Baltimore daily commercial. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1865-1867, 1866-05-25


people or the Cabinet in the chief defender of
the nations unity, they will after while be
driven into obscurity by the indignant public
sentiment soon to oveTtake them.
THE PR0GRANME AND THE FNEVITA-
BILE TENDENCIES OF RADGCALISM as
RECENTLY DEVELOPED. LET THE
MASSES HERE WATCH HI.
The people of the city and State have doubt
less noticed within day or two past in the
local reports of the Commercial, some pro-
ceedings of much interest to them, as possibly
a part of the programme by which the radical
leaders outside, propose to help those within
it to carry the State. BY way of illustrating,
with striking force and beauty, the ''recon-
struction" policy of Congress as dis
tinguished from that of the President, we
have had Senator Wilson here promulgating
his peculiar views as to ''negro sufrage;n ard
on the top of this, the attempts of ''colored
lawyer" from BostOn-we believe, to bring
our street cars to stand still, and to prescribe
to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad company
how and where they shall bestow their passen-
gers; the programme being, to place black
and white alongside Of each other, in the man
ner so long in vogue at the Tabernacle in
New York, and at other points where Wendell
Phillips and his coterie have had the sway.
That the scheme has not carried here, in this
first instance, is not because it was not well
enough devised, or urgently enough pushed.
And now as the radical leaders, Sumner,
Stevens and Wilson have doubtless plenty of
"colored lawyers" in reserve, besides this one,
with nothing particular to do to hinder them
from trying experiments on the patience of
communities like this it may be expected that
we shall forthwith have plenty more of these
incidents, enabling the radical leaders in Con-
gress to finally announce to the world-that
not only the States lately in rebellion have
finally become perfectly d0cile, but that-ad-
ally-Maryland which demonstrated its
T. = r-r---,-;rl,;oct tho Government with
resignedy, if not gladly, NEGRO suffrage, or
whatever else on the ''checquer board princi-
pie" Messrs. Wilson, Sumner and Stevens
the allies of radicalism here-choose to nut
upon them.
Whilst it is family denied at the radical
gatherings that NEGRO suffrage" is part of
the programme, Ia at side can no more get
away from that conclusion, taking the subtle
scheme of the Committee of Fifteen lately
passed by the House by more than the re-
quisite two-thirds majority, as their policy,
than they can escape whatever credit attaches
to the alliance they have with Sumner and
Wilson. The Reconstruction policy" of Con-
gress not only gravitates to that conclusion,
but just as surely provides for something more
than equality before the law, "-namely-
social equality, as claimed in haring whites
ana negroes packed side By side IN all places
aohere the matter can possibly be comprised.
How far this is to be accomplished here, we
may infer by a glance at what is every day
exhibited at Washington, the National Capital,
where the radical leaders, having had measur-
ably full sway, now pack the street cars, and
the Congressional galleries as well with this
class, to the virtual exclusion of those who do
not too much fancy the new arrangement in
the direction of social equality.
And whilst this particular style of doing
things, this dwelling process is so little fancied
in certain ofthe older ''free States" that their
people have successfully resisted the attempt
to introduce negro suffrage, the hardship of
the thing-compared to our case here-wouid
be comparatively trifing in many of them,
from the small numbers who would exercise
the function. And even in the instance of the
social equality referred to, as exhibited in
Massachusetts, where the white and colored
children are admitted to the same public
schools, so few are there compared to our
situation here, that it would be hardly more
than noticed. But throw open the doors here
to the children of black population of some
one hundred and seventy thousand, and where
would 1t place our people; and who supposes
that after what has been witnessed of the ty-
ranny OF the radical leaders, that they will be
satisfied until every barrier is broken down
which marks distinctions betwixt the races?
And let our people take good note of the
fact, that even in Boston, there is one class
the rich-who have it optional with themselves
to escape from these disabilites-because they
may well be called disabilities, when race
just emerging from ignorance and degradation
are forced upon the children of the dominant
race as intimate associates, in daily and hourly
contact. The rich-we say-can escape all
this; and do escape it, by establishing and
patronizng costly and exclusive private acad-
emles, where they may select-to suit them
selves-associates for their children And
when all this is so apparent-when the people
OF Maryland are compelled to see which way,
inevitably, these radical movements tend, are
they to be beguiled of their own sound con-
victionS, to encourage ''colored lawyers''-
possibly advised by Henry Wilson-how to
place the entering wedge for achieving such
unwelcome and damaging results?
We desire to see the colored race elevated;
improved; educated; made all out of, that
sound discretion, in the direction of their own
best welfare can suggest. But there is no
sensible observer but must have noticed that
already, and within few months past, the
disposition to favor his endeavors to achieve
better status for himself has visibly waned,
as the direct consequence of that aggressive
disposition manifested by his accredited lead.
ers and advisers.
The people of Maryland have done their
duty in defending the Union, in carving
emancipation, and in doing all besides which
in the hurry of revolutionary times they could
do to advance the State and the coored race
here. But when at last the truest Union men
amongst US see that there is positively no limit
to the fierce vindictiveness and aggressions of
the radical leaders, that whilst denying the
charge of going for NEGRO suffrage" all their
acts tend to that conclusion, and further still,
to social equality, as plainly manifested within
the past few days, the most sincere and earnest
friends of the colored man will pause, and
will refuse to support men for office who would
in the end precipitate the worst evils upon the
State in the shape of endless feuds and dissen.
siops calculated to yetasd its advancement,