Show WAR OF RACES I 1 I 1 oun our telegrams this morning bring a rather exciting account of the antagonistic attitude that is being gradually assumed towards each other by the whites and blacks of louisiana it seems that actual hostilities have commenced that several of the white inhabitants of the parish of st bernard just below new orleans have been killed billed by the negroes while others through fear of a similar fate have left their thein homes and sought refuge inthe in the latter place so high did the excitement run that a band of whites collected in 0 Orleans for the purpose of going to the scene of action but their departure was prevented by general rosseau ros Eos seau the latter considering that the troops were amply imply able to preserve order two companies of infantry were dispatched to the scene of disorder and a report was in circulation that they had been attacked but the result or particulars were not known for a considerable time past according to the public press the shouldering ing but implacable hate that seems to exist between the people of the South southern brn states and their former slaves has occasionally sio nally burst forth giving painful evidence of its bitterness and intensity the affairs at millican texas and at camilla in georgia furnish sanguinary and deadly instances on every hand all ali throughout the former slave holding states the same feeling exists to a very wide extent and though the abolitionists of the north backed by the power of congress have emancipated the slaves and are doing their best to enfranchise fi and make theun them equal eual in the I 1 eye of the law with their white neighbors the latter almost to a unit seem determinedly opposed to buch such a state of things hence although in many parts of the south negroes have been elected to the local legislatures and to other public offices and admitted to the bar their attempted elevation is viewed with intense disgust and various expedients have been resorted to to prevent them reaping the benefits arising from their changed condition most of of the legislatures to which they have been elect elected ed have endeavored to raise some legal or technical point which would prevent them taking their seats and the georgia I 1 legislature although it is admitted that their action is unconstitutional went so far as to expel twenty three colored members under the old slave code which declares a man with one eighth negro blood in his veins is not a citizen this antipathy to the ne negro groso llo flo strongly manifested in the connection with ku klux and other similar organizations zat ions designed to prevent him en enjoying joy those rights to which he is now entitled is naturally enough widening the breach bre achand and intensifying hate and ana ill will and leading to the commission of aggravated outrages in various localities which clearly show that the fire is spreading and that at any moment the outbreak of a war between the two races is actually imminent some short time since a mulatto member of the louisiana legislature referring to outrages committed commett 4 on the colored race in louisiana declared that if they were not stopped a most fearful and terrible vengeance would be taken by the blacks our telegrams today to day beem seem to indicate that his words are hastening to a fulfillment fulfilment more recently murders and outrages in north carolina led to a meeting of negroes in order to take steps to prevent their recurrence eur cur rence renee reports similar to these from various parts of the south indicate that the patience of the negro is well nigh exhausted and that at the first opportunity he will retaliate the blacks though uneducated and ignorant feel that they are men and that by the laws and constitution of the country they have the right to life and the pursuit of happiness chappin 1 ess and should efforts be made to deprive them of those rights and to subject them to indignity and cruelty it is not pio plo probable babie bable that they will continue to endure it and if the law is insufficient to secure to them the rights it professedly guarantees to them they will be likely sooner or later to fight for them A war of races may be looked upon by many as a very improbable event and just at present it may be so seeing that t the e black population are neither armed nor organized and are so greatly in the m minority ino rity but who can tell what is in the he autu future e ten years rears ago who believed that such a desolating desolating ar war wan as has since passed over our country would ever take place that however was foretold by the almighty through his servant the prophet joseph jooeph smith twenty eight years before it commenced and the very place in which it should be inaugurated charleston carolina designated that predict prediction io n was disregarded an and d disbelieved by all save the latter day saints none would beho behold d with gr greater ater sorrow than we the 0 outbreak at break of a war between the races but at the risk of being styled alarmists alarmiste alar mists we would warn the people that this dreadful contingent cont contingency ingeni cy will have to be met in the course coarse 0 of our national history the lord whose word never fails falls has foretold it in the same revelation as that in which the tho rebellion was foretold given in december 1832 he says that after many days the slaves shall rise 2 against their masters this is as sure to come to pass and bo be fulfilled as it has been spoken it may be disregarded and despised by all people save the latter day saints but they know that the word of him in whom they have believed never fails falls the probability of such a fearful contingency tin gency may well be thought of with horror smarting under a sense of generations erat ions of wrong at the hands of the white man such a war whenever inaugurated au augu 0 rated will be one of extermination and will be hafed waged with a cruelty and ferocity unparalleled lebed in the annals of history the white race may laugh at ht the idea now and may and doubtless will continue in their present ruinous course becoming more weakened and divided among themselves and increasing their cruel and unjust measures towards the negro race but t tiie tile 1 e latter sooner or later armed and organized and led on by some modern louissant louverture will go forth and as far as in their power lies reenact re enact on a A fearfully ear fully rully extended baale scale iho tho lb berrid horrid scenes which have been witnessed in hayti and jamaica would that it could be otherwise but the lord has spoken it and it can not fail fall |