New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1865-09-18
ULTRA.sOUTMER ABOLITION.
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There are those who would be alarmed If, in
the course of better things, the free South
should make dozen revolutions of progress,
while Northern Democrats and Democratic
platforms are standing still. We cannot pre-
dict such change in the political seasons; but
some day the party Rip Van Wrinkles may wake
up to the cogitation of similar phenomena.
Slavery dead, sensible Southerners will not
pause to bewai it; for with Slavery must perish
its mourners What remains, then, for the
emancipated intellect of the South to dot Out
of the social wilderness, which the war on
both sides has done the pioneer work
of clearing-out Of the worse than
Serbonian bog, in which 80 many
brave men persisted ignobly-the free South
must devote its misused talents to reform. Put
the same vigor into peace and progress as that
which urged on war of unexampled difficulty,
and we may make Ncw-York and Massachusetts
out of Virginia and South Carolina. Progress
is the very necessity of the Southern situation
retrogression is so far forbidden by the abolition
of Slavery, that Southern statesmen will lind 1t
hard to lead their followers backward by placing
any new sort of letters upon the negro There
ia but one path which the active brain OF the
South can take vigorously, aud that is toward
the good. The cause of the negro, who earns
wages, is now bound up with that Of the plan.
ter, who makes profit; education for the one
is necessary for the security of the other; and
the harmony and prosperity of the State are
dependent upon the intelligence Of all classes
Of its inhabitants. Two classes especially must
be satisfied, and must satisfy each other--the
poor Blacks and the poor Whites. Justice can
reach the wants of all. 1t is not too much to
ask that the rising men OF the South-those
who are to handle the new order-wl! advocate
two things chiefly necessary to internal I'M
provement, namely: Education and Negro
Suffrage Either this or inanition IS the alterna-
tive.
This view has some probability, or Gen.
Henry A. Wise would not have taken pains to
make the remarkable declaration which we
append. Wise, though very poor soldier.
has been one Of the most candid and philosophic
leaders of the South and one of the very few
who could in any way comprehend the moral
meaning of John Browns raid, though ma
Hgnly earnest to SEQ that Misunderstood
patriot executed. He saws.
so far from my being opposed TO the name
freedmen ms indie atng the condition OF slaves feeu
bv the war the chief consolation have 10 the result OF
the war IL that Slavery forever sbolisaco tha nor
only the slaves In fact at last eed nom bondage
hut that am freed from them. Long before the war
| ended had definitely made up my mind actively 10
advocate emancipation throughout the South. had de-
termned n could help IT. that ny descendants should
never be subject to humiliation have been subjected
to BY the weakness. not the wckednes OF slavery;
and while cannot recognize az lawful aud humane the
violent and shocking mode In which II has been abo
ished yet accept the fact most heartily accom-
pished and am determined not only TO abide by II
and acquiesce In It, but TO strive by all the means In
my power to make It benefcent 70 both races and
blessing especially to country. unfeignedly re-
Ioce at the fact and rcconcled 10 many ofthe worst
calamites Of the war. because i am now convinced
that the special providence Of God, unayoid-
able by the nation at either extreme TO tear loose from
ps black idol from which could never have been
separated by any other means than those OF IRE and
blood. word and sacrifice
These are good words and good tactics-bet-
ter than any the General employed during the
war Not questioning on what grounds such q
stubborn statesrights man "a Wise fought for
Slavery, knowing all the time that he so
fought, while believing in Abolition (Which
Beauregard so furiously mathematical in Off.
cia orders)-it is enough to hope that he will
make the best of the faith which is in him. 1t
did not trouble Gen. Wise TO emancipate the
negro, but he rejoices in the fact. 1t may
trouble him to help the freedman to become a
freeman; but those who think with Gen. Wise
must gauge their faith in this way. Who better
know what Virginia has suffered in all her in
terests and wealth from the blight of bondage 7
who more consciously know the relation which
franchised and intelligent labor must bear to
the material advancement OF Virginia, now
that oigarchs are growing null, State Soyer-
eighties are stunned, Slavery is slain, and the
patriarcha idea has taken roost in the dark
centuries
A lawyer of Richmond lately published an
able pamphlet in which-only wanting the
vigor with which Gen. Wise might do the
same thing-he argued for general franchise
based on intelligence:
"Let us recognize the fact that the time may come
when or principles acceptable 10 ourselves the freed
men or their descendants may be admitted to this last
right of citizenship. Let u.s. In proof Of the sincerity
OF this recognition show at once spirit OF concession
more liberal than that Of the most Of the original Free
States"
We welcome any show of fairness which the
South, for its own sake, seems bound to offer
and there is q frankness in what We have quoted
which shames the pro-Slavery platforms of the
North. Henry s. Foote of Mississippi, shrcwd