The national Republican., 1866-08-15
Pelitic.I M.m.nitarianis,n.

The leaders Of the radical faction claim Il
be actuated by the loftiest considerations o
humanity. They are consumed by desr,
to befriend the poor. freedman, and woult
fain interpose the shield Of federal protection
over him, as well as the loyal white man Al
the South. II was to this express end thai
the Freedmen's Bureau was created, to thi,
end federal troops are kept in the South; tt
this end the political struggle OF the recent
session Of Congress was initiated and carried
on; and to this end eleven States have beer
kept out Of the Union in the hope that by SC
doing negro suffrage would be secured as q
price at which the Southern States would
ultimately buy their federal rights.
They seem to forget, however, the import
ant fact that the natural effect Of all this in.
considerate championship is Just the oppo.
site from that which they so loudly profess
to have in view. Without considering the
fearful suffering and waste of negro life
which inevitably attended emancipation
and which was well spent in accomplishing
that great end, because that end could not
have been accomplished in any other way
they are now resolutely bent upon o new
and impracticable crusade, which, II persisted
in till accomplished, would end IN the total
extinction OF the black race. Instead Of
being satisfied with accomplishing all that
can be hoped for by mere force, they are
now striving TO overleap the necessities OF
gradual development and suddenly to achieve
an impossibility.
One quarter Of oil the blacks that were in
the South at the beginning Of the rebellion
have been destroyed already, and unless the
speedy pacification Of the whole country
shall afford the means for the amelioration
Of the physical and moral condition of the
survivors, there is no calculating where the
destruction will end. .......
With the horrid mortality which prevailed
during the war we had no responsibility.
The war was not ours it was forced upon
us by the South, and the South is RESPONSE
bic for its results to themselves and to the
negroes But for the future the case will be
entirely different. As mere matter Of hu.
manitarianism, without regard to the plain
political principles involved, it is Of the last
Importance that no time should be lost in
bringing not only the negroes but the whole
population under the protection Of restored
normal law. The sooner the South is ad-
mitted to IFS full federal relations, the sooner
will the power Of the municipal law be as
serted. AT present the whole country is in
q state Of exasperated obeyance. It is neither
one thing nor the other. II is given over to
the passions Of bad men, and is distracted
with the natural incerttude which attends
the prolonged transition from war to peace.
Even admitting the very worst condition
Of society which Is claimed by the radicals
to exist at the South, it is clearly their duty
in humanitarian point of view to hasten
the fullest and speediest consummation of
peace. That would certainly be the most
assured method Of putting an end to the al
legged cruelties and massacres which thew
daily assert to be prevalent The idea that
the rights, or the safety Of the freedmen, can
be assured by forcing the question Of equality
or negro suffrage upon the South, is the
greatest fallacy imaginable. Those who
know anything Of American nature, and es-
pecially Of that phase Of 1t which exists in
the Southern States, know that those accom-
plishments cannot be secured by precipi-
tating war of races. Senator Doolittle, in
his speech ut st. james Hall the other even.
ing, spoke very convincingly upon this sub
ject. He declared that it was the deliberate
opinion Of Gen. Grant, Of Gen. Sherman
and Of President johnson, as well as Of him.
self and other prominent observers, that
those issues, il persisted in, would result in
the speedy extinction Of the whole race of
blacks. ..
There can be no doubt that the real and
permanent amelioration of the social and po-
litical condition Of the blacks in this country
must be brought about gradually and through
development. 1t can never be brought
about by direct legislation or by force The
natural prejudice and antagonism Of the
races stand inexorably in the way, and all
attempts in that direction inevitably tend to
the destruction Of the inferior race. We must
be content, for the present, with emancipa-
ton, and let the freedman demonstrate by a
fuller development the coming of the time
when he can move on another step in his
upward career.-Bu6alo Com. AdvertiseS