The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-07-09
sWhat shall we do with the Ne
prO?"

"Nhat shall we do with the Ne
grO?"
AARON +. PERRY, Esq, who delivered a
loyal Fourth of July Grafton, at Cincin-
natl the other day. found it necessary, Of
course, to ventilate his views upon the en-
crossing question of the negro.
He says:
THE whole result upon our institutions
of the late fearful commotion has been to
eliminate from them an element of dis
cord. The question, What shall we do
with the negro?' which has disturbed us
for so many years, has been answered. We
are TO do nothing with him. The question
what any one class of people shall do with
another is not an American question.
The negroes themselves are to settle
the question what they will do subject to
the same limitations as other people. In
their emancipation, the country has been
emancipated," &c.
In this extract there is the usual amount
of cant. Slavery was only an element of
discord because of fanaticism. 1t was an
element of discord precisely as Catholicism
may yet be an element of discord in this
country Fanaticism can make anything
an element of discord. 1t is unreasoning
intolerance, and an uncontrolled propeu-
sity to NEEDLE in other peoples business
that is the element of discord-and unfor-
tunately the late fearful commotion has
done little to eliminate it from among us.
But Mr.. PERRY says the momentous ques-
tion, "What shall we do with the negro"
has been answered. Alas would that it
were answered! 1t is but just presented to
us, and it comes with an overwhelming
force that demands instant attention.
Whilst Slavery existed in the South, regu-
lated by local laws and system of police
which the experience of more than an hun
dred years had digested and approved, the
status of the negroes was, at least, distinct
ly understood. They were in the main,
The most happy, contented, prosperous aud
useful portion Of The negro race, any aohere
upon he face % The earth. win any intelli-
gent gentleman deny that? What is their
condition, now that the great boon y of
emancipation is secured to them? Let the
following telegraphic extract, published
but a day or two since in all the newspa-
pers of the country, answer:
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA.
AUGUSTA, GA, July 3.
Gen. Scott. commandant of South Caro-
lima, has issued stringent orders in conse-
Quence of the increase of theft. vagrancy,
and drunkenness among the freedmen, that
men and women who neglect to labor shall
be arrested and compelled 10 tabor on the
public roads, and that those convicted OF
non-capital crimes shall be imprisoned and
compelled 10 labor rs convicts. on the island,
from sunrise till sunset"
This is but premonitory symptom of
the fearful and chronic allliction to which
we are to be subjected as Il people, through
fanatica abolition cmpiricism. These
theorists have brought about their darling
scheme of negro emancipation, ut an eX-
pense of Il million of brave and precious
lives, and three thousand-yea, ten thous-
and millions of dollars, dead loss to the
country, North and Southland now they
have the impudence to lull the country
with the assurance that "the element of
discordn is at last removed. 1--WE are to do
nothing with the negro" says Mr.. A. +.
PERRY! Wise craftsmanship! Iou might
as well talk of doing nothing with the ele-
ment of fire. If ''the element of discord"
is removed, why then haven't we now peace
and reunion? What keeps Congress in
session? Why is the radical brain apo
plectic with constitutional amendments?
1t is the very question which Mr.. PERRY
says the war answered, ''what shall we do
with the negro" that now occasions all the
trouble. The war was the rattle that won
the elephant-the question now is "tohat
shall toe do 1oith him"
Never on earth can abolitionism settle
this question. 1t has shown persistent en-
ergy to destroy, but it is without capacity
to reconstruct.
The destructive forces of nature are never
employed as instrumentalities to repair.
They may have their uses in the great
schemes of Proyid ence, but this is not one
of them. 1t is to those great soothing and
recurerating processes, which maintain a
steady and ever recurring ascendency, that
mankind Is indebted for those benefleent
and resistless influences, which cover again,
with the mantle of luxuriant fruitfulness
and beauty, the ravages of the tempest the
earthquake and the flood. In analogy to
these, are the influence and character of
Democratic and Conservative principles in
our political system. 1t is ''in this sign
that we shall conquer