The Canton mail., 1875-08-28
Tho Lesson of the Hour.

The recent troubles and threat
ened outbreak in Washington, JEFF
ferson, Burke and other adjacent
counties in Georgia, of the negroes,
aided and melted by venal white
leaders to murder the white citizens
and to spoliate and plunder their
property;-and the still more recent
riotous and unlawful conduct of
the negroes at Macon. in this State,
are lessons that must command the
thoughtful attention of all right
thinking men of all sections of the
Union. The utmost peace and ap-
parent good will have existed for
several years past between the two
races in Georgia; prosperity and
thrift prevailed, and a rupture was
a thing unthought of and unexpect-
ed. The peace and quiet, the har-
nony and good will were matters
regarded IS firmly fixed. But, in
an evil hour, under the influence
and guidance of bad men, self-con-
stituted leaders of both colors, the
hitherto peaceabIy disposed negroes
were sinduced to arm themselves
and secretly prepare for an uprising
and outbreak, contemplating the
murder of the whites. 1t is horri
BILE to contemplate and only demon
strstes that the negro is an object
lower in the scale of humanity than
the most bitter and scepticaI had
thought him to be, that he is little
better than semi-savage, unfit to
receive the teachings of enlighten-
ment-unworthy to hold the proud
position of American citizenship.
If five or six years o! peaceful and
prosperous rule and government in
Georgia has failed to elevate the
negro in the scale of humanity. to
qualify him for the duties and re-
sponsibilities of citizenship, is not
the whole plan of reconstruction
and the benefits of suffrage enacted
IN his behalf failure? and can we
hope to elevate him morally and
legally in the other States that have
not enjoyed the peaceful and har-
monious reign that has prevailed in
Georgia? The signs of the times
tell us, the solution of the problem
shows us, that the negroes as class.
as people, are not deserving, are
not yet prepared for, the higher and |
nobler privileges and benefits their
friends and lovers in their zealous-
ness have sought to thrust upon |
them. Here in our own State, in
Noxubee county, we find the ne
groes,as a class, moved and governed
by the lowest of passions, that of
envy and hatred. With no high
sense of feeling, no moral ideas,
they are banded together to take
issue with the whites by physical
force. 1t is needless to appeal to
their finer or moral senses, for they |
have none. 1t is only their pas
sions that can be reached, and these |
are appealed to and Influenced by a |
hell-born crew, who count not the
cost either to the poor deluded ne
groes or the innocent whites. These
troubles teach us an awful lesson.
teach us the dcpravity of negro
nature, and open up to us for thought
full consideration a proposition that
will in time engage the serious and
study and advocacy of our
the separation of the
races and the colonization of the
The time will come, IN
truth, it has come whom this must
be done. 1t is useless to talk of
the races living together as free
citizens, it cannot be done
and justice to forty millions of
whites demand that four millions of
blacks should be segregated from
hem. To permit them to remain
together will be TO continue to all
lime an unsettled state of society,
with dread and distrnst, and for
'ver drive peace and prosperity
rom os. This is high ground, yet
We Leiieve it will come to this and
hat right soon. The flow of i'm
Migration that will set in with our
larysst season viii bring us an elc-
nent that wifi s-yercede the negro
8 Iaborer, will add strength and
oree to orr intelligent voting pop i
Ilation that will in time enable us s
y demand what the necessities of ,
10th races require. II