The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1873-04-18
from the Ricl,mond Dispatch J
WARS OF RACES.

observe the signs 0t natl0n0t trou-
bles and internal strife growing out
of the hostilities and ha,reds Of races.
AS it was in the beginning, so it is
now, and ever shall be. In this
country tho greatest Of calamities
has fallen upon US from the introduce
ton of race distinct and inconge-
NAL with the ruling race. The
blackes. and most horrible pages Of
history were contributed by the
West India Islands from the sane
cause, and we see yet continued the
troubles and horrors ofinternal strife
in Mexico and the South America an
States because of the mixture Of ra-
ces and the incongruity of tastes,
dispositions, habits aud intellectual
qualities, caused by a notified, hy-
bridized society, which renders
peace and harmony impossible.
| These incompatibiiities lie at the
root of all great disturbances on the
American continent. Mexico now
has an insurrection on foot based
upon the declaration that "all Mex
leans not of Indian descent are for
eiguers and usurpers," and that all
their proceedings are null and void
Thus, after nearly three hundred
years the modicum Of aboriginal
blood existing in Mexico is sufficient
to inaugurate an internal war, which
snccessful or not, will give q good
deal of trouble, disturb the pursuits
of peace, and cause more or less Of
bloodshed.
Our own ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ing the danger Of attempting to com
bine in political community dis
tinct races enjoying equal privileges
lat 40 early period adopted the
policy Of removing the Indians from
amongst the whites and colonizing
them 10 territories beyond the from
tiers Of civilization. This policy
has been 80 marked that Indians
have been removed twice and three
times from the lands assigned them
10 make way for the wave Of civili-
cation which followed them. Even
now they are pursued TO the very
verge Of our western boundary upon
the Pacific ocean, and the guns OF
the United States Government are
directed upon them in their refuge
in the hard and Jagged beds Of ped
rigal which reflect back the burn
ing rays from the Pacific ocean.
Against this policy stood the po-
tent fact that this land belonged to
to the red man. Our white ances-
tors were trespassers. He was en-
titled to it by the clearest right
But the trespassers took his birth
right from him, and to preserve that
peace and harmony which could not
exist while he remained within the
civil territory he was "inoved on
before "the march Of civilization, y
| and set down in the wilderness to
brood over his wrongs and sigh after
the rivers, valleys, and mountains
made familiar to him in his early
life by the pursuit OF his rustic
sports and Of the chase.
Il is wonderful to see how the ma
ton which could acknowledge the
necessity Of . policy which was in>
cidentally so cruel and wrong could
completely reverse i,s convictions
and determine to keep ia the bosom
Of civil society, as the equal Of the
white man the African, who IL as un-
congenial with the white race as the
latter is with the Indian race. Ia
the one case, by very great breach
Of right and justice, Q policy 10
adopted for the preservation Of or
der and the promotion Of prosperity
which is rejected in the other. in
which it is equally demanded by
the same objects. Thus this nation
has embalmed and made durable that
cause OF disorder and discomfort
which il had formerly removed 40
intolerable
! Now, ii 10 well for statesmen and
people to consider these things.
| The world over, and in all times,
troubles Of hatreds Of race have been
continuous, aud have assumed the
the most horrible forms of calami-
ty and misery. They cannot be
avoided as long az distinct races are
by power and tyranny bound to.
gether by laws intended to compel
equality between them. What is
the cause Of the troubles in the
south since the wari Is any man
so blind Is not to seei What has
occasioned the conflicts Of authority
the bribery Of Legislature, the DISC
bedience Of the law, and the re-
peated interference Of tho bayone.s
Of the Federal Government TO re-
store that sort Of peace which com
pels to acquiesccnce the di,contea
ted and tile wronged TIA peace
! which is only outward and seeming
y bile the ihroes and commissions o
, the volcano arc hidden in The breast
! All history, the events Of ever,
) day, teach that Abraham Lincoln
: was right when no said that two re-
! ces 50 distinct as the white and ths
black could not live in peace in th'
! same area upon the footing Of equal
ity that neither could be happy
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