The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1865-10-21

cored, for all aided the rebellion who fur
nished it aliment /; and, yet, Mr.. Sum-
ner cuts off from the white race in the
South all hope of redemption in denying
pardon its efficacy in restoring the fran
chise of which he deprives them. To
make sure work of the guarantees, MI.
Sumner next DISTINGUISHES the States
that have suffered under the usurpation
of the conspirators, aided by arms put
into their hands by the Federal admin
istratiOn, which denied them to the 10y
al men who sought them for defence, and
aided further by his "non-coercion" pol
icy, adopted by the Premier of the sub
sequent administration, to which they
looked in vain for protection until the
manacles were riveted. "Non-resist-
ance, was the law imposed by the ma
tional government on the whole South,
until the possession of the strongholds
in the Southern harbors made successful
resistance impossible on the part of an
unarmed population, among whom a
military array started up in every quar-
ter like Satan in the Garden Of Eden
touched by Ithuriel's spear. Now, how
is the whole mass of loyal people in all
the States of the South, thus delivered
over to the enemy, and compelled togive
food and support, and join its array an
der the militia laws of the State and
those of the usurping Congress, dealt
with according to the radical doctrine?
1t is seen as individuals they are to have
no political rights, neither to vote or be
voted for; to hold no office-none but the
slaves, who, like the rest, were nOr-re-
sistants, worked in the trenches, forti-
fed the fields of battle, made the harvest
fields TEEN with food for the rebel army
not so many of them adhering to US as
the whites. How are the States now to.
be compelled to deal with the enfran-
chised black population They are to
be forced to pass laws to disfranchise the
whites, and submit to an amendment to
the constitution of the United States es-
tablishing negro equality, passed exclu-
sively by the States that trjumphed over
the rebellion, which those States never
. should have permitted to get ahead. The
States that have been under sway of the
|. rebellionare not to be allowed a vote on
a. this question. "Since therein" as Mr.
, Sumner insists, ''all loyal government
! has ceased to exist, the whole region, ii
= all it's divisions and subdivisions, has
!, from the necessity of the case, lapse
under national Jurisdiction, which is q
: complete for all practical purposes as tina
= same jurisdiction over the District 0
|, Columbia 1t is with them "as witt
outlying Territories which have no gov
, eminent" Mr.. Stevens encores thi'
, doctrine with an addition, thus summed
/. up: "Let us forget all parties, and builC
on the broad platform of reconstructins
= the government out of the conquered
territory converted into new and FREE
9 States, and admitted into the Union b,
the sovereign power of Congress, witt
another plank-the property of the re
~ bells shall pay our national debt and i'm
demnify freedmen and loyal sufferers.
4. IFrEcT OF SLAVERY IN THE SOUTH.
= Negro slavery has created three classt
Is in the South-the master class, that cor
vi stitutes the oligarchy the depender
e negro caste, which is provided and care
10 for by the master and the poor whites
81 the outcasts which the cheaper labor
~ slaves has thrown off to dwell in hovel
&c and live on patches, occasional job
hunting, fishing, g~leanings, and eve
5, worse shifts, &c. 1t is evident, from tn
J whole tenor of the radical policy, tina
} the negro constitutes the essential par
~ of it, and is to be a massive weigh
in its politics. We have seen how TIL
Re old master is to be disposed of. Negr
al equality, with the help of pains an
c. penalties, is to deprive him of property
III to expel him from the South, or reduc
l. him TO insignificance there by politica
l. Acknowledgement, and the still NOR
re deeply felt social humiliation. Tb
10 lower class of whites will then be easil
te subordinate to the negro and put in
y condition of amalgamation with then
and so make one mongrel race of labor
ers to fall into ranks and march into tn
,e cotton fields in the pay of Norther
IS capitalists and manufacturers, and undo
the command of their managers. Thi
# system would in time bring itabout tina
# there would be in the South no Saxo
o. but General Saxons, and the plantation
d would all become the plantations OF
d New England instead of a Souther
oligarchy. 1t is for this end we are t
h have negro equality, negro suffrage
If and negro freedmen's associations, negr
4r troops to take full possession of tn
country while the rights of the whit
,e race in the constitution, in the soil, II
T. all the improvements of property t
which their civilization has given brit
is to be surrendered, and they are to b'
o. crushed under the mountain of natioDa
al debt, which will squeeze out the las
penny of its means if not drawn out b,
d prosecutions and considerations. Thl
l. ScIeme Oh party poiitIc5 hV" uONeioPc'
as by the radicals, who once marche,
under the republican banner, is not t
d be found in any of the platforms t
,e which they gave their early allegiane
and obtained the public confidence. Al
ps this is done in the name of the punish
ment of ~treason-the treason of q whol
people! the treason of some fiftee
~ MR. SUMMERS SCHEME.
. WHY should we assent to the schen
j. of sumner, that ''fOr a while the free
men will take the place of the maste
thus verifying the saying that the la
,s shall be first and the first last ?p Tn
r. is to be the ~foretaste of the kind
equality before the law" which M
Sumner undoubtedly intends to intr
IT duce ultimately. The negro, mear
while, as the e~nfranchised man, is
L. have the arms and to be the master. a.
is right, as those who fought again
is us should be DISTINGUISHED, so tho
.e who fought for us should
enfranchised, and thus a renovs
d ed State will he built secure on
ID unfaltering and national loyalty" I'll
Of is the argument, and l will do Mr.. Sur
ut ner the justice to admit that it is sour
y II his scheme of government be col
De coded. If eve a government of viii
y and black is to be established, the viii,
-AI MI