The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-09-09
hostility of Race.

Hostility of Race. s "a.
The New York Tribune, in notice Of the
bloody riot at Clinton, Miss, aliudes 70 It's
beginning in the circumstance that when
some white persons were about to take a
d,ink of whiskey che negro marshal Of the
mass. meeting attempted to- prevent them;
and it gravely concludes thus:
ct is most discreditatle that cause SO
trfllng should ihsye brought on sconfl'ct 10
which the races took sides against each oener
entirely regardless of the merits OF the case"
This is very amiable and philanthropic In
che 7ribane. but very unphilosophical. That
paper. which has been very liberal and Jar
uuon the questions involved In the proo!em
tbi, nation is now working out, forSels that
tbe /" higher law" is now at Wofk ana tnat
it mus. prevail. Philanthropy brings Out d
straw, as it were, to stay whirlwino Wnen
It attempts to alter nature and nullify laws
of Providence with q Sigh or q remon-.
strance. Philanthropy has to learn this
truth. .....s.. 50 .@r
eA1S
whites rushed to the defence Of their brother
Caucasians, and the overwhelming mass of
Africans swept in with all descriptions OF
weapons to war upon the whites. 1t will
be also remembered that the victims of the
negroes were slain in the most barbarous
manner. Whether the negro entrusted with
authority knew how TO exert it or not-and
she chances are ten to one against bis being
uuaiifed-he could not have prevented
blocdshed after the first blow. The spirit
of hostility being fred, the consequences
were entirely natural. 1884,.
The trouble of the matter lies in the nattl'
raj antipathy of race, which is lrremeo'a'
bile. The whole theory Of reconstruction Is
q fallacy, because it proceeds apparently
upon the idea. hypocriticaiy assumed By a
sordd and unprincipled party, that such an
tipathy was eradicable. Time has shown,
and time will continue to show, that it IS
iperadicable. Had the statesmen who d.
rected our fates been frank aud honest
men-had they thought more of their coun-
try than they did of their own sordid de-
sircs-tbe would have recognized the diff
cull;es in the way of harmonizing by law
two distinct races, and they would have
abandoned all idea of nullifying the DEGREES
of the Supreme Will by their feeble enact
meuts.
That the antlpathy of race will show it.
self whenever..the excitement OF collision
occurs,-that struggle between two or more
of different nations will draw others in
and that, the struggle between the opposite
colors Will be bitter and bloody, al the phi
Ian hropists who doubt now about it vii
tind to be true in time. 1t will be so any
where-at the North as well as the South
In this matter people everywhere are the
same. The combining of one side against
the opposite one will inevitably arouse that
opposite one and there is q fact too well
known to deny that there is in African per.
secutlon and killing righteousness that is
excessively provoking and abhorren'. This
naturally begets spirit of excessive anger.
We say that such demonstrations as that al
Clinton are greatly to be depored; but they
cannot be prevented. They have to come
and would come under like social conditions
at the North as we'll as the South. This
nation will have to deplore in sackcloth and
ashes the bad measures of national Legislation
which SO controlled the social economy o.
ne,rly one half of the territory covered by
all line States as to cause a tendency to such
scenes. 1t is o refinement Of yindiclivenes
ard cruelty that would subject southern
society to privations and hardships because
OF the accidental occurrence of events tina
have by national legislation been cultivated
arc fOstered.
We but speak the truth. There should bt
no p,rty feeling about it. 1t is not ques
ton Of human law. 1t is the providen
Til law that governs here. In all animal lift
there Is the inevitable conflict of race whicl
shows itself when the races meet. Uuder th
Creative Will the different races Of human be
ngs were placed in separate localities on th
globe. Had each remained in possession Q
its =. birthright" there would have been NJ
coEhCt-i. e., no race-coEflcL. But as sur
as The races are brought together the coDflc
msst come. 1t isnot for man to attribute in
t entions and purposes to Deity. 1t may b.
taat the Transporting of races to stranger
aads was in fulflment of the intention. l
so, It is equally clear. that conflict was also
aud. furthermore, that it is part ofthe Divine
WAL that the tittest should triumph"
We conjecture that our American philan'
thropists will find much occupation and
IN Oh wisdom yet in studying these subjects,
Ahstruse, indeed, they are; but, unfortu
na,ely for the American people, they have
pr. ctIcal social conditions which will help
very much TO throw light upon them.
RALSToN Was, according to modern detini
lion, unquestionably great fuancier-in