The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1884-02-28
IN OBEDIENCE TO DIVINE LAW.

,1dlneu, Represents WIdSSpTed1 SeuN |
.iment among the negroes of the I
United States in advocating the set
ing aside of some portion of the great
west for their colonization. 1t is
claimed that the negroes desire sep
aration Of the races, and we are not
from plain indications IN
the South, since the emancipation of
the slaves. to say that such declaration
as to their disposition is not true Ger
tainly it Is no hidden thing that every |
tendency, since emancipation, has been
towards more complete separation of |
whites and blacks, and a by no means
strange condition of this dispo.
sition is that the latter are |
peculiarly marked in such de- |
sire. Very natural reasons exist for
this desire for separation on the part
of the negroes, Is it is, they are now
a component part of q society in
which they form weak integral part,
and being sensible enough to recog-
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their inadaptability to better social re-
lations, they gravitate towards race
separation. This has been especially
shown in their Religious relations.
As soon as emancipated the negroes
prepared for and effected complete
separation in church matters. Then,
While the whites have been deter
mined to kesp the races separate in
the schools, the negroes have been
fully as well determined in this res
pect to draw sharp lines. Everything
has tended towards separation, and
Senator Ingalls,, we are prepared to
say, does not misrepresent sentiment
when he says the negroes desire sepa-
rate political as well as social and re-
ligious distinction. The memorial
placed in his hands recites alleged OPP
pressive treatment by the whites
North as well as Southland it might
be added that this treatment is the
more oppressive where the nat
ural characteristics Of the negro
are least known - at the
North. 1t is presented in the
memorial that the condition of the
negro race in the United States can
never be bettered until there Is sepa-
ration, until the negroes can shape
their own destiny under political and
social conditions fixed by themselves
and not by their masters, the whites.
The leader in this movement is John
w. Niles, of Arkansas, who has been
named the apostle Of the colored in
demnity party. While he moves for
separate recognition by the govern
ment Of the United States, he also at
tempts to negotiate with the sister
republic, and has made formal apI cal
to Mexico to learn whether the negroes
will be permitted to COLOMBO in
Sonora and in Southern California.
African slavery has been the greatest
curse Of this country-an institution
imposed upon the South for the graf
fication of Yankee greed and gain,
while the profits of slavery were
wholly absorbed by Northern people.
African slavery was planted in the
South by Northern people, while under
constitutional guarantees the South
ern people were led to
invest their all in the in
stitution to be impoverished through
its abolition by the same influences
that established slavery and which SO
long reaped the wealth it produced.
THE STATESMAN does not belong to a
class in the South which is ready to
yield every high principle to present
material needs; it does not admit that
the mixture of the races is the best
thing for all, while 1t does admit that
the negroes are in better condition
now. under the influence Of whites,
than they could possibly be by them
selves. America was once the undis-
turbed home Of the red man, a wild
and untutored race like the negro of
Africa. He has passed away under
the march of civilization, and 30 will
the black races of Africa give way
and cease to exist in the very land
where Ithey have existed for thous-
ands of centuries. The black man is
inferior, as is the red man, to the
white, and supremacy for whites is
natures birthright. Were the negroes
suddenly removed from the Southern
states its effect would be damaging to
the interests Of these states, but this
is impossible. Were the plan of sepa-
ration adopted the colonization would
be gradual, and for every negro that
left those states there would be
two whites coming in to replace them.
The plan Of separation would be a
difficult one. and it may even be i'm
possible, but if accomplished 1t would
be an untold blessing in the end, to
the Southern states. We have seen
how. under the influence of increasing
population for several wears,
the South's material prosperity has adj
vanced, and we may also discern where
Sinegambian populations most
abound, that the darkest clouds hover.
AS already said, we regard this move
ment Of separation of the faces as quite
utopian, but really in the direction
Of the observance of Gods grandest
law. He has created distinct races, and
in all instances where the law of dis
tinct blood has been violated superb
ority is lost. In these distinct races
there is an ascending scale, at the bot
tom of which stands the negro, at
the top the white mantle Caueas-
sian. God created them a long
distance apart, and every move
calculated to perpetuate d.
vine distinction is in obedience
to supreme will. If the negroes select
separation let them have it, by all
means. They are satisfied their con-
dition will be thus bettered; we are
satisfied the condition of the whites
will be enhanced, and in the ages to
come that their superior integrity viii
thus be preserved.
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