The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1866-06-13
American Politics in the Times.

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American Politics In the Times.
The London Tones has an article In it,
date of the 18th, taking view of the diff.
fercnces between President JOHNSON and
the Congress, in which there arc the fair
ness and good sense Of an intelligent OBJ
server. Referring to the strife between
the executive and legislative depart
ments, the Times says:
In this embodiment the most satisfactory y.g re-,
tmrs or AFFAIRS IL he coasisfeaf, sfncere nnd ,y,
iiosnt policy Of the President hf,asen wssnSp aS
be begging the question II we SAID .naa rs,p ,,j
form ia character and reasonable IN Hmrp"s nai
can We doabt tina, II has been honestly conceived
and as honestly entertained
Speaking Of the enlightened ponc! !"
President JOHNSON, with reference 70 '"'
negro-he being southern man ana h''o"-
ing we'll the negro character-anu kho"'"s
,hs, !, will not do "to establish the negro
ain any position of antagonism towards his
"former masters" the Times says:
no ~hs, you will in the way Of legislation and
ordnance, you must stil have .hsee m,hhs VI
phs,ss over an immense area OF territory The su
perior race IL only far more powerful but twice
rec, the enterprise by which black labor is en-.
ployed and rcmuneratcd: Aanifesty, tnen, the
black must depend upon the white ior All lne Ss.
Guided No system Of special or artificial tutelsge
could be maintained which would compensate ne
Nothing would forward his interests so eaec,uslly
As that good will cordially exerted II wonid D.
almost impossible TO estaelsh and vain to thinS o.
maintaining an Official machinery over all the
states Of the Son,h for the. support Of the negro
against his former master Better oy lar ieaSs IN,
two races on good terms with each other and trus'
agency of the superior race for the progress
to be made
How much force is added to this para
graph from the Times when We remember
that this superior race has contributed
more to the Union than their fellow -citi-
zens of the Northern States That South
where this "superior race" alluded to re-
sides, had, through her sons, directed the
fate of the nation till near the time of the
civil war. Their counsels, and their men,
tai force, and energy, ever in the ascend
ant, carried the nation through the war OF
'76, and safely conducted it through every
trial afterwards. They gave their time to
agriculture, and to the science Of politics,
and art of war. They had little to do with
commerce, and nothing to do with the
horrid slave trade on the high seas, which
the New England States conducted with en-
ergy for so many years. The very institution
of slavery, which was the immediate cause
Of the war, was forced upon their ancestors
by Great Britain when these States were
her colonies. The magnitude of that in
stitution was enlarged by the slave pira-
cies OF the New England States; and those
States being considerably populated in that
way with race not suited to their climate,
and not suited to their form Of industry,
relieved themselves and their consciences
BY transporting their slaves to the South
and selling them to the southern plant 5.
And It is this "superior race" tt the
northern medical statesman ma rs and
ISLANDERS as not enough to
take care of its own local affairs and treat
the blacks with kindness and justice. A
race not chargeable with the origin of sla-
very-never having stained its character
by participation in that most horrible
traffic of the slave trade on the high seas
and distinguished for its humanity and its
wise and equitable administration of JUS
tice-it is such race as this that the north
ern politicians are endeavoring to degrade
to convict of cruelty: to disfranchise {.
But to recur to the Times 1t says that
Mr.. JOHNSON, entertaining such views, ne
cessafily encountered the opposition Of the
dominant party of Congress. A party "os-
in the interests of the negro" but
obviously acting "to some extent for inte-
rests of its own" Assuming that the esta-
blishment of the proposed equality between
the races would be impossible under any
sort of political machinery, the Times says:
"The Radicals know full we'll that the adoption |
Of their policy would establish everlasting feud
between the two races in the south. but their de-
sire TO depress and humiiate the southerner is so
that 4 governs their views ,h o, b1e esei
legislation and oficial agency they could protect
and maintain the black in this artificial position
Johnson replies ths. this Is an impossbiity
at the six millions Of southern citizens must pre-
vail against the cumbrous and uncertain action OF
1 department and that IL the negro In the south IL
depriycd Of the sympathy and good will Of the |
White population. he will, in the end, degenerate
die out, and disappear"
The concluding paragraph of the Times's
article contains the following truthful
sentences:
I" II appears that the President has not only tie
balance Of reason on his eide, tut the adrdnt9ge |
Has ne 90 mot suspect that he is Influenced by |
INV other motives than those which he ,svows. |
Bnf A much cannot be said for the Radicals. We
heir proceedings in Congress during the, present
session irresistibly suggest the, conclusion that
1s bv ann pare political priaciple. A question |
Which would tax TO the utmost the wisdom OF the |
isest government ID thus debated on grounds toath