Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1874-09-17
The SOUTH.
How the UChivaIric's Press 10 Again
Attempting 20 ssfire the Southern
Hearth


Attenpsing 20 s.Fire the Soushevm
Heart,
rhr Csiored Man Must Give up HE
Claims "a Political EquaItzx sis,n. or
"CivIl War; VIII be the Result.
Exactly to what extent the white
people of the South are responsible
for a conflict with the blacks,
nobody can show, because where
the antagonism OF races is the real
cause, it is always hard to define the
line Of forbearance which the one
must have with the other. The
troubles IN the South to-day are due
solely to tie claims mule By The
blacks Of equality aci,h the aci,ites.
Such an equality uM not be Tolerated.
All the arguments of theorists will
not reconcile the whites to equality
with the negroes. The antagonism
is instructive. Whether right or
wrong, it exists without any visible
means of destroying its existence.
Nor is this antagonism peculiar 10
the South. 1t is to be found in the
Elst Indies to-day, where the whites
will not admit the Indians (not
negroes, mark yon) on terms OF
equality; we find it existing in the
West Indies, where comparative
handful of whites have held them
selves aloof from the negroes, and
struggled necessarily to prevent
negro rule and to maintain white
ascenlaucy.
Call it what you may-prejudice,
ansasonism, brutality, barbarism--
it exists. On but one condition can
the whites and blacks live amicably
together. The whites must be rulers,
and their position must be that of
euperiors, both socially and poiiti-
Cdtly.
This is not the brutsm tulmea of
political hate; it is more the solemn
observation Of an instructive deter
mination.
When Ue blacks are placed la their
proper position, Of standardization to
tie mhites, re wiA not hear o,ry more
Of riolence To Mem. The moment
khcy accept as final the fact of their
subordination, self interest, duty,
humanity will throw around them
as perfect protection against vio-
lence from any quarter as father
w0nld throw around child. But
80 long rs the negro aspires to rule
white men politically, and to con-
eoit with them socially on terms Of
equality, SO long will he be subject
to the storm which his own pre-
sumption proyokes.
We sicken at heart at the con-
temptation OF the misery which
threatens Alabama, Louisiana and
South Carolina. Grants last act
shuts the door that he will veto the
Civil Rights bill. Nay, more; it
gives to the impending conflict OF
races n deeper, wider, and more
horrible significance for if the
whites OF the States we have named,
driven to desperation by the pros
poet of the continued rule OF negroes,
were to resist the Federal forces,
the first resistance would be likely
70 prove the spark which would fire
She train of U,Other cicH trd)--not Of
sectioas, bit II poiiticai paties.
An overwhelming majority of
the white men OF this country are
hostile to a continuation OF the rule
OF the negro and The white adven-
turer OF the South Ii the Federal
Government will keep her hands off.
November next will witness the
downfall of the black oigarchy.
Ii it persists in its interference,
then, in view Of the almost certain
success OF the Civil Rights bill, ne
belare u time Jw .S0nthe,o utGt
erery'chere 10 orgtoaze and prepUG
jor recOiidioH. Let as Staaa reativ
to resist tie enforcement Of the Ciott
HtghtS GiH and maintenance of negro.
uoVCfhmeuts by Federal bayonctS.
And when the contest does begin,
RI rs col epon those othe Northern
peopte ,rho &Ympath(ze rah as, 10
gre rs Heen d,8 "a teuri0g dou,, the
aYdp,poS hatjc'i goce,uD,eiA which
seeks to force eight millions of white
Ian down to level with four mil
lions OF negroes. r. force dtose coa
@estroy the haljeat party, Mea zee
must not sb5ah .trom using Il, and
the sooner 1t is used the earlier will
be terminated the political struggles