Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-11-10
With an effort he restrained his an
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lied communities"
1--WE fought no war of conquest
quietly urged the president, but one
Of self preservation as an indissoluble
Union. No state ever got out of 1t,
by the grace of God and the power OF
our arms. Now that we have won,
and established for all time its unity,
shall we stultify ourselves by declar-
ing we were wrong? These states
must be Immediately restored to their
rights, or we shall betray the blood we
have shed. There are no conquered
provinces for us to spoil. A nation
cannot make conquest of its own terri
tory"
But we are acting outside the con-
stit ition," interrupted Stoneman.
| Congress has no existence outside
the constitution" was the quick an
swer.
The old Coms1oner scowled, and his
beetling brows hid for q moment his
eyes. His keen intellect was catching
it's first glimpse Of the intellectual
grandeur of the man with whom he
was graphing. The facility with which
he could see all sides Of question, and
the vivid imagination which lit his
mental processes were revelation. We
always underestimate the men we de-
spise.
why not out with it?" cried Stone
man, suddenly changing his tack.
You are determined to oppose negro
suffrage?"
81 have suggested to Governor Hahn
of Louisiana to consider the policy OF
admitting the more intelligent and
those who served in the, war. 1t Is
only a suggestion. The state alone has
the power to confer the ballot"
But the truth is this little 'sugges-
ton of yours is only a bone thrown to
radical dogs to satisfy our bowling for
| the moment! In your soul of souls,
you don't believe in the equality Of
man If the man under comparison be
a negro?"
II believe that there is a physical
difference between the white and black
races which will forever forbid their
living together on terms of political
and social equality. If such be at
| tempted, one must go to the wall"
Very well, pin the southern white
man to the wall. Our party and the
Nation will then be safe"
| That is TO say destroy African sla-
very and establish white slavery under
negro masters! That would be prog
ress with vengeance"
| A grim smile twi;ched the old mans
lips as he said:
| Yes your prim conservative snobs
and male waiting maids in congress
went into Mysteries when I armed the
regroes. Yet the heavens have not
| fallen"
True. Yet no more insane blunder
could now be made than any further
attempt to use these negro troops.
There can be no such thing as restor-
| ing this Union to it's basis of fra;ernal
peace with armed negroes, wearing the
uniform Of this Nation, trampling over
/ rOrcino tho hQ QpQt
sions of the freedmen and their former
masters General Butler, their old
commander, Is now making plans for
| their removal, at my request He ex-
cts to dig the Panama canal with
these black troops"
| Fine scheme that-on a par with
your messages to congress asking for
the colonisation Of the whole negro
racei"
1T will come to that ultimately, y"
said the president, firmly. 1.-The negro
has cost us $5,00O,OO0 900 the desc
,ation of ten great states, and rivers
of blood. We can we'll afford a few
| million dollars more to effect a per-
manent settlement of the issue. This
is the only policy on which Seward and
l have differed"
Then seward was not an utterly
hopeless fool. I'm glad to hear some
thing to his credit" growled the old
| Commoner.
81 have urged the colonisation Of the
| negroes and l shall continue until 1t
| is accomplished My emancipation pro-
clamation was linked with this plan.
| Thousands of them have lived in the
north for a hundred years, yet not one
is the pastor of a white church,
| Judge, a governor, a mayor, or a COL
lege president There Is no room for
two distinct races Of white men In
America. much less for two distinct
races of whites and blacks. We can
have no inferior servile class, peon or
peasant We must assimilate or expel.
The American is a citizen king or
nothing / can conceive of no greater
calamity than the assimilation of the
negro into our social and political life
as our equal A mulatto ciZeasihip
would be too dear a price to pay even
FOR emancipation"
Words have no power to express
my loathing for such twaddle!' cried
Stoneman, swapping his great jaws to-
gether ard pursuing his lips with con-
tempt.
IF the negro were not here would we
allow him to land?" the president went
on, as if talking to himself. THE
duty to exclude carries the right to
expel Within twenty years, we can
peacefully co!onise the negro In the
:ropics, and give him our language,
literature religion, and system of gov
ernment under conditions in which he
can rise to the full measure OF man.
hood. This he can never do here. II
was the fear Of the black tragedy be-
hind emancipation that led the south
into the insanity of secession. We can
never attain the ideal Union our faith
ers dreamed, with millions of an alien,
inferior race among US, whose assim-
ilatior is neither possible nor desirable.
The Nation cannot now exist half
white and half black, any more than
it could exist half slave and half free:
yet God hath made Of one blood all
races" quoted the cynic with a sneer.
"Yes-but finish the sentence-'and
fixed the bounds OF their habitation.'
God never meant that the negro should
leave his habitat or the white man in
!. wade his home. Our violation OF this
law is written I'm two centuries or
shame and blood. And the tragedy
will not be closed until the black man
. is restored to his home"
"I marvel that the minors Of slavery
: elec: ed Jeff Davis their chief with so
!. much better material at hand!'
His election was a tragic and su-
perfluous blunder. I am the president
!, of the United States, north and south,
was the firm reply.
particularly the SOUTH" hissed
Stoneman. During all this hideous
war, they have been your pets-these
: rebel savages who have been murder
ing our sons. You have been the ever
, ready champion of traitors. And you
: low dare to bend this high office to
their deferce-"
my God, Stoneman, are you man
: or a savage!" cried the president. is
> not the north equally responsible for
slavery? Has not the south lost all?
: Have not the southern people paid the
3 full penalty of all the crimes of war
Are our skirts free? Was Sherman's
} march a picnic? This war has been
t giant conflict of principles to decide
| whether we are n bundle of petty SOW
t ereignties held by a rope Of sand or a
mighty nation of freemen. But for the
: LOYALTY Of four border southern states
but for Farragut and Thomas and
I their two hundred thousand heroic
, southern brethren who fought for the
Union against their own flesh and
blood, we should have lost. You can
l not indict a people, .,