Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1873-07-12
COMPLETE APPROXIMATION Oh
CERTAIN STATES.


The disposition to create a new State
west of the Tennessee and east of the
Mississippi river grows stronger, especially
in Mississippi. The Africanization of Lou
isiana portends like results in Mississippi.
The tendency of African migration is to-
ward the lowlsnds, and of whites to the
hills. With the accumulation of wealth,
white farmers gatherin villages and in cit
les, and the tendency to BODYBUILDING
grows stronger each day with the progress
i've aggregation of negroes. Villages and
towns were never so prosperous, and their
progressiyeness is in inverse ratio with that
of the country in wealth and populous-
ness. While in narrow districts the two
races are segregated, the process 10 wider
field goes en- 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 ore
of its aspects the Beauregsrd movement
will be consummated. The negroes Of the
South will become a distinctive State-gov-
erning body, and there will be white States
and black States. Louisiana will be of the
black States, and so palpable do many Mis-
sissippians deem the same result as their
political and personal fortunes may be af-
fected by it, that they would assent, even
now, to an inevitable result by creating
new State of which counties now having
large white population may become a part.
The very proposition to annex to West
Tennessee those counties of Mississippi
north Of the Tsllahatchie river is PROPOSE
ton to surrender the State, as it will then
exist, to the final and exclusive domination
of negroes. Pecuniarily the people may
lose nothing. Negroes at this hour, are quite
as anxious to own property in negro COM
munities as are whites to secure homes
in districts ruled by whites. And thus
the process of separation of whites from
blacks, and the aggregation Of each race in
district communities, goes on with rapid
ity that is even wonderful. Beauregard
only advertises the fact that Louisiana is to
be black State, and that the masses of the
whites will move out as negroes move in,
and the rapidity Of this process of change IS
only limited by the failure of negroes to 1
make crops, the proceeds Of which, to the
last farthing, will be invested in houses in
the States turned over to African mastery.
1t is objected that the northern counties of
Mississippi have no right to abandon the
rest to the unrestricted domination of ne
groes, and it is answered that the doom Of
the State is sealed, and that the
northern counties do no wrong in
providing for their own security. OF course
there is much of all this indicative of the
course of future rather than present events.
Not the less earnest, among thoughtful peo-
pie, is the discussion of ia IS and questions
here presented which Mississippians are ac-
customed to consider when the migratory
movements of races in the gulf States are
closely scanned. We only propose to sug-
gest, in view of these simple facts, that If
miscegenation be deemed an objectiOnal in
cident of Beauregard's scheme of fraterni-
cation with blacks, that the entiIe sep&ra-
ton of races is infinitely more probable,
and much more rapidly approaches final
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS appeal, July |
10.