The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-26
LAMAR AND FORREST AND THEIR
ROLLHEss

The Shreveport Tins tells the literal
truth when it says Of the course OF political
events in'the South, that ''the contest in
Mississippi, as it was and will be again in
Louisiana, is for the supremacy of Anglo
Saxon civilization over the mongrelism Of
San Domingo, and no intermediate policy
can possibly, in the nature of things, be
successful, and sooner or later the direct
issue, sharp and decisive, will come, though
thousand Lamars declaipa against it"
We are of thos6 who believe that the
adoption Of any other than the color line
Of demarcation in politics, where the two
races are approximately equal In numbers,
would be most unfortunate, as it must be
impossible. The purpose Of the country's
present masters, with whom Forrest and
Lamar unwittingly cooperate, is the oblit-
GRAFTON of all distinction between the races.
Wherever the color line is erased in
politics, it will not, they imagine, long re-
main visible in social life. The agents of
the Methodist Church North, everywhere
in the South, are active agents in promoting
miscegenation. Brutality and vice and
white depravity and unutterable degrade
ton cooperate in this with the so-called
followers of Jesus Christ, as He is inter
preted by Grants slmoner and confessor,
Bishop Simpson; and Mr.. Lamar, with all
his confessed devotion to the South, blum
ders fatally when ne concurs with priest
hood whose love of Sambo is measured &C.
cirately by its hatred of ex-slaveholders and
of the people of the South. 1t is not that
they would elevate the negro, but degrade
the whites. Mongrelize the South and Its
energies are lost, its manhood is eviscerated
and the scheme, partially 1Rfolded when
the bondholders of the East would make us
their gold bearing slaves forever, would be
easily achieved. When Mr.. Lamar has won
his place in the Senate, as he will if he
triumph on this horrible mongrelizing plat
form, be should not forget that his personal
triumph was effected at the cost of possible
resulting evils, infinitely more terrible than
negro absolutism endured through half a
century. 1t were infinitely wiser to surren-
der Mississippi to final negro domination
than assent to the destruction of barriers
that separate thu. races as such, and he who
inveighed most bitterly against the civil
rights act and then accepts the Forrest
Lamar platform most absurdly stultlfies him
self. Offices and henors hire him to-day to
approve policy infinitely more subyersive
OF race distinctiveness, and of social sys-
TENS and facts separating the races, than
the civil! rights bill, conceived and enacted
confessedly In behalf of miscegenation.
True enough, the people of Mississippi are
reduced to desperate straits. Property, II
two-thirds of the counties of the State, is
absolutely valueless. No white man out.
side Of Ujiji would have home within its
confines, and therefore property having nc
saleable value, the people cannot migrate.
Blacks govern towns and counties, and
desolation and progressive decay mark the
country's aspect in all directions. Cowards
there are in Texas who would subject wide
districts of this Ssate to like calamities.
Here, with wrong to none and depriving
none of any natural right in any portion Of
the State, we may rescue the whole from in
tolerable woes that induce Lamar and For.
rest to assent to the obliteration of distinc.
tions fixed by the Creator Himself. While
the races exist, as God made them, it is nc
offense that these distinctions be perpetu.
atsd, and he who does aught to destroy
rather than he who perpetuates Inherent
natural differences is surely, in Gods eyes,
the great offender. We would infinitely
prefer, in view of the future well-being o.
the South, and of the people of the South,
to see Lamar and Forrest digging an I'M
passsble gulf between the races, and it i.
ronly the consciousness that results of theil
conduct must be local and ephemeral, anG
that the coalition of to-day will be dissolved
by the sunshine of the morrow, that rem
ders their absurd policy at all tolerable.