New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-20
" WHAT REMAlNs OF THIS CON-
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shoulder to shoulder and fight what remains
of this contest" The phrase is suggestive ana
deserves attention. Those who argue that the
war has sufficiently chastened the wicked spirit
of Slavery, and that we have only to throw
omen the doors and bid the leaders hurry back
TO their old seats in the Senate, and their for
mer position in army and navy, leaving the
negro behind in the nOndescrpt condition of
! freedmen-shOuld read attentively the declara-
tons of those who claim to speak for the former
Rebels. The contest is far from being ended.
The people of the South have long had great
advantage in the Union, the monopoly OF politi-
cal power occasioncd by the sad defect in the
Constitution which made labor test of man
hood in the North and commodity IN tho
South. This discrimination, giving the power
Of States as populous as Maine into the hands
of few plantation in the Carolinas,
has always given the South preponderance III
the national councils, and united its leaders in
their schemes of ACKNOWLEDGMENT. or course,
these people do not wish to surrender
monopoly which was so useful in the days OF
! lucu power, anu NHOh piph'SS' w w
useful in the days Of their extremity. Nor do
we see any indication of its cessation. We are
gradually pardoning back the Rebels to prlyi-
leges which no Northern community enjoys.
delegation from Louisiana will come to the
door of Congress, and claim admission from
that reconstructed State. That delegation
will consist of five representatives They
claim to represent 379,G29 white peo-
pie lal53 free colored men, and
33l ,726 freedmen. According to the policy,
these seven representatives really represent the
suHrages OF 96, 329 white men who are OF age
and have the right TO vote. In other words,
loo. $40 white men will have five voices on the
yeas and nays, and those voices the probable
echoes of men Ike Wells (Governor) and Cut
Ter (Senator.) The 96, 0i9 freedmen, of the age
; TO vote, have nothing to say The State
of Maine will also have delegation OF five IN
Congress Those five however, will represent
10. O31 white men of the age to vote. They
viii ONLY have five voices on the yeas and nays
to balance the five Of Louisiana. The differ
ence in favor Of Louisiana is, therefore, IL, 756
white voting men. IL the policy is just-ii
- Louisiana has her rights and nothing more
~ then II, 156 voting citizens Of Maine stand dis
4. franchsed in Congress. To make the illustra
be ton clearer let us take Connecticut and Soutl
70 Carolina Each has four members. Yet II
Connecticut 1870, 28l white voting men are re
III ouired to elect the delegation, while in Sout
:. Carolina G.. ia can do it. Ii South Carolin
.. is right, then 62, l27 sons of Connecticut ar
d. DISTINGUISHED in Congress. Georgia has seye
ut voices in Congress, and yet these seven ar
n chosen by 1872, 500 white Georgians, or jus
" 2, 22e more than Connecticut If Connection
?" is treated properly, then 2225 white men i
r. Georgia have the power of three representatives
n. Unless we otherwise determine now, thi
rs power will be retained by the Southern States
re perhaps increased. They will assert that freed
men, no longer being slaves, must be counte
/ as man and man in the apportionment, and no
> as "tl,ree-Gfths Of all other persons" s
,e really these men will have their POLITICAL powe
strengthened to the amount of two-fiths of al
1t the freedmen ip the country. BY giving tn
/, !, States tAs right 70 regulate the question
: suffrage and reserving to Congress the question
Of apportionment, we take the Southerners bacl
e with renewed privileges. Will these Southern
n nen use this power to hasten the work of recon
}, structonl Not, we think, unless they have al
their demands granted. They surrender SLAYER,
because they canuot help it, and after fighting
four years to keep il. And yet Northern men
= x1.hn fco1 tbn Il. al
of well.rcmunerated joy, and say, Behold
how gladly our Southern brethren abandon
. Slavery" They surrender Slavery just as Lee
SURRENDERED to Grant-because he was whipped
Outnumbercd, starved, surrounded, and desired
TO save useless efiusion of blood. What have
the Southern politicians done 1--WE mean the
lpardoned Ones) to show sincere desire TO dc
the simplest act of justice to the freedmen
What have the States who are quietly arrang-
ing TO come into the Union again done to asss,
the freedmen or commend themselves to the
affection and sympathy Of the North Let US
cal Tennessee. She is loyal enough and has
suffered 30 drcadfully that she certainly will be
the first to recognize manhood. Tennessee will
i iOJ diioN ~ man odtH dSdiuot u NHitc
man; black men cannot make contracts unless
white men witness them; and if black inch are
arrested for vagroncy they may be sold to the
highest bidder for jal.iees." Call North Caro-
lima We see the whipping-post and the pillory.
Gan Loulslana-and We find the negro guarded
and checked and restrained as though he were
mad dog, and not man who lives by his