The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-06-20
"a REMARKABLE PROPHECY.

| The wonderful and remarkable prescience
of that great statesman and scholar, John
C. Calhoun. is exhibited in the following
political prophecy, uttered by him years
ago We have to-day the spectacle pre-
sented Of the very state of affairs SO graph
ically pictured by this far-seeing man. Can
we doubt, then, the wisdom Of the policy
which he SO earnestly and SO ably
advocated to the end Of his lifee Would
not its adoption have saved the country
from it's present frightfnl condition, and his
own native State from the thraldom of the
negro! Would the Southern States have
ever been turned over to the tender
.nercies of the miserable wretches who have
cursed the country since the war; Would
| Louisiana to-day be under the heel of All
usurper, and intimidated by Federal
bayoets? We believe not. III the i'm
pending issue of white against black a
struggle in which intelligence, honesty and
merit are pitted against ignorance, venality
and corruption, the remarks of Mr.. Calhoun
have peculiar bearing and special force.
refers are, in a measure, accomplished and
the result thereof, as he predicted, is about
to be contaminated by..makirg this country
the permanent abode of disorder, anarchy
and wretchedness."
Said Mr.. Calhoun in 1919:
eff emancipation ever should be effected,
it will be through the agency Of the Fede-
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power Of the Northern States Of the Con-
federacy, against the resistance and struggle
Of the Southern. 1t can then only be effect
ed by the prOstratiOn of the white race and
that would necessarily eDgender the bitter
est feelings Of hostility between them and
the North. Owing their emancipation to
them, they could regard them as friends,
guardians and patrons, and centre, accord
ingly, all their sympathy in them. The peo-
lie Of the North would not fail tc recipro-
cute and to favor them instead of the whites.
Under the influence of such feelings, and
impelled by fanaticism and love Of power,
they would not stop at emancipation. An
other step would be taken to raise them to
a political and social equality with their
former owners by giving them the right of
voting and holding public Offices uuder the
Federal Government.
"We see the first step towards it in the
bill already alluded toto vest the few
blacks and slaves with the right to vote on
the question OF emancipation in this dis
trict. But when once raised to an equality
theycould become the fast political associates
Of the North, acting and voting with them
on all questions and by this political union
between them holding the white race at
the South in complete subsection. The
blacks and the profigate whites that
unite with them could become the prnci-
pal recipients Of Federal offices and patron
age, and would in consequence be raised
above the whites in the South in the social
and political scale.
We would, in word, change conditions
with them-a degradation greater than has
ever yet fallen to the lot Of free and en-
lightened people, and one from which we
could not escape should emancipation take
place (Which it certainly will if not pre-
vented), but by f.eing the homes Of our
selves and ancestors, and by abandoning
our country to our former slaves, to become
tho permanent abode of disorder, anarchy
and wretchedness."
We extract tho above from documents
preserved by the Southern Historical So
.iaty