The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-03-22
Negro snGrnre md Reconstruction.

est, the report of Major General CARL
SCHuRz on the condition of things IN the
South. 1t has served to enlighten US
considerably in respect to the designs OF
the Radical faction of the country
SCHURz was political partisan, who
was raised to military command Tor
his services to the Radical section OF the
i. Republican party. Like all orr poilti-
clans who were made Generals, he made
a poor show in the military line He Is
still much more of n politician than a
General, and his report is an election
eering document got mp TO order
He is dissatisfied with almost every
thing he saw OF heard at the South The
people are dialoy al they intend to re-
store slavery in some form nr other as
sonn as they can. He expected TO iind
them really thankful iOr the thrashlng
they got, and is aqfOnished thai this is
not the case. Bnt he gives lis the fol
lowing summary of the effects OF the
val:
Its, indeed lihicnlt to imagine circum
stances more uhiaVmable iur the deNcl
opment OF calm aud unprecedented
public opinion than those under which
the southern people are at present labor
mo The war has not only defeated
their political aspirations, but it has
broken up their whole social Grgani2l
ton. When the rebellion WAS put down
they found themselves not only conquer
ed in a political and military sense, but
economically ruined. The planters, no
represented the wealth of the southern
country, are partly lah"ring nndel the
severest embarrassment, partly reduced
To absolute poverty Many who are
stripped Of all available means, aud
have nothing but their land cruSS, their
arms in gloomy dependency. incapable
of rising to Il manly resolution Others,
who still possess means, are at a loss
how to use them, as their old way of
doing things is, by the abolition OF sla.
very, rendered impracticable, at least
where the military arm of the govern
ment has enforced emancipation. 9th
ers are still trying tn go on III the old
way, and that old way is i'll fact the
only one they understand, and in which
they have any confidence. Only mi
nority is trying to adopt the new order
of thugs A large number of the plan
tations, probably considerable major.
ity of the more valuable estates, is under
heavy mortgages, and the owners know
that, unless they retrieve their fortunes
in a comparatively short space Of time,
their property will pass ont of their
hands. Almost all are, TO some extent,
embarrassed. The nervous anXiey
which such a state of things produces
extends also to those classes of society
which, although not composed Of plan,
tiers, were always in close conneXiOn
with the planting interest, and there
was hardly branch of commerce or in |
dustry in the south which was not di- |
rectly or indirectly so connected. Be |
sides, the southern soldiers, when re-
turning from the war, did not, like the
northern soldiers, find a prosperous con- !
mnnity which merely waited for their
to give them remunerative EN-
ployment. They found, many Of them.
their homesteads destroyed, their farms
devastated, their families in distress; |
aud those that we're less unfortunate |
found, at all events, an impoverished !
and exhausted community which had hut |
little to offer them Thus a great many
have been thrown npon tie world TO
shift as best they can. They must do
honest or dishonest, aud must |
do it soon, to make a living, and their
are, at present, not very |
bright Thus that nervous anxiety to |
hastily repair broken fortunes, and 10 |
prevent still greater rniu and distress |
embraces nearly all classes and imprints
npOn all the movements of the social |
body morbid character
1t might be supposed that even : Rad
cal would make allowances for the |
and discomfort naturally 10
De expected from a peagiT who are la
boring under such q condition of AFFAIRS.
Bat God, in his Providence, created the
:adicals without hearts
The report is an elaborate argument
% show the necessity tor negro suffrage. !
md the dangers which the General |
kinks will result from an early rseon.
truction Of the Union.
1t seems that it is all 3. Mistake to
oppose that there IS Any advantage in
oters being intelligent. However
,rOssly Ignorant the negro may be.
teneral SCHUPz informs us that lie will
ote right, aud our readers can readily
imagine what he means by voting right.
he following is one of the many ez.
raets which might beImade too show
he doctrine maintained in the report
Inc beneficial effect of an extension of
anrago aoes not always depend uron
ne ihtelilgence with whseh the newly
am ~ ~ tt'i voters exercise their right but
ometlmes upon the c!rcumsta1..a,
1hIch they are placed aud the -, ="
tances in which the freedmc, nf tu
Outh are placed are such thar 'ne
hey onlyyote for their own liI;ert y neH 1
lghts. they vote for the rights nj t f
lbor, for the success of an immediato
npOrtant reform, for the prosperit,. oF
be country, and for the general nj
SITS of mankind
we have of late been making a rapid t
rogress towards despotism When ne !
70 suffrage shall be established. the
ruggle will soon be over. Its a farce !
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