Daily union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1865-1866, 1866-07-14
THE FUTURE-FOREWAR FORE
ARMED.
From the Cincinnati Enquirer.

/ From the Cincinnati Enquirer
It viii be remembered by the readers Of
/ the ERquirer that we published some time
/ ago a statement from Southern sources. that
| there were secret organizations being gotten
/ up among the blacks of the South. under the
/ promptings Of Northern Radicals: and that
| the purposes Of these organizations were to
secure civil and political rights to the blacks,
as also a division of the cultivated lands of
| the South among that class. The Radical
presses made light of the statement, with
out, however, denying its truth.
BY reference to one of the special Wash
ington dispatches, it will be seen that a dis
play was made on the Fourth at Richmond,
Virginia, by some of these organizations,
much to the surprise Of most of the whites,
who did not believe any such organizations
existed
The existence of these organizations was
known TO a few, who were not, however, the
less surprised at this open demonstration of
their existence and power
The Richmond Times was of those who
had some knowledge Of these negro organi-
cations. In its issue of the ID inst, it call
attention to the fact that Several hundred
young negro men met every night in that
quarter Of the city known as Navy Hill, for
the purpose Of drilling" and adds:
Though the exercises which are, in many
instances, especially on Saturday nights
prolonged throughout the night, are con-
Quoted on foot, the officers are, in all cases,
armed with cavalry swords. Their evolu-
tons and exercises are so accompanied BY
yells, shouting and profane and obscene Ian
guage as to make the neighborhood of their
musters almost uninhabitable to respectable
people. We are informed that quite an
equal number Of negroes assemble for the
same purpose nightly somewhere in the vi
cinity Of the Chimb0razo Hospital grounds
There have been no complaints of the dis
turnance created by these negroes, for there
Is among our people feeling that the pre-
ceedings have the sanction of the United
States military authorities.
What does all that mean? To US. who
have been watching the utterances Of the
pulpit and Of anniversary negro celebrations,
the answer is easy. Another civil war is
the meaning, and which civil war will spring
from a war of races.
Our readers will recall to mind the ex-
tracts we have published from sermons de-
livered, here and there over the North, and
resolutions adopted religious-so-called-
and anti-slavery bodies, 70 the effect that
unless civil and political rights were award
ed to the freedmen, they-the freedmen
should assert the right by force.
Anybody of the least reflection knows that
these secret military organizations of the
blacks at the South cannot exist without
producing bloodshe5i. The whites cannot
allow them to exist. Their own safety de-
maEds that such organizations be suppressed.
The whites, in self-defense, will be COM
PEELED to arm and drill and nobody can
doubt the result will be armed collision.
That is what the Radicals of the North
want. And TO bring that about is their great
stategic point. -.
FOrewarned is forearmed. 1.-THE Radicals
can overpower the President, and carry the
elections this fall, civil war will follow, just
50 sure as the sun rises in the morning
and sets In the evening. And civil war will
be brought about by these military organiza-
tons Of the blacks, organized and inspirited
by THAD. STEVENS, SUMNER, WADE 81 Co.
In view of this state of affairs, we advise
the people Of the South to prepare for the
contingency. Their lives and their proper
ty are at stake. Both will be sacrificed if
the Radicals are successful
And, to the people of the North, we will
say, peace at home requires that the Radicals
be put down. Civil war at the North is not
more sure than Is a war Of races at the
South, if the Radicals can get control of the
Federal Government
The Democratic party is for Cancellation,
paciticatiOn and unity. Such they also I'M
derstand is President JoHNsoN's position.
That is the only ground upon which all can
stand, who want TO avert civil war at the
North, and unite both North and South in
bonds of fraternal unity.