New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-30

year; and then we should not merely regain power
but keep it." Such is our deliberate conviction.
The ~ Y Tunes dissents from this view-not only
dissents from, but carcatures t-sayng;
We doubt whether the great body the Union party will
deem IL quite SAFE to DIE the hope Of glorious
ton especially when death lets in the seeded States on
her terms aud thus foe beyond reasonable hope OF
subsequent expulsion the dsoya leaders OF the Demo
cratic party Possibly the Union party might At some ias ,b
day experience glorious resuecon but the chances III tue
supposed would eacelywarran the experiment ,,,
the Union majority in Congress had OseI r Ssa and
wagng upon him. the Rebel States would nave CONE O
into Congress perfectly satisfactory 10 tne az ~
and perfectly the harmony and security OF ne
nation They would have seen the Union Administration
their best isnds instead Of enemies ana %oJa rs
might establish justice, equal rights aud ci' oef'y '"s
Comments by The Tribune.
The ruling caste at the South, who forced her into
the late Rebellion have just one measure OF friend
ship: "Wi you help US keep the Blacks as nearly IN
the condition of brutes as possiblel" Whoever VIII
do this, they account their best friends" whoever
will not, are classed with their "enemies' Apart
from this single absorbing issue, they realize that the
Editor of The TRIBUNE is more their friend than
many of those whom they are now vehemently
landing. There was not a man in all the country,
North or South, whom they more thoroughly detested
and abhoned, one little year ago. than Andrew
Johnson. They regarded him as not merely deadly
foe: but as a detesable apostste and traitor. Yet
from the moment that they found his "pan" suscep-
tble of being SO developed and applied as to plan
their heel once more on the necks OF the Blacks, they
turned short and, from the most uDmeasured
abuse and revilng of the President became his I'M
measured eulogists and thick-and-thn supporters.
They would rally around Wendell Phillips tomorrow
if they could convert him to like use.
We deny then, peremptony, that the late Rebels
could have been won to love and confde in the Union
party Oh terms consistent either with National secur-
ity or National honor-much less on terms which
would establish justice equal rights and civil liberty
throughout the South" Precisely because it enables
them to Grade such establishment, they now gloniy
the Presidents policy" If it were calculated to
establish equal rights and civil liberty throughout
the South, they would be its and his determined an
tagonsts.
Now, them a. to death end resurrection
The Party of Progress must often dare to take step
in advance of average public sentiment Itdd this in
urging Emancipation in 1862, the defeat OF Gen.
Wadsworth and kindred results in Pennsylvania Ohio,
Indiana Illinois, &c, demonstrated; but its reyerses
then proved the harbinger of glorious and benefcent
successes thereafter SO it will be again and again
But defeat by no means necessarily attends such
daring In lsi9, Ohio repealed her Black Laws
in defiance, probably, of the prevalent opinion
among her citizens; yet those laws have never been
reenacted and never will be. If Equal Rights regard
less of Color were this hour engrafted on the Federal
Constitution, no intelligent person believes that they
would ever Do eliminated thererom.
Canada on one side, Mexico on the other, to-day
ignores all inequality of Political Rights founded in
Color yet no Rebel, no Copperhead, finds resi-
dence in either ntolerabe. Quite number OF Rebels
have recently emigrated from the South, with all her
Negro Prescription, to South America. where (even
in sayeholdng Brazi all colors are equal before the
law. 1t is as political weapon-a means OF profit
ing By the preudices and controlling the votes of the
meaner whites-that Negro Prescription is still chung
to by the arstocracy of the South.
Over all this round globe there is no being who
dare call himself a Democrat or Republican who OPP
poses Negro Acknowledgement save in these United
States. European Democrat would as soon think
of unfolding the Right Divine of Kings to govern
wrong" or the Fcuda system. We Will hope and
strive that this monstrous anomaly may be in its last
quarter and that ere five more years have elapsed,
there will be no rational being on earth who dare
call himself Democrat Liberal while he justites
and votes for the perpetual degradation of a race.