The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
Race Antipathies.

The collisions between the whites and
blacks in Mississippi bring into strong
relief characteristic of mankind that
lacked explanation and rationale until
the appearance of the "Origin of Spe
cies." From that epoch-making work
we learn that race prejudice is not con-
fined to man. Desperate struggles be-
tween different species of the same fam
lily of animals are raging now and have
ever ragged Every acre of territory is
fought for, and wide regions are totally
depopulated of fauna of one variety by
another species differing, perhaps, only
in color. The red squirrel looks upon
the presence of the black as an imperti-
nence, and the black is made uncom-
Portable by the neighborhood of tine gray
Evern plants have antipathies that
philosopher would blush to own, and
have their Waterloos in which sap flows
like water. At any rate, there is many
an Alsace and Lorraine in the vegetable
world towards which We half fancy that
the vanquished and expelled look back
with longing eyes, amid much rafting
of stems and brandishing of thorns.
And, had the Greeks known anything of
the Survival of the fttest," no doubt
they would have linked into verse and
fashioned into legend the laments of
Dryad and 4Aamydriad, when the syca
more drove the oak from tha,aa,,sssF11-
watered banks -: TO the
pine expelled it FROM the rtSgs1 slopes
of Olympus. But it might be thought
that, though white clover will not con-
sent to dwell in peace with red, and
the red fox declines to accede to any
,nodus cirendi with the gray--it might
be thought that men would be wiser.
Are we not all brothers?
The truth lies in the other direction.
The animosity of animals arises only
upon contact, the antipathies of man
time can hardly blunt or distance soften.
The Celt hates the Saxon, though the
ocean rolls between England and
America; though more than two centu-
ries lie between our day and the battle
of the Boyne. Slav, Magyar, Teuton,
by their undying animosities, keep alive
the undyine Eastern question: ques-
ton that blood and iron alone can
solve. German and Gaul dwell side by
side in the provinces wrested from
France by Bismarck; but which of the
two is to be master there is a
question that will yet choke the Rhine
with corpses The Indian is man and
brother; vet the sentiment has been
boldly uttered and heard with the ap-
plause due, to wit: that dead Indians
alone are good; and just the other day
there rose amid the fluttering of flags and
the blare of trumpets-there rose in
philanthropic New England stately
monument to a man who would have
been handed down to eternal execratiOn
had his proves been exhibited against
the white race instead Of the red man.
To us, accustomed to see men of every
nationality pouring into our broad
borders, the race animosities OF Europe
seem hardly Ineligible. But we know
thar they exist as fundamental and ln-
eradicable facts that no statesman can
ignore or for a moment forget without
peril. That there are troubles at the
South, therefore, no thoughtful man will
find surprising, when the t~o races, un.
like those of Europe, differ by the total
width of the skye No nation in the tide
of time ever had so momentous problem
on its hands-a problem so fraught with
serious impossibllities that to make light
of it is the mark neither of wise head
nor patriotic heart.-NetC York Com
meyridL LddrertiSer.