The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1865-11-18

farce and delusion Of e" peaceable accession pee
pie found themselves mistaken. They expected 4
holiday march-poor dupcs!-and Haunting ban
necS and an enemy that would not fight But after
4 few months. they came upon different circum-
stances; they got 10 the field oi battle; there was
gunpowder there. and lead people got hurt and
lost blood the enemy would fight, God wot, and
not run away. and all the sport was lost. Then
came returning sense. DeSerters began 10 drop
ont and go home. or steal away 10 the woods and
swamps-and who were these dcserterS. With
shame and bitterness he must say it. they were the
very people who had brought on the war ana thclr
deluded victims. the ignorant people. He hoped
most deyOutly that there would never again be any
attempt To separate from the National Government.
He was tired and sick of war-tired of fighting the
battles of others, who rnticed him and others into
il by lying speeches: and when the day of their
calamity came deserted them to their fate. He
hoped they would bury this doctrine forever. and
beyond the hope OF resurrection. AmOre p~csrlent.
political hereSy never infested and cursed any PEG
Pile"
Regarding the question of free labor and suf-
frage most of the Southern men in Washington
think that
-" the transition from slave to free labor in their
respective States will produce very little trouble.
But there i a wide spread rcpugnance to confer
ring upon negroes the right of suffrage though
this feeling i giving way TO one of broader states
manship. 1t Is believed To be the interest of the
South 10 retain the negroes. and to guarantee them
such rights and protection aS viii secure their
friendship and prevent antagOniSms of race. 1t Is
urged that if immediate suffrage We're given the
blacks that several OF the Southern States would
have negro majorities and negro Congressman. and
thereby prevent white immigration, and compel its
immigration. and thus make them essentially negro
State governments. To prevent this it is argued
that the negro population of the Southern States
should be put on probation. white immigration en-
couraged, and the prepOnderance of white voters
insured before establishing universal suffrage.
Many far seeing Southern men recognize negro sut-
frage as only a question of time, and desire to OBJ
viatc twenty-five years of fierce and needless agita-
ton throughout the country by conceding the prin-
ciple now, and allowing the more intelligent ne
grOcs to vote. There is very little doubt that pub
lie opinion at the South on the question OF negro
suffrage will change as efIectually as il has respect
ing the abolition of slavery. and that within in a
few years, laws will be passed in every State to
enfranchise them
\ large tide of emigration is setting in to the
Southern States from Europe and the Northern
States. Several thousands of Europeans have
lately arrived and gone into Virginia and North
Carolina, while in Tennessee the influx of
strangers is very large. Nashville has increased
in population, it is said. to over eighty thou
sand, and the greatest activity is shown in very
part of the State. We feel confident that poll
tics at the South are settling down on a firm
basis, and the prospect of a long and permanent
peace is good, and as we have said before, in
a few years the South will be the most loyal
section of the American Union.