Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1866-02-08
SECOND edition.
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eOvERNMKNr sKCURlrlEs.
WAsHIN8T0H, February s. 1905.
jay Cooke 4 %. furnish the following q no.
THE NEGRO QUESTION

to legislation to force negro equality upon the
white labor OF the country, as announced to
the colored delegation that applied yesterday
for an explanation Of his ideas Of the necessi-
ties OF the times in that connection, will of
course be Immediately controverted in the halls
of Congress with as much bitterness as by the
class at the South represented by Henry A.
Wise and the Richmond Examiner. His re-
marks cannot fail to prove as distasteful to
gentlemen with such idiosyncracies as those of
Messrs. Sumner and Stevens as TO the few left
south Of the Potomac-and they grow fewer
and fewer hourly-who do not vet realize that
the key to the removal of the disabilities of
their section resulting from the war, Is simply
TO push on the development of the wonderful
resources of that section. by making both its
white and colOred races more intelligent and
industrious than under the former order OF az
fairs there, while warding off the possibility of
such collision of races in this case, as has
occurred upon the initiation Of violent and sud
den social industrial and political changes in
other countries.
The extremists Of Congress seek an entire
change Of the principles of the Government of
the United States. They aim to substitute (at
the cost of doubling our current TAXATION the
power OF the sword and the agency of i'm
ported directors in all matters, great and small
future conduct of their own local affairs The
extremists at the South seek a restoration of
the class privileges and power existing there
prior to the war, which involved a gross and
glazing peryersion Of the principle Of Republi-
canism guaranteed in the Constitution and
laws. The possessors or these privileges and
that power, using the lever putinto their hands
by Northern politicians of the school of Messrs.
Sumner and Stevens, made the war which has
cost SO many lives and so much treasure to all
sections of the land: and if they are permitted
to re establish themselves in the control of the
Southern popular mind and Southern public
affairs, there is danger that the result will be
sooner or later, repetition of the war; To us
the aims of both these threatening powers in
the State are equally reprehensible. Ii Messrs.
Sumner and Stevens impress their policy on
the Government, they cannot fail to convert it
North and South, East and West, into a naked
despotsm of demagogues in Congress. If the
former governing class of the South regain
power, all the good that should result from the
sacrifices of both sides in the war will vanish
President Johnson's position between these
contending forces or interests is unmistakabIe
He seeks
LIST. To preserve all that the war has left of
the distinctive features and principles of our
Government.
I'd. To maintain for the white labor of the
land the rights and ad vantages through which
it has made us at the North the most enlight-
ened, prosperous and freest people on the
earth; which rights and immunities are most
seriously menaced In the efforts Of Messrs
Sumner and Stevens and their followers, TO
substitute Congressional Military Dictator
ship throughout the South, for the govern
ment of the constitution and laws, sweeping
away at the same time the right OF the North
ern States to the direction Of their own local
affairs.
Sd. To secure to the late slaves, freedom
past per adventure.
4th. To secu re to them such intellectual,
moral and industrial improvement as will
soonest make them OF greatest value to society
at large, and will so advance them in the DOS
session OF all desirable attributes, as that in
due time all the rights and privileges Of Amer
lean citizenship will fall as naturally upon
them, as freedom from actual slavery has
already fallen on them as a necessary conse-
quence Of the late effort to destroy the Govern
ment Of the United States.
1t is further clear that the President looks TO
the white labor of the South, (now that the war
has made it really free labor to do for that Sec
ton in the future, what it has already accom-
plished in the North. Also, that he is no be-
lever that any good can result from endeayor-
ing. instead, to accomplish that result only
through the agency of the blacks Of the South
in their present intellectual and industrial con.
dition. We believe that his views are based on
the wlsest craftsmanship and soundest pa
triotism; and, further, that as the country comes
to understand these plain facts, his policy will
be universally endorsed as the proper one,
despite the Vaccinations Of party leaders.
1t will be found no more possible for the
fossil leaders of the old democratic party to re-
establish their defunct ideas in the ascendant
(nearly all OF which operated to defeat the
purpose Of preserving the Union in the late
wary than for the ultra leaders of Congress to
persuade the people of the country to surren-
der into their hands all their distinctive Amer.
lean liberties and rights, and to accept instead,
any government at any cost to themselves as
tax payers, that may suit the momentary within
of any set OF party leaders who may happen
for the nonce to have control Of Congress.