The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-18


Mass was brutsly outraged by vagrant negro FRI
! day morning al her house, while tho rest Of her
family we're absent
A freshot in the Hudson Friday carried away
very large amount of property In Troy.
Fortyfour or tho Fen prisoners were discharged
Yesterday no indictments being found against them
The Canadian government has 1t is reported declined to
saty the Confederation arrangement pay $500 600
/ Prince Edward Island
| The stock market was weak yesterday morning but
closed buoysn Erie ana Northwestern being especially
| strong Gold was heavy and closed at l4l,saK.
Tho Unhappy Position Of tho South-What Ii
tho Prospects
The present condition of the South, result
ing from the ravages Of the war, is truly de-
plorable. The losses by the States involved
in the rebellion of three or four hundred
thousand of their able-bodied young white
men, killed and disabled the emancipation
throughout the South of four millions Of Afri-
can slaves I; the widespread destruction of
cities, towns villages, railways, bridges, steam
boats, factories, foundries, mills, farm houses,
fences live stock and materials Of all kinds |;
the bankruptcy Of banks, corporations and
planters the losses OF four years from the
suspension, to vast extent, of the cotton, to-
bacco, rice and sugar culture, and the short
cotton crop Of the present year, from the want
of facilities in planting and from drough.s,
floods and insects, together with the general dis
organization of the whole structure of Southern
society, present chapter ofmisfortunes greater,
perhaps, than those suffered by any other peo-
pie since those Of the " thirty years war" in
Germany. Millions in supplies have been and
continue to be expended through the govern
ment charity establishment of the Freedmen's
Bureau for the relief Of destitute whites and
blacks, and yet from the Potomac to the Rio
and destitute families are struggling upon the
verge Of famine.
Such is the physical and social condition TO-
day Of the lately insurgent States, with all the
efforts urged by supreme necessity upon their
people for their daily wants and the trials of
the coming winter. This indeed, is a deplora-
BILE state Of things and yet there is something still
more to be depiored in the present unhappy po-
itical attitude Of those people, leaders and fol-
lowers. DestMtion and famine may be arrested
for season by liberal measures of relief, but
capital, labor, financial confidence, social har-
mony and q regular system of industry adapted
10 the new order Of things are imperatively do
manded to secure subsistence and security for
the future in the way OF supplies for those
Southern people, But while the States con-
cerned remain in their present undetermined,
uncertain and anomalous political position,
neither the capital nor the financial confidence
required to put them on the road TO prosperity
| will advance to their relief Plantations lying
waste, mills and factories in ruins, deficient
crops and. an exhaustive body of idle consum-
ers will still be the story; and these evils, from
the increasing decentralization among whites
| and blacks, castles and classes, employers and
| employed, will rather be aggravated than
lightened from year to year.
The leading political journals and politicians
Of the South say the great difficulty to the rein
statement of their States to their proper rela-
lions in the general government lies in the
pending constitutional amendment and it, out
rageous terms Of restoration. But in truth
the difficulty is to DO found in those old
fire-eating, revolutionary and intractable lead
ing Southern politicians and journals them
selves, and nowhere else. They are back
Southern rights and State sovereignty. They
preached but short time ago their constitu-
donal right to 60 out Of the Union and make
war to destroy it, and they are now preaching
their constitutional right to come back again
on their own terms, including their leaders in
the rebellion, a. IL nothing had happened but
an election riot. We must tell these strict con-
years. war for the life Of the nation, and that
the sacrifices in this war Of the government and
the States adhering to it include over three
hundred thousand Union soldiers and sailors
and the burden of war debt Of three thou
sand millions OF dollars. We must again de-
clare that the men concerned in this wer
against the Union were and are traitors In the
eye Of the law, and subject 10 the penalties Of
treason, and that in view Of this important
| fact the terms OF this constitutional amend
| ment--simply looking to the necessary securi-
| ties 10 the Union for the future-are so light
and generous rs to be without precedent in
| the records of any other nation.
! There is still another important hint, which
| will bear repeating q thousand times to the
people Of the excluded States. Il is this--tba,
the terrible disasters Of war, fire, sword, devas-
tstion and subjugation brought upon them by
their old Southern rights leaders ought to be
sufficient for the casting out OF those leaders now
and foreyermors. The constitutional amend.
ment proposes to subject n certain class Of
them to . two-tbirds vote of Congress, which is
dealing with them vory char:tably. as the lead.