The Dawson journal. (Dawson, Ga.) 1878-18??, 1883-02-01

migration ever take pronOunce'
Southern direction, yet immigration
must slacken, and before liaEy year
practically cease, while the blacl
growth must be perpetuaIly augment
ing, perpetually advancing its volume
and, every allowance being made, it il
morally certain that in seventy or eigh
ty years las things now go) the blacks
in the Southern States viii overwhelm.
ingly preponderate. Abiding to the
impossibility of fusion between The
whites and blacks, the Professor says
that the latter have been and mdst
continue to be distinct and aliva race
The fusion Of races is the resultant
from social equality add interHarfiags
and the barrier to this is ;nsurmounta.
bic. 'Accoant for it 90 w. may, the
antipathy isl.A baipable fact which no
one fails to feSognixe--sn antipathy
not less rtfoHg among the Northern
than the Southern whites. However
the former may, on the score Of matter
political, Pr6tess themselves special
friends to the blacks, the question Of
intermarrlage and social equality, when
brought to practical test, they will
not touch with the end Of the little fin
ger. Whether it be that the blacks,
because of the former condition of serv-
itude, are regarded as a permanently
degraded class whether is be that the
whites, from their historic eminence,
are possessed with a consciousness of
superiority which spurns alliance-the
fact thai fusion is impossible no one in
his senses can deny.
"The inference drawn from the fac
tors of the foregoing argument DIRE,
FIRST, that the status of the black popu
lation, as a distinct and alien race,
coRdeluns the race to remain, in perPe;
fuate, the laboring class. individuals
here and there BY force of peculiaf tall
ent and fortunate circumst anccs attain
high positions, or such positions may
be conferred in thei interests Of s6iie
political party. The heart knows,
however. tina, the incumbenss are rec
ognized with an involuntary vince.
they are tolerated by reason of their
fewneww. The mass Of the blacks are
held back in their state of toll 1t is
the mandate of American instinct. The
foreigner readily assimilates with the
mass of American population, and the
attainment of the highest social or po-
litical privilege or distinction is limited
solely by the worth of his Individual
ty. The Transformation of the African
BY intermarriage and soeial association
into natural American being impossi-
BILE, any advancement Of the blacks is
merely an advancement of the Arr
can as such The advancement of the
blacks, therefore, becomes d menace to
the the whites. No two free races, re-
naming distinctly apart; eau advance
side by side without struggling for su-
premaey. The thing is impossible.
The world has never witnessed it, and
priori grounds are all against it.
Hence, the whites IHsflhctively oppose
the black Invasion Gas il were) aud
seck to keep this psStAS below The liz
Dor line; aid large superiority, a,
present, in numberss aud vastly lar
ger superiority ID intelligence anil
wealth, make them easily, and perhaps
without conscious effort, successful.
Smother inference drawn ia h1t q
distinct and alien race like the blacks
will always IN the main vote together.
Commenting on the mistake Of giving
the privilege or the ballot 10 people
just freed from the bonds Of slavery,
and characterized as a whole BY pro-
found ignorance, the Profess Y says
That no greater harm has resulted is
because white intelligence has been
able to exert controlling iNfiuence
and shaped fegishtton. Certainly,
while the whites were DISTINGUISHED and
the blacks politically supreme, the
state of the soukh Vas Msolarablc
What, then, he AXIS, will the upshot
be when the blacks numerically will SO
far exceed the whites as IA Overtime
the vantage that the superior wealth
and intelligence Of the latter now give
'heml The outlook here, he answers,
is no less serio"s. Whatever civic ca
pability the blacks may have it is now
in germ; whatever GO srnoring aptitude
the race may possess it is at present
dormant. In the history of nations il
has nowhere as yet been exhibited
Improve as the race may, the profess
sor thinks that in every political virtue