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may be thus stated : If the radical poHcy is carried out^ 
they will degenerate and become extinct : if union 
measures prevail, just the very reverse of the radical policy, 
they will live, flourish, increase, and contribute by their 
labor to the wealth of the country. 
In this connection we present the following remarks of 
Hon. J. W. Clapp, of Mississippi, made at the close of a 
valedictory address to the Trustees of the University of 
Mississippi, last July • 
" The plan which would seem to be dictated alike by 
policy and true philanthropy is, that the two races here in 
the South should be left, without the surveillance and 
intermeddling of a third party, to work out together their 
respective destinies, and for each one to adapt itself to that 
level where the great law of moral gravitation will sooner 
or later inevitably place it. This plan, it is conceded, is, 
like every thing human, liable to abuse, and may give rise 
to instances of hardship and injustice; but if the two 
races are to live together, it is the only feasible mode by 
which collision and conflict Can be avoided, the capacity of 
the negro for labor utilized, and he be rendered a compara- 
tively respectable member of the community. 
" But as the probability is that the policy adopted by 
the law-making power at Washington will be adhered to, 
by which the negro will inevitably become more and more 
unreliable and inefficient as a laborer, prudence, if not an 
imperative necessity, require that we should, in view of 
this contingency, make systematic and persevering efforts 
to fill up the channels of industry from other sources, and 
with those of our own color who can be assimilated and 
identified with us as a homogeneous element both of pros- 
perity and power ; treating the negro in the mean time 
with humanity and kindness, encouraging his mental and 
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