Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-01-02
Rle,nenss OF "A Race war.


for stinging diatribes against the dominant,
race. They always take it for granted
that the whites are in the wrong, and no
matter what may be the origin of a col
lision, it is invariably assigned to poll
tics. These people do not stop to
think that they are pursuing course
which may, in the end, lead to
the most terrible consequences. The
conditions of society in the South are
such that it will require the utmost for
bearance on the part of both races to
prevent frequent and bloody collisions.
1t is natural that there should be more
or less friction between the blacks and
the whites, especially in sections where
their numbers are equal, or nearly so.
But when to this is superadded
the fact that the Negroes can always
count upon the sympathy of great
party in the North, it follows that its
tendency will be in those sections to
make the Negro arrogant and aggressive.
This will almost inevitably lead to fire.
quent race collisions, and these collisions
will be the precursors of very disturbed
and alarming condition that may arise
in the South sooner then we anticipate.
1t is manifest that all the elements ex-
list in the South for race war. The new
generation OF blacks have none of the
soft and kindly feelings that character.
lied the relations OF their predecessors
towards the whites. Or, if they have,
those sentiments are being rapidly
blunted by their new political condition.
and by the fact that the Negroes have
become an object of party interest, not
for themselves, but for the benefit OF the
party which is trying to establish over
them a sort of political protectorate.
The whole tendency of this condition is
to ALLEVIATE whatever friendliness SUBJ
sists between the two races at present,
and to substitute feelings of distrust that
will naturally ripen into enmity.
What the outcome of this alienation
will be it is not difficult to foresee. 1t is
the duty of the North to allay the grow
ing passions of the South instead of in
flaming them. The whites of the South
are not to be envied in the situation
which confronts them. They find grow
ing up in their midst hostile element
Every trifing outbreak of passion which
results in a difficulty or blood.
shed between the whites and the blacks
is magni6ed by Republican newspapers
and politicians, and without knowing the
facts, they do not hesitate in all cases to
place the whites in the wrong. Perhaps
in many instances both are in the wrong,
and both arc the victims Of the circum-
stances which surround them. The Ne
groes are naturally becoming more as
sertive from year to year. They are
perhaps arriving at that period Of
development in which inherited an
tagonisms are taking the shape of
seated hostility. Their numbers and
their strength help to intensity this grow
ing spirit, and the fact that they feel sure
of the sympathy of great party in the
North in any stand they may take, en-
boldens them to q carriage and mode of
conduct that tends to accelerate state of
affairs, which, in one of it's phases, was
strikingly defined by the late
William H. Seward as an "irrepressible
conflict" 1t will require all the pa
tience, all the forbearance, all the best
judgment of the cool heads of the white
people of the South to steer their Sec
ton safely through the conditions
which exist there. Instead of hos
tility and unfriendliness from the
North, they ought to have the
sympathy and friendship of our
people. 1t will soon be not
question as to whether the Negroes vote
the Republican or the Democratic ticket
but question as to whether the peace,
order and safety of society can be main
tanned at all in those portions of the
South where the blacks outnumber
the whites. If the time should
come when false sympathy
based upon partisan foundations shall
have eliminated in scenes such as were
once Witnessed ir Hayti, there will be
such reaction in the North as will make
those who are now doing all they can to
fan the embers of race antagonism into
a portentous flame, experience the most
poignant regrets for the part they are
taking against their white brethren in
the South.
GOVERNOR HILLS inaugural address
Yesterday is a paper that will attract
attention. He discusses the growing evil
of corrupting the franchise by vote-buy.