Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1874-08-29
THE NEGRO THE BANE OF THE
GOVERNMENT.

Heaon "oioc aAC party. OOuici-
vile, Austin, Byhalia, the strife in
South Carolina-all are adduced as
evidences of the white mans aggressive
ferocity and the negro's meekness and
patience, aud the lies fabricated for
political effect, are diversified and re-
told in the Language of melting pathos,
of burning indignation, fierce inveetive
and undying hate, as the one, or the
other may be best adapted to the tone of
different localities. We, of The South,
who are familiar with the character
istics of the negro race, concede to
them, proclivity to quietude, indo-
lent ease, and marked disposition, in
the main, to be at peace with those
around them. But, like all ignorant
and impulsive natures, they are easily
excited by vicious advisers, and when
aroused, they are unchecked by reason
and their feelings more akin to those
of the brute than of man, even in the
lowest stage of civilization.
But whatever may be the native dis
position or acquired habits and feel
ings of the negro, tyranny forced him
upon the South as citizen and free
man and trained up in the school of
active labor, be is the sole reliance for
the cultivation of its soil. Now, be-
lieving, as we do, that mans policy
will run 10 the same groove with his in
terests, why should the South attempt
to destroy the labor, so essential to its
prosperity? The policy of our people
is to eonciliate the negro, not by de-
grading association, but by kindness,
protection, and fair-dealing. We do
not deny that examples of contrary
policy may be found in the South, just
as we find borrid murders and Ply
mouth scandals exceptions to the con-
duct of the better classes of northern
society. But because low whites will,
here and there, provoke conflict with
negroes, none but an incendiary fend
in the North, will take the exception
for the rule, and assert, with the Gin.
cinnati Commercial, that the negro is
never to blame for the uprising Of
armed men in the South. That paper
is near the truth when it says the
threatened conflicts are instigated by
white men, and all that was necessary
to make the whole truth appear, was
to have added that those white men
are carpet-baggers and scallawags, and
their object is to fire the northern heart
for the next Presidential election and
at the same time, pave the way for
their own prolonged rule over the col
ored race and the pockets of the
whites.
The effect of these base fabrications
is visible in the North, in the shape
of threatened Reconstruction that
will permanently fix the subordination
of the white, to the colored race
Every honest man in the North revolts
at such threat, and every wise man
will admit that even that game may be
played once too often. The villainy
of ursectional governments in moth
ing more conspicuous. than in the fact
that it has been laboring, ever since
the war to fix the color line, and now
that we, of the South, are forced to
adopt that line, the Radicals seek to
take advantage of their own wrong, by
preaching another crusade against the
South, pretending that the lamb is
muddying the stream for which the
wolf is thirsting. No other govern
ment, save that at Washington, could
have conceived the stupendously
grand idea of elevating the character
of its citizenship by COMPRISING into
one heterogeneous mass, intelligence
and ignorance, virtue and crime, the
compound to be labeled Civil Rights.
And when Anglo Saxon blood revolt,
at the tyranny and degradation, the an.
swer comes back from the central pow,
er-take what is Offered, or the bottom
crust shall be placed on top and KEEP
there. This was, from the beginning
the objective point Of reconstruction
running the color line between the
races, is q means to that end because
it affords the needed pretext for rails,
ing anew the war cry of the abolition
lists and rallying to the standard o.
aggressive tyranny the hordes ofignor
ance and vice always relied upon tC
crush liberty and the blessings thai
cluster around it. According to Rad
zeal theory, an united black mans par.
ty is loyal necessity, not to be resist,
ed, whilst a white mans party is ag'
gressiye and intOlerant, as well as of.
fensively threatening to the power:
that be.