The weekly democratic statesman. [volume] (Austin, Tex.) 1871-1883, 1876-08-31
HOW THE RACES JOG A LONG WITH
ONE ANOTHER.

Indians pinlon prisoners to the ground
and fill mouths, eyes and ears with gun
powder and then, in a tender, considerate
way, apply the match and fellows head
aches as when a hardshell preacher saws
gourds and calls its psalmody. Sometimes
the kindly creatures build fire on the
stomach of the prisoner, driving in few
pine splinters. They call this, we suppose,
cooking fellows goose. They do the nice
job very slowly, never forgetful of the com
fort and feelings of the prisoner. They
scalp fellow, when prisoners are scarce,
In spots, even down to the neck and nose
| and divide the prize into many parts. The
neat moustache adorns the belt of one hero,
the whiskers another's and the hair of the
head Is distributed to constitute part of
garlands investing with reuown the fame
and brows of many cheftans. We cannot
define the woes of female prisoners. From
tlersmen kill their own wives and children
when they deem capture by red men inevi-
table. 1t is moreover true that these MUIR
derOus brutal instances of red savages are in
civilization Of red men means dfhhfk6esihnee"9sS, e"S
degeneracy, decay and death. We find all
the people of the North accepting these
facts as final and this philosophy as irrefu-
table and the country concludes even that
buffaloes must be annihilated that red men
may starve or become civilized and civlllza-
ton means death. Are there not immuta-
bic laws defining the nature and as well the
necessary modes of life and relations of differ
ent races9 There are inexorable DEGREES of
| Providence defining as immutably the re-
lations of whites and blacks as of red and
white men, and in vain do mems codes In
terpose obstacles to the final natural adjust
ment of these relations. Each day and
week and month and year the relations of
whites TO blacks are more and more clearly
defined and the process of segregation goes
on. Defined districts IN each village, town
and city constitute great or little negro
polls and portions of counties and even of
States are given over to negro absolutism.
Southern whites, born since 1865, will
know little more of black than of red
men. The 'old master" and ''old ser
want" will soon constitute faded picture,
cobwebbed in the charnel house of dead
memories, and then the separation of races
will be perfect. There is not single tie
of interest or sympathy, or affection or as
sociation, to bind together white and ne
gro youths born since 1865, and while they
will never scalp one another and there can
be no wars, yet there must be ceaseless
contest, in the struggle for life, between
these two distinct peoples. One or the
other must win, and unity is infinitely more
remote than twenty years ago. But we
: only proposed to inquire whether the for
tunes of red and of black races, in contact
with the white, would be widely different
Is it true, as philosophers have alleged,
that contact with ci 'iliz .tion is fatal to the
red, and with freedom to the black race
: Either the Chinaman or the Californian, a.
: -hnxn by the platforms of the two grea
u parties, must give way Vrre 1-----A--a44An
e is sealed; and will some one tell whethe
e the South is to be consigned TO black o
l. white mastery One or the other race mus
n he supreme, and while Grant declares b.
n will sustain the black power, even wit
l. Federal bayonets, we would know whethe
lie the white race of the North. properly or a
IS least n, cessarily exterminsting red meh
/, the West and utterlng the doom of MongC
~ lisns in California, will finally, when th
c. question must be solved, pronounce wit
or Grant against the white race and IN tav'
Id of the Airicanization of the Gulf State;