The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-03-05
Squeezed Oranges.
From the Tribune.

From the Tribune. .......
A timely paragraph in the newspapers states
that 20 900 colored troops, from the Department
ofTexas, ''are to arrive shortly at City Point to
be paid off and mustered out of the service" 1t
may not be without its uses if those whose pre-
iudices have been so thoroughly stimulated by o
recent political event, and who have since been,
even for them, uncommonly vociterous upon the
subject of "niggers," will pause and reflect out
of what service these soldiers to be mustered,
and what a condition the so-called Conservatives
exrect them to be mustered into. A white SOL
dier who should return from war, less leg or
with his general health impaired, after
a devotion OF three or four years of his life to
the rescue of the Government from extraor-
binary dangers only to be told that he was
nobody or less than nobody, in the Common
wealth in part owing its very existence to mis-
exertions would, no doubt, have an inclination
as ample as his leisure, to sit down and to
mourn over ingratltude as the easily besetTlng
sin of nations. We might afford to laugh at
one solitary colored man playing Caius Marius
in this disappointed and indignant frame OF
mind but when you have 10000 mounted upon
their injuries, we do not see how tnNir refec.
tions can be promotive OF social quietude and
order. You may talk of prudence, you may
prate of ignorance you may presume, as the
late patriarchs did, upon black bestiality but
the unrewarded, insulted, neglected black
soldier has an lntuitive logic OF his own, which
Is more accurate ald potent than the first AMI
finest chop of the most thamaturgical of col
lege professors. You presume that he did not
know what he was fighting for. He marched
and camped, advanced and retreated, manpu
lated his 6relock, exposed his life, with no
more sense than cavalry horse goes through
his PAGES. He became a soldier partly because
he was told to, and his habit was that OF obe-
dience, and partly because he was fond OF the
fun, and took pleasure in running the risk of
Wagner massacres This is hardly con sistent
with the old, early theory that he would turn
out coward and make tracks from his first
battlefield with velocity but never mind
II YOU expect consistency in the arguments and
assumptions OF his haters, you are reckoning
without your host Poor oreature-every fool,
every selfish schemer, every iLnatured Upstart
may have his say oil hum lie is talked over as
knowing grooms talk over horses-he is dis
cussed, dissected, analyzed mlcroscopically, and
he is deficient here, wanting there, illul nish I'd
with this, over-furnished with that bit tor one
thing unit for another but, somehow, never ut
to be Justly and honorably treated as man,
Godmade and God-endowed and God-beloVed.
There is world of trouble latent in these
comfortable ENTHUSIASTICALLY when the
object of them is discharged soldier. Sensible
men at the South foresee this as plainly as pos
sible. "EXtend to the blacks" says Ex-Governor
Brown, of Georgia, ''all the civil riehts enjoyed
by white personsH Shrewd ex-governor! he
has no passion for walking over mine which at
any moment may explode, and send him SKY
high in fragments He wants peace, security,
peIpetuity-he wants dinner to eat and
suTed ae eainst conhagraton--he wants to plant
and gather prohtably-he does not want a
score of sour, disappointed, aggrieyed blacks
hanging about hs premises, hating, and with
sufficient reason 10 hate ali of his complexion.
He is wei versed enough in history to know
that the presence OF large discontented class
OF non-producing men, who should be Producers,
is far from beng either profitable or comforta-
ble Perhaps he has no philanthropy TO boast of,
perhaps he has none whateVer-but 1t is common
prudence, not philanthropy, which ism question.
And Brown can see as far into that milestone as
any member of his numerous family, with all
the Smiths and Joneses thrown into the estimate.
We suppose that, being a Georgian, and an ex-
STAKEHOLDER, Brown will be listened to respect
fully by even the haughtiest OF Copperheads; and
for like reason, whenever we ind Southern
man talking sense, we exert ourselves to give the
largest possible publicity to his ntterance But
when Northern man ventures to insist upon
Justice simply, even upon the score OF prudence
he is howled and yelped and growed at as q
pseudo-philanthropist and true fanatic, and
that most damnable and disgusting OF all crea
tules, radical. So we turn over these hyper
critics TO Brown. He ls, no doubt, also radi
ca-at any rate, he comprehends that the
political change iii the South is wide, sweeping
deCided, and Wholesale, if net wholesome, and sc
gracefully accepts the situation, We win say
nothing OF philanthropy. We will admit, for the
purposes OF the argument that slavery was al
eminenGly just. profitable, and charitable sti
tuition. What we must, however, Insist upon L
that death Is not fe that freedom is not seri
dom, that emancipation neoessitates an entirell
new and differept policy towards the class eman
Grated, and that Liberty presumcs potica
equality We drop the poetry OF the matter, W
submit to the hardest kind of common sense
and we protest against the fanatics as danger
Gus TO the land, who talk the old talk, hate wit
the old hatred. and bring TO the solution OF neN
questions only the mouldy formulas of a bygon
age. II 10000 men fought for their liberty
being entitled to it by every law OF God, an
every honest Law OF man, it isn't safe TO kee
them out Off as is perfectly evident o the jud
clOus Brown. Al"