Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-08-22

State. On the 18th ballot Judge
Jas. ID. Porter, of Henry county,
was nominated by PROCLAMATION.
The platform adopted was brief,
but it touches on ali the living is
sues now before the people. The
convention was presided over by
Hon. Gus. A. Henry, of GAINESVILLE,
and was remarkable not only for
the number Of delegates present
put for their ability and standing
in Che State. II is with feeling OF
great pleasure that we place the
name of the nominee at the head of
our columns to-day. Thissnomina-
ton is an evidence of the fact that
great personal worth and integrity
as well as high ability are yet con-
sidcred as necessary elements of
success in the public men of Ten
nessee.
"UNCLE SANS ELEPHANT. -
What is to become of the African
lied States Of the South and of
those that hang suspended over the
abyss? This question is certainly
worthy of the attention not only of
every American, but of every man
in the civilized world, who is in
real sympathy with his kind. What
is to be the fate of hundreds of
thousands of brave, useful and cdu-
Gated white people in South Caro-
lima, Louisiana, Mississippi and Ar
konsas, not to mention Alabama
and Florida? Shall the ignorance
of the subiugated States perma-
nentIy dominate the intelligence of
those States? From out the wrath
and fire of a persecution calculated
to make even wise men mad, and to
feel within their breasts the prompt
ings of revenge, there came more
than one year ago practical sug-
gestion. 1t did not ask that the bal
lot be taken from the blacklist did
not ask for their expulsion from the
States in question. 1t was n call for
n reconstruction of the Southern
map. A portion of Louisiana asked
to be annexed to Texas, North Mis-
sissippi sought an alliance with
West Tennessee, and North Alaba-
ma with the rest of the State. I'm
der ordinary circumstances such re-
quests would have been idle, but we
deemed them worthy of considera-
ton at the time, even if they only
served to call forth some other plan
for attaining the end sought, the
wisdom of which would confOund
their folly. The new State scheme
was only the vague, blind motions
of n great idea that is growing
stronger day by day. No one be-
lieves that there can be permanent
peace in the AfriGanized sections of
the country, unless the discordant
elements are in some way kept sep
arate. How is this separation TO be
brought about? The Nashville Ban
aer of the 18th, in an article headed
"Unele Sans Elephant" throws
out certain suggestions in regard to
the matter which we think wise and
apropos, and we reproduce the
outline of the plan for the coloni-
cation of the races within the States.
Here ID is in outline!
"Hf practicable, and the separa-
ton of the races in the South and
Southwest, under some arrange
ment of colonization, by voluntary
and mutual consent, could be accom-
plished, ii seems to us it would be
the swiftest and most pacific solu-
tion of this grave problem; If in
deed ID did not prove the cap-stOne
to the reconstruction policy of the
Government. To make marketable
these lands in some of the "negro-
lied sections, now almost threaten
ed with confiscation by overwhelm-
ing taxation, would almost assure
the assent and cooperation of the
landed proprietors who would part
with their lands at original cost,
and perhaps for less. At all events
the Government could fix its maxi
mum prices, and the acceptance or
would be entirely OPP
tiOnary with the owner. In the
suggestion nothing compulsory is
contemplated, either to force the ne
gro to immigrate or the white to
emigrate. But we have a vague sort
of suspicion that a plan could be
adopted mutually advantageous TO
all concerned-a dissolution of gov
co-partnership, SO to
speak, by mutual consent. The in
to the blacks would be
local government of their own, in a
region and climate to which they |
are by nature adapted, and to the |
whites, fair reimbursement for |
lands not now saleable, and a congo |
NAL white emigration TO the South |
err border States, with the release |
of vast amount of capital now |
dormant in lands that are unpro- |
ductive, for obvious causes. Such |
q separation would to "a great ex-
tent, gradually, If not immediately, |
be followed by a gradual dying out |
of race antagonism and prejudices,
by exemption from immediate per-
sonal contact and from the ever
present apprehension of aggressive
towards social equality.
The Banner offers its suggestions
and does not insist upon
the details of its plan, or even upon
the plan itself. Standing in the |
presence of a great danger, honestly |
seeking to avert it, it proposes a
of the races in the negro
lied States. In Mississippi we
know that the great majority of the |
whites would at once quit the State
forever if they were offered even
three dollars per acre for land of the
very best quality. An arrangement
of this kind would benefit the |
blacks, benefit the whites, and in
the end benefit the entire country |
North and South. 1t would involve |
for a season the surrender of por-
ton of the South, in which the |
blacks could either have their Gu
or else justify the hopes of |
heir most sanguine friends. In the
the rest of the South |
would have a now birth-capitaI
would be disengaged in the recon-
structed States and would flow into
The others the spirit of unrest that
affects even Kentucky, Tennessee
and Virginia would pass away and
there would be quiet in the land.
The great majority of the blacks
vOuld Orobably become seore0sted