New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-03
q" NEGROMANlA.Y

: The Democratic press of our City las recently
been strengthened by the accession 10 it!
editorial ranks Of Mr.. John Mitchell, whose
published aspirations for an Alabama plania
ton, well stocked with fat negroes, have been
blighted by the sudden and utter collapse OF thu
jeff Davis Conieleracy, whereof he was one o
, the founders aud remained pillar until 1t
preoipitous downfall. Mr.. Mitchell, having
probably done more than any other live man "a
Undue the Southern Whites with his own
! yitrioiic hate of the North and tho Union,
and thus to iucte the wholesale murders
OF our soldiers BY exposure, cold, starvation,
&C., &C., which have filled twenty thol'and
Northern homes with mourning, has come
North to counsel and instruct us in
the great and difficult task Of Cancellation
and reconstruction, and is now doing that
work through the editorial columns Of The
Daiig Mars. We are filed with Vulnerable
emotion by assurances that so eminent phi
laathropist and patriot finds much TO approve in
the recent course Of The TRIBUNE; but it grieves
US inexpressibly to learn that We have not yet
attained perfection in bis eyes, because Of our
inyeterate leaning toward the delusion eharac-
termed IA above. Let us quote the first count
in his indictment and give il due consideration
1t is follows:
I'VE have had occasion lately TO commend tie liberal
and equitable views expressed by The TRIBUNE in re.
gard ~ the policy that every consideration OF justice
no 1or, humanity and expedieucy suggests should be
adopted in the fir settlement Of accounts between the
North and South Our regret is therefore, the greater
hiatt aait
the misguided philanthropy that engendeIed zee.
tional quarrel DOW threatens 10 complieate and
reiafd ,,, The process Of F ;as, not s
innate kindliuess Of heart IL obscurcd and
rendered Ineffective by its eItravagant devotion to the
negro Let orr cotemporary stand away but for the
moment from beneath the shadow Of It's ftnatoism md
confess that The agitation Of the question OF negro sui
frage lust most inopportuno. 10 say the least
Yet in as precipitation TO establish that point IhE
TRIBUNE stems 10 ignore the real and pressing conse
0neLces OF our Political situation and IL even wiling to
5etray the rst principles OF our system Of Government
70 its nconsiderats anxiety to solve problem that Is
not ready sor solution
We will examine first The Nnrss objection
that 1.-The agitation Of the question of Negro
Suffrage is just now inOpportune Let us gee:
Ten or eleven of our States are about 10 re-
sumo that relation TO the Union which their
ruling caste deliberately, scornfully renowned
and repudiated four to five years ago, with the
hearty appreciation Of The Neus, and with the
still more positive cooperation Of its present
Editor. Their Secession was avowedly
based on DEVOTION to Human Slavery and
Negro subOrdination to the White race Ii
had 10 impulse, no measing, no reason,
apart from this Southern pulpit, rostrum and
: legislative forum were unanimous in declaring
Northern "ianaticism.. with regard to the
rights and tho ensavenrent of negroes, the
fundamental cause Of Secession. On this ground,
they have fought us four years; on this ground
they are beaten, and own it. They submit TO
the Union, because they can no longer resist its
power; but they do not pretend to love it. II
they could Dissolve it, they would; bat they
can't, ard so submit to its authority. (They
viii think better of this in iine; hut we arc
dealing with existing facts, and would fam deal
with them in q practical manner.)
Now, side by side and intcrmingled with
these Three Millions Of beaten Rebels in the
South live Two Millions of loyal Whites and
Three and Hall Millions Of devotedly loyal
Blacks. eve have made diligcnt inquiry Of
returned prisoners for any "Secesh niger
whom they encountered i'll their Southern