New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1866-02-28
THx VAIN QUESTION - PARTIAL
OR PRKFECT' PKACE. ANA

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While he Nj s nKisas % see mode sdopsdd
by Which loyal from the Sontn might be atmtea
az Cbnrress he aers-l t6lH rctscai 20 re dd,s'ioH
sng tar rio Idf tst, ,psr, ~ ~, Rebellion. and "''s
,esh rot Jvt,e repnri " tte ie'i'ooA"
III Mr. JACK ROGERS OF ew'JerSey' IN inc
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I'VE have man Cat tb. other end OF t'le Avenue
wholis the embodiment of civ liberty. We nave
manwho b,iisrsi hd' ht Gore'Tfnf rd' ''hdf y" 'S
bcrtt o. hs phir 1el and rhhe ro"e' o. He
no, al E,T tie be-lsf Of Negroes nss'ro Nsrehts
! These deear itions-antagoniSt IN spirit
and purpose as they secm--do nevertheless con'
spire in scope and effect; that is to say each
Of them, while urging restoration and fraternity
do, yet contemplate an incomplete, partial
one.sided restoraton; which, in our Judgment,
would be worse than none. Most anAioaSiy
desiring the earliest possible recenslruction o'
the Union, so that it be thorough ard Just, We
vet saw Better wait year or two than have
sneh restoration as either Mr. Sherman or Mr..
Rogers propogIis. Let Us consider them
separately:
Mr.. Sherman wants the SoGtiern States
represented in Congress-repTesenied "o"-ont
insists that no person who has taken par. Ill The
hate Rebellion shall be admitted to a seat.
Now. VIGOROUSLY, nearly ali the White people
Of those States hare taken part IN that Rebellion,
and so are excluded By the terms OF tho existing
act and Of M Sherman'S programme.
Now VIC object TO that programme tia, IL
suecess will not conciliate. uor tranqulize, nor
satisfy the South and that it ought MOI 20 DO 80.
II IS oil very well to insist that the South must
be represented by loyal men nobody dir
putes that But 70 say that they must always
hare h,n loyal--that Georgia, and Mississippi
z and South Carolina. must send to Congress no
t man who ,rer willingly aided the Rebollon--is
Ito mock Ter with a semblance yet deny her The
reality Of representations t. tantalize, and
irrititc rather than tranquih,e aud conciliaie
! the South. What earnest tnicnst wants 20
ace Alex. n. Stephens denied ihe seat in the
Senate to which ne las Just been elected. and
some in ignifcance, who represents only bis own
audscious aspirations, admitted in his stead
Depend Oh il, 1.-THE South" is not 10 he satisfied,
nor even ''reStoved," by any sham repretents-
| ton Mr. Sherman means well; bat his plaster
is too small for the wound, and all rather IN.
flame than heal it. We are confident We eS-
press the general feeling OF the Southern Whites
when We say that they prefer TO be kept ont Of
Congress rather than admitted, If, when AL
ni,ted, they are allowed to send to Congess
only representatives who can swear that they
neyef voluntarily aided the Rebellion
And now let IA look moment at The al.
ternatiye proposition of Mr.. Jack Rogers:
There were in the fifteen Slave States in so
no less than 3,955,7 go slaves, with 2js,34G free
cooha persons, forming a total of 4,2l2, lOs
Blacks In those States, Whose total population
was l2,3l5,372. In other words, moro than
ene-,iird of the entire population Of the South,
including Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, West
Virginia, and the District Of Columbia, were OF
the cDlored race. And il, to-day, that section
has Twelve Millions Of inhabitants--(a high
estimate, considering the waste of civil war,
with the many thousands of White and Black
refugees from its hardships and tcrrors) --cer.
tainly not less than one-third Of them are
Blacks, who constitute decided majority Of the
entire population Of South Carolina, Mississippi
and Louisiana, and who fall but little bslow a
majority in several other States. i.-"-
These -Four Millions are Americans-natyes
of our conntrY-fellOw ChrstianS--ior the most
part, agricultural laborers or rorgh mechan-
ics-inpred 20 toll from iniancy-and c1pc
rienced in that department OF our National in
dustry Cotton growing which promises the
ampldst immediate returns. They are dOeie,
initiative, and plastic to all good influences,
eager for education, and living in close associa-
fion With the landlolders and planterS--a clsos
conservative by position and instinct, whose
inAuebce over them, since they have
been placed in just and beneiicent re-
latipnb' 10 each other, must always be
controlling. These Blacks have been tried
sud tempted in our late struggle, and have
nobiy endured the ordeal. They never con-
cealed their desire and expectation OF freedom
as It's natural result; no one could doubt that
|thfif iyppathies, as race. were OH the side OF
the Upiol; many Of them enlisted and foae'.t
|braveE in its deieHse;. yet all tho pgedic..o..s
that they would take advantage of their
|mastets' absence in the Acld TO rise in insur.
rsction and cut the tLrOats Of thsy ,deienseless
wives and children ,were utterly, signslly
falsiH9d. And the Kindred hut later proguosti.
catiouS that they ,wonld refuse to.wosk-t,lss
MI Eeuld keep ~ fath With thrir ssap,oyers;
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