The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1875-07-18

mans party and black name party. OIL
course, when that tendency becomes pro
noupced, the party which has been carry
ing the colored element will have to aban-
don it.
This is rapidly becoming the case now |
with the Republican party and that party |
is even now driven to the necessity of dis
| elm ulatipg at the North it's machiuations to
keep negroes in control at the South. The
thing cannot be run much farther, and
when the negro can no longer be used as
an instrument for controlling the Presden-
tial votes of Southern States, he will be
thrown away with that disgust which his
Northern allies can even now scarcely re
press.
But does it follow that the prosperity of
the country will require the expulsion OF
the African race because of it's failure as
political elements We think not. On the
contrary, we think that it is the normal
condition of the white aud black races to
dwell together in the same countries. In
fact, we have a strong idea that there is
Biblical authority for the proposition. II
, was authoritatively announced to Ham
, that his sons should be the servants of
, their brethren. This would appear to
establish the normal relation of master and
> servant between them, equally natural and
. equally advantageous to both. 1t ia general
f ly conceded that the African race is descen-
? ded of Ham while the white race springs
from Japheth.
. And this theory seems to be sustained by
o the facts of history. In his separate com
t munities the negro has never attained to OF
y received civilization. Notwithstanding 6
@ considerable contact with the Moors ant
v other civilized races, Notwithstanding al
@ the efforts of missionaries, the densest bar
h barism shrouds the whole African con
2 tinent sui ject to the Hametic control. Wors
than that, where negroes have been elevated
v to civilization as slaves among white races
p they have uniformly, as soon as left t
ID themselves and their own control, com
ts menced to retrograde and turned back upo
q. the road to barbarism.
a. But in these Southern States the situs
tion is different. The emancipated negroe
of here are not beyond the influence of tn
IA white race. That influence, it is true, hs
~ hitherto been trammeled by the selfish d.
ne vices of unprincipled politicians. For pu
ar poses of party triumph the colored man h'
he been made q voter and fattered into an il
en- to1ication of foolish pride. His mind b.
he been poisoned with false representations
Vn to his white neighbor, and a fictitious ind
wn pendence eugendered in his heart.
To All this, however, is the result of an
7ill natural pressure which cannot be kept q
,se Some day all these forces must find the
no. level, and then the great problem of viii
to and black concurrence in the same civiliz
,ak ton will work itself out. The influence
ara the white race will assert itself in
NOT natural shape-control. Without the nal
stv of slavery, and without the immo
md features of that institution, servitude "
ia exist on the one side aud mastery on t
ara other, producing for both races all the Der
do. 6cent results of such relation. With all
ha, vices of that system the slave aristocracy
des the South produced the noblest type of soc
ma ty ever known. The negro race was elevat
the to comfort, intelligence and fecnndity: t
white race was ennobled with the grand
rch traits of herosm and hospitality, while
,e;r intellectual supremacy on the arena
be craftsmanship stood confessed.
,.ss With restored servitude, freed FIR
xLo the vices and excuses of absolute slave
RI. all these great results can be re establish
ava on still more perfect scale, sill m
,oro completely ennobling the whites, elevat
o If the negroes and developing the resour
doc, of our beautiful land.
;,r Instead of cursinG and expelliDg
negro we ought to covet his presence as
90. opportunity of fulfilling that more pert
onal uo0'ny "'
isti- Jus VIC .o'u' VI ' 90, -
:. ing punishment from Heaven, will pr
to have been q blessing in disguise.
hem Assessment,
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