Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-26
ORR SOCIAL PROBLEM.

There is no other logic SO convincing a:
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his patriotic associates made an earnest eff
fort to harmonic the white and colored ele
ments in Louisiana society, with a view to
restore peace and prosperity to that afflicted
State. Every right, claim, or advanced
thought of equality between the races, was
conceded to the blacks in good faith, but
without beneficial result. Why this signal
failure after extreme concessions? But one
truthful explanation can be given. When
the colored men of Louisiana ceased to be
the slaves Of Southern masters they
became the slaves of Northern masters.
As the servants of foreign power, they +
not at liberty to "unify" with the white cit
liens of Louisiana to the disadvantage and
injury Of their 'qiberators from southern
bondage" John Brown abolitionists
bought them with price-at the expense
of much blood and treasure. They are
claimed, not as slaves, go nomine, but as
party voters to do the will of those who
gave them the privilege of voting. The cleo
tive frachise did not come to them as
birLhright, as it does to white men, but as
free gift from party for special purpose
Our national debt is part of tie price
which all consumers CT either salt or tobacco
are paying for the luxury of negro and
carpet-bag sovereignty. How does this
state of facts bear on our social relations
In the South ? How are we to deal with
some eight hundred thousand Northern
votes placed in Southern ballot boxes, by
the hands of Northern servants? Gen.
Beauregard's plan Of extreme concession
has proved powe-less for good. Is thore
any better way than for all white
voters to combine their strength against
their assailants Combine the entire DO
litical, industrial and social resources of The
white race in the old sl2ve-holding States,
under the Constitution, and this now d.
vided, over-taxed and plundered race will
be masters of the situation. S9lf-preserva-
ton is said 10 be the first law of nature.
Without active union of strength, as in the |
days of '76, when the Union was formed,
the white people of the South will soon |
lose not only their property and social stand |
ing, but the respect Of the whole world. |
"Wheresoever the carcass is, there will the
eagles be gathered together" The white
race in the South hos, by its home feuds |
and contentious, suffered tenfold more in
social loss of dignity Of character since the
war than it ever suffered before. Our d.
visions are sscribed to lack of common
sense by all outside intelligent people. We
deliberately intensity our natural weak
nesses by dividing our numbers into two or
three parts, that negro minority, with a
little foreign aid, may create public debts
for us to pay, and enact laws by which we
must be governed. Humiliating, is it not?
Our right of sovereignty as a voting MAORI
ty in the South, is madly c-uciied, and cast
out as an unclesn thing; while our children
are in a fair way to become the slaves of
the sons and daughters of slaves in the not
distant future! The old Romans found and
had for a maxim, easy is the road to per-
dition. Our social problem is of the high
est moment. Shall we continue to sink
over and lower from year to year as time
advances, by ruthless foreign domination
and home discord; or shall we cease
,ur suicidal contentious, and labor as
)ne man to save our Southland and our
ace from utter ruin? See what home dis
ord has done for Mexico; what it is doing
or Spain! A united South was great con-
'ervative balance wheel in the Union be-
ore the late calamitous war. The Federal {
Government needs still more now united /
south to c2unteract the fire and fury of :
Northern Radicalism. These elements can q
10 more kee :, quiet than those that rend /
old rock and earth in volcanoes. God I
helps those who help themselves. a