East Saginaw courier., 1866-08-09
Tho Radical Cry for Civil War.

ly the Radical representatives of the
faction which at the North has sought,
through General Paine and other rev.
olutiona, y members Of Congress, to
get control of the means for making
war upon the Government, has been
eager y seized upon by the Tribune and
the Post as an portunity for calum-
mating the President and his policy
by paetending that Louisiana negroes
have revolted against the Presidential
administration, and have, in conse-
quence, been murdered by the !" rebel
whites" of the Crescent City.
No accusation at once so wicked
apd SO false as this has ever been
brought against the negro race in the
South by the most extreme Southern
advocates of the system of slavery.
The history Of our civil war stares
these slanderers and incendiaries of
the Radical press in the face, to prove
that the Southern negroes, when left
to themselves, are, and through all the
trials of the war have steadily been
on much better terms with the South
ern whites than the northern Radi-
. Gals are with the northern millions Of
sober and law-abiding men. There
were no attempts at insurrection in the
South between 1861 and 1865. Not
even when the Tribune gave up the
federal cause for lost, and walled for
peace on the basis of separation, did
the blacks of the South attempt to re-
dress the national balance by turning
on their masters. We have heard a
great deal, but not much to the pur-
pose, about black "Unionism" and
black "1oyalty' at the South. We
Iavo hoard little nothing about
black fidelity to the Southern cause
and to the Southern leaders and poo
pie. But the truth is, that for every
black soldier enlisted to do garrison
duty on the side of the Union, at full
pay, after tho whito soldiers had done
the fighting for the Union, there were
at least forty blacks at the South who
clung to the fortunes of their mas
ters, and repudiated all connection
with the Northern army. This might
have been foreseen as an inevitable
result by any person who knew the
negro character. 1t issublime effron-
terry for Radical journals to deny it
now that through four years war
the obvious character of the negro
race thus made exhibition of itself
1t is the pivotal misrepresentat on
which the Radicals make in their
campaign of passion and calumny-
the misrepresentation of the recipro-
Cal feelings of the blacks and whites
Of the Southern States since the
blacks became free. One would sup
pose, to hear and read these calum-
niators that the white population of
the South hate with utter hatred the
very blacks who were faithful to them
and their cause with an unexampled
fidelity, when the opposite course
would have crushed the fondest hopes
of their "slave-masters, and secured
themselves their freedom; that they
desire to starve, maltreat, MAIN, and
kill the very beings whose industry
is essential to their prosperity, whose
trust is essential to their domestic
peace, whose friendliness is the habit
Of the lifetime Of all of them, and
whose equal and free exchange Of mu-
tual services is to-day the condition of
the life and happiness of both to de-
gree beyond what an enforced ex-
change Of such services ever was.
The whites Of the South could be-
come copper-colored and the blacks
white, sooner than either of them
could SO become transformed within
as to cherish for the other that bitter
hatred, that active maleyolence, which
the Northern Radicals impute to both
in their efforts TO make of the passions
of both means for prolonging their
own hold upon place and power. To
suppose the reverse is to suppose hu-
man nature under black skins and un-
der white skins, different from human
nature as it was ever seen under any
skin. And the saddest thing in this
New Orleans riot is the evidence it
gives that the Northern Radicals. in
theirnttempt 10 get possession Of the