Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1874-08-25
NO WAR or RACES TO BE FEARED.

races at the South. and the results to
follow thereirom. According to many
Of our contemporaries q war OF extsr-
mination Is a. inevitable between the
whites and negroes Of the Southern
States as was the conflict between free
dom and slavery ~irrsprsssible and 'un-
avsidabls. We do not share in these
fears. have no belief in the occurrence
Of the apprehsndsd disasters, nor are
We troubled as to the future Of the
South. In an article some few days
since We endeavored to show that the
hope Of the Southern States lay in two
things. First. the fact that . new gen.
Grafton. devoid Of many OF the old pre-
JUDGES and habits which cursed their
parents. were coming to the front an
would soon assume control Of the coun-
try. and second. that popular education
was being diffused with almost unsr-
ampled rapidity throughout the whole
South. In these two facts, and upon
these two bases. we claimed the future
Of the South to DO more hopeful than
ever before.
Previous to the war the people Of the
Southern States were divided into three
classes. The slave owners comprising
perhaps one-tenth Of the population,
tho poor whites embracing nearly half
the remainder and the slaves who COM
posed the balance. Only the first class
were educated. There was an irreprss-
sibls conflict between the poor whites
and negroes, who with regard to
cultivation, education, social instincts
and ambition for self development
stood on nearly the same level.
The war threw the majority Of the poor
whites into service Of the Confederacy,
where they were differed by the edu-
Gated class, the Shareholders. The en-.
ancipation~ proclamation freed the slaves,
who were thereby made equal before the
law with their natural rivals, tho poor
whites, whose opportunities for labor
and self dependence they, the slaves,
had heretofore monopolized. Schools
were soon established, and while the
blacks have been zsalous in improving
the opportunities thus afforded, many Of
the ''poor white trash" have not been
willing thus to avail themselves OF
proffersd education. The jealousy and
bitterness thus engondered lead to &C.
casional disturbances. not political. nor
even sectional. but purely local and OF
little moment. These a. time elapses
will die out. II Is = notable fact that
this sntagonism between the races is
found only among the u~nsducated, the
ignorant Of both classes. Prejudice
may, and does exist against the black
race, ever in educated minds. But not the
sort which leads to feuds. to bloodshed,
or to a war Of races. Most Of it arises
from the curious, and to our mind, en-
tirely unreasonable commingling Of the
ideas OF social and political equality.
Demagogues foster the idea that the
two conditions are identical-ths two
terms synonymous and editors with
ideas otherwise well defined and clear.
fall into this bog OF social equality,
with its woful yet imaginary train Of
miscegcnation. hybridism. deterioration
Of the species, etc.
We have no fears Of any war Of races
in America. II such shall ever occur II
will be Of ~nationalities. not races T; Of
creeds, not colors. There is a low class
OF ignorant humanity in the Southern
States, bred in vice. in ignorance and
lawlessness-a class Of men who have
grown up without education, without
labor and without development, saw
that Of brutal instincts. There is also n
portion Of the African race which a GEN.
tury OF serfdom and its inssparable bes-
tialism has brought far lower in the
scale OF human existence than its origi-
nal type, the negroes o, tho African
country. Between these ignorant, de-
graded whites and their swarthy COM
,..x. Il, 10. .,I l.-l.sso.as N r,v.Irv
exists, not Of business, nor Of progress
in any educational or industrial pursuit.
but OF physical and animal supremacy.
And this is all tho war OF races the South
has TO fear. II 10 the same kind OF war
which disgaces San Francisco-a cor
test OF the degraded hoodlun element
with law and order. with progress and
social laws, and it must be put down by
sheer force Of law, superior numbers,
and the power Of organization. II il
not the w~orkingmen Of San Francisco
who pelt with stones the Cinnamon who
land upon our shores, but the rabble
who never work. So is il in the South.
II is not the laboring element. ambitious
Of acknowledgment, who cry out against
the negroes. burn their houses and force
them to sslf-prOtection, but the vicious
swsepings Of her fair domain-the scum
which floats upon the stagnant pools Of
idleness. There is n other answer to
this cry OF a conflict between the races.
1t is the effort OF the opposition to break
down Republican rule. 1t comes from
Democrats, and is taken up and echoed
by each and every element who now
combined constitute the great army Of
the "outs." OF this we shall speak
hereafter.
From our Eastern exchanges it would
seem that matters do not run very
smoothly among the Illinois Dsmoc-