Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1873-07-29
The Negro Question and the
New State of jackson.

The disposition to create new State
west of the Tennessee and east of the
Mississippi river grows stronger espec-
ialIy in Miss, The AfricaniZation of
Louisiana portends like results in Mis-
sissippi. The tendency of African
migration is toward the lowlands, and
of whites to the hills. With the &C
emulation of wealth, white farmers
gather in villages and in cities, and
the tendency to town building grows
stronger each day with the progress
sive aggregation of negroes. Villages
and towns were never SO prosperous,
and their progressiveness is in inverse
ratio with that of the country in
wealth and populousness. While in
narrow districts the two races are thus
segregated, the process in wider field
goes on with marked distinctness.-
From the poorer and older States, and
from the less productive counties, the
whole negro population of the South
is slowly and steadily massing itself in
| two or three States. In one OF its as
poets the Beauregard movement will
| be consumated. The negroes of the
| South will become distinctive State
governing body, and there will he
white States and black States. Lou
| isiana will be of the black States, and
so palpable do many Mississippians
deem the same result as their politi-
cal and personal fortunes may be af-
| fected by it, that they would assent,
| even now, to an inevitable result by
| creating Il new State of which cOun-
! ties now having a large white popula-
| ton may become part. The very
| proposition to annex to West Tennes-
| see those counties of Mississippi north
! of the Tallahathie river is a PROPOSE
| ton to surrender the State, as it will
| then exist, to the final ami exclusive
! domination of Negroes. Pecuniarily
| the people may lose nothing. Ne
| groes at this hour are quite as anxious
| to own pro perty in negro communi-
| ties as are whites to secure homes in
districts ri led by whites. And thus
the process of separation OF whites
| from blacks, and the aggregation of
| each race III distinct communities, goes
| on with Il rapidity that is even won
| derful. E eauregard only advertlses
| the fact that Louisiana is to be black
| State, and that the masses of the
I whites viii move out as negroes move
in, and the rapidity of this process OF
| change is only limited by the failure
| of negroes to make crops. the proceeds
of which. to the last farthing, will be-
| invested III houses in the States turned
over to African mastery. 1t. is Oojec-
! ted that til northern counties of Mis-
| sissinpi ha We no right to abandon the
| rest to the unrestricted domination OF
negroes, and it is answered that the
doom of tie state is sealed, and that
the northern counties do no wrong III
providing for their own security Oi
course, there is much of all this indi-
cative of the course of future rather
than of pr 4sent events. Not the less
earnest, "a nong thoughtful people, is
the discu sion of facts and questions
here represented which Mississippi
ans are &C customed to consider wher
the migra tory movements of races il
The Gulf s tates are closely scanned
We only propose to suggest, in view
of these simple facts, that if miscegen'
alton be deemed an Objectionable Incl
dent of E.eauregard's scheme of fra
ternizatiolI with blacks. the entire
separation of races is infinitely more
| probable. and much more rapidly ap
| pro aches final consumation.