Middletown transcript., 1873-06-14

Of mutual, intense hostility. Fights be-
tween them ARE Of frequent occurrence. A
few years ago the writer witnessed th,
horrible outrage upon decency and law
Of whole garrison Of United States sol
diers, led by its officers. converted into q
dcmoniacal mob. chasing. beating, shoot.
ing and killing a set Of affrighted negroes.
This unopened at night in the streets ol
Jacksonville, Fla. and was the subject ei
mild comment by the papers at tho time
Never was there displayed more intense
race antipathy, and never was there more
reckless disregard Of the lives Of innoccn,
citizens. The attack Of the soldiers upon
the negroes was in retaliation for q mur
derous assault Of the latter upon the for
mer earlier in the evening The real pur.
pose Of the Government in putting and
keeping those troops in Jacksonville. MS
elsewhere. throughout the South, was to
overawe the hated whites, 10 the interest
Of the "mau and brother" but as blood
is thicker than water" the war Of races
soon develops antipa,hiss which can only
be held in abcyance for time by organi.
zation and discipline
Let us look at the facts as We find them
Let US not try to hoodw ourselves.
You may speculate about q war TO come,
il you please. but the truth is that the
war is being waged. The proclamation
Of emancipation ,cas a declaration of ,car
bet'ceen the races The negro, free, is
the natural enemy Of the white man, and
when the two races are brough, into close
relations. conflicts must aud will eusue
The white man knows aud feels he is the
superior of the negro. and will resist BIZ.
prctensions to equality. The negro is
fully conscious Of his infcriority' aud it is
only natural audacity aud impudence, or
the effect Of evil instructions from design
ing demagogucs, which ever influence him
to attempt to pass the limit Of proper re-
spcctfulncs-.
1t may be objected to the view that
there is now war Of raees-,hat there
are long intervals OF seeming peacefulncss
between the whites and blacks But il
must be borne in mind that battles are
only the incidents Of war They do not
occur every week, mouth or year even
between nations and tribes. nvowedly at
war some may not realize tha, there is
a war, because there are 10 large armies
levied nor large stores of munitions and
subsistence gathered but 4 nan cannot
be far removed from iIiocy who expects
such things in the ca g IN hand. Fighting
must enntinuc as i, has been. desutory,
irregular and oficu unpremeditatsd
Wherever there is not such a preponder.
ahce OF one race as to keep the other in
sutjectinn, through fear. conflict NAV
occur a any time, and from, apparently,
the most trivinl causes In Savannah
The negroes had To be- taught by several
severe lessons, that it was dangerous. be.
fore they ceased their effort 10 rule whilst
in jacksonville, Floridn. and other places,
the polls have been taken early in the
morning and held all day to the exclusion
Of many white voters.
.,esid6s. is i, not known to every South.
cru man that gross indignirrs aud wrongs
have been quietly submitted 10 hy white
men aud the communities in the vain and
'rultlrss ctior, to couciliaie public scnii-
ment a, the North, aud 10 ward Off those
'HN'N'c1a HN'Sl'Alia " Hlllify aHl Y on
grcs-lonal interference, which have been
repeatedly threatened ?
The white man and the negro are Of
different races aud creations. aud there
lies the source Of all the trouble There
are, as Prof Agassz has demonstrated,
essential aud specific differences The
groes anatomical pcculiaritie, are origi.
nal aud pcrmanent they are not acct
dental not the -t!cc, Of climatic or tenn.
porary influences. ]" each is a distinct aud
separate creation and i, is eyideut that
the two races :" were designed to 6ll df.
tercnt places in the system of nature =
All eiinfts to con,rasene the ordinances nf
nature must end in miserable failure. In
this case the attempt, to force the negro By
legislative cnac,ments. into the higher
sphere OF the white man. has produced war,
war between implacablc foes oue Of the
races must dominate the other. and he
must have less than half an eye who can
not see which that shall be.
God has so ordained. and the power Of
prodcalism cannot subrcrt the purposes
aud plans Of the Great Creator. MD.