The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-02-06

the smaller the nlgner face aSdluoI cno 'o"Si'
must end in the ruin of the latter? The pres,
ent state of things cannot last forever ana
every year that it lasts makes the change more
dangerous to the hapless creatures VINO are
made the tools of oppression and injustice; a
time must come when the tyranny and jobbery
of the csrpet-baggers, the ruin of the richest
part of the Union under their rule, will disgust
American common sense; when negro ascen-
dancy will seem worse thing than the COM
pletest amnesty to rebels; and then the whole
fabric of Republican despotism will crumble
IN a day, and the Southern people be once
more masters of their own fate. Had that
mastery been restored to them in 1866 the ne
gro would have been safe. They were heartily
willing to accept emancipation, and they would
have known how to work it. Then the ne
proes still looked up to their former masters,
and the latter felt kindly toward their former
servants. Now the servants have been taught
insolence and the masters have learnt a but
too Just resentment, and when the hour OF re-,
tribution comes, and the natural balance OF
power is restored, it will be too late to restore
healthful state of mutual relations. Ihe ne
gro has been rendered unmanageable and the
white man distrustful; the object OF the South
ern people will be rather TO do without the ne
groes than to do the best with them, and when
once that policy comes to be tired. II Is tne
certain ruin of the inferior race. With those
who fancy q negro and an Anglo-Saxon popu-
lation can either amalgamate or live side by
side as equals we need not reason. Men VINO
draw their opinions on such subjects from ex-
perience and from nature, and not from their
own inner consciousness, entertain no such
dreams. II the two races are to co-exist,. the
white man must be chief and the negro subor-
dinate the brain of the white must direct the
labor of the black; the first of human races
must rule, the lowest of human races must be
ruled. And if the anomaly of the ascendancy
of the inferior is so protracted that the restora-
tion of the natural relation becomes impossi-
BILE the result cannot be doubtful. Anglo
Saxons can do without negroes, but negroes
cannot hold their own against Anglo-Saxons,
any more than they can permanently be per.
mitted to keep some of the fairest regions OF
the earth waste and unproductive for lack Of
Anglo-Saxon enterprise, and that honest in
dustry of which all inferior races seem capable
under our direction, but of which, hitherto, the
negro has been found capable only on the one
condition of absolute slavery. Slavery is gone
forever it remains to find a new condition un-
der which negro labor may be made available
if the negro is not to perish. The Southern
States offered the fairest chance of solving that
problem; but the spite and greed of an unscru-
pulous faction, and the mad attempt to invert
the order of nature, prevented the trial OF the
experiment when it could have been tried un-
der every possible advantage; and the longer
these influences remain in operation the less
chance is there of ultimate success. The South
cannot be permanently ruined; the Southern
people perhaps may; but in their ruin the last
hope of the negro, the future of the great Re
publican experiment, and the manifest desti-
nv" of the Union itself, will have been ire
trievably sacrificed d.-Loadon Standard.