The Sun.
London, England, 1868-11-14 00:00:00

and both killed at oae shot, which event the World
) thus reported, " A Carpet-bag deputy slain in Ar-
kansas." On the afternoon of the preceding day
a coloured Senator was standing on the platform of
a railroad car in Abbeville district, South Carolina,
when three men rode up and shot him dead. In
the same district, a native Southern member of the
House of Representatives, of Radical principles,
was killed in his carriage on his way home by a
disguised party; and on the 11th October the Hon.
G. W. Smile', a Republican delegate to the Texas
Convention, was leaving a meeting where be had
addressed his constituents, when he was fired upon.
He returned the fire while retreating to the quarters
of a small detachment of United States troops, but
this party was disarmed and SMITH killed, riddled
with bullets. We hope that such a state of things
will not out-last the Presidential election. Indeed,
there can hardly fail to be some change for the
better when a period of unusdal excitement has
passed away. A question of the deepest interest will
then remain—Will the only scheme Congress has
been able to devise for securing to the negro the
freedom conferred upon him suffice for the pur-
pose—the Ballot? We think it will; provided,
and this is-the very essence of the subject, the black
man acts with the greatest moderation and circum-
spection. At the present moment the whites are ex-
asperated by seeing negroes exercise political rights
of which many of their late owners are deprived, in-
deed sitting not only in the State Legislatures, but
in Congress. They are impulsive, unrestrained, and
reckless ; to shoot on sight, to arm, to band in
secret societies with quaint symbols, is in accord-
ance with their system, and they act up to their
instincts as might be expected. The provocation
is great, as must be acknowledged ; indeed so great
that it is difficult for those who do not understand
the South to appreciate it, and they are a race
little fitted quietly to endure. In consequence,
the position of the negro is such that no one with
ordinary sympathies, who recognizes in the black
man a family of the human kind can regard it
otherwise than with great concern and alarm,
and we feel confident that if SAMBO will do what
the Southerner cannot do--restrain himself--
patiently bearing the cruel situation in which he is
placed, that he will arouse in the North a feeling
of commiseration dangerous to trifle with.. It must
be of more importance beyond comparison to the
Southerners than to the rest of the nation that
the two races should work together in har-
mony, which will be impossible so long as the
negroes and the whites who act with them
are shot like dogs. If this be continued, it will
lead to a war of races ; and already it is having the
effect of driving the negroes into the woods, where
some of them live like wild beasts, by which the
South is not only deprived of useful labour, but
upon society become fastened " chicken"-thieves
and cattle lifters. It is vain to suppose that the
negro race can be got rid of, for four millions can-
not be disposed of by emigration or by bullet, or by
both combined, nor would it be for the benefit of
the Southerners thus to get quit of the field hands if
they could. States now i❑ cultivation, where white
men cannot work, would revert to a wilderness, and
the great staples of cotton, stlgar, and rice, would be
lost to the Union for ever. In the process of time the
whites will become used to what is now so strange—
' the political and legal equality of the negro, and
feeling his weight in St de affairs his vote will be

solicited. So long as the whites are not onnbined
against the blacks, which they will not be if the
latter are not thrust prominently against them, it is
in the nature of things that they split into parties or
factions, and this is the time when SAMBO'S aid will
be sought. Look at the effect of the Irish vote on
the Union—and knowing what the genuine feeling
about the Irish is, we see how the Ballot may force
men to court those they dislike, and in reality despise..
Although the difference is wide, it is still of the same
character, and perceiving in this instance how much
the Ballot may do for a nationality, hopes may rea-
sonably be entertained that if the Africans are pro-
perly directed, if they labour and economize
the fruits of their earnings, if they study and
educate their children, they will, after a period
of sharp trial, assume a position which will com-
mand respect and power in the Union. In
this they will be earnestly aided by the philan-
thropy of the Northern spirit, otherwise, such a
result might indeed be despaired of. But a result
so grand is worth the devotion of the lives of some
of the noblest-miude i men in the Union, and we
have not the shade of a doubt that hundreds exist
in the Northern State; who would surrender all to
achieve such an object, aid that hundreds more are
growing up who will be found equally ready to take
their place.

Our big "daily" brothers are snarling over Ame-
rican subjects, Texas furnishing one bone of con-
tention. A statement made by the correspondent of
the Daily News is denied by the American Minis-
ter, who asserts that there are not more acts of vio-
lence in Texas than occur in other States, or in any
other country. On this the Daily News republishes
what its correspondent - said, not only maintaining
its truth, but that the correspondent who had lately
visited Texas knew more of the subject than Mr.
Johnson. The Standard, without perceiving that the
statement came from an American, not from the
"Radical paper," asks, satirically, "how should an
American know America so well as an English-
man ?" It is sufficient for a man to be born in New
York to be a guide to the Valley of the Yo Semite, a
pilot on the trio Grande, or at home in the wig-
wams of the Red Indians ! For precisely the same
reason an American in New York -.mist listen with
respect when Pat opens his mouth to tell of Crete,
and gives an opinion about the doings in Moscow, or
delivers judgment on the affairs of Spain. The
Standard overlooks the fact that America is a big
place, and that it does not follow, because a man
has lived a quarter of a century in Boston, that he
is familiar with the manners and customs of the
Texans. What Mr. Johnson said was, that, pre-
vious to leavingAmerica,he had for years been aUnited
States' Senator, and as such it was his business,
which he had not neglected, to acquaint himself with
every part of the country. His information regard-
ing Texas had come from the most reliable source,
and it was in contradiction to that of the correspon-
dent. Then the Daily News asserted that its man
had recently been there, and wrote of what he saw,
while all acknowledge, who have read his letters,
that few are more qualified to observe, as well
as record. On which the Standard, by way of a
sneer, puts the very strange question, How can
an American know America so well as an
Englishman ?" adding--" A journal which lately
placed Mr. Julian in the United States Senate, and
spoke of Senator Wade's seat being secure,' in
ignorance of the fact that he had been defeated
months before, has every claim to be considered an
authority." It is evident that the Standard picks
up the little mistakes of its contemporaries, and we
suppose keeps a black book against them ; but
whether Mr. Julian had a seat in the Senate, or
was only an Indiana Representative, has nothing
whatever to do with Texas. The question is,
whether Texas does or does not differ from Massa-
chusetts or other law-abiding States. The corre-
spondent of the Daily News has not, we believe,
exaggerated, and he can easily prove his statement.
On the other hand, Texas is one of the finest coun-
tries open for emigration, and his Excellency's
opinion was elicited in reference to it as such a field.
But though men are shot in the presence of United
States troops, as was the case with Mr. S.nith on
the 11th October, for political opinions, though
brigandage is said to be rife over the country, yet,
peaceful, labouring emigrants may do well in the
State, be hospitably welcomed, and left undisturbed
to pursue their avocations. That is another Ties-
tion ; but it cannot be denial that men have been
shot literally in hundreds in Texas without a single
punishment being infliete I by law, and when the
controversy reaches New York, the Dctily News will
be supplied with ample proof of the correctness of
its correspmdent's assertion. That gentleman
merely wrote of notorious facts, as we li we often
done. The condition of the Lone Star State has
been again and again touched on in this piper, and
often furnishes comment for some of the most re-
liable journals in America. At the same time the
splendid field it offers for emigration formed the
subject of a series of -articles which formerly ap-
peared in these columns from the pen of a gentle- i