The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-08-07
TIFFIN TRIBUNE.
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The proposition to create a new
State formed Of tue upper counties 0f
Mississippi and those cOunties in Ten
uessee which lie west Of the TennP >
see River, and to be called the s. ate
OF Jackson. receives an explain, .tion
from the Wilmington n. c. JC,urIs1rI,
a Democrat as follows: 1.-The
movement finds its greatest. impetus
in the desire Of the white people of
North Mississippi to escape from The
difficulties of negro domj nation. The
rich lands Of the lower Mississippi
Valley are constantly receiving an in
crease of coIored population from the
older States of the South, over 30 900
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 increasing migration Of
the eolored race, many intelligent
white men of those two States have
lost all hope of ever securing the poll
tical control of those States to their
race; and, as a remedy for the evil, the
people of North Mississippi, where
the whites are in the majority. seek
nIlHCAallOD -1CLItCC5CC- OT the IOT-
nation of q new State. While il can
not be denied that the evil of which
the people of North Mississippi com-
plain is very grievous one, it must
be admitted that the remedy proposed
for its redress is one not altogether
pleasant TO contemplate. If it be true
as represented, that tue coloIed peo-
pie are migrating to the lower Missi-
ssippi lands, and that the white peo-
pie are leaving them, and that from
time to time many large cotton and
sugar plantations are being abandon
ed by their former owners and divi-
ded and sold TO eolered people, it will
be difficult to prevent the project for
the formation OF the new State of
Jackson, and to prevent projects for
the formation OF other new States,
from receiving cOnstantly-increasing
strength. The same principle of seq
regation, If it shall be carried out by
the people of North Mississippi, will
doubtless lead to radical changes in
the States of Louisiana, Alabama a, and
Florida also, and thereby surrender
one of the finest and rlost fertile lands
Of the South to the possession of pure
ly black commonwealths. The evil
is a desperate one, but theremedy is
scarcely less so, because of the almost
uneonquerable 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
should be compelled to abandon their
homes and their property, will be in
calcuable; and on this account the re-
medy seems a depIOrable one; but
great as the wrong and incaieuabie as
the injury may be, the consequences
of unifcation and amalgamation Of
the races will be far more disastrous.
The other objections to the proposed
method of avoiding the solution OF
the great problem of the day, 70 wit !
How long can two raees, separate and
distinct in color at least, with equal
rights before the law, occupy q coun-
\ try In common, without lighting or
without amalgamating, are not wor-
thy Of grave consideration in view Of
the opposing advantages. The North
ern press does not take the same view
of the question. and looking at 1t from
a Northern partisan standpoiHt, it is
not to be expected that IL should
The congregation of the colored race
into few States OF their own, In a
political point of view, win not be
Objectionable to Conservatives in the
South, or, indeed, in the North. p 40