The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1873-08-01
GkeGatelli4tttre'.r,.
nlnnt slnlen nnd Whlte.

The proposItIOIto create . new staie
,o,mpd Of tho upper counties Of AisStatp'
NJ and those counties in Tennessee which
liz wrs, Of the Tennessee river, and 70 bH
called the State Of jackson, receives an
explanation from the Wilmington N. o.
,JOarnal Gi"DsnoOrasiG' paper, AS fol
lows "Ths movement hnda ih greate.sii
impctus In the desire Of the people o!
North MIsalsslbpt 70 escape nom the dit
Identities Of peRFo domination. Tho Tich
lands OF the lower MiSsiasippl Valley aIeP
cOp1tsntly. receiving an increase OF col
ored DOpnlOii0n lr0m the older S1tes ip
he South lbYeF $4,000 colGed people
having leit GeorRiA alone within the ,tasl
iWeiVe months Tor MasIHlippl and Logisi'
ana Ia view oRithe probable eon!lnu-
Rnce Of thts large and increasing mgFh,
lion of the oolOred rsce, many intelhgent
whits men Of those two STATES nave ioss
SIl hope ol ever securing the political
control Of those States 70 their own faceS
and as a remedy for the evll, the people
oi North Mississippi, where the whites
are in the majority, seek annexation 20
Tennessee or the formation Of 9 neT
slaie. While Il cannot be denied that
me evil Of which the people OF hoTtA
MIsaissippi complain 3 very grieTo1b
one, Il must be admitted that The remedy
proposed for iIs redress iB one not alto.
ret6er pleasant TO contemplate. II It be
nue, as represented, that the colored peo.
nle are migrating TO the lower Mississippi
lands, and that the white people are
leaving them, and that from time 70 time
many large cotton and sugar planta-
lions are beng abandoned by their
iormer owners, and divided up and
sold 10 colored people, It will be difficult
10 prevent the project for the formation Of
the new State OF jackson, and 10 prevent
prOIecta for the formation Of other neW
States, from receiving constantly ilcreas-
ing strength. Thesame principle o. segre'
gstion, II it ahRll be carried out BY the
Deople Of North Mississippi, Will doubt
iess lead to radical changes In the States
Of Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida also,
aud thereby surrender one Of the 1nes
and most fertile lands Of the South TO the
possession Of purely black common.
yeallhs The evil is q desperate ono, but
the remedy ia scarcely leas 30, because Of
The almost unconqueFable love and at'
tachment that people have tor their hone7
snd their birth.places. The wrong and
injury that will be done to the WhtteP
ple on the Gull coast, II they shall Be can:
nelled 10 abandon their homes and ther
uroperty, will be incalculable; and on this
account the remedy seems q deploraole
one; but great as the wrong and incalcu-
liable as the injury may be, the conSa'
uuences OF unIhcation and amAlgamauon
Of the races will be far more disastrous. !,
The o(her objections 70 the proposed
method of. avoiding the solution Of the
great problem Of the day, to.Wit: How
IJnp can two races, separate and distinct
In color at least, with equal rights before
The law; occupy q country In common
without fighting or without amalg9uA-
ting, are not worthy Of grave considera'
ton In view Of Tho opposing advantages.
The Northern press does not take the
same view Of the question, and looking at
il from q Northern partisan standpoint It
d not 70 be expected that It should. The
congregation Of the colored race into lew
states Of theit own, In political point 9 l
view, will NOT be- Objectionable 70 Con-
servltiyss in: egSSth, q or, indeed, ,1n ~ tAe
-. Naaa q H.4.|