Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-09-24
SOUTHERN THREATS.
The War ofRaces-Baual Political Rights De.
nounced-Firins Southern Heart-"Prepare
for Revolution.

for Revolution
The Atlanta Ne,oS, a Democratic
Reform paper says:
Exactly to what extent the white
people Of the South are responsible
for a conflict with the blacks, nobody
can show, because, it is always hare
to define the line of forbearanct
which the one must have with the
other. The troubles in the South to-
day are due solely to the claims made
By the blacks Of equality a0ith thu
ashites. Such an equality ,oiN not b.
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 it's ex'
istence. Nor is this antagonism Pc
culiar to the South 1t is to be
found in the East Indies to-day,
where the whites will not admit the
Indians not negroes, mark you) on
terms of equality; we find it exist
ing in the West Indies, where COM
parative handful of whites have held
themselves aloof from the negroes,
and struggled necessarily to prevent
negro rule and maintain white as
tendency.
Call it what you may-prejudice,
antagonism, 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
superiors, both socially and political.
ly.
This is not the brutum futmen OF
political hate F.; it is more the solemn
observation of an instructive deter
mination.
When the blacks are placed in their
proper position. OF SUBORDINA.
TION TO THE WHITES, De ,0ill
not hear of any more Uiolence to them.
The moment they accept as final the
fact of their subordination, self inter-
est, duty, humanity will throw
around them as perfect q protection
against violence from any quarter
as father would throw around a
child. But SO long as a negro aspires
to rule white men politically, and to
consort with them socially on terms
of equality, SO long will he be sub
jected to the storm which his own
presumption provokes.
We sicken at heart at the contem-
plation of the misery which threat
ems Alabama, Louisiana and South
Carolina. Grants last act shuts the
door to all hope that he will veto the
Civil Rights bill. Nay, more, it
gives to the impending conflict of
races deeper, wider, and more hor-
ribe significance; for if the whites
of the States we have named. driven
to desperation by the prospect of the
continued rule of negroes, were to
resist the Federal forces, the first re-
sistence would be likely to prove the
spark which would fire the train of
ANOTHER CIVIL WAR NOT
OF SECTIONS, BUT OF POLITI-
CAL PARTIES.
An overwhelming majority of the
white men of this country are hos
tile to a continuation OF the rule of
the negro and the white adventurer
in the South. If the Federal Gov
ernment will keep her hands off,
November next will witness the
downfall of the black oligarchy. If
it persists in its interference, then, In
view of the almost certain success of
the Civil Rights bill, WE BELIEVE
1T TIMEFOR SOUTHERN MEN
EVERYWHERE TO ORGANIZE
AND PREPARE FOR REVOLU-
TON. Let as stand ready to resist
the enforcement Of the Civil Rights bill,
and the maintenance OF negro gov
ernments by Federal bayonets.
And, when the contest does begin,
let as call upon those Of the Northern
people Uho Sympathise Nth us, to give
as their aid in tearing do,on the iWd-
nous Radical Government, which
seeks to force eight millions of white
men down to level with four mil
lions of negroes. If FORCE
ALONE CAN DESTROY THE
RADICAL PARTY, THEN WE
MUST NOT SHRINK FROM U.s.
ING 1T, and the sooner it is used
the earlier will be terminated the
political struggles which are retard-
ing the development of the South,
and injuring the entire country.