Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1875-03-14
RACES IN THE SOUTH.

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Rochester On. " Union and Advertiser.
The passage Of the Civil Rights bill
IN Congress, has made a profound i'm
preston On the Southern mind. To
what level is the white race of the
United States to be degraded to stand
on the same plane with the negro?
Every white person, male and female,
North and South, should understand
this matter Of race degradation. Many
Northern men attended the late annual
meeting of the National Grange In
Charleston, S. c., and among them a
correspondent Of the Prairie Farmer,
published IN Chicago. He was present
at negro trial, and thus describes
what be saw in that P per Of the 9th
ult:
In another case a negro was tried by
q negro judge and jury for the larceny
of two sides of bacon and a sack Of
Hour from a white man. Only one
witness was called, and he testified 70
having seen the theft committed. The
| Judge instructed the Jury to 60 out and
remain until tteg had brought IN that
niger free. The jury rendered a YER
dict of not guilty.
Before the negro got away from the
courtroom he was re-arrested, the
same witness recalled, and the court
instructed the jury 70 60 out and re-
main until they had brought the pris-
oner in guilty. The jury brought in
the verdict required, and the prisoner
was fined $50 and sentenced to three
months imprisonment. The potent
influence In bringing about this change
was the promise Of the loan of a mule
for days ride and dollar bill.
We have negro magistrate IN Nash
vile who is a fair match for the above
South Carolina Judge, and all admit
that bad man can prove by colOred wit
nesses anything e wishes IN any civil
or criminal suit at law. The negro is
only clay in the hands of the potter;
but unfortunately the clay not only
soils but demoralizes, and is likely to
ruin the potter. Ponder the following
facts stated by the writer above. cited:
Yesterday we visited the plantation
of DR. Rose, aiUuated some two miles
from the city, and SAG The magnificent
family mansion going to ruin, tie cows
and sheep having free range through
It's spacious halls, repOsIng their weary
limbs upon the ma-ble AOors. And
this Is but a sample Of what is taking
place all over this part of the State
We did not see building or repairing
II the extent Of $1,000 worth on the
whole trip from Washington to
Charleston, including the latter city.
Ten years Of Republican reconstruG- |
ton since the war reconstructs family |
mansiOns into stables for COWS and |
sheep, IN the work Of leveling man
kind downward. II the Republicans |
do not aim u destroy their Govern |
ment and blight their civilization for |
ever, l inplore them to stop long /
enough IN their mad career to study /
the achievements Of the African race in |
Africa, Mexico, Central America and |
st. Domingo, where 1t has long enjoyed /
itE civil rights IN perfection. As de- |
basing moral and political poison, ne
gro blood is all p0Eerful; but for any |
useful or intellectual pmpGze it is
worth little more than the blood Of an /
African lion. It has already developed /
on the body Of the nation a painful, |
eating and spreading cancer under the
treatment Of such quacks as Seward, /
Chase and Thad. Stevens. The evil was
bad enough before they took it in hand,
but it was never 80 alarming /
as it Is to-day. 1t is a million votes /
in the hands of a very few of the worst
men in the republic to use as they |
please It IS between four and FIVE |
N Hon human beings exposed to all |
the vices Of intemPeTance and Gcen- |
tiousness as freedmen and their Of
spring, with no adequate mental force |
to protect themselves from poverty, |
hanger and contagious diseases. 1t Is
a natioI al hotbed for the propagation
of violence and crime, which 2 million /
soldiers or any less number, with Pres
ident Grant at their head, cannot deal |
with IN any satisfactory manner.
Think Of the amazing stupidity which |
sacrifices the highest interests of thirty |
five million whites TO try the expert |
mentOf making araee of blacks judges,
Jurors, governors and legislators over a |
people three thousand years In advance
Of them in civilization and moral de-
velopment!
Civilized man t5kes to sheep hus.
bondry naturally, savages to hunting /
and dogs in preference. In twenty-One |
counties Of Georgia, where the two races
are about coal, the whites have $685.
sheep, as shown by the State census.
The blacks have 265. These colOred /
sovereigns, 50 useful IN electing Presi- /
dents and members Of Congress, keep |
4.2ll dogs. Did Abraham and Lot, |
some three Thousand years ago, prOba-
blv support more than 4,2ll dogs to
265 sheep? If not, then the African |
race Of the South IS hardly abreast |
with the white race IN the day and gan-
Grafton Of Abraham. Is the natural |
capacity Of the negro so vastly supe- /
rior to that Of the Caucasian that he |
can. by the aid Of a schOol-marp, for |
get his instincts and step over at a |
single stride all that the white man |
has learned by study and experience |
during the last one hundred genera |
tiCns Political quacks assume this |
superiority in favor of the negro in |
tellect, and therefore the African brain |
and mind do not require the aptecedent |
training of a hundred generations 20 |
stand the peer Of the white man IN all |
matters Of conscience, law and govern |
ment. But demagoguism and quack |
craftsmanship have always failed; and |
what else has the country had for the |
last fifteen years. If Senator Brown
low is not mistaken, the Civil Rights |
law will operate disastrously on both |
races in many ways. 1t may hasten |
the sa3aration Of the two, and the pro- |
lection Of freedmen from sore tempta-
tons to fall into the white mans vices
alal crimes, and propagate the same
Involuntary and universally.
y. LEE.