The New York herald., 1865-03-01
The Almighty Niger Como At Last
North and South.

The Almighty Niger Como at Last,
North and South.
In the South the almighty niger question is
in its last throe. 1t is coming to terrible
close. It has finally found there solution be-
yond which there is nothing. It has destroyed
the powers that made it cause Of strife, and 1t
will be settled soon, because there will soon be
no ono left to quarrel over it. The South made
great rebellion for the perpetuation Of negro
slavery. 1t made a grand attempt to over
throw perfect government, simply that 1t
might make another government under which
a decaying institution would be safer. For the
sake of the nigger, mothers sent their sons to
the battle field, wives sent their husbands and
young girls their lovers. It was made crime
to stay home. It was also crime to count the
cost, and the country would accept nothing
but tnS blindest devotion to the niger cues
ton from every man in it.
Now, the South has been fighting four years
over the nigger question. It is a universal
desert. Its farm houses are burned, its fields
abandoned, the flower of Its youth is slain.
From one end Of the land to the other the
women are desolate as mothers and widows.
And now, having borne all this for
the perpetuation Of negro slavery, the
South comes to the admission that 1t must
lay down its arms and acknowledge defeat
unless it gives these very negroes their freedom.
That is the most that the enemies of the South
ever hoped to gain. The South now proposes
to stand by the freedom of the negro, that in
the commencement it declared nothing but
its subjugation should ever bring about It
is now as determined that the nigger shall be
free as v was before that he should not
The rebel Generalissimo says that the negroes
are the only fighting material left; and though
the rebel Senate says that they shall not be
put in the army they will be- This great set
tlement q the negro question will be carried
out by the rebel Executive over the head of
the rebel Senate. The rebel Senate is now all
that is left of the rebellion. The rebel Presi-
dent and generals, army and press, are all on
our side, and are fighting our battle against
their own Senate. Thus the niger question
brings about counter revolution, and the
nigger question and the rebellion will be set
tied by the selfsame blow.
At the North the nigger is done with also.
The constitutional amendment has gone to the
States, and whether the States adopt it or not
there will never be any more slavery. Even the
South has helped the North to make that certain.
But now the Northern agitators, in their fears
lest this nigger question should be set at rest,
are urging that the negro should vote. Let
them give him a vote also If they will, or any
thing else, and if any white woman wants to
marry q nigger, or any white man a wench, let
them have their way. Social laws will settle
all that; and as for the negro's vote, it will do
no harm If all the negroes on earth should
vote they could not give US worse governments
than we have had for twenty years, whether mo-
tional, State, or municipal Universal suffrage
is delusion that cannot be made into bug
bear any longer. In France there is universal
suffrage and despotism. Give the agitators,
therefore, this one more bone if they bark for
it. Social laws will settle in their own way
whether we legislate or not-all these ques-
tions of race. 1t is the intellect Of nation
that governs 1t, and not its voters.
The nigger question is settled, and now we
may put 1t aside. We may safely rob the politi-
cal Othello of his occupation by giving him all
he wants before he has the chance to clamor for
It. Give the niger political equality and q
vote, or whatever else his pretended friends
may require. II the negro is not ct, the gifts
will be useless, and If he is, he will soon have,
whether or not, all that we are asked TO give.
And now, that the great question is thus
really done with, all the men who lived upon II
North and South-the Toombses, Wigfalls,
Wiscs, Beechers, Greeleys and Garrisons-may
take their tickets and sail up Salt river.
The CTY GovERNMENT.-What is the use OF
trying to reform our city government by COM
missions, investigating committees and other
such humbugsf Beecher's plan of reform is to