New-York daily tribune., 1865-10-16
ported in full in our last, we reDrcduce the fol-.
lowing paragraph in ordSSr TO say how heartily
and thoroughly we aJproye IL:

sIl
lowing paragraph, in ordcSr to say how heartily
and thoroughly we aJproye il:
1.-THE President Thought many OF the evils would
disappear thty inangurated the right system. Pass
laws protectlDs the cOlored man in his person and
property. And he can collect his debts He knew how
was 10 the South. The question when first presented
of putting colored man on the witness stand made
them shrug their shoulders But the coored mans
Testimony was TO be taken for what il was worth by
those who examined him. and the jury who hear it
Ai'ef all there was not so much danger n this was
supposed. Those coming out Of Slavery cannot do
without work they cannot lie down in dissipation;
they mns work; they ought to understand that liberty
means simply the right to work aud enjoy the products
of labor and that the laws protect them. That being
done and when come to the period 10 feel that men
must work staIye. the country viii be prepared to
receive sysem applicable 10 both Whifs and Black
PREF ared 10 receive system necessary to the case
short time back y0u could not enforce the yagran law
on the Black. but could on the White man. Bat get he
public mind right and you treat boh alike. Let US
get the general principles right and the details ana
cOllateralS will follow"
There is far moro and deeper truth en-
bodied in that pthy paragraph than many who
will praise il are prepared to accept. The ial-
lacy Of the monstrouS presumption that South
ern White Judges and jures will give too much
weight to the testimony of negroes, and will
hang innocent White persons thereon, if negroes
ore allowed to testify, was never more thor
oughly exposed. And the President very well
understands that it is not the Black mans tesli-
mony but his manhood that the ex-Rebels revolt
at-that they do not so much fear that What he
swears will unduly influence their courts as that
his preceding or succeeding one of them in the
witness.box will somehow contaminate and
degrade their precious selves The Brahmin
trembles for his caste if Sudras and Pariahs are
allowed TO dciile by their presence spot where
he NAV be called TO stand or sit the next
moment.
The President wisely suggests, that what the
country needs and must prepare for, is "a sy'-
TEN applicable TO both White and Black" lie
never spoke a trucr word. And that system
can only be attained through constitutions aud
laws which, like the Federal Constitution, for
example, take no account of any ones color,
but regard his manhood and his conduct alone
Ifa man does wrong, pursue and punish him as
= vronc-docr, but never as White or Black.
Ills crime j. nstter Of public, legal concerns
his color is not. Here is the general princi-
plo' which. (as the President fays,) being SET
tied rs it should be. "details and collatorals'
viii adjust Themselves thereulnn.
Lee no one maintain hcncciorth that we have
10 right to NEEDLE t'itht the relations ot Whites
to Blacks in the reconstructed State. Who
ever does say it, places himself in direct and
palpablo a1iagonism r. the Fundamental posi-
ton of snduw johnson.