Wilmington journal., 1873-08-01
RIaCk STATES AND WHITE
STATES-T He NEW W HIT T.
STATE FJACKSON.

MATE OF JACKSON.
" The proposition to create a new
4 State formed of the upper counties OF
Mississippi and those counties III Ten
Ii nessee which lie west of the Tennessee
River, and 10 he called the State of
jackson, is attracting attention III va
rious parts of the country, but TINS
far does not seem to have met with
much favor from parties not lmlnedl-
ately interested.
The movement finds its greatest i'm
petus III the desire Of the white people
of North Mississippi to escape from
the difficulties of negro domination.
The rich lands of the lower Mississippi
Valley are constantly receiving an i'll
crease of colored population from the
older States oi the South, over 30, 900
colored people having left Georgia
alone within the last twelve months
for Mississippi and Louisiana. In
view of the probable continuance OF
this large and increasing migration of
men of those two States have lost all
hope of ever securing the political
control of those States to their own
race; and as remedy for the evil the
people of North Mississippi, where
the whites are in the majority, seek
annexation to Tennessee or the forma-
b tion of a new State.
H While it cannot be denied that the
evil of which the people of North Mis-
| sissippi complain IS a very grieTous
i one, it must be admitted that the
remedy proposed for its redress is one
not altogether pleasant to contemplate.
| If it be true, as represented, that
the colored people are migrating to
the lower Mississippi lands, and that
the white people are leaving them, and
that from time to time many large cot
ton and sugar plantations are being
abandoned by their former owners and
divided and sold to cOlOred people, ii
will be difficult to prevent the project
for the formation of the new State OF
Jackson, arid to prevent projects fol
the formation of other new States
from receiving constantly increasing
strength.
The same principle of segregation, i
| it shall be carried ont by the people o
North Mississippi, will doubtless leal
to radical changes in the States o
Louisiana, Alabama and Florida also
and thereby surrender some of th'
finest and most fertile lands of tin
! South to the possession of purely blacl
cOmmonwealths
The evil is desperate one, but th
y remedy is scarcely less SO, because o
the almost unconquerablc love and at
tachment that people have for thel
homes and their birth-places. The
wrong and injury that will be done t'
the white people on the Gulf coast, i
they shall be compelled to abandol
their homes and their property, vii
be incalculable; and on this accom-
the remedy seems deplorablc one
out great as the wrong and incalcn
liable as the injury may be, the cOnso
quences of unificatiOn and amalgama
tion of the races will be far more dis
astrOus.
The other objections to the propose
method of avoiding the solution of TIL
great problem of the day, to wit: ho'
long can two races, separate and dis
tinct i'll color at least, with equal right
before the law, occupy country l
common, without fighting or wlthor
amalgamating, are not worthy of grav
consideration i'll view of the Opposin
advantages.
1 The Northern press does not TAX
the same view of the question, an
looking at it from Northern partisa
standpoint, it is not to be expecte
that it should.
The congregation of the colored rat
INTO a few States of their own, III
political point of view, will not be ol
jectiOnable to Conservatives in tt
South, or, indeed, i'll the North.