The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1873-07-24

The Richmond fCYirginia) Enquirer
calls upon anti-Radical managers in
that State in the coming canvass
to draw the line distinctly and Wv
idly between the races. This course
they can very well afford to pursue,
without the fear of serious consequences
to the whites in State where they
have clear voting majority of twen-
ty thousand, with a prospect of constant
increase by accessiOns of foreigners to the
whites and of loss By emigration of
blacks to the cotton and sugar regions.
Nevertheless, even with this power of
protection in thei- own hands, many
statesmen of Virginia viii doubt the
wisdom of encouraging a policy of race
antagonism; and is not improbable that
the opposition to it viii beget trouble in
the Conservative re1ks and give to the
common enemy the advantages which
will result from the division that viii
ensue.
The blacks are in this country, and
they are here to stay. They are part
of the body polite and viii remain SO,
unless revolution, which win not take
place in this generation, d'vests them of
thei- political privileges. It is better for
the whites everywhere to realize the face
whether it be pleasant or unpleasant,
and to dismiss the subject of race en-
tirely from their political textbooks.
The proposition to make the canvass
in Virginia race affair exclusively may
work well for the whites there but what
world be the consequence of the policy if
extended into the States having negro
majorities? Let us leave poor South
Carolina out of the question. She is
fedeemably lost. The Carpet-baggers
eud scallawags, organized on color, as it
is proposed to do in Virginia, and the
result has been the complete ruin of the
State. The whites as a class are OPP
pressed and their estates have been con-
fscated through an exorbitant and
plundering system of taxation. She is
as sadly desolate as the doomed city Of
old that sat solitary amid the ruins of
her former glory. Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana, having negro populations
numerically in the ascendant, are striv-
ing desperately to save themselves from
the miserable fate of their lost sister.
Nothing is needed to consign them RENE
dilessly to it but plan of contest that
will array the blacks on one side and the
whites on the other. Victory must go
on the side of the race which votes the
heaviest. A great deal of theory may
be INDUCED about the superiority of
the white race in all that ennobles hui
man nature, but the rugged fact is re-
vealed at last, that one mans vote will
count as much as another's. The vote of
the meanest and most illiterate of Gen.
Wade Hamptons former slaves will can
eel that of his peerless exmaster. How
to prevent this race antagOnism, which
has made the name of South Carolina
another term for desolatiOn and degrade
ton, is the question which should most
engage the minds of philanthropists and
statesmen in those communities threat
ened with ruin by the same cause. What
our plan was when it was first decreed
that the negro should be voter, is well
known. Whether the error Of refusing
to look the stern reality in the face and
of declining to become his instructor and
guide can be repaired, remains to be
seen. The doom which good men can
think of only with shudder, connot be
averted by frantic clamor for a white
mans party, and by Intellectual war upon
the privileges conferred on the blacks by
the Constitutional Amendments.