The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1889-10-04
RACE TROUBLE.


! problem. II should not be confonnied
with mobs, lyuehings and regulators,
Il Is distinct and separate sgilg -
the body polite; sometimes Il beeonss
blended with The other evil, and, o.
sneh occasions, becomes most serious
and embarrassing, Bat the two evils
are not the same.
Mob YioleBce ahd-regnlatoF organ
izaiions il different forms and under
different names are only periodic risi
iations upon communities occasioned
by LEGAL Tor special Oauses. They run
their course, reach a climax, collapse,
and the distributing element snbsides,
while law again asserts itself and
holds suprsme=sway. But our race
conflicts spring from a deeper source,
as old as civilization, as deep rooted
as human nature. 1t is founded in
the distinctive love of race, which is
implanted in the breast Of every
species Of man.
The sbOrigines of western Europe
were driven out and destroyed before
the advent of the white race. The
prehistoric man Of Europe no longer
exists, the Aztec crowded ont bis pre-
decessor, and gave place to the Indian,
who in turn has found 1t impossible
TO survive in the midst Of the white
race. So, too, the negro freed in the
north was quickly removed to the
south, and now freed here the conflict
begins anew. They cannot be de-
stroyed here, as were the weaker races
in all other cases within history, be-
cause their numbers are so large that
it wonld become national hatchery,
only Justified By the most absolute
necessity Ii is not always the race
superior III intelligence and cast
which lrlnmpbs. In God providence
il has at Times, IN countries where The
loser race greatly exceed in numbers,
! been permitted there 10 triumph
Hence, We and abc blacks rplipC in
Afrlsa- and IND them driving the
whites fron hsyta
Sc, history teaches rs that two
races never did and never can JOINTLY,
equally, with eqnal s0cia aud political
rights. equally asserted and exercised,
govern and dvell in one and the same
oouulry, forming onc and the same
homogeneous community. Such
state o. affairs would result III the
extinction Of both races, and the crea-
ton Of new hybrid race by miscc-
genatloD. Assuming that the negro
loves his race, as we know that the
whites DO theirs, such contamination
would be equally repugnant to the
wishes of both.
Christianity and civilization would
lead US to believe it contrary to the
providence Of God, as degrading, de-
stroying and substituting a higher
race by hybrid inferior race. We
know that no part of the civilized
world would look with approval upon
such a result. 1t follows, therefore,
that one or the other must rule.
This principle plainly announced
in the late congressional election of
the third district is being recognized
by the southern people, as the only
way out Of the difficulty presented by
the presence OF the two races in nearly
equal numbers.
When the United States conferred
upon the negro race full political
rights, it was done in the heat of
partisan feeling, when blind passion
controlled all national Legislation
affecting the south, when the negro
vote was wanted for political purposes
1t was the legislation of absolute
ignorance. Our legislators did moi
known, they did not think of, ant
could not realize the grave question,
E political and sociaI) which would re
t suit from their action.
=. Politicians were carried away b,
ambition. Ignorant phllanthropist
by the brilliant prospect of making
3 millions Of slaves a self-goyerpinC
20 people. None realized the utter i'm
possibility of such mass of ignor
anee and immortality exercising th
c prerogatiye Of government upon prin
4 ciples Of free suffrage. The utter iu
r possibilitysof their conducting inst
b tUlions Of government, the elementar
principles of which they did not III
# derstand, the absolute impossibilit
- of their preserving the love of civ
liberty, when emerging from SLAYER
70 with no other ideas except submi
sion, or oppression. Without educ
n ton, morality, marriage in its tru
sense, religion or honesty, withot
p national pride, Or patriotism with b.
g limited intelligence. But the pri
iIege Of suffrage was conferred, ii
problem, political and social, force
Is upon rs.
re- No wonder that race troubles al
!. continually occurring no wonder tn
" race wars are continually threateOei
Until the mighty problem has bet
solved By one race or the other, reool
nizing the superior power and inis
" ligenee Of the other and submitlir
or to the government BY that superior rae
these troubles win continue.
Will such a result ever be reached
~ Not while portions Of our own ra
IL beyond our borders continue tori