Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-06

with the aid of the great Powers, to break
the chains of slavery riveted upon him by
his own. The very formation of the State
proceeded upon the basis of the inferiority
of the negro race, race that in its native
land has never made voluntary effort to
rise above the plane of slavery, or to con-
tribute thought, or a labor, an art or to
the sciences of the world, or anything of
the least service to mankind, except when
aided by civilization. For ages they have
possessed a fertile country, bred in
myriads, suffered no subjugation by foreign
powers, and the result of their contribu-
ton to the world has been limited to
slaves and the natural products of the
forests.
The negro has not, in Africa, risen as
yet high enough to repress human sacri-
fees and cannibalism, while his religion is
witchcraft attended with brutal crime.
So the assumption of the inferiority of the
race is not justly attributable to prejudice;
nor is the deep-seated aversion of all
white races the result of slavery. What
ever its source it exists, and is so
grounded in conviction and sentiment
that neither race can yield. The negro
has slight hold on any other races by mar
riage, and with whites the law prohibits it,
and no expression of race aversion could
be more distinct than this fact.
Abolition of slavery intensified this
aversion by destruction of the trust and
confidence that existed between master
and slave, and they have been supplanted
by resentment that is crystallizing under
political influences into hatred and re-
| venge. So that all political questions,
| where there is large body of negroes,
become race conflicts, are so discussed
and so voted upon. This conflict is
essentially a social controversy, and such
conflicts have attended the entire history
of English-speaking people. The In
dian would not be a slave, and we drove
him out; the Chinaman will not submit,
but becomes the rival of those who refuse
to admit him TO the family circle, and we
refuse him admission to the country.
There was no "irrepressible conflict be-
tween free and slave labor" The slave
cultivated in lines not touched by the
North. There was no competition be-
tween the two systems. Under them there
was no cause for social or political
rivalry, and neither was there friction be-
tween the laboring classes of the South.
But distinctive race aversion existed,
that nothing could prevent or modify.
When this aversion was excited by appre-
tensions of future social equality or union
of races under political pressure, it famed
up into angry adherence and became
settled antagonism. 1t was this apprehen-
sion that put the Confederate army into
the field, incited, armed and clothed by it,
and fed by bread earned by women in the
| fields
The fathers had more faith in our obedi-
ence to the Constitution than we deserved.
The repression of the slave trade was, in
the beginning, resisted by North and South
States interested in its profits. So COM
promise was written into the Constitution.
A second one followed regarding the rendi-
tion of fugitive slaves, and third made
three-6fths of the slave population basis
for extra representation in Congress and
the electoral colleges. 1t was not too
much for the North to object to this basis
of representation for Southern property
while denied to Northern property. But
the South came in under that agreement
and it was not too much for it to insist
upon the keeping of the compact.
The hope of the abolitionists as humani-
tarians and enthusiasts was that emancipa-
tion would cure the alleged conflict be-
tween free and slave labor, and qualify the
negro for unobstructed social intercourse
with the white race, and that political
equality would Danish all aversion. The
negro ballot has had the contrary effect.
1t has been used to inflict penalties on the
Southern people of resentment and race
animosity, and this has resulted in union
of whites upon race lines for security in
the South, where the history of Hayti and
Jamaica has not been forgotten.
The negro party in the South first
moved to secure race equality, social as
well as political, by compulsion of law.
The negro was fattered by the hope of be-
ing foisted upon white families. He does
not divide upon any political question, but
tests all things by this race issue, so that
natural instinct and caste are the control
ling forces in the negro movement to
them. The negro knows that not only in
the South is his political power opposed,
but also in the North. In the District of
Columbia all suffrage was stricken down
solely to disfranchise the negro, and in the
North he is practically excluded from Of
fee, State or Federal Where such rule
obtains where the negroes are very few,
it can be attributed to race aversion only.
The conclusions then are that there is
natural instructive and inerradicable race
aversion and conflict; that the races can
not be made homogeneous; that the alb
horrence Is natural which every white
woman feels against the union of her
daughter with black man; that wealth,
character, requirements, ability, do not
qualify or soften the sentiment. "Men
may yield to such considerations, or to
Others of baser sort; but the SHOWS will