The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1875-08-12
THE DooM or mIssTssTPPT.

sitting in convention at the State capital
and enacted very profound resolutions,
couched in unusually good English and
and philosophy. Lamar and the leading
thinkers of the State were gathered at the
recitative of excellent political purposes
capital, and memories of the olden time
were revived when Davis and Foote and
and Guion and Sharkey and Yergers and
many illustrious men, whose names can
never be forgotten by those who listened
to theiI eloquence, made the old CAPT
tai resound with utterances of genius.
Those who are not oblivious of the deeds
and would accept the example of these
great men perfected in this last plat.
form and injected into it every conces.
sion to the prejudices and instincts OF
the negro of possible acceptability
among whites. 1t was agreed that par
tisanship defined by race features was most
reprehensible, and the Forrest-Pillow bou.
quet and balm-of-a-thousand flowers plat,
form was approved, asserting the absolute
love of one race for the other, and especially
declaring that the definition of parties
should not be that of races. The negro
may come to the white man; the white man
will never assent to negro leadership. The
negro can see the absurd one-sidedness OF
the scheme of unselfh benefcence, and it
must wholly fail. 1t is all the worse for
the country, and it is great pity that the
splendid diction and sonorous rhetoric and
majestic pictures Of Mr.. Lamar are only IL
lusory. The gulf that separates the races
is broader and deeper than the Red Sea and
Mediterranean separating black from white
continents, and can only be bridged by mis-
cegenation. Assent to this, and the dreams
OF Forrest and Pillow and of those good
men at jackson, keenly anxious to escape the
domination of villainy and ignorance and
to reinvest themselves with robes of office
and authority, will be happily realized. 1t
is very needless for people to delude them
selves. There can be no final unity of feel
ing or purpose or of permanent action be-
tween two wholly distinct races. Their
spheres of lie and modes of thinking can
not be merged into one another, and where
there is any approximation to equality in
numbers the separation Is nAsuFsl as
those laws that give color to faces and shape
to noses and outlines to taste and character.
SO plain is this necessity for the absolute
admixture Of races as condition precedent
to any permanent social and political CO.
operation, that the very men engaged in the
construction of this admirable joiner's work
of party leaders despise it when IL comes
from their own hands. Necessity drives them
to the assertion Of an absurdity. II the pur-
pose of the assertion be attained, we will be
MS well pleased as lamar, who would confer
honor and gain none by his own transposi-
ton from his seat in the House to place
in the Senate Of the United States.
There Is but one question involved in
these contests between the races. 1t may
be evaded and its solution postponed, and
those who would effect this purpose may
keep it in the background; but the white
and black races must be merged into one
another, or Brownlow's scheme of COLOMBIA
ton adopted. The very disqualification
of the convention at Jackson, which asks
negro cooperation, conscious that white
quid pro quo willnever be conceded, shows
the desperate straits to which taxpayers are
reduced by the reign Of savages. How
long it can be borne, and how long it should
be endured, when the purpose is the pro-
duction here IN the South of race Of Mez-
tiZos, neither black nor white, and the their
government by Yankee absolutism, is the
question which such conventions as that
which sat in Jackson should discuss. Prop
erly, this convection would -dethrons Ames
and the negro Davis and expel the horrible
mob OF thieves and robbers armed with
office to desolate the State; but this is onl,
question of to-day. If everything be &C
complished which is sought TO be eifectet
by this pretty, high-soundipg, balmy Pill
low-Forrest platform, the evils now rem
edied will become more intoleuble tO-mor
row, and the question still remains I'M
solved, must miscegenation or the separa
-susson-of races occur in Mississippi. IS,