New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-08-16
TIKI REAL ISSUES.


Randall Convention now sitting at Philadelphia
says:
Mere party journals Of look at this matter With
prpudced eyes THE TRIBUNE good IN the Con.
venton TIE Ford sees good 10 It only for the Demoerae
s 0. 30 IS largely ss OF Shsn Southern
for the first time recognizing the supremacy aud tue per
manence Of the Union VIII be Of great benefit to tue country
for the reason we have given abOve-because this public
recanaton Of two disturbing questions slavery
and Secession from our party politics be Of not tie
slightest the Democratic party That party iii wishes
to the country must not depend upon Phadepha Con
vcntons II depend upon the enunciaon ana defense OF
sound and liberal principles II permits handful OF old To-
ges commit IL against universal liberty and equal rghs
and in favor Of prescription and Of privilege to the few and
exclusion of tie many it VIII surely be defeated; but If It
plants itself upon the good old Democratic ground OF elua
rights within the Union and Constitutions II II defends
the right Of every man speak to bcr and to trade
everywhere it will compel victory because VIII deser'o
The Post knows perfectly we'll that the entire
significance and interest OF the Philadelphia Conyen'
ton nheres in the deadly antagonism to Universal
Liberty and Equal Rights" therein embodied, organ
lied, and rendered formidable The one common
sentiment which animaes the fossil remains there col
lected Of all the parties which our country has out
grown is hatred Of Human Equality aud attachment
to antiquated Privilege. But for this, there would
have been no Philadelphia Conventional least, no
such menagerie as is there assembled to-day.
1t is idle-nay 1t is cupabe-to daily with this
matter and affect not to understand the most obvious
and vital facts "The South, called-that Is the
faction lately in revolt and fighting to overthrow the
Union-is lip-lOyal to-day for the single purpose OF
getting the loyal Blacks delivered helpless into hei
hands. Mr. Johnsons policy of " restoration makes
the Rebels supreme the lives, liberty and prop
erty of the Blacks. Even in States where the Blacks
are clear majority and unanimously loyal, not
one of them is allowed any voice whatever in making
or enforcing the laws. And thus deenseess, they
are being prosecuted and murdered by hundreds for
having stood up and fought for the Union. 1t is q
damage and peril to a negro almost anywhere in
what was the Conederacy TO have served in the Union
armies. Men fresh from the Rebel service who boast
their loyalty and shout the praises of Andrew john
son are killing Blacks on sight for no other OIL
tense than that The Civil Rights act is openly
defied and nullifed by Southern judges and juTies
At least Ten Thousand Blacks have been killed by
Rebels since Peace was proclaimed and not one OF
the assassns has been brought to justice by the local
authorities. The late Wholesale butchery in New
Orleans was but more conspicuous exhibition Of
spirit everywhere present and active in the South
q spirit to which John A. Dix, Thurlow Weed ana
Montgomery Blair are now deliberately betraying the
loyal liberty -loying Blacks of the South when the
Frcedmen's Bureau is abolished or nullihed-as IL
probably soon will be-the work of outrage and muir
der will proceed with redoubled CELEBRITY and the
hapless gBlacks, and those Whites who sympathize
with them will be made to realize what was meant by
those who predicted that Freedom would Prove
curse to the Blacks and would result i'll their eIter
mination.
The Democratic party of to-day NIL NOT 81 plant IT.
,olf ON tim cool old democratic ground oi Euual
Rights to ALL as The Post well knows. IL is not in
favor of any such doctrine that 1t Is expecting To
achieve power by the aid of those who tried TO break
up the Union in order to found government on
what A. II. Stephens justly Wanted as the en-
tirey novel principle Of the rghtiul natural, eier-
nal subordination of one race OF men to another.
The attempt failedi but the doctrine Is stllI
cherished a. heartily overland rs heartily
by Democrats in New.York as by ex-Rebcls
in South Carolina. II is to give effect and ascend
ency 10 this doctrine that the South now processes
LOYALTY, and South Carolina locks arms with the
handful of Massachusetts Copperheads. The muir
derers of Dostie and bis compatrots fully repre-
sented in the Randall and Nblack Convention; they
are there on purpose to impunty for further
operations in that line. II is for this, and this only
that they now pretend to abjure Secession and
Slavery, while the spirit Of Slavery still anima,es the
code Of every Southern State. Why will The Post
seek TO blind its readers TO these momentous truhs