New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-18

aesh in the horrors Of intestine oonvulson and war
We enreat The Inder to watch and warn against this
project 1t is certain, if pressed to realization TO
deluge the land in fraternal blood, to good end
whatever.
III. We quite agree with The Lader that the better
norton of the Southern Whites do not mean wish
to Cypress the Blacks. Yet this rather negative good
feeling does not shield nor save the Blacks from nol
cradle wrongs and expressions we have lately seen
at Memphis and other points The low-bred South
ron do love to Cypress and abuse the Blacks and the
better class do not actively interfere to protect them
and they piH long the iaus Of the South are
not just and equal SO long as the South allows the
most ignorant and vicious White foreigner to become
citizen and voter after few years residence, and
denies those same privileges to intelligent, exemplary
Blacks born on her soil, she never will and never
can be just to two-ffths Of her people. That
"Blacks have no rights that Whites are bound to
respect" is an axiom ingrained in the very core OF
Southern society and jurisprudence The Inder
doubtless thinks tie Blacks Of Georgia have all the
rights Of Whites except those of voting, holding
Office, and sitting on juries (rather important
exceptionsD but it is mistaken. Ii Black, having
case in Georgia court. wished his own brother to
appear for him as counsel in that court, it would not
be allowed. And this is but instance out OF many
Of the inequality and injustice of the laws OF Georgia
That they have been and would still be worse if PreS
dent johnson had not insisted on .meorations,
The Indcr either knows or can learn. The facts
that pure and refined Northern women.
who 90 South to teach black children,
are very generally treated with hostility by the
Whites, refused board in their families, and often in
suited and abused and that negro Schoo-houses have
been burnt by scores and in widely separated local-
ties and that, while hundreds Cat leaSt) of Blacks
have been murdered by Whites in the South since the
War ended, and not one Of the murderers convicted
and punished as such by the civil authority, are con-
elusive on this head.
Ill We accept what The Inder says of the National
aud Confederate Debts respectively as proof that
many Southern Whites feel and mean justly and 10y
ally with regard to them; but Gov. Wise is also
Southron, and his recent proclamation that "Green-
backs will be worthless" is testimony quite as
cogent and significant as that of The bder. Each
represents, doubtless, phase Of Southern opinion.
We fear those who hold with Wise arc by far the
holder party.
Finally, we WISH on the main point, to 60
further than The Inder 1t assures that the South
does not intend seek to break out of the Union
We agree to this, and add that majority Of the
Southern Whites neuer did, before they maddened
by lies and bloodshed rish the Union dissolred The
revolutionary party in the South was never more than
daring. INSCRIPTIONS, domineering minority. until
the Southern heart was "fred" to madness by the
bombardmcnt Of Fort Sumter. But there IL just such
minority in the South to-day and it is As likely to
clutch and misuse power in the future as in the past
We cntreat The Inder, with all friends of Peace, to
keep an eye on this caba, and be prepared to
counteract its Vaccinations.