New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-07-20

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SIR, As you take great interest In all that per
aiu the South and her welfare have concluded to gave
you few bref which under my obser
vaon. shall conhae what have say the people in the
middle portion Of Tennessee wbere my obssrya have
been tho exact and complete. 1t il difficult for gentle
your poton get the Of things In the
portions OF the South from which get OF infor
nation. II requires who has been raised South aud
yet who las lived long enough In tie North to become
haeansd and TO Sse the biases which naturally inhere
Ia the Southern character to 60 justice to that peops In
ether words he must DO Sufficiently sympathetic with South
pecnares and yet strong enough in Northern common
get their true feelings and purposes The South
oupoien and honest He went into the late combat
issue fairly and squarely made up in hi, mind.
Ho fought Il and failed and his logic is, or was before
johnson becoudsd bis vision that having ed be Is at
the mercy o4he oonqueror Tie best minds OF tho Sth
this clearly Thnd Stevens and those who control
the South have deal respect Tor that gentle
mans reasoning than you woud suppose from the present
sTcct OF tho case. or course. men there as here
are SELFISH and JoLnsous plan will give them more than
yours or Stevens they will not it, Il entire mis-
take suppose however that the intelligent classes OF the
South arc afraid OF the Suffrage question proposed by
you and others OF your party. II AmHay and Impartial
sseas, had been proposed when Lee surrendered would
have bqen accepted without This elss believe
that the negro controlled in tho Dteres, Of the south
s e s. SS nnoa sa OF the a are the
eneme aud thai would seek the ncgros wela
H sOn G.' for np Sothsfandias the entire talent and
landed wealth Of the State Of Tesnessee are dquahe ON
voting disqualified from partieip ,tion in the
perfect iganzlon Of the STATE found gentlemen belonging
TO the disranchsed portion Of the pcoe looking around 70
wha, could be done Tor the future 81 the freedmen They
Of course look the Radicals for help Is gene-
ally supposed down there that on are doing al you can TO de-
priye them Of their p9siJn, wealth cnd personal influence
This ptoa Of tho southern pee pave made up Their MINDS
TO pemsnent Disqualification. and In THIS light yoq WI IN
destand fooN ing extract taken from pryae letter dd
/ IN he
Influential moderate and phiantropc men IN the Souh and
while YOU may not agree with him Ia sentiment YOU
but admire the sPiTH that runs tArough ms ttcr OF
which This is specimen Iinny say that he Is fair sample
Of large and ineroasng q VI ilds Enhdrd before
Northern They hive retired TO the oack ground
smrly becnuse they have inmaton from the tOnservH
tyes or the Radicals that er services wanted They
content 10 along; gad 10 b. hecd unl the time
comes from the conflicting plrtsanshp which hCls
tennessee and other southern States iron grasp can
you they VII respond {" auy generous action pro
posed which Is likely to be carried Whether II cones nom
Radicals or Conseryttyes their part under their
present disquf cntons would only subject hem 70 fresh m
continued oppression 1t wond not be aheahy
cupon for them 10 DO engaged at ths uno Ia sueh poA
less labor. Bat 10 the extracts ,
should care vry little whether rspt'srnaon was passed on
against Negro Suffrage induce ne 10 prefer umanig on. 0
tae linton Jor ar suffrage may b. grdHtd 20 n, nsro The
sented 10 Conefess What desire is to SEQ tao
relieved of military law and Of the foeimeGs Bureau
and the restoration OF civil law WOnd D. perfectly wiling
waive the right uf representation m Congress for hye
years II the North would agree to 1T The southern States
try the experiment OF self or the period II
We failed To- solve ali lie dicus connected with the negro
would then b, willing that tie Norm should resume her con
trO over US II tho talent I'M Ac South brought bear
lhrngh our State Legislatures for Eve or tea! ears we would
settle al the questions which tie Noh cnml the rifht Of
ceingfor Us To secure The nnresfnnrd Fyese oil max
INK Ills experiment would gladly surrender The rsLt to be
ftpeaencd IN Congress aud IN the III ctorn College
- ee tbs show yea ITO aHmHs OF the best
minds o TIE Nuuinhose TO whom the negro must look Tor
guidance IN pfcaen helpless aud unprotected oond ion
IAs ess OF mld reached or felt b. ho crowd Of