New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-06-21
HOLDEN TO "a NRO.


HOLDEN TO sAMRO.
We arc often reminded by modern public docu-
mcrts of 4 scene in one of Meals Charcoal
Sketches" where Waterman lectures festive
and oblivious chap whom he finds holding up 8
lamp post and very often threatening TO thre'h
the ground " How YOU persist in making
a beast of YOURSELF" is the policcmau's natural.
indignant qucry-"you who were % wei bred'
ard have such q nice, likely family at home -
Now, don't, watchy,' interrupts the prodisal
-" don't give me any more good advice.
know more good advice than any man N town.
And 30, If the Blacks haven't learned By tins
time that freedom means freedom to work -
that idleness leads to staryation-tha' 1t 10
honorable " be dilgent aud shame
full to be iniolcnt. &C.. &c. then
they mast be the most stolid and peryersc OF
all beings; for never, even IN Slavery palm
lest days were - Servants. obey your masters ="
and the few Kindred prcccpts. worked harder,
or made to assume graYor Importance, than
" lie that doth not work. neither shall he
eat" dlring the last few weeks. II the South
ern Black, fail to realize by this time that #
they are hcnceforth TO 1--we free, they must work,
their skulls must be thicker than any potash
kettle. IL must bother them a. first TO
see just how 1t happens that those. whom
they have seen doing next TO nothing for
all their past lives are nevertheless comfort
able consequential, and empowered though
scarcely yet pardoncd Rebels, TO vote them, the
steadfast workers of the past, INTO noncnity Tor
uncounted years TO come. If they were White,
they might possibly see around th' corner but
being " niggcrs, you know, and ever so stupid,
they can hardly be- blamed ths, il does not get
through their wool.
Gov. Holden tells them thai they arc free,
and "haye the same rghi regulated by law,
that others have, 20 enter upon the pursuit VI
prosperity and happiness Jest So SAYS
Solon Single; but have they the same oPpor-
'tunity' Suppose they generally follow the
Governors good advice, and iall zealousIy to
work for the best wages they can get: having
earned $50 70 $500 each how are they TO COM
pei or insure its payment They are TO have
10 voice in making no hand in executing The
laws; no place In the jury-box much lc's on the
bench; they have as yet no right on the witness
stand in a case whereto White is party: what
is their chance Of justice against any White
scoundrel who chooses TO eat his bread IN the
sweat of their faces instead Of his own The
Governor talks anything but turkey to them.
But, he tells them, "No people has ever yet
bounded AZ onn into the full enjoyment OF self
government" Admit It, (hough Il isn't the
fact: y what then II they are not to bound ="
to that goal, 80 much the more reason that they
should begin to creep toward it. Yes, and the
more reason also that they should be authorize.
lively told: "Be dileent; be loyal; be patient;
DO frugal; acquire knowledge and educate your
children, and you SHAH be cnfranchised
so fast as you shall be qualified to exer-
else the franchise intclligcntly and uscfully.'
No word Of this does Gov. Holden say-not, we
presume, because he would not, but because
he dare not. lie would prefer, we think, to be
| Just; but his paramount desire is to retain his
Office by popular reelection. And there stand
the late Rebel leaders, beaten but still
vcnomous, and watching for a chance TO ride
into power again OH q fresh popular excitement
Only give them o chance to cry Down with
the Niger party" and they will toel confident
that the Millennium is al hand. Gov. Holden
and his Union party dare not face this issue ii
they would; so they will leave tho Blacks
under tho feet of the late Rebels, who will soon
be ready to trample him and his supporters
under in their turn. Or, If North Caro-
| lima Is too sound for this, tho White
UniOnistS of most other Southern States
are exposed TO that very fate, aud will
meet il with consciousness that they have in
part deserved ii. For, while there is no single
State in the South--not even South Carolina
that Is not preponderantly loyal, the suppression
and political humiliation of the Blacks, who are
all Upionists, will mako most Of them Os-
tensibly disloyal, and will fill their seats in
Congress with representatives who are Union
lists only because they can no longer afford to
be anything olse-nien who will regard the Ma
tionsl Debt as monument not Of National de-
! liverance bat of National overthrow and subju-
CATION. Such is tho necessary effect Of anti.
Negro reconstruction.