The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1875-09-08
LET THEM ALONE.

From the sickening scenes like that which
J was witnessed at Clinton, Miss, last week, VIZ
can draw but one moral which is: that in al
things, religious, social aud political, the less
the whites have to do with the blacks, and the
less the blacks have to do with the whites, the
better will it be for both classes. When the
negroes hold their dances, their wakes, their
voudous, their parties, their fairs their camp
meetings and their barbecues, let white men
simply stay away and let them alone Assem-
BILE hundred negroes for three hours and
there will most certainly be some kind of
disturbance, fight or riot. A few gallons of
mean whisky will precipitate the ferment
But to make the matter speedy and sure,
there can be nothing like few white vag.-
bonds, three or four of whom in half inebri-
ate condition will readily set a concourse Of
negroes into ferment.
The reason is simple and evident Negroes
may not form their opinions according to the
rules of logic, but they have their instincts,
their antipathies, their likes and their aver
sions, about which they may not be able to
philoscphize, but from which they act. They
respect decent white men without knowing
the reason why; but they detest white black
guards everywhere, and especially such as are
so besotted, brutal and filthy as to associate
With the meaner class of their own race
Let mean whites and wicked negroes meet
on exciting occasions and there will necessa-
rily be disturbance. Introduce poisonous
liquor to the combination and the result is
very likely to be bloody and tragical
The idea of black and white partnerships
in politics might as we'll be given up first as
last. There are certain clinical incongrui-
ties which no forced or voluntary union can
annihilate or long conceal There are differ
ences of disposition and character as marked
as the difference in complexion. No amount
of education can transform the Ethiop into
the Caucasian, nor can any lack of education |
or discipline assimilate the latter to the men |
tai and moral mould Of the African. Negro |
citizens can not be taught to look on political /
matters with the eyes of white men. Being |
forced into a strange situation of citizenship
in free republic, twenty centuries in ad-
vance of their state Of development, many
strange manifestations must be looked for,
and these will only be exaggerated and made
the more hurtful by white interference
This is wide country, with plenty of
room for all nations, all creeds and all sects
of white men, with some to spare for Indians,
Chinese and negroes. But in order to get
along comfortably and peacefully there must
be segregation and isolation, if not ply sicaly,
still practically and constructivelv.
We have no faith in amalgamations The
Caucasian race on this hemisphere must work
out their destiny in their own way, aud the
African race, here by accident, will either &C.
themselves to the situation or
disappear.
Modern enlightenment, the supremacy of
the law, the munments of civil liberty.
hereditary capacity and the hard-won title to
political freedom belong to the white race.
whose sacred duty it is to preserve and de-
lend them. In doing this it is no: necessary
% trench upon the rights or abridge the
liberty of the colored race, and it is equally
to enter into combinations with |
hem for political purposes. ,