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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Alternative: A Separate Nationality, or The Africanization of the South + +Author: William Henry Holcombe + +Release Date: September 10, 2010 [EBook #33696] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFRICANIZATION *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + +</pre> + + + +<div class="figcenter"><img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="" /></div> +<p class="center"><a href="#title_text"><small>Text of Title Page</small></a></p> + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_1" id="Page_1">[Pg 1]</a></span></p> +<h1>THE ALTERNATIVE:</h1> +<h2>A Separate Nationality, or the Africanization of the South.</h2> + +<p><br />A sectional party, inimical to our institutions, and odious to our +people, is about taking possession of the Federal Government. The seed +sown by the early Abolitionists has yielded a luxurious harvest. When +Lincoln is in place, Garrison will be in power. The Constitution, either +openly violated or emasculated of its true meaning and spirit by the +subtleties of New England logic, is powerless for protection. We are no +longer partners to a federal compact, but the victims of a consolidated +despotism. Opposition to slavery, to its existence, its extension and +its perpetuation, is the sole cohesive element of the triumphant +faction. It did not receive the countenance of a single vote in any one +of the ten great cotton States of the South! The question is at length +plainly presented: submission or secession. The only alternative left us +is this: <i>a separate nationality or the Africanization of the South</i>.</p> + +<p>He has not analyzed this subject aright nor probed it to the bottom, who +supposes that the real quarrel between the North and the South is about +the Territories, or the decision of the Supreme Court, or even the +Constitution itself; and that, consequently, the issues may be stayed +and the dangers arrested by the drawing of new lines and the signing of +new compacts. The division is broader and deeper and more incurable than +this. The antagonism is fundamental and ineradicable. The true secret of +it lies in the<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_2" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</a></span> total reversion of public opinion which has occured in +both sections of the country in the last quarter of a century on the +subject of slavery.</p> + +<p>It has not been more than twenty-five years since Garrison was dragged +through the streets of Boston with a rope around his neck, for uttering +Abolition sentiments; and not thirty years since, the abolition of +slavery was seriously debated in the Legislature of Virginia. Now, on +the contrary, the radical opinions of Sumner, Emerson and Parker, and +the assassination schemes of John Brown, are applauded in Fanueil Hall, +and the whole Southern mind with an unparalelled unanimity, regards the +institution of slavery as righteous and just, ordained of God, and to be +perpetuated by man. We do not propose to analyze the causes of this +remarkable revolution, which will constitute one of the strangest +chapters of history. The fact is unquestionable. To understand +rationally the events which are transpiring, and to forsee their +inevitable issue, it is necessary to examine this element of discord +between the Northern and Southern people, to investigate its true nature +and extent, and weigh carefully the prospect of its cure.</p> + +<p>The Northern mind has become thoroughly anti-slavery in sentiment. Even +those who contend for our constitutional rights share in the universal +opinion that slavery is a great moral and social evil. Those who have +adopted the pro-slavery view are exceedingly few in numbers, and are +regarded by the mass of Northern people as more fanatical than the most +extreme Abolitionist. The press, the pulpit, the rostrum of the North +are clamorous with declamation against us and our institutions. Slavery +is considered not only immoral but debasing to both owner and owned. It +is, they say, a relic of barbarism and a disgrace to an enlightened +people. We are not regarded as equals but are merely tolerated, as +persons whom they in their wisdom may possibly reform and improve. +Churches refuse us participation in religious rites, and a<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_3" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</a></span> baleful +element of religious hate adds fuel to the fire of political dissension. +From present appearances, the North will before very long be unanimous +in opinion, and if it has the power or can invent the means, it will be +ready to reduce the South to the condition of Hayti and Jamaica, and +expect the approval of God upon the atrocity.</p> + +<p>It is unquestionably true, although it be upon false issues, that the +sympathies of the civilized world are united against us. The name of +slavery is hateful to the ears of freemen and of those who desire to be +free. The wise and just subordination of an inferior to a superior race, +is rashly confounded with the old systems of oppression and tyranny, +which stain the pages of history and have excited the righteous +indignation of the world. We are supposed to have proved recreant to the +great principles and examples of the liberators of mankind. It is almost +impossible at present to disabuse the public mind of Europe and of the +North of this shallow prejudice. In the meantime, whilst carrying out +the designs of Providence in relation to the negro race, we must rest +for a while under a cloud of obloquy and abuse. Let us be faithful to +our sublime trust, and future ages will appreciate the grandeur and +glory of our mission.</p> + +<p>The pro-slavery sentiment is of recent development. It is more recent +than any of the great inventions which have created the distinctive +forms of our modern civilization. It is more recent than many of the +great innovations of thought which now agitate mankind. The great and +good fathers of our Republic unquestionably entertained anti-slavery +sentiments or predilections, and the flippant Abolitionist thinks he has +silenced us forever by quoting the <ins class="correction" title="original: opionions">opinions</ins> of Washington and Jefferson +and Madison on this subject. The anti-slavery sentiment of that era was +partly derived from the radical influence of the French revolution, the +mad frenzies of which fearful convulsion, the fanatics of the North may +yet repeat<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_4" id="Page_4">[Pg 4]</a></span> in the Western hemisphere. It was partially also deduced +from narrow, uncertain and sometimes false premises. The lapse of time +has secured us a better stand-point. Africa has been explored and the +African studied, anatomically, socially, morally, ethnologically and +historically. Not only the physical science of man but the philosophy of +history itself has been almost created since the days of the revolution. +The question of slavery has been thoroughly sifted. The metaphysical and +theological as well as the political bearings of the subject have been +closely scrutinized. Liberia is before us with its feeble and precarious +existence, with its little torch of civilization nearly extinguished by +the foul atmosphere of surrounding heathenism. St. Domingo is before us +with its bloody teachings, and Jamaica with its silent monitors of +pauperism and decay. The meagre slave population of the last century has +increased to four millions. Cotton and sugar have risen to an +unparalleled political and industrial importance, so that the whole +civilized world is deeply interested in its maintenance of African +slavery. And lastly, though not leastly, the free negro settlements in +the North and in Canada are social experiments for our analysis and +instruction.</p> + +<p>This pro-slavery party includes, with insignificant exceptions, nine +millions of people of Anglo-Saxon blood. It is diffused over territory +sufficient for a mighty empire. It contends that its principles are +based upon large and safe inductions, made from an immense accumulation +of facts in natural science, political economy and social ethics. It +holds the most prominent material interests, and thereby the peace of +the world in its hands; a wise provision of Providence for its +protection, since those who cannot be controlled by reason, may be +withheld by fear.</p> + +<p>In opposition to the prevailing sentiment of the North, we believe that +men are created neither free nor equal. They are born unequal in +physical and mental endowments, and no possible circumstances or culture +could ever raise the negro race to any genuine<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_5" id="Page_5">[Pg 5]</a></span> equality with the white. +Man is born dependant, and the very first step in civilization was for +one man to enslave another. A state of slavery has been a disciplinary +ordeal to every people who have ever developed beyond the savage +condition. Those who cannot be reduced to bondage, like the American +Indian, perish in their isolated and defiant barbarism. Freedom is the +last result, the crowning glory of the long and difficult evolution of +human society. Few nations have yet attained to that lofty standard. +Those who say that the French, the Italians or the Prussians, are not +yet fit for freedom, and are still unable to appreciate the blessings of +constitutional liberty, would thrust the splendid privilege of +Anglo-Saxon superiority upon the semi-barbarous negro! What folly, what +madness!</p> + +<p>Man has no “inalienable rights”—not even those of “life, liberty, and +the pursuit of happiness.” If the life he leads, the liberty he enjoys, +and the happiness he pursues, are not consistent with the order and +well-being of society, he may righteously be deprived of them all. +Instead of that “glittering generality,” which might serve as a motto +for the wildest anarchy, the truth is, that men and races of men have +certain natural capacities and duties, and the right to use the one and +discharge the other. That government is the best, and its people the +happiest, not in which all are free and equal, but in which equal races +are free, and the inferior race is wisely and humanely subordinated to +the superior, whilst both are controlled by the sacred bonds of +reciprocal duty.</p> + +<p>The negro is a permanent variety of the human race, inferior to almost +all others in intellect, but possessing an emotional nature capable of +the most beautiful cultivation. The greater part of this race in its +native Africa is sunk in the deepest barbarism. What little civilization +a few tribes may have, has been imposed upon them by Arabic and Moorish +conquerors. Left to themselves, these poor people would no doubt remain +barbarous forever; but when<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_6" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</a></span> domesticated by the white man, they are +elevated and christianized. The transfer in their bondage, from black +men to white men, by the slave trade, was the first dawn of promise to +the benighted children of Africa. It was permitted by God in order to +teach us the way in which the dark races are to be elevated and +civilized. Jamaica and Hayti have also been permitted, as timely and +salutary warnings, not to desert the path which was marked out by +Providence.</p> + +<p>African slavery is therefore a certain relation of capital and labor, in +which capital owns its labor and is bound to maintain and protect it. It +is only thus that an inferior race can exist in contact with a superior +one. In the Sandwich Islands, in Australia, in New Zealand, the +aborigines are passing away before the encroachments of English power +and at the mere presence of English civilization. The free negroes of +the North are dying out beneath the cold climate and the colder +charities of that region. Freedom and competition with the white man +would ultimately annihilate the negro race in the South. The only hope +of the African is in his just subordination to the superior type.</p> + +<p>Certain physical and spiritual peculiarities of the negro necessitate +his subjection to the white man. It is for his own good that he is +subjected. As long as this was doubtful or not clearly seen, the South +itself was opposed to slavery. It remonstrated with England for imposing +the institution upon it, and with Massachusetts for insisting upon a +continuance of the slave-trade for twenty years after the adoption of +the federal compact. The South is now fully convinced of the benefits +and blessings it is conferring upon the negro race. It is beginning to +catch a glimpse of the true nature and extent of its mission in relation +to this vast and growing institution. The government of the South is to +protect it; the Church of the South is to christianize it; the people of +the South are to love it, and <ins class="correction" title="original: improves">improve</ins> it and perfect it. God has +lightened our<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_7" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</a></span> task and secured its execution by making our interests +happily coincide with our duty.</p> + +<p>We anticipate no terminus to the institution of slavery. It is the means +whereby the white man is to subdue the tropics all around the globe to +order and beauty, and to the wants and interests of an ever-expanding +civilization. What may happen afar off in the periods of a millenial +Christianity we cannot foresee. No doubt the Almighty in his wisdom and +mercy has blessings in store for the poor negro, so that he will no +longer envy the earlier and more imposing development and fortunes of +his brethren. Some shining Utopia will beckon him also with beautiful +illusion into the shadowy future. But with those remote possibilities we +need not trouble ourselves. His present duty is evidently “to labor and +to wait.”</p> + +<p>The Southern view of the matter, destined to revolutionize opinion +throughout the civilized world, is briefly this: African slavery is no +retrograde movement, no discord in the harmony of nature, no violation +of elemental justice, no infraction of immutable laws, human or +divine—but an integral link in the grand progressive evolution of human +society as an indissoluble whole.</p> + +<p>The doctrine that there exists an “irrepressible conflict” between free +labor and slave labor is as false as it is mischievous. Their true +relation is one of beautiful interchange and eternal harmony. When each +is restricted to the sphere for which God and nature designed it, they +both contribute their full quotas to the physical happiness, material +interests, and social and spiritual progress of the race. They will +prove to be not antagonistic but complementary to each other in the +great work of human civilization. From this time forth, the subjugation +of tropical nature to man; the elevation and christianization of the +dark races, the feeding and clothing of the world, the diminution of +toil and the amelioration of all the asperities of life, the industrial +prosperity and the peace of nations, and the further glorious evolutions +of Art, Science, Literature and <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_8" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</a></span>Religion, will depend upon the amicable +adjustment, the co-ordination, the indissoluble compact between these +two social systems, now apparently rearing their hostile fronts in the +Northern and Southern sections of this country.</p> + +<p>The only “irrepressible conflict” is between pro-slavery and +anti-slavery opinion: Here indeed collision may be inconceivably +disastrous, and fanaticism may thrust her sickle into the harvest of +death. The pro-slavery sentiment is unconquerable. It will be more and +more suspicious of encroachment and jealous of its rights. It will +submit to no restriction, and scouts the possibility of any “ultimate +extinction.” Nothing will satisfy us but a radical change of opinion, or +at least of political action on the subject of slavery throughout the +Northern States. The relation of master and slave must be recognized as +right and just, as national and perpetual. The Constitution must be +construed in the spirit of its founders, as an instrument to protect the +minority from the domination of an insolent majority. The slavery +question must be eliminated forever from the political issues of the +day. No party which contemplates the restriction of our system and its +ultimate extinction can be tolerated for a moment. In assuming this bold +attitude we simply assert our obvious rights and discharge our +inevitable duty.</p> + +<p>Now the Northern mind is equally determined and defiant. It has +literally gone mad in its hostility to our institutions. The most +conservative of the Republican party look forward complacently to the +restriction and ultimate extinction of slavery, in other words, to the +Africanization of the South and our national destruction. We will see to +it that they precipitate no such calamity upon us, and we warn them to +look carefully to their own fate. When a Northern Confederacy can no +longer like a vampire suck the blood of the sleeping and compliant +South; when agrarianism and atheism and fanaticism and socialism do +their perfect work in a crowded and crowding population, will not the +dark enigmas of free-labor<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span> civilization press heavily upon it, and the +dread images evoked by the prophetic wisdom of Macauley arise +indeed—taxation, monopoly, oppression, misery of the masses, +revolution, standing armies, despotism, &c.? It may yet deserve the +strange epitaph written for this nation by Elwood Fisher:</p> + +<div class="blockquote"><p>“Here lies a people, who, in attempting to liberate the negro, lost +their own freedom.”</p></div> + +<p>Have we rightly comprehended the fearful import of those words, <i>the +Africanization of the South</i>? According to the present rate of increase, +in fifty years the negroes of these States will amount to twenty +millions. Suppose them to be restricted to their present arena. Suppose +them in addition to be free. Imagine the misery, the crime, the poverty, +the barbarism, the desolation of the country! The grass would grow in +the streets of our cities, our ships would rot in their harbors, our +plantations would become a wilderness of cane-brakes. The re-subjugation +of the negro, or the extermination of one race or the other would be +inevitable, and in any event our children would be beggared with an +inheritance of woe. Let us swear upon the altar of God, that as +Christians and citizens we will resist to the death the first step which +might lead us towards this awful abyss!</p> + +<p>If the Republican party is permitted to get into power, the +Africanization of the South may be gradual, but it will be sure. Their +leaders already boast to applauding multitudes that the heel of the +North is at last on our necks. When the power, the patronage, the +prestige of the federal government are wielded against slavery; when +Southern men take office under it, and first apologize and then approve; +when a free-soil sentiment gradually percolates through the South +itself; when the brightness of Southern honor is tarnished, and the +integrity of Southern opinion destroyed, what will be, what must be the +inevitable result? Nothing hasty or violent will be attempted. The +iniquity will be accomplished under the forms of<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span> the present +Constitution. Remember that the coins of Nero bore the image of the +Goddess of Liberty, and that a perverted Constitution is the choicest +instrument of tyranny. Lulled by pleasant narcotics, we will pass from +dreams of security, into the sleep of death. Or if we rouse ourselves at +last, and reach out for our fallen thunderbolts, we will be found, like +Sampson, blind and helpless, and they will make sport of our misery. The +silken cords with which they bind us now, will change to iron fetters in +our moment of revolt.</p> + +<p>The precedent alone would be fatal. Shall we submit to an administration +which received not a single vote in ten of our States? We could not be +represented in its cabinet, nor in any foreign mission, for what +Southern gentleman of proper sensibilities would accept office at its +hands? The South would be unrepresented at home or abroad. She would +have received a blow, politically, socially and morally, which would +ensure her destruction. This is precisely what Seward, Beecher and +Greeley are aiming at. We are to be coaxed, cheated, legislated out of +our rights and liberties. What cannot be achieved by trickery, will at +length be attempted by force. The most hateful feature in the despotism +which threaten us is its religious element. If we are outraged because +the Constitution is violated and broken, what shall we say of those +hypocrites or madmen who have perverted the Word of God to the most +detestable purposes of man!</p> + +<p>The true test of statesmanship, according to Burke, is to preserve and +improve, not to abolish and destroy. We apply this to the institution of +slavery, and are willing to accord it to the existing Union: Have we +exhausted our Constitutional remedies? Is not the Republican party +powerless for injury, and may we not anticipate a thorough reversion of +Northern judgment? These questions, and others like them, have been met +and answered a thousand times by the able leaders of the South. Nothing +but the speedy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span> and universal uprising of the Northern people in behalf +of State rights and Southern equality can preserve the Union. They have +committed the aggressions, let them make the overtures. Is this miracle +to be expected, and are we to await credulously its accomplishment? +Compromises and compacts, the temporary make-shifts of politicians and +philanthropists, will be useless. With what ingenuity the most sacred +compact may be perverted, with what facility the most perfect compromise +may be broken! You may put a new piece on the old garment, but the rent +will be made worse.</p> + +<p>The fact is, the Constitution is dead, for it carried with it the seeds +of its own dissolution. The Union has achieved its mission; the last +page of its history is written, and it may be safely deposited in the +glorious archives of the past. The genius of Anglo-Saxon liberty, when +she emigrated to these shores, bore twins in her bosom and not a single +birth. The Northern race, bold, hardy, intelligent, proud and free, will +receive into its embrace the heterogeneous spawn of European +civilization, and mold it to its own shape, and prepare it for its own +destiny. The Southern people are brave, courteous and gentle, credulous +and forbearing—loving friends, chivalrous enemies and good masters, to +whose strong and generous hands alone the Almighty would entrust the +tutelage of his most helpless and degraded children.</p> + +<p>The time for our separation has come, and let all good men unite to +avert the calamity of civil war. But at all hazards the dissolution must +come. The evolution of history, according to the laws of Providence, +which supervise even the falling of a sparrow, necessitates it and +demands it. The diversity of character, opinion, interest, climate and +institutions in the two sections is beyond remedy. Each has a separate +mission to fill and a glorious destiny to accomplish. In our present +relations, we incommode each other, threaten the peace of the world, and +retard the operations of <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span>Providence. Let us part in peace; let us have +an equitable distribution of the public property and the public +territory; let us have an alliance offensive and defensive; let us scorn +the idea, so mournfully entertained by many, that constitutional liberty +will perish because we are divorced, that representative government will +prove a failure because it becomes our duty and interest to separate. +Let us prove by our wisdom and our courage that those great principles +are dearer and more powerful than ever. Let us emulate each other only +in the arts of peace, in the cultivation of friendship and in the +worship of God.</p> + +<p>It is unfair to represent this question as one of secession or +submission. The word submission, in the sense of political degredation, +does not exist in the Southern vocabulary. There is no man in the South +so stupid, so cowardly, so base as to be willing to live in the Union as +it is. There is no difference between us as to the fanaticism and +tyranny of the North, no difference as to the wrongs and injuries of the +South. Some of us would secede at once, unconditionally and forever. +Others would give the North a last chance to abandon her false position, +to make apologies and amend, and to secure us in the strongest bonds +imaginable, against not only the encroachments but the existence of the +Republican party. The difference is rather nominal than real, for all +the conservatives doubt and many despair of proper concessions from the +North. With those concessions, disunion is probable, without them it is +inevitable.</p> + +<p>It is the business of the Cotton States to move first in this important +matter. They alone are the great conservators of the institution of +slavery. The people of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri are +unquestionably with us in spirit and principle, but we cannot disguise +the fact, that the tenure of our social system in those States is feeble +and failing. Those great communities must do as in their wisdom they see +best, but we cannot wait<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span> for their decision nor promise to abide by it. +Whether they go with the North or declare for a separate sovereignty, +the mission of the Cotton States must be equally accomplished. We +cordially invite their co-operation and believe they will share largely +and richly in the benefits of a Southern Confederacy, and in event of +trouble, we pledge our lives and fortunes to the defence of their +border.</p> + +<p>To the professed Abolitionists, that motley crew of men who should be +women and of women who should be men; who see in Fred Douglass a hero +and in John Brown a martyr, whose venom is proportioned to their +ignorance, as some animals are said to be fiercest in the dark; and who +are ready to perpetrate the blackest crimes in the name of liberty and +under the garb of virtue, we have <i>nothing</i> to say.</p> + +<p>The Republican party itself, the best and the worst of it, we charge +with having outraged our feelings, violated our rights, and initiated a +policy which, if carried out, will be destructive of our liberties. It +is not an election but a usurpation, and if we acquiesce, we are not +citizens but subjects. The forms of constitutional liberty may have been +observed, but the spirit of tyrannic dictation has been the presiding +genius of the day. Suppose the people of the North were to repeal their +obnoxious laws, to confirm and abide by the decision of the Supreme +Court, to divide the territories in an equitable manner, and to +recognize the equality as well as the Union of the States, what and +where would the Republican party be? Dissipated into thin air, dissolved +like an empty pageant, not leaving a trace behind. With the Republican +party, therefore, as it exists at this hour we have no parley. If it +questions us, we have no reply, but the words of the gallant Georgian. +“Argument is exhausted, we stand to our arms.”</p> + +<p>To the conservative men of the North, who sacrificed their time, +treasure, interest and popularity in our behalf, and who have <span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span>proffered +their blood in our defence, we have no language which can truly express +the gratitude of our hearts. Generous and faithful spirits! Stand +bravely a little longer in the imminent deadly breach, which is yawning +between the North and the South, and stay, if it yet be possible, the +bloody hand of fanaticism. Raise your eloquent voices once more for +equality and fraternity, for justice and union. If it prove in vain, as +alas! it will, keep firm at least to your principles and your faith; +work without ceasing as a leaven of good in your infatuated communities; +infuse into the contest before us some chivalric element, worthy of +yourselves and of us, which, if the worst comes, shall mitigate the +horrors of war, and hasten the returning blessings of peace. When we +think of you in the future, we will forget the violence of individuals +and the disloyalty of State governments; we will forget the calumnies of +Sumner and Phillips and Giddings, the blasphemies of Emerson and Cheever +and Beecher, and the vile stings and insults of the aiders and abettors +of thieves and assassins; we will willingly forget them all, and entwine +you tenderly in our memories and affections, with the immortal friends +and compatriots of our own revolutionary sires—with Otis and Warren, +and Hancock and Putnam, and Wayne and Hamilton and Franklin. And in the +fearful troubles which may come also upon your fragment of this +dismembered nation, may the sign of our covenant be found upon every one +of your door-posts, to ward off the destroying angel from your favored +and happy homes!</p> + +<p>Southerners! In this great crisis which involves the welfare of the +present and the future, let us be united as one man. Let us survey the +whole question in all its bearings, immediate and prospective. Let us +act calmly, wisely, bravely. Let us take counsel of our duty and our +honor, and not of our danger and our fears. Let us invoke the guardian +spirit of ancestral virtue, and the blessing of Almighty God. Let us +remember that, although precipitancy<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span> is a fault, it is better, in a +question so vital as personal and national independence, to be an age +too soon than a moment too late. If we succeed in establishing, <i>as we +shall</i>, a vast, opulent, happy and glorious slave-holding Republic, +throughout tropical America—future generations will arise and call us +blessed! But if it be possible, in the mysterious providence of God, +that we should fail and perish in our sublime attempt, let it come! Our +souls may rebel against the inscrutable decree of such a destiny, but we +will not swerve a line from the luminous path of duty. With our hands +upon our hearts we will unitedly exclaim, let it come! The sons and +daughters of the South are ready for the sacrifice. We endorse the noble +sentiment of Robert Hall, that he has already lived too long who has +survived the liberties of his country!</p> + +<p class="right">WILLIAM H. HOLCOMBE.</p> + +<p><span class="smcap">Waterproof</span>, Tensas Parish, La.</p> + + +<p> </p><p> </p> +<hr style="width: 50%;" /> +<p><a name="title_text" id="title_text"></a></p> +<p class="center">THE ALTERNATIVE:<br /> +A SEPARATE NATIONALITY,<br />OR THE<br />Africanization of the South.</p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center">By WM. H. HOLCOMBE, M. D.</p> +<p> </p> +<p class="center">NEW ORLEANS:<br />PRINTED AT THE DELTA MAMMOTH JOB OFFICE,<br />1860.</p> + + + + + + + + + +<pre> + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Alternative: A Separate +Nationality, or The Africanization of the South, by William Henry Holcombe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFRICANIZATION *** + +***** This file should be named 33696-h.htm or 33696-h.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/6/9/33696/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: The Alternative: A Separate Nationality, or The Africanization of the South + +Author: William Henry Holcombe + +Release Date: September 10, 2010 [EBook #33696] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFRICANIZATION *** + + + + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + + + + + + + + + THE ALTERNATIVE: + + A SEPARATE NATIONALITY, + OR THE + Africanization of the South. + + + By WM. H. HOLCOMBE, M. D. + + + NEW ORLEANS: + PRINTED AT THE DELTA MAMMOTH JOB OFFICE, + 1860. + + + + +THE ALTERNATIVE: + +A Separate Nationality, or the Africanization of the South. + + +A sectional party, inimical to our institutions, and odious to our +people, is about taking possession of the Federal Government. The seed +sown by the early Abolitionists has yielded a luxurious harvest. When +Lincoln is in place, Garrison will be in power. The Constitution, either +openly violated or emasculated of its true meaning and spirit by the +subtleties of New England logic, is powerless for protection. We are no +longer partners to a federal compact, but the victims of a consolidated +despotism. Opposition to slavery, to its existence, its extension and +its perpetuation, is the sole cohesive element of the triumphant +faction. It did not receive the countenance of a single vote in any one +of the ten great cotton States of the South! The question is at length +plainly presented: submission or secession. The only alternative left us +is this: _a separate nationality or the Africanization of the South_. + +He has not analyzed this subject aright nor probed it to the bottom, who +supposes that the real quarrel between the North and the South is about +the Territories, or the decision of the Supreme Court, or even the +Constitution itself; and that, consequently, the issues may be stayed +and the dangers arrested by the drawing of new lines and the signing of +new compacts. The division is broader and deeper and more incurable than +this. The antagonism is fundamental and ineradicable. The true secret of +it lies in the total reversion of public opinion which has occured in +both sections of the country in the last quarter of a century on the +subject of slavery. + +It has not been more than twenty-five years since Garrison was dragged +through the streets of Boston with a rope around his neck, for uttering +Abolition sentiments; and not thirty years since, the abolition of +slavery was seriously debated in the Legislature of Virginia. Now, on +the contrary, the radical opinions of Sumner, Emerson and Parker, and +the assassination schemes of John Brown, are applauded in Fanueil Hall, +and the whole Southern mind with an unparalelled unanimity, regards the +institution of slavery as righteous and just, ordained of God, and to be +perpetuated by man. We do not propose to analyze the causes of this +remarkable revolution, which will constitute one of the strangest +chapters of history. The fact is unquestionable. To understand +rationally the events which are transpiring, and to forsee their +inevitable issue, it is necessary to examine this element of discord +between the Northern and Southern people, to investigate its true nature +and extent, and weigh carefully the prospect of its cure. + +The Northern mind has become thoroughly anti-slavery in sentiment. Even +those who contend for our constitutional rights share in the universal +opinion that slavery is a great moral and social evil. Those who have +adopted the pro-slavery view are exceedingly few in numbers, and are +regarded by the mass of Northern people as more fanatical than the most +extreme Abolitionist. The press, the pulpit, the rostrum of the North +are clamorous with declamation against us and our institutions. Slavery +is considered not only immoral but debasing to both owner and owned. It +is, they say, a relic of barbarism and a disgrace to an enlightened +people. We are not regarded as equals but are merely tolerated, as +persons whom they in their wisdom may possibly reform and improve. +Churches refuse us participation in religious rites, and a baleful +element of religious hate adds fuel to the fire of political dissension. +From present appearances, the North will before very long be unanimous +in opinion, and if it has the power or can invent the means, it will be +ready to reduce the South to the condition of Hayti and Jamaica, and +expect the approval of God upon the atrocity. + +It is unquestionably true, although it be upon false issues, that the +sympathies of the civilized world are united against us. The name of +slavery is hateful to the ears of freemen and of those who desire to be +free. The wise and just subordination of an inferior to a superior race, +is rashly confounded with the old systems of oppression and tyranny, +which stain the pages of history and have excited the righteous +indignation of the world. We are supposed to have proved recreant to the +great principles and examples of the liberators of mankind. It is almost +impossible at present to disabuse the public mind of Europe and of the +North of this shallow prejudice. In the meantime, whilst carrying out +the designs of Providence in relation to the negro race, we must rest +for a while under a cloud of obloquy and abuse. Let us be faithful to +our sublime trust, and future ages will appreciate the grandeur and +glory of our mission. + +The pro-slavery sentiment is of recent development. It is more recent +than any of the great inventions which have created the distinctive +forms of our modern civilization. It is more recent than many of the +great innovations of thought which now agitate mankind. The great and +good fathers of our Republic unquestionably entertained anti-slavery +sentiments or predilections, and the flippant Abolitionist thinks he has +silenced us forever by quoting the opinions of Washington and Jefferson +and Madison on this subject. The anti-slavery sentiment of that era was +partly derived from the radical influence of the French revolution, the +mad frenzies of which fearful convulsion, the fanatics of the North may +yet repeat in the Western hemisphere. It was partially also deduced +from narrow, uncertain and sometimes false premises. The lapse of time +has secured us a better stand-point. Africa has been explored and the +African studied, anatomically, socially, morally, ethnologically and +historically. Not only the physical science of man but the philosophy of +history itself has been almost created since the days of the revolution. +The question of slavery has been thoroughly sifted. The metaphysical and +theological as well as the political bearings of the subject have been +closely scrutinized. Liberia is before us with its feeble and precarious +existence, with its little torch of civilization nearly extinguished by +the foul atmosphere of surrounding heathenism. St. Domingo is before us +with its bloody teachings, and Jamaica with its silent monitors of +pauperism and decay. The meagre slave population of the last century has +increased to four millions. Cotton and sugar have risen to an +unparalleled political and industrial importance, so that the whole +civilized world is deeply interested in its maintenance of African +slavery. And lastly, though not leastly, the free negro settlements in +the North and in Canada are social experiments for our analysis and +instruction. + +This pro-slavery party includes, with insignificant exceptions, nine +millions of people of Anglo-Saxon blood. It is diffused over territory +sufficient for a mighty empire. It contends that its principles are +based upon large and safe inductions, made from an immense accumulation +of facts in natural science, political economy and social ethics. It +holds the most prominent material interests, and thereby the peace of +the world in its hands; a wise provision of Providence for its +protection, since those who cannot be controlled by reason, may be +withheld by fear. + +In opposition to the prevailing sentiment of the North, we believe that +men are created neither free nor equal. They are born unequal in +physical and mental endowments, and no possible circumstances or culture +could ever raise the negro race to any genuine equality with the white. +Man is born dependant, and the very first step in civilization was for +one man to enslave another. A state of slavery has been a disciplinary +ordeal to every people who have ever developed beyond the savage +condition. Those who cannot be reduced to bondage, like the American +Indian, perish in their isolated and defiant barbarism. Freedom is the +last result, the crowning glory of the long and difficult evolution of +human society. Few nations have yet attained to that lofty standard. +Those who say that the French, the Italians or the Prussians, are not +yet fit for freedom, and are still unable to appreciate the blessings of +constitutional liberty, would thrust the splendid privilege of +Anglo-Saxon superiority upon the semi-barbarous negro! What folly, what +madness! + +Man has no "inalienable rights"--not even those of "life, liberty, and +the pursuit of happiness." If the life he leads, the liberty he enjoys, +and the happiness he pursues, are not consistent with the order and +well-being of society, he may righteously be deprived of them all. +Instead of that "glittering generality," which might serve as a motto +for the wildest anarchy, the truth is, that men and races of men have +certain natural capacities and duties, and the right to use the one and +discharge the other. That government is the best, and its people the +happiest, not in which all are free and equal, but in which equal races +are free, and the inferior race is wisely and humanely subordinated to +the superior, whilst both are controlled by the sacred bonds of +reciprocal duty. + +The negro is a permanent variety of the human race, inferior to almost +all others in intellect, but possessing an emotional nature capable of +the most beautiful cultivation. The greater part of this race in its +native Africa is sunk in the deepest barbarism. What little civilization +a few tribes may have, has been imposed upon them by Arabic and Moorish +conquerors. Left to themselves, these poor people would no doubt remain +barbarous forever; but when domesticated by the white man, they are +elevated and christianized. The transfer in their bondage, from black +men to white men, by the slave trade, was the first dawn of promise to +the benighted children of Africa. It was permitted by God in order to +teach us the way in which the dark races are to be elevated and +civilized. Jamaica and Hayti have also been permitted, as timely and +salutary warnings, not to desert the path which was marked out by +Providence. + +African slavery is therefore a certain relation of capital and labor, in +which capital owns its labor and is bound to maintain and protect it. It +is only thus that an inferior race can exist in contact with a superior +one. In the Sandwich Islands, in Australia, in New Zealand, the +aborigines are passing away before the encroachments of English power +and at the mere presence of English civilization. The free negroes of +the North are dying out beneath the cold climate and the colder +charities of that region. Freedom and competition with the white man +would ultimately annihilate the negro race in the South. The only hope +of the African is in his just subordination to the superior type. + +Certain physical and spiritual peculiarities of the negro necessitate +his subjection to the white man. It is for his own good that he is +subjected. As long as this was doubtful or not clearly seen, the South +itself was opposed to slavery. It remonstrated with England for imposing +the institution upon it, and with Massachusetts for insisting upon a +continuance of the slave-trade for twenty years after the adoption of +the federal compact. The South is now fully convinced of the benefits +and blessings it is conferring upon the negro race. It is beginning to +catch a glimpse of the true nature and extent of its mission in relation +to this vast and growing institution. The government of the South is to +protect it; the Church of the South is to christianize it; the people of +the South are to love it, and improve it and perfect it. God has +lightened our task and secured its execution by making our interests +happily coincide with our duty. + +We anticipate no terminus to the institution of slavery. It is the means +whereby the white man is to subdue the tropics all around the globe to +order and beauty, and to the wants and interests of an ever-expanding +civilization. What may happen afar off in the periods of a millenial +Christianity we cannot foresee. No doubt the Almighty in his wisdom and +mercy has blessings in store for the poor negro, so that he will no +longer envy the earlier and more imposing development and fortunes of +his brethren. Some shining Utopia will beckon him also with beautiful +illusion into the shadowy future. But with those remote possibilities we +need not trouble ourselves. His present duty is evidently "to labor and +to wait." + +The Southern view of the matter, destined to revolutionize opinion +throughout the civilized world, is briefly this: African slavery is no +retrograde movement, no discord in the harmony of nature, no violation +of elemental justice, no infraction of immutable laws, human or +divine--but an integral link in the grand progressive evolution of human +society as an indissoluble whole. + +The doctrine that there exists an "irrepressible conflict" between free +labor and slave labor is as false as it is mischievous. Their true +relation is one of beautiful interchange and eternal harmony. When each +is restricted to the sphere for which God and nature designed it, they +both contribute their full quotas to the physical happiness, material +interests, and social and spiritual progress of the race. They will +prove to be not antagonistic but complementary to each other in the +great work of human civilization. From this time forth, the subjugation +of tropical nature to man; the elevation and christianization of the +dark races, the feeding and clothing of the world, the diminution of +toil and the amelioration of all the asperities of life, the industrial +prosperity and the peace of nations, and the further glorious evolutions +of Art, Science, Literature and Religion, will depend upon the amicable +adjustment, the co-ordination, the indissoluble compact between these +two social systems, now apparently rearing their hostile fronts in the +Northern and Southern sections of this country. + +The only "irrepressible conflict" is between pro-slavery and +anti-slavery opinion: Here indeed collision may be inconceivably +disastrous, and fanaticism may thrust her sickle into the harvest of +death. The pro-slavery sentiment is unconquerable. It will be more and +more suspicious of encroachment and jealous of its rights. It will +submit to no restriction, and scouts the possibility of any "ultimate +extinction." Nothing will satisfy us but a radical change of opinion, or +at least of political action on the subject of slavery throughout the +Northern States. The relation of master and slave must be recognized as +right and just, as national and perpetual. The Constitution must be +construed in the spirit of its founders, as an instrument to protect the +minority from the domination of an insolent majority. The slavery +question must be eliminated forever from the political issues of the +day. No party which contemplates the restriction of our system and its +ultimate extinction can be tolerated for a moment. In assuming this bold +attitude we simply assert our obvious rights and discharge our +inevitable duty. + +Now the Northern mind is equally determined and defiant. It has +literally gone mad in its hostility to our institutions. The most +conservative of the Republican party look forward complacently to the +restriction and ultimate extinction of slavery, in other words, to the +Africanization of the South and our national destruction. We will see to +it that they precipitate no such calamity upon us, and we warn them to +look carefully to their own fate. When a Northern Confederacy can no +longer like a vampire suck the blood of the sleeping and compliant +South; when agrarianism and atheism and fanaticism and socialism do +their perfect work in a crowded and crowding population, will not the +dark enigmas of free-labor civilization press heavily upon it, and the +dread images evoked by the prophetic wisdom of Macauley arise +indeed--taxation, monopoly, oppression, misery of the masses, +revolution, standing armies, despotism, &c.? It may yet deserve the +strange epitaph written for this nation by Elwood Fisher: + + "Here lies a people, who, in attempting to liberate the negro, lost + their own freedom." + +Have we rightly comprehended the fearful import of those words, _the +Africanization of the South_? According to the present rate of increase, +in fifty years the negroes of these States will amount to twenty +millions. Suppose them to be restricted to their present arena. Suppose +them in addition to be free. Imagine the misery, the crime, the poverty, +the barbarism, the desolation of the country! The grass would grow in +the streets of our cities, our ships would rot in their harbors, our +plantations would become a wilderness of cane-brakes. The re-subjugation +of the negro, or the extermination of one race or the other would be +inevitable, and in any event our children would be beggared with an +inheritance of woe. Let us swear upon the altar of God, that as +Christians and citizens we will resist to the death the first step which +might lead us towards this awful abyss! + +If the Republican party is permitted to get into power, the +Africanization of the South may be gradual, but it will be sure. Their +leaders already boast to applauding multitudes that the heel of the +North is at last on our necks. When the power, the patronage, the +prestige of the federal government are wielded against slavery; when +Southern men take office under it, and first apologize and then approve; +when a free-soil sentiment gradually percolates through the South +itself; when the brightness of Southern honor is tarnished, and the +integrity of Southern opinion destroyed, what will be, what must be the +inevitable result? Nothing hasty or violent will be attempted. The +iniquity will be accomplished under the forms of the present +Constitution. Remember that the coins of Nero bore the image of the +Goddess of Liberty, and that a perverted Constitution is the choicest +instrument of tyranny. Lulled by pleasant narcotics, we will pass from +dreams of security, into the sleep of death. Or if we rouse ourselves at +last, and reach out for our fallen thunderbolts, we will be found, like +Sampson, blind and helpless, and they will make sport of our misery. The +silken cords with which they bind us now, will change to iron fetters in +our moment of revolt. + +The precedent alone would be fatal. Shall we submit to an administration +which received not a single vote in ten of our States? We could not be +represented in its cabinet, nor in any foreign mission, for what +Southern gentleman of proper sensibilities would accept office at its +hands? The South would be unrepresented at home or abroad. She would +have received a blow, politically, socially and morally, which would +ensure her destruction. This is precisely what Seward, Beecher and +Greeley are aiming at. We are to be coaxed, cheated, legislated out of +our rights and liberties. What cannot be achieved by trickery, will at +length be attempted by force. The most hateful feature in the despotism +which threaten us is its religious element. If we are outraged because +the Constitution is violated and broken, what shall we say of those +hypocrites or madmen who have perverted the Word of God to the most +detestable purposes of man! + +The true test of statesmanship, according to Burke, is to preserve and +improve, not to abolish and destroy. We apply this to the institution of +slavery, and are willing to accord it to the existing Union: Have we +exhausted our Constitutional remedies? Is not the Republican party +powerless for injury, and may we not anticipate a thorough reversion of +Northern judgment? These questions, and others like them, have been met +and answered a thousand times by the able leaders of the South. Nothing +but the speedy and universal uprising of the Northern people in behalf +of State rights and Southern equality can preserve the Union. They have +committed the aggressions, let them make the overtures. Is this miracle +to be expected, and are we to await credulously its accomplishment? +Compromises and compacts, the temporary make-shifts of politicians and +philanthropists, will be useless. With what ingenuity the most sacred +compact may be perverted, with what facility the most perfect compromise +may be broken! You may put a new piece on the old garment, but the rent +will be made worse. + +The fact is, the Constitution is dead, for it carried with it the seeds +of its own dissolution. The Union has achieved its mission; the last +page of its history is written, and it may be safely deposited in the +glorious archives of the past. The genius of Anglo-Saxon liberty, when +she emigrated to these shores, bore twins in her bosom and not a single +birth. The Northern race, bold, hardy, intelligent, proud and free, will +receive into its embrace the heterogeneous spawn of European +civilization, and mold it to its own shape, and prepare it for its own +destiny. The Southern people are brave, courteous and gentle, credulous +and forbearing--loving friends, chivalrous enemies and good masters, to +whose strong and generous hands alone the Almighty would entrust the +tutelage of his most helpless and degraded children. + +The time for our separation has come, and let all good men unite to +avert the calamity of civil war. But at all hazards the dissolution must +come. The evolution of history, according to the laws of Providence, +which supervise even the falling of a sparrow, necessitates it and +demands it. The diversity of character, opinion, interest, climate and +institutions in the two sections is beyond remedy. Each has a separate +mission to fill and a glorious destiny to accomplish. In our present +relations, we incommode each other, threaten the peace of the world, and +retard the operations of Providence. Let us part in peace; let us have +an equitable distribution of the public property and the public +territory; let us have an alliance offensive and defensive; let us scorn +the idea, so mournfully entertained by many, that constitutional liberty +will perish because we are divorced, that representative government will +prove a failure because it becomes our duty and interest to separate. +Let us prove by our wisdom and our courage that those great principles +are dearer and more powerful than ever. Let us emulate each other only +in the arts of peace, in the cultivation of friendship and in the +worship of God. + +It is unfair to represent this question as one of secession or +submission. The word submission, in the sense of political degredation, +does not exist in the Southern vocabulary. There is no man in the South +so stupid, so cowardly, so base as to be willing to live in the Union as +it is. There is no difference between us as to the fanaticism and +tyranny of the North, no difference as to the wrongs and injuries of the +South. Some of us would secede at once, unconditionally and forever. +Others would give the North a last chance to abandon her false position, +to make apologies and amend, and to secure us in the strongest bonds +imaginable, against not only the encroachments but the existence of the +Republican party. The difference is rather nominal than real, for all +the conservatives doubt and many despair of proper concessions from the +North. With those concessions, disunion is probable, without them it is +inevitable. + +It is the business of the Cotton States to move first in this important +matter. They alone are the great conservators of the institution of +slavery. The people of Maryland, Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri are +unquestionably with us in spirit and principle, but we cannot disguise +the fact, that the tenure of our social system in those States is feeble +and failing. Those great communities must do as in their wisdom they see +best, but we cannot wait for their decision nor promise to abide by it. +Whether they go with the North or declare for a separate sovereignty, +the mission of the Cotton States must be equally accomplished. We +cordially invite their co-operation and believe they will share largely +and richly in the benefits of a Southern Confederacy, and in event of +trouble, we pledge our lives and fortunes to the defence of their +border. + +To the professed Abolitionists, that motley crew of men who should be +women and of women who should be men; who see in Fred Douglass a hero +and in John Brown a martyr, whose venom is proportioned to their +ignorance, as some animals are said to be fiercest in the dark; and who +are ready to perpetrate the blackest crimes in the name of liberty and +under the garb of virtue, we have _nothing_ to say. + +The Republican party itself, the best and the worst of it, we charge +with having outraged our feelings, violated our rights, and initiated a +policy which, if carried out, will be destructive of our liberties. It +is not an election but a usurpation, and if we acquiesce, we are not +citizens but subjects. The forms of constitutional liberty may have been +observed, but the spirit of tyrannic dictation has been the presiding +genius of the day. Suppose the people of the North were to repeal their +obnoxious laws, to confirm and abide by the decision of the Supreme +Court, to divide the territories in an equitable manner, and to +recognize the equality as well as the Union of the States, what and +where would the Republican party be? Dissipated into thin air, dissolved +like an empty pageant, not leaving a trace behind. With the Republican +party, therefore, as it exists at this hour we have no parley. If it +questions us, we have no reply, but the words of the gallant Georgian. +"Argument is exhausted, we stand to our arms." + +To the conservative men of the North, who sacrificed their time, +treasure, interest and popularity in our behalf, and who have proffered +their blood in our defence, we have no language which can truly express +the gratitude of our hearts. Generous and faithful spirits! Stand +bravely a little longer in the imminent deadly breach, which is yawning +between the North and the South, and stay, if it yet be possible, the +bloody hand of fanaticism. Raise your eloquent voices once more for +equality and fraternity, for justice and union. If it prove in vain, as +alas! it will, keep firm at least to your principles and your faith; +work without ceasing as a leaven of good in your infatuated communities; +infuse into the contest before us some chivalric element, worthy of +yourselves and of us, which, if the worst comes, shall mitigate the +horrors of war, and hasten the returning blessings of peace. When we +think of you in the future, we will forget the violence of individuals +and the disloyalty of State governments; we will forget the calumnies of +Sumner and Phillips and Giddings, the blasphemies of Emerson and Cheever +and Beecher, and the vile stings and insults of the aiders and abettors +of thieves and assassins; we will willingly forget them all, and entwine +you tenderly in our memories and affections, with the immortal friends +and compatriots of our own revolutionary sires--with Otis and Warren, +and Hancock and Putnam, and Wayne and Hamilton and Franklin. And in the +fearful troubles which may come also upon your fragment of this +dismembered nation, may the sign of our covenant be found upon every one +of your door-posts, to ward off the destroying angel from your favored +and happy homes! + +Southerners! In this great crisis which involves the welfare of the +present and the future, let us be united as one man. Let us survey the +whole question in all its bearings, immediate and prospective. Let us +act calmly, wisely, bravely. Let us take counsel of our duty and our +honor, and not of our danger and our fears. Let us invoke the guardian +spirit of ancestral virtue, and the blessing of Almighty God. Let us +remember that, although precipitancy is a fault, it is better, in a +question so vital as personal and national independence, to be an age +too soon than a moment too late. If we succeed in establishing, _as we +shall_, a vast, opulent, happy and glorious slave-holding Republic, +throughout tropical America--future generations will arise and call us +blessed! But if it be possible, in the mysterious providence of God, +that we should fail and perish in our sublime attempt, let it come! Our +souls may rebel against the inscrutable decree of such a destiny, but we +will not swerve a line from the luminous path of duty. With our hands +upon our hearts we will unitedly exclaim, let it come! The sons and +daughters of the South are ready for the sacrifice. We endorse the noble +sentiment of Robert Hall, that he has already lived too long who has +survived the liberties of his country! + + +WILLIAM H. HOLCOMBE. + +Waterproof, Tensas Parish, La. + + + + +Transcriber's Notes: + +Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. + +The following misprints have been corrected: + "opionions" corrected to "opinions" (page 3) + "improves" corrected to "improve" (page 6) + +Other than the corrections listed above, spelling has been retained from +the original. + + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Alternative: A Separate +Nationality, or The Africanization of the South, by William Henry Holcombe + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AFRICANIZATION *** + +***** This file should be named 33696.txt or 33696.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + http://www.gutenberg.org/3/3/6/9/33696/ + +Produced by Bryan Ness and the Online Distributed +Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was +produced from images generously made available by The +Internet Archive/American Libraries.) + + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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