Washington telegraph., 1865-07-12
[FLo.n .h. No. rele--.uh

/ al AiG IAll laA4LA GItO a. -Ls-I..a--
tFioin ;hs Ma.oa reIesrsph.
Emancipation IN GEAGIA-Tle
programme Of tue Telegraph under re-
constituted Federal authority. Is yt-y
plain and simple. 1t is TO accept what
ever is inevi able and make the best Of
! il. Show us what we have got to Do, and
We will do it the best Of our ability. and
with what grace and heartiuess We may.
\ If there il any her course consistent
with interest, wisdom and duty, We fail
\ tO discover il.
Why, then. rrproach IL. and argue tAr
case n though We were i'll favor of iin-
pOvrrishing this or that class. or destroy
ing til : orthat interest We are in favor
Of no >uch thing We may reco.nizeih-
troubles, losses and ve1ltions which will
grow out of this business just as fully as
You do and the only difference betwe II
Us is that YOU propose 10 NOPE aud groan
over item, while We are in favor 0f be-
; stirring ourselves devise and apply all
! the mitigating and remedial agencies the
case admits sf. You ri e rs long hoini-
lies about the constitutional impnseibilify
Gt immediate enanci Iation, aud III 50 d.
ing are simply trying 10 practice d.lu-
sion upon urS-lves, winch We are IN
willing ~ practice upon the public We
tell You slavery i alrrad " gone. Cnrs i
tuition ur no Constitution The death
sentence has already been pon uncpI.
and Hlal execution i only question nj
few days or hours; while. under sucli
circumstances We Il, III re- lite as uIde-
sirab.e.
NV what ought to be done in this
: It IL Of the case The Government can
turn the negro loose, and it can set un
] foot some genera, system Of hiring. by
way of substitute; but il can not master
the subject in all It's complicated d tails
The peilicoifed, pa;riarchal and a solute
systems Of Austria Or Russia would b.
ractlcnlly powerlrss ID manage th- in
/ finite details of such q work Onr Gov
ernmc'lt nay begin il. but tile people N
the United States will soon turn away in
disgust from such business. Oar system
i totally unSui'rd 10 il. Th. theory of
democratic republicanism is noniutarven-
tIon with trade, iahnr and domestic econ
omy. Smelling and tasting committees
are the exceptions, and not The rule. 1t
keeps out of the kitchen and the lneal-.ul,
as matter Of taste as well as pr;nciplc:
and however for Il time a contrary prac
! ticc seems to have prevailed, it is but an
/ episode i'll the national history. which
will be- cut short and abandoned before
long The Government Of the Unit-d
States VIII trouble itself particularly
about gr"ts. a class. 10 great while
longer. 1t viii wash its hands Of them,
and witt good 5 ap At that.
\ Hence we ~ay, the States have : i to
take up this business, ana. in Georgia,
this great and knotiy question stares us
i'll the fhce-h"w are We going to prevent
half 4 million emanci pated negroes from
being vagrants and public burdens. luu:s.
ing about in towns and neishborhoods,
and spreading moral and physical disease
among the people How are We guin.
To make them, instead. useful members
of soci ty-good laborers-comfortab
wrll-fed and happy, as they were before
the emancipation 10 look at the ques.
ton IN f. private, a. well Us public As
pee. how are you, Mr. Planter, 10 prose-
cute your labnrs with freedmen instead
OF sl"Trs-maintain d &C pine and Elf
ci-ncy. nriSLbrrhood order and : curiry,
suppress vasrancy around you-protecl
property, secure the com OFT aud w.. Il
being of your iaborers. and enforce ius.
tice and order among theutselvesi Now
thes'' are the great question, we should
he thinking and talking over, and de-
pend upon it We have got to solve them
ourselves, and upon their solution hangs
the question OF beggary or comfort, pros
perify or ruin for the state of Georgia,
Talk about Yankees" 1t is time we
were all Yankees, if by that term is
meant shrewd, energetic and indomi,a
bic encounter with difficulties Tell us
about being "Abolitionisis ~ We are
all Aboiltionists bv force Of events-by
the stern logic Of war
Nevertheless, there seems 10 b.. upor
the part # some few Of our readers, AZ
indisposition o. inability to comprehend
even 50 plain a thing rs the attitude W.
occupy. They address US with arsu
ments and complaints particularly abou
what we have written on the subject O
negro emancipation. as If they held u
responsible for a fact, the existence o
winch We only recognize In the nam,
of justice. Mr.. Caviler. what have we 1,
do with The practical faci of tie abolition
of slavery III s.eorgia or .-ss where Dis
We decree it ID W. ask 4 or orde
it, Does our Judgment Fppreys Of Il