The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1865-07-13
Reconstruction and the Negro Suhra &c
Question.

From the London Post, June291
The civil war being at an end, the American govern
mcnt have now ample time TO devote themselves To the
pleasant duty of furnishing the leaders of the nsurrec
ton and the more profitable but rather more difficult
task of reconstr,cting the republic basls In
the work OF reconstruction the negro anticipated
stops the way. Mr. Wendell Phillips and the leaders of
tine abotionst party could never be brought TO under
stand that liberty, in its true sense, be
fcrred by gift on All untuored savage than cvlza
ton a lavge portion Of the slaves have been emanci
pated, but unless they also entrusted with
franchise, Mr. Phillips declares that the freedom given
to them is not worth having Wheherth right voting
would materially ameliOrate their condition may well be
docbt ID, but one thing is oierably evident, namely,
that those who have received manuinssion do
slider that they have benefited by their change of
condition. MI johnson has received deputaon from
the freedmen OF Richmond, mplorng him either to
suspend tn existing military regine or to restore them
to the bonds from which they bave been freed. In the
cities of tho North the anpat negroes has sensiby
increased since the termination of the war, and not
that tho unfortunate not submitted to
outrages ann indgnities at the hands Of their
white fellow citizens which they would at all events
have been spared slaves in the South. II they
venture to enter the dining the bar of a
public hotel they are forthwith kicked out; if they
enter public conveyance they ign0minously
pelled as IT, plague stricken, they tainted the atmos-
phcrc; nay, even in the same churches they not
permitted to bend the knee to Him who the abolition
lists tired OF telling is equally the white
mans and the black mans God Those who, ere this
unfortunate civil war broke out had made themselves
ami ar with negro life In the slaveholdng States consid
cred that as large share OF happiness and
enjoyed by the slaves by similar classes of labor
suedy visiting New York the present indeed
might say at any other time, would be inclined to
consider the position occupied there by the negroes us
which any or Gods creatures matter what their
complexion, would he all envious of sharing.
IL would be unfair 10 blame the American government
for the deporabe condition Of things present existing
In the Southern States mighty cannot be tcrmi
mated, and the status quo ant restored by Order
Council The evils engcnd red by contest such that
which has raged the American continent for the past
four years do not pass away with the rapdy Of the
non smoke which bovers for time the field OF
battle and then vanishing displays in all their ghst
the horrors which for brief period it served to
conceal Tie population OF Georgia may be in
that starving condition in which t!ey rep
resented TO he; but the fault cannot TAB
fairly ascribed TO the government OF the North.
But Mr. Johasns aud his odoises DoaM properly lay
Memseices opcn 10 reprodeh if they iaGugoote p Icy
ohch has tendency T. enhance insie1d i reering ers
ing epil has already been shown TO demonstration
that the great OF slaves cannot their cmancpa
ton be brought to labor for hire and the inyarabe
suit OF what may term violent acts of nnumission
has been amount OF fdcstuton of which only eye-wt
form ad quste idea II perfectly idle to
say that IL Is nogre fault il he will not work in order
TO himself FINN starvation. slave east upon
the world TO work for himself Is helpless and
reasoning child Hesdcs in the large majority Of
cases work Is not provided for the freedman If pro-
vided, the wagcs tahc hands of unacquantcd
with the value The OF money, utterly insufficient
TO provide for his wants Mr Jhnsoa IS nj sottou
knowcdge whch he possesses he Saoah ot one (el
sop onsga ne etir, 'ord population of The Sopts TO
uhot tOiR Je aioi faetaaont 10 condition n hpetess
dssf ffu'iu