The Placer herald., 1873-02-08
WHAT SHALL BE DONE FOR AND WITH
TIE AEGRO

"What shall we do with our boys ?' i.
now the great question in California, and il
IS a serious one both for statesman and pa
rent, so far as cur State is concerned; but a
still greater question. National in its bearings,
is now and IN the future to engross the at
ention of both National and State govern
ments, and that is, what shall we do for and
with our coored population Henry Clay
once said, "Saverv is bound to become ex-
tinct in America by the inevitable laws OF
population" Did he mean that mscegcna-
ZION would breed the negro and white TO "a
common level ? or that in time when our pop
ulation became dense, and European immi-
grafton ceased to how in upon us, thai
both whites and negros would asslml-
late to the aborigines of this country and we
all become Indians The whole human
family only works from compulsion and tie
great natural power of compulsion, is nee
essity. In cold, barren and rigorous cmes
like New England, it is work, wit or steal
for man to live hence we find the great ma
orty of that people frugal and Industrious.
But 90 from there down towards tie tropics,
and even when you reach South Carolina,
you find that it takes the lash to make the
'man and brother" work, and the climate
operates the same on the negro and white
man, and the white, being superior in intel
ect, takes the blacksnake whip and make,
the negro do the work. The negro is not
here by his own will, though his own race
and often his own parents sold him into slaN
cry, aud we must return him to his native
land in bettered condition than we fopnd
him or settle him in his own congenial South.
1t would cost the Government 81 900, 600,
900 to carry them back to Afrca and sus-
tain them for year. This would probabl,
be the cheapest mode Of settling the negro
by himself, but not the most humane and
not equal to what he deserves Better buy
out the whites living south of the thirty see
ond parallel of latitude, in the United States
which line passes from Savannah, ,Georgi, near
Montgomery, Alabama Nicksburg, Missis-
| sippi termina ting on the Mexican boundary
in Texas on the Rio Grlndc, at Fort Quit
man. There let them 20 and live in their
own genial cline, fitted by nature for them
and not for tho white man. Let the Gov
ernment retain and maintain Il protec'ora q
over them and the country. The white pop
ulation now there would spread up into
Northern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi and
| Texas and out into North and South CARROLL
ma, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Mis-
sour, Arizona, New Mexico and California.
where new life and energy would be infused
into them, adding wealth and happiness to ALL
This would satisfy philanthropy, patriot
ism, sratesmanship and the eternal DEGREES of
God. II. G. Rippy, of Iowa, now travel
ing in Florida, writes long letter to the
Goshen (IndianI Democrat descriptive of
the couptry and the present condition of the
negros and whites which is applicable in this
connection, aud we append the following ex-
tract.
The reason why Northern men will not buy in
| thus part OF FLORIDA Is, tntt there are too many
negroes. Even the New England phanthropists
VINO preached ne gro equtnty 50 long, sim lks
| back lrom 1t down here, and tries to get in d
pure white settlement, If he locates in tloIi In.
The negro, in my humble opinion, is not MAX
| ing much adyanceme ent IN the scale of ciyillza-
tlon. Tie IS too fond of laying around cities
towns and villages, to ever amount to unythnl
rs race. If he can get some thing to eat ana
wear he Is cOntented and lay around saloons
dram shops on cellar doors, patorms in fact
my place he IN get to lay wAere it Is dry and
warm. He Is indolent and filthy III his habits
and seems devoid OF all pride OF character. ii ri
| the law required every negro to read and write
before he was allowed to vote, hold Office, or SIT
IN jures, there would be different state of al
ltnrs from what there is in tae South. Negroes
who wanted to attain the rights of cit zen 3hil
would have gone to work to educate themselves
| and trled to become men OF at least some ntclh
5ence, and tins would have created desire
among the whites to become better educated.
! The ignorant negroes are now the dupes of SET
Of low lived politicians who are utterly destitute
Of character or honesty, and like "A set of mon
Keys they do just as they are told by them, ana
the result is tnat the South has got the most ras-
cally set of officials that ever pass known III tn Is
coadtry ut least.
From what have seen during over month S
travel South, am led to believe that the best
tn ns that coud be done for both the whites an
DlcKs. would b. to colonlZe the negroes III some
country 10y themselves. / think hat they oug Int to
oe ali sent to Africa. That country seems to b,
destined by nature for their home, the soil and
climate scenes to be particularly adapted to
them and to no other race They were taken
from there in the first place by violence ana
forced into slavery, and now l think that both
Christianity and philanthropy require that they
should be returned to their Town native land.
HE negro can never attain to anything i'll this
county. HIS intellect is too sluggish to ever
combat with the white man, and therefore be
must sooner or later sink back INTO inferoriN