The Van Buren press., 1874-09-01
The Red, Black and White Races-Ne.
gro Equality in New England.

II. V. Redfeld, the peripate,ic CORE.
spondent Of the Cincinnati Commercial,
says:
The history Of the world presents no
! instance of a race highest in the scale of
intelligence living upon terms of equality
with the race lowest in the scale; and
the attempt in America, as contemplated
by the authors and supporters Of the civ
il rights bill, will be failure, and we
may be thankful if it is not bloody fail.
ure. The feeling in the south is one of
desperation We have been warned by
the wisest Of philosophers, and most emf
+ nent of thinkers, that when our govern
! ment falls it will be on account Of ma
jority driving a minority to desperation.
! The southern whites are now desperate.
They feel that they have tsrched bottom
The rebound will be terrible. We may
laugh at their prejudices, aud say that it
! is a foolish sentiment, but this sentiment
and prejudice against the equality con
templated in the civil rights bill is oftwo
hundred years growth; it is flesh Of the
, flesh, and bone of the bone, and you can
not get it out Of the heart Of a southern
born man without taking of his head at
| the same time
If u foreign power had sought to en-
force in New England social equality
with red men. when Massasoit was king,
and Pequods and Narragansetts roamed
over hills and valleys about Newport and
Providence, there would have been re
volt even among the witch barning saints
Indians were born frecmrn, and there
WAS a savage nobility of character to re-
deem their beastiness They were beat
en-, enslaved and robbed of their homes,
and absolutely exported and sold into
slavery in the West Indies They were
brave and cunning, and thus elevated in
popular estimation, it is not strange that
Horace Maynard prefers to he deemed a
Naragansett Indian ratherthan an Asian
tee negro To him the civil rights bill is
benefaction 1t closes the lips of in.
quiry. When the law has reached its
rveling results, and wrought the ends
of misccg the purity OF May.
nard's blood will nevermore be ques
toned, aud no crow would call him
black Dr. Red6cld seems not to com
prehend the prejudiccs Of southern peo-
pie. lie may see them more clearly if he
will remember how remorseless was the
conduct of his New England fathers in
dealing with red men. linen whites and
| Indians were col'ocated. and tie one race
ex,erminatcd the other; and now this
dominant race would not only make ne.
groes political equals of waies, but com
pc. social and personal equality. If the
scheme were abhorreut ia the days Of
Maynard's fathers, and rs applet to
them and the Puritans, how infinitely
more in,olerable aud revolving becomes
this proposed law, designed to stain our
blood and make us knsmen Of cx slaves,
who have been slaves, as shown on Egyp-
lian monuments, through five thousand
years. When southern people voluntari.
ly submit to results contemplated by the
civil rights bills, they will surely be un-
worthy OF association with the children
Of brave New Englanders Of old, whose
pride OF race not only prevented misccge-
nation with Indians bat justified outrages
and wrongs unparalleled in the history
of inter.race aud International reiatons.
ltis only unfortunate for the south that
New England will be unaffected by laws
to be practically operative in these south
ern States alone. II Boston were halt
black and half white, Summer would new
er have left legacy OF woes to afIiict the
south bearing with equal weight upon
Massachusetts. Historical facts affecting
the relations Of Purltans and red men
constitute a strange commentary upon
the conduct OF New England as this af
tccts the white and black races Of the
south -NcmphH Appeot
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