The Rock Island daily Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1872-1873, 1873-08-04
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BLACK STATES AND WHITE.
What the Proposed Separation win Lead ,

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What the Proposed Separation Will Lead To.
The movement finds its greatest impetus
in the desire of the white people of North
Mississippi to escape from the difficulties
of negro domination The rich lends of the
lower Mississippi valley are constantly re-
ceiying an increase of colored population
from the older States of the south, over
80, 600 colored people having left Georgia
alone within the last twelve months for
Mississippi and Louisiana. In view of the
probable continuance of this large and in
creasing migration of the colored race,
many intelligent white men of those two
States have lost all hopes of ever securing
the political control Of those States to their
own race and as remedy for the evil,
the people of north Mississippi, where the
whites are in the majority, seek annexation
to Tennessee or the formation of new
State While it cannot be denied that the
evil of which the people Of north Mississ-
| ippi complain is very grievous one it
must be admitted that the remedy propos-
/ ed for its redress is one not altogether
| pleasant to contemplate. 1t it be true, as
represented, that the colored people are
migrating to the lower Mississippi lands,
and that the white people are leaving them
and that from time to time many large cot
ton and sugar plantations are being aband-
oned by their former owners and divided
and sold to colored people, it will be diff
cult to prevent the project for the forma-
! ton of the new State of jackson, and to
prevent projects for the formation of other
new States from receiving constantly in
creasing strength. The same principle Of
segregation, if it shall be carried out by
the people Of north Mississippi, will doubt
less lead to radical changes in the States
of Louisiana, Alabama, and Florida also,
and thereby surrender one OF the most fer
tile and finest lands of the south to thepos
session of purely black commonwealth.
| The evil is desperate one, but the rene
dy is scarcely less so, because Of the uneen
querable love and attachment that people
have for their homes and their birth places.
The wrong and injury that will be done to
the white people on the Gulf coast, if they
shall be compelled to abandon their homes
and their property will be iucalculable and
on this account the remedy seems deplo-
rable one but great as the wrong and in
caleulable as the injury may be, the conse-
quences OF unifcati0n and amalgamation of
6Lt races Will DS illOTG ulSdSlIOuS.
The other objections to the proposed
method of avoiding the solution Of the
great problem of the day, to-wit: How
long can two races, separate and distinct
in color at least, with equal rights before
the law, occupy country in common,
without fighting or without amalgamating
are not worthy of grave consideration in
| view of the opposing advantages. The
northern press does not take the same
view of the question, and looking at it from
a northern partisan stand point, it is not
to be expected that it should. The con-
gregation of the colored race into few
States of their own, in political point of
view, will not be Objectionable to conserv-
atives in the south, or, indeed, in the north.
- Washington lN C.l Journal.
The movement is not likely to succeed
at present, if at any time The congress
which assemblies in December viii hardly
be disposed to do its part toward Great
ing an additional southern State, and es-
pecially a southern State which would
probably give a good round majority
against the party In power. And then
there is the consent of three States to be
. obtained, and if either one of them should
withhold its consent the scheme would
necessarily fail Even if Kentucky and
Tennessee could be induced to part with
portions of their territory, it is far from
probable that the negro majority in Missis-
, sippi could be pursuaded to give up thirty
of the best counties, and 30, 900 of the
best taxi paying population of the State
1t is, therefore, quite safe to conclude that
it will be some time before the new State
. of Misstenken viii be admitted to the
union Chicago Times.