The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1874-09-26
The ImDossibilitV.

It is impossible 10 establish equality be-
tween the highest and the lowest Of five races
created and placed upon the earth for pur.
poses that accorded with the pleasure of the
Great Creator Of all things. What those
purposes were we cannot interpret further
than this: that He intended that the races
should be separated, because He placed them
ipseparate quarters of the globe, and made
; hem so distinct that the halt:breeds oriSl-
eating frcm any two of the five are clearly
proved to be by birds, whose numbers being
, unreplepished from continued crosses, die
but by the absence of The tenacity and deci
sion Of type which perpetuate race. They
return TO The one or the other Of the parent
races, and cease to exist As half-breeds.
Ii is. therefore. impossible 10 establish con-
geniality of distinct races because, naturally,
they cannot commn:lc permanently.
But tie idea Of establishing equality is The
greatest ab.urdity, and what is worse IL IS
moustrou>ly impious. 1t is the ohshoot OF d
sectional vanity which has been so presump'
tuous as TO deem itself capable of improving
upon the DEGREES Of Heaven. Those VINO
cherish il presume to be wiser than lou
Himself. and have attempted in more va!
to,n one 10 alter the economy OF the Eternal
for tie better.
The scheme Of mixing the races was the
result of a combination of Fana'icism, Sec
tional Hate, and Demagogi>m. The fanatics
had said all men were equal, and they want
ed to make them SO. The malgnants hated
the South, and wanted TO degrade that por-
tion Of the highest of all the races living in
the South to equality with the lowest of all.
The vile and beartless and bcedlesS dcma-
aocuc calculated that be would get the votes
lfthe negroes by extending to them the
!, elective franchise, and he was too brutal
,rd selfish 10 consider for moment the
wills that might fall upon his own race and
lis country by the attempt to make the ne-
sro equal to the white man.
TINS is statement whose truth no honest
and sensible man can or will deny.
The attempt TO force this equality OF races
anon the South is the source OF evils, unre'
lieved by one single benefit. 1t is worse
than PANDoRA's box; for that contained a
great mercy to mankind as some solace fol
the many evils that took wing from it. This
measure for equality where it cannot be is
fraught with nothing but evil; it is without
relief or consolation. 1t is disastrous to both
races. If one is annoyed by the disorder and
confusion 1t brings upon happy society
the other is kept in perpetual misery by
the possession OF privileges which it is in
capable OF approaching and enjoying, and by
aspirations for social consideration that can
not be accorded to il. The negro is by the high
Pressure Radical engine pressed into situa-
lions where he feels his own untitnesS AND
where lie is only unhappy. Never was
there a greater curse Inflicted upon two
races than this attempt to establish equality
and harmony between the t%o races that
are more widely distinct than any other two
on earth, and which by Providential edict
are plainly ordered to be kept separated.
The PEOPLE now ruling this country
through their representatives faeitly admit
the distinctions OF race betweea white and
black, and say they only demand equality
before The lac. There never wac greater
deluSion than TO suppose that political
equality is possible where social equality is
net. No two races which are distinct in
tastes, habits, and mental calibre eau live to-
gether as equals on social or political or any
other grounds. II is impossible, aud we are
forced TO the conclusion that no body OF
civilized men on Garth, save our northern
mlers, would eyer have attempted 10 so IN
flushing and SO negasiots q manner 10 null
; IFS the laws OF God. and 10 do 50 to the hu-
siliatser and ruin Of their own race.
This is ell true every word of it. And
NE noY submit a proposition for The philos-
ophers. II Is that no two races between
which there is aay barrier whatever to in
.ermarriage with one another caa iye to-!l