New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1864-06-02
MIR. ROLLINS ON RECONsTRUC.
TION.

We do not know whether TO consider Mr.
the Committee of the House, on the Rebelliou'
States, as of any importance or not. 1t Is q
bad sign for is resurrection that it was thus
committed, mauger the loud circumstances OF
Mr.. Cox of Ohio, who was for then and there
subjecting il to the hazardous experiment of a
vote. Another bad sign was that Mr.. Rollins
did not consider his paciicatory panacea as fin
shed until he had rounded il, in an explanatory
speech, with stale sheer at Black Men.
- Some have gone so far" quoth Mr.. Rollins,
"as to seek to elevate the negro to the level OF
the white race in the scale of being. | can
.cgard such persons only X madmen.
This furnishes us with the keynote OF
Mr.. RollinS's resolution. We might con
struct the Hercules from this foot. The
gentleman from Missouri sets forth that he is
for the prosecution of the war-that he wants
restoration of peace which shall not infringe
upon tho CouStituton-that he does not by any
means approve of the fantastic tricks OF the
DiMnionists-that he does not desire 10 inter
fere with {" the institutions" of the rebelliOus
States-and then he makes a speech in which
he pathetically deprecates - the elevation OF
the negro 10 the level OF the white race in the
scale of being" Mr.. Fernando Wood offers
his nestimable services, and proposes to give
the Resolution few fine finishing touches, but
the House naturally shrinks from Fernando's
doctoring, and Mr.. Rollins's bantng goes to
the arms of nurses who are strongly suspected
Of propensity to strange it.
We leave il to its fate. But we have some
thing TO say upon a point which this little de-
bate Immediately suggests. We would like to
know why 1t is that Mr.. Rollins, in these mo-
menious times, cannot make a tolerably short
speech without hosting in, by the head and
shoulders, the inevitable Black Man We
thought that only crazy Abolitonists-Mr. R0l-
lins's madmen." did this. We really must
regard the conduct of the honorable and patri-
otto gentleman from Missouri as exceedingly
strange. As he very justly and eloquently OBJ
serves, the business of this nation is 10 put
down the Rebellion. We do not want theories,
and We are in small need of experiments. We
want hard knocks, and dry knocks, and all
other kinds Of knocks whatsoever. We want TO
"lhs deplorabc civil war; to an end.
These wants he sets forth with great
accuracy, in tho first part of his Resolu-
ton, and in the first part Of his speech.
nj -, tIo
there, Why must he have his say against
Negro Equalityi Ii some mild-mindcd mem
ber with that awkward element in his constitu-
ton called a conscience, had ventured to offer
favor of emancipation, Cox Of Ohio, with all the
dignity TO be mustered upon short notice, would
have told the mild minded member that h. was
always advancing one idea, that he was always
playing upon single string, that he had no
definite notion of the nature, the dignity and the
purpose of this contest. II is always, we
notice, the imprudent philanthropist who
says word for the Black Man, who is
The Copperhead who poises himself upon his
legs by the hour together, droning out his
theory of negro inequality, is quite INNOCENT Of
any imprudence. And people Of this variety,
as every intelligent and honest reader will bear
us witness, ore foremost always in the introduc-
ton and discussion Of this subject. Substan-
TALLY, We cannot see that it makes any differ
ence to tho main question, whether you are
fearful that the negro will obtain equality or
whether you are fearful that he will not. The
gist Of the ollense, if We understand the real
Copperhead doctrine, is philosophically the
same. The crime is in having in the Black
Man at all.
Mr.. Rollins, therefore, may, according to his
own doctrines, be written down fanatic of the
most fiery sort-a fanatic very dangerous to the
cause Of rcstorstion-a fanatic, because when
he has, or appears to have, the welfare Of the
country most seriously at heart, and when Con.
gressional unanimity is Of all things most lesir.
able, he filings this apple Of dscord into the
arena, and cannot franc what no means shall
be pacific resolution, without putting into it
this provocative Of debate. We are astonished
at tho faulty of Mr.. Rollins. We arc surprised
that SO wise man a. he processes to DO could