut a drift from the de-
N sperate venture on which republcanisr
L. has been driven, and offers certain mean
lie of rescue. Behold the deliverance it Ia
10 already effected, and trust conhdingly
20 its further promise. Consider, likewise, il
L noble platform, and you will there detcC
II Hmm that lnos NOT hrpnt no a trun snir