Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1872-10-16
ARE WE TO HAVE A WAR OF RACES !
Or Shall We Cultivate Peace and Rseonsilia-
toni


To former article We presented 9 view
Of the deplOrable financial condition of the
South, condensed from the grsa, speech Of
Gov. GrAiz Brown, at SpFin6sld, H., show
ing how the carpet bag gOvernmsnts in
MAE Salea have increased the debts Of
those States nearly $500, OOO, 900 siSce 1868,
and stolen nearly all the money; how they
have rsdaeed the value of lands more than
ons-halfj reduced the number Of acres IN
der cultivation over 100000; and more
lhan doubled the taxes Of the psople,-And
that Gen. Grant ia responsible for these
shocking rSIaltI that We can expect no
improvement, no relief for the people of the
South without . change of standardization.
In this paper We give an extract from the
same speech 10 regard 10 the threatened
danger Of an sItsrminaiing war OF races
Gov. Brown says:
The second great problem about which
the people Of the Unitsd States have been
most concerned, because wisely foteseeing
that its achievement "a, the sole guarantee
Of 40 abiding peace hereafter, has bssS the
rseouciliauon OF the races At the South, Gad
the ssIAbltsameni Of su h civil order there
~ would insure that result. AIaiu, and iu
this respect, | asa, has the standardization
proved a succsss2
10 diScussing this branch Of the subject
IL will be we'll 6rsi to discriminate as to
what success implies You will readily
oOscsde, | know, that all our sKpsrisnce OF
the sutjeelioD OF the the black race By the
white race, undsr The old terms Of slAvery
vAs not . success. IL was not . success
although for many year sustained By ths
whole power Of the federal goversmeut Ii
vas not . success, AltAengh Aut seton had
tanned its spirit And almost sxunguished
every courageous aspiration for achieving
its own liberty. And 90, likewise, l ma,
claim that AnV attempt 70 subject the Whit,
race TO the black race, to govern BY th,
virtue Of caste, TO rule 10 the name OF color
will equally fail to prove q success
DWsll'rs together in the same land, il mus
be either peace or war between the rae,
If IL is TO be peace, then far other poll
eiss, as | shall undertake to show, vii
have TO Be instillsd snd ommsbdsd Their,
20 the condolences u both racss than an,
which have yet been advanced By the al
minisuAtion. II u IL to be war, then REL,
assured the sympathiss Of this nation vii
follow those AgAinsI whom inj usIice ano op
preston and deprivation Of rights may b,
vAntonly enforced. II il is to be war thsu
the fellowship Of kibdrsd blood will connsc
all over this lAnd, aud they Who have needed
the entire moral support ofA frssdom-loving
people to rescue them from bondage, vii
stand isolatSd in the attempt to psrpslrate ID,
same injustice from Which they thsnsslv,,
have ju,I bssn delivered. Nor will that BE-
ASaoees., but failure so dismal that bis
tory uill weep TO record tie misfortun..
Let 1t not be var then 10 any event, If the
patriotism OF the nation can avert apch END.
inR
The nine Southern States whose recon
ItrnctioD, a. it is called, has been uudsr
taken By the standardization, contain. &C
oOrdisg 10 the esnsus OF 1870, . populAtlor
thus enumerated: