The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1877-1885, 1879-06-12
Old Time Views Suggested by
the Negro Hegira.

Ham, l nave experienced only I'M
mitigated disgust at what has been go
ing On for a long twenty years. Are
we a nation of fools! Are the teach
ings of nature of no account Why
did o the free blacks increase ard
prosper in the same ratio with the
whites in the free states before the
war What is the present moral and
%pecuniary condition of those fifty
thousand" smart slaves who were able
to escape from the Southern prison
house" by following the pole-star to
Canada 2 Do you hear anything about
them ? How is it in those West India
islands where the slave vas set free
has he shown progress since With
both England and America to back
and bolster Liberia, what do you hear
about that nation . Do you get any
thing encouraging When Capt.
Cook discovered the Sandwich Islands
he found vigorous barbarian tribes
numbering something like a quarter of
a million souls. What have c~iviliza-
ton and Christianity done for the ma
tive race since then 2 Reduced it to a
beggariy and diseased 30. 600 which a
tribune writer recently says will be
utterly extinguished in fifty years.
What is the matter. How is it that for
thousands OF years We fail to find a
single instance where the African has
thrlved other than a slave or a barba-
ran DO you expect to improve on
the pasta You will miserably fail.
Even Mr.. Lincoln said in 1854 that in
all history and experience demonstrates
that W races, one the superior and
one the inferior, cannot live together
on terms of equality; the weaker will
inevitably 90 to the wall" He uttered
a truth or a lie-which was it 2 If you
say the latter, please produce the proof.
OF course when Mr.. Lincoln signed
the emancipation proclamation, by his
W previous confession he signed the
death warrant of an innocent race.
Others may honor his memory there
for, shall not.
But slavery went down irretrievably
in the shock of "a war. the one sole and
only cause of which war was the de
termination on the part of the north to
compass, by hook or by crook, the
overthrow OF the peculiar institu-
ton" That this purpose was for po-
litical and partisan ends rather than
from regard for the rights of man per
Sc is proved by the fact that we can
cheat the Indian out of a continent and
kick and cuff the Monaghan without
shame. What next A distinguished
northern Senator said during the pro-
gress of hostilities, that what to do
with the free blacks would be found TO
be a graver question than the one then
pending as to what to do with slavery.
That question is now looming up.
The exodus" is a significant sign.
Those specially affected are working at
the problem. The north insists upon
black equality, and even black suprem-
acy in some sections, for the south, but
would not stand it a moment herself
were the conditions reversed. North
ern hate is reckoning across the Pa
citic to the imam on horseback" to
come and hold the Southern Caucasian
under the heel Of the negro. OF course
there will be trouble. The proud
spirited, chivalrous, and terribly abus
ed southern whites Will never meekly
submit to African dominaticn-you
would be ashamed of them were they
to do SO. The blacks may annoy and
inJure them, and they in turn will
make it hot for the negroes. Unless
restrained by outside force the superior
race will win, and as a consequence
millions of blacks will wend their way
north to s~ojourn with 'friends," and
that will cure our long time mania. |
doubt if anything short Of this will
ever cure it. Heaven speed the day.
If on the other hand black suprem-
acy shall be maintained at the south
by Federal power. that will be the end
of our experiment of a Republican
government. The horseback man
would lever alight. And we, poor
fools, would have the sweet satisfac-
ton of rejecting on the facts that the
taxation, devilism, debt and death of
the past, and our lost liberties in the
future, all came from a determination, |
party gain, to establish supremacy
q race that haa never built a ship, |
nor written a book, nor comprebended
a science, nor initiated and set in mo-
an organized civil government.
Whether the southern hegira will
really become general, or not time will
tell. The Virginia negroes resolve in
State convention that unless certain
can be done and had, they will
advise their people to migrate. All
they have the world before
them where to choose, and Providence
their guide. What is the use of whin-
about the treatment they receive
when they have millions Of friends at
he North ready to meet them while yet
| great way off, to fall on their necks
md kiss them, we judge, and especi-
ally to see to it that they are not bull
lnzed into voting any other than the