Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-11-14
WHITES AND BLACKS.

the black race everywhere-we do not
mean the Asiatic race, but the African
and ii will have to make up it's mind
very soon as to tho conditions of its
otherwise there will be
misery among the blacks and demorali-
zation among the whites. Except in
Hayti, there ia now no black race
which is not under white sovereignty,
or expecting white sovereignty, or
preparing itself for last fight in pro-
test against that encroaching domin-
ion. In East Africa, South Africa,
West Africa, the Congo State. the
West Indies, and the Southern States
of America, the white dominion is sH
preme, and the tide is still rolling on,
Dahomey being submerged yesterday
as Ashantee will be submerged to-mor-
row, Twenty years hence no black
will be able to live happily save by
consent of some white people, and the
responsibility assumed by the latter
will be complete, and, we are compelled
to add, most terrible. They must,
therefore, think out what it all means,
and discover some method by which
they can "reconcile the races, that
is, can enable them TO live together to
the advantage of both. or at all events,
without direct deterioration to either.
The method has not been found yet;
all experiments. so far, having proved
partial or total failures Slavery must
be accounted among the latter, for it
fossilised the blacks and demoralized
the whites, produced no reconciliation,
had little educative effect and
socially was SO unsuccessful that it was
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humanity given up. Black independ-
effeo> besides being an admission of
white failure, works badly, old history,
as well as the records of Hayti and
Liberia in modern times, both proving
that while individual blacks have dis
played considerable powers, the race as
a whole requires white guidance and
control to enable it to advance.
Equality does not succeed either. 1t
is being tried in the Southern States
of the Union, and it bids fair to breed
a race war of the most terrible kind,
while even now it produces no cor
diality in the governed, and base and
tricky hypocrisy in those who govern.
We, who are Abolitionists of the
stronger type, who would treat the
slave-trad as piracy and slave holding
as an offence, warned the North that
in giving the blacks the vote they were
making, for the sake of mere logic, an
experiment of extreme rashness. The
vote was, however, given, and proved
worthless. The black man was not
competent 10 govern, and the white
man would not endure his attempts to
do it. He was deprived of his vote by
force applied in ways that produced
excessive cruelty and injustice, and
severed the two races worse than ever
slavery hau done but force as usual;
settled nothing No security is posi-
BILE where half the population is always
under arms to prevent the other half
from exercising its legal rights, and the
whites of the Southern States are now
seeking to disfranchise the blacks by
legal means. They cannot alter the
Constitution; but they can, they think,
make it imperative, and convention
is now sitting in South Carolina to de-
wise the means. The favorite plan of
the convention. which will, it is said,
be adopted, is u very mean one. 1t is
to disfranchise all illiterate voters, and
hand over to State officer the right
of deciding whether anyone who claims
TO he literate, really is 80. That
officer, II is admitted, will have secret
instructions to admit whites, but not
blacks, and SO the whole race will
cease to claim the suffrage, and will
be legally DISTINGUISHED. That is
trickery, not craftsmanship, but we
see reason to fear that it will be
initiated in the colonies of South
Africa, where already the question
OF race is burning one, and where,
We may roly on ii, the white race,
once closely pressed in it's interests or
its pride, will submit to no govern
ment but it's own. There is no place
on earth where 80, 600 Englishmen con-
sent to foreign rule, and we may take
it as certain that the obedience which
they refuse to Dutchmen and Spaniards.
they will not concede to negroes or half
castles, however numerous or however
"civilized The white race as race
will obey no other, whatever happens.
There will be perpetual discord, rising
frequently to the dignity and horror OF
local civil war, and the end will be
either white withdrawal, or more proba-
bly, an angry and sullen submission on
the part of the blacks, almost as fatal
to true civilization as civil war itself.
We do not believe in spite of the recoil
in German and French opinion, that
slavery will ever be tried again; and
we hope that economic necessities, if
not philanthropic feeling, will avert
the expulsion en- masse which was the
Spanish plan, and which DE Tocque-
vile feared would be the end in the
North American Republic.
Is it impossible to discover princi-
pie or theory of government under which
the two colors can live together, and yet
| observe the two essential conditions
without which there can be no prog
ress; that the black man shall be free
and contented and that the white man
shall have the guidance of him? In
comparably the best system of course
is the Indian, which is the impartial
rule over both colors of an enlightened
but despotic committee, delegated and
controlled by wiso and Christian gov
ernment far away; but that method,
which is in an extraordinary degree
vivifying, is in most places now inap-
| plicable. We want principle upon
which Republicans can work, and we
helive that the one which would be
most fruitful is that the black people
should be declared to be foreign i'm
migrants, guests of the State, entitled
to the benefit of every law and every
privilege, education, for example, but
declared from political power and from
sitting on iuries, which latter indeed,
in mixed cases ought to be superseded
by properly qualified magistrates and
judges This principle, properly acted
on, would leave all power for time in
the hands of white men. without vic,
lence and without trickery, and all the
rights in the possession of the black
men which they are able to exercise
wisely. To say they would be OPP
pressed by such rule, is not true, fol-
| they would be precisely in the