The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-08-02
The Radical Cry for Civil War.

From the WOrid.
The riot provoked in New Orleans by the
radical representatives of the faction which at
the North has sought, through General Paine
and other revolutionary members of Congress,
TO get control of the means tor making war upon
the Government, has been eagerly seized upon
by the Tribune and the Post as an opportunity
for eliminating the President and his policy
by pretending that the Louisiana negroes have
revolted against the Presidential administra
ton, and have in consequence, been murdered
by the "Rebel whitesn of the Crescent City.
No accusation at once so wicked and SO false
as this has ever been brought against the negro
race in the South by the most extreme Southern
advocates of the system of slavery The history
of our civil war stares these slandCrers and i'll
cendlares of the radical press In the face, to
prove that the Southern negroes when left to
themselves, are and through all the trials of
the war have steadily been, on much better
terms with the Southern whites than the
Northern radicals are with the Northern millions
of sober and law-ablding men. There were no
attempts at insurreclon in the South between
1861 and 1865. Not even when the Tribune gave
up the Federal cause for lost, and walled for
peace on the basis Of separation did the blacks
Of the South attempt to redress the national
balance by turning on their masters. We have
heard great deal, but not much to the purpose,
about black "Unionism" and black "loyalUYn at
the South. We have heard little or nothing
about black fidelity to the Southern use'and
to the Southern leaders and people. But the
truth is, that for every black soldier enlisted to
do garrison duty on the side of the Union. at
full pay, after the white soldiers had done the
fighting tor the Union, there were at least forty
blacks at the South who clung TO the fortunes OF
their masters, and repudated all connection
with the Northern army. This might have been
foreseen as an inevitable result by any person
who knew the negro character. 1t is sublime
etfrontery for radical journals to deny it, now
that through four years war the obvious char
acter OF the negro race thus made exhibition OF
itself.
1t is the pivotal misrepresentation which the
radicals make in their campaign OF passion and
calumny-the misrepresentation OF the recipro-
cal feelings of the blacks and whites of the
Southern States since the blacks became free.
One would suppose, TO hear and read these
calumniators, that the white population OF the
South hate with uCter hatred the very blacks
who were faithful to them and their cause with
an uneXampled fidelity, when the opposite
course would have crushed the fondest hopes of
their "siave-masters," and secured themselves
| their freedom; that they desire to starVe, NAL
| treat MAIN, and kill the very beings whose
| industry is essential to their prosperity, whose
trust is essential to their domestic peace, whose
iriendlness is the nabit of the litetimes of all
| of them and whose equal and free exchange
of mutual services is today the condition of the
| lite and happiness OF both to degree beyond
what an enforced exchange of such services
| ever was. ..
| The whites of the South could become copper.
colored and the blacks white, sooner than either
| OF them could so become transformed within as
to cherish tor the other that bitter hatred that
l acrive malevolence, which the Northern radi
| Gals mpute to both in their efforts to make oil
| the passions of both means for prolonging their
| own hold upon place and power. To suppose
the reverse is to suppose human nature, under
black skins and under white skins, different
| from human nature as it was ever seen under
any skin, And the saddest thing in this New
| Orleans riot is the evidence it gives that the
Northern radicals, in their attemptto get posses
sion of the means for making war upon the Gov
| ernment, though pretending concern tor the
| negro and his suffrage, care as little for tht
| blacks whom they delude and fool and slaughter
| as for the men of their own blood who canno
be deluded by their lies, and whose orderly al
| ministration of law they have there assailedwitt
| revolutionary and cruel violence. '