The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1873-11-20

l1G0 O~ueTf aaG HIS passions "oN kisNo "'sA
ambition we're more intense and decided than
those Of tha negro. The superior istelli- 1
geBse. the power Of tho superior race, will (
"a ouid and direct and control the mind and
actions Of the inferior race. We believe
that the white and blacks can live together
without civil convulsion. and without viola
sing any Of those limits which are marked
out By taste and habit and education, and
natural 10 their social relations. There is
little danger Of miscegenation-th white
man. nor the negro will abide BY this, and the
negro will go along in his orbit socially as
ahe white man vii, in his.
Has Mr.. Stuart counted the cost Of sendr
ing four mllions negroes away, and has it
not struck him that if sent. the people of
the State where the negroes I've viii have to
foot the bill, and the Northmen 60 Scott
free
The lamentation over the cruelty Of turn.
ing the negroes loose, asd not making pro-
vision fol- them by the poith is hardly justl-
fed by the facts. The United States gov
e-nment did make them its wards-the freed
mems bureau was established for this end, and
in the city OF Richmond they were fed aud
provided for With solicitude that would ez-
cite the envy Of the pauper class IN aoy coun-
try. The negro, when be got bis freedom,
got all that he had right to expecti and
l''forty acres and mule" was an unworthy
appeal to his cnpidity, made by ignora ut
politicians or designing carpet baggers, to
subservc personal ends. The south at any
rate, is free from any further responsibility
II the negroes were slaves it was the north
that made them so, and their slavery on the
plantations was happiness. libsrty, compared
to their thraldom in Africa, where they
I could DO chopped to pieces any morning
at the command Of an ignorant, sensual dss-
J pot who ruled over them.
But MIR. Stuart condoes aud bows his head
in sorrow at the sad condition Of the manu-
mitted slaves, cut loose from their masters,
with no mule and no farm. His sympathy
: runs wild when contemplating his .utopian
scheme OF placing the negroes, sor their OWE
good, 10 separate territory. free from The
! Influence Of white men, to live under gov.
eminent in which themselves are the admin.
istrators. Transplant the African race to a
5 country to themselves. aud the result vii be
anarchy, despotism, degradation and blood
, shed. Hayti and Jamaica afford dark ex-
amples Of the negro race when left to its OWE
: power aud enterprise in the conduct of agov-
] eminent. Tumult, disorder, revolution stalk
ing through the land, and ruin, sloth, indi-
f gence and crime following in quick succession
along their bloody pathway.
2 Not from considerations Of public economy
: can Mr. Stuart's colonization plan he sus-
tanned. for it involves US 10 the expense o.
a deportation and deprives the soil of hundred:
Of thousands Of laboring agents. Not by tbs
authority Of d.stinga ished men, fer they nov.
or were surrounded oy suoh state of facts
as DOW exists, nor exam ned the question ir
relation thereto. Not On grounds Of philan-
throphy, for it turns the whole race loose te
e unrestraiued unh healthy appetites and passions
. by reason Of the IGNORANCE that .pesvade;
@ them as class.
b White men and negroes can live together
: peaceab,y This has been shown when the
t negroes we're slaves. There we're then fewer
h Instructions than occurred in the same peri.
cd among any other class Of men of the same
] number It has been demopstrated aimee
=. they were invested with freedom Eigh
: years have flown away 10 Virginia since tt,t
i close of the war, and the zeal set On the ne
S gro's freedom. Il at anytime he would have
: been disposed to engagein strife and war viii
j the dominant white race, il would nave beer
Q when he first became eniancpated from thei,
rule, and when the ufammable iucendiary
c suggestions of low white adventures were
whispered in his ear. They stood faithful
f then to peace aud waited patiently the issue
and the results OF reconstruction. And the
e white race were as magnanimoqs as the ne
!, groes wete passive. Turned out free viii
political suffrage in their hands, it was
but natural that those who had beer
the masters should have become inocn
/ sea at the power which they welded. Blu
law loving, law-abiding, the superior race &C
guessed, NOR acted as rule towards thu
black people otherwise than with affection
and good will They remembered the wa
and wars appeals to the negroes. and thu
manner in which they had stood to thei
! homes and their families amidst the voicani,
: forces that upheaved society aud scattered
desaation all around.
Mr.. Stuart affords the strongest argumen
! and proof in opposition to his own theory
0 when he refers to the quiet manner 10 which
0 the negro accepted and lived in slavery. II
' this race would submissivcly, peacefully anG
apparently happily, endure the burdens o.
domestic servitude,--to come at the whit,
nau's command, TO go at the white mans
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