Department of Miscellany [pp. 581-588]

582 MISCELLANY.
Charleston Daily News, is clear, concise and convincing, and its dissemination by the conservative press in the North has doubtless had its influence
in the great work now in progress, of remodeling public sentiment. With
a change of proprietors we are gratified to note a marked improvement in
the tone and sentiment of our contemporary:
The world moves by fixed laws. It is impossible that these should be
changed. They are immutable and have been ordained for a wise purpose.
He who would resist these laws, opposes himself, to nature, and merits the
reward of his folly-a perfect failure.
One of the laws governing the world, one of the necessary elements of our
nature, is, that man should in the first place cling to his family. Without
this law, society never could be organized, and man, like the brute, would be
unable to rise above the condition in which he was originally placed. This
would be the case even if parental affection should exist, as it does with
beasts, long enough to enable the child to provide for himself.
The next of the social laws is, that man must cling to his home. This is
the necessary consequence of the love of family. A man's home is the centre of all his associations. There is to be found his family; there are his
friends; there are his interests. Whatever may be his lot in life, wherever
his destiny may be cast, his thoughts, his sentiments, his affections will always turn toward that spot of earth, however humble it may be; however
sterile its soil; however inhospitable its climate.
The third law is, that man will cling to his race wherever that race may
be found. This has been true since the beginning, this must be true until
the end of time.
Family, home, race, these are the three first sympathies of man, and
whilst the first two are the bonds that unite man with society, the last is the
great moving cause of every different civilization which has impressed itself
upon the world.
When two civilizations meet, they will either clash as did the Mah(mmedan and Christian in Europe, or they must amalgamate as did the Greek,
Roman and German. Where two races meet on equal ground, there will be
equal ambition, equal desire for advancement, and equal efforts to obtain
the ascendancy. From these causes there must arise a constant struggle for
supremacy. Both cannot and will not exist together. One or the other
must be destroyed or the two must amalgamate.
The radical leaders in the United States know that this is true, but what
do they care for truth if they can retain power. Those who mould the opinion of that party, in spite of all their high sounding phrases and hollow
philanthrpy, know, that with equal suffrage, one or the other race must be
destroyed. They also know that there are thirty-two millions of white men
in this country, and that there are about four millions of negroes. They
also know that there can be no amalgamation of races, and that the hand of
God has placed upon the face of each a widely separating and distinctive
mark. They know too, that if ever a contest comse, there will be eight
white men on the side opposed to one negro on the other, and that in such a
contest the negro would necessarily perish. What care they, however, for
this? The destruction of a race can not take place in a generation, and they
are living in the present and mean to retain power during their lives. Their
motto is apres nous le deluge, after us let the deluge come.
If the radical party had contented itself with setting the negro free, and
securing to him civil rights, we could have no cause to complain. The
South readily accepted this as a result of the war, and cheerfully yielded the
demand.
A stake is played for in every game, in the game of war as well as any
other. The North won and the South was ready to pay, and did pay. While
our fields have been devastated; our railroads destroyed; our homes burned
to the ground, and our material prosperity checked, we did not complain at