New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1866-05-14
realms but assured that the President gave full
permission that the details Of this remarkable confer
ence should be made public"



The Erening Post is conducted with so much ability,
and is journal of influence considerably in excess
of many other journals Of equal circulation, that we
deeply regret TO see it take single false step with
regard to the means whereby and the conditions
wherein the States lately in revolt are to be restored
to their former and natural relations to the loyal
States and the Union. We therefore copy as well as
comment on the essential portions OF its leading
article of Saturday, and Gas they involve misappre
tensions of our views) will thank that journal to deal
likewise with our reply. The Post says
"The other day. there was riot at Memphis, in which
number of uans and desperadoes set upon some coored
and butchered them much after the same style when
lust as here the rioters destroyed the Coored Orphan Asylum
in Memphis they destroyed colored schoohouses anu
The whole affair very disgracefu and brutal But we
do not why it should be twisted into an 3r
ranchsng the Southern people or Tor refusing
their seats five Southern members OF Congress
there more according to Senator Wi,on-who can
argument against the Southern States than the ork riot
against the Northern States Indeed when We remem
Der that the whole South yet kind of frontier land In which
law has always administered with slack hand where
violence has regned for four years We may even
fairly make allowance for such an occurrence as he
Memphis riot than ought for similar outrage IN New
York. ,, - ......
as this Memphis riot speak OF 1t though were
only another proof of the unnes of the Southern people to
to Justice liberty and union This kind OF argument and m
situation is piece with the petty spirit which hncs fault
with Southern for honoring their dead The Richmond
Enquirer chose to mourning on the anniversary Oh
Sonews Jacksons death and urged its readers 10 scatter
flowers the graves OF Confederate soldiers ms
morning journal calls Richmond loyalty We THINK
would be wiser and kinder TO pass such things ny
would THF TRIBUNE haye expect Richmond to curse
despise stonewal Jackson' or the yghian' " u'
ss gained BY ma,tsr It does
not improve the loyalty or increase tse soy d that tey
shall obey the laws respect rights and those Of all men OF
whatever color ard conduct themselves peaceaDv
We do not mean to paiae rlotous and avess conducts
but we do think either fair wise that the whole south
ern people should be held responsible Northern presses or
such an occurrence Doubtless dscredtabe and inhu
sentiment prevails. among too many OF tue southern
oo fori They hay been educated believe that Niger
has rights il will require time to make thorough cnahge
in their opinions and conduct We read not unirequenty
ourages upon Blacks which to very horrible and
shameful indeed but what do we see We look nearer eome
has seen an oLpnsn down and sacked
Connecticut has her Deacon Button who Lectures oooiea
man upon the o. 1scn S1son excuse as that
Memphis Indiana denies black men the fght 70 sue 10 ner
have been firmly ESTABLISHED where justice than
shadow where the people boast OF their superior
enlightenment
Reply by The Tribune.
l. We beg The Post to cease speaking oil that por
ton of the Southern Whites who honor the memory OF
Stonewal Jackson and strew flowers over the graves
of the Rebel dead as "the Southern people, Such
abuse of terms is false misleading pernlclous those
persons are part of the Southern people-a very
large and influential partbut they are not the whole
There are this day over Three Millions of Blacks and
we think Two Millions of Whites in the States lately
in revolt who never were Rebels-who hated and $50
far as they could or dare) resisted the Rcbeon-and
heartily rejoice in its overthrow. For tnonist TO
speak of their and antagonists in the late struggle
as the Southern people" is alike unjust injurious
and ungateful.
H. We entirely agree with The Post that the spirit
which impelled the late butchery Of Blacks and burn
ing Of their churches, school-houses and homes III
Memphis is precisely that which burned the Colored
Orphan Asylum and hunted negroes to death or to
deaths door in our City. We have no doubt that the
better portion of even the late Rebels Of the South
condemn and reprobate its grosser manifestations as
heartily as the better class OF Democrats have con
demned the Draft Riots Of July 1868. Aud now The
Post must agree with us that this tepd depreciation
whether in New York OF in Memphis affords no secur
ty or protection to the Blacks and hardly be cI7
pected to satisfy those who must live in constai@
dread Of being bounded from their homes for Ve
crime Of being of such color pleased God to eve
them. The good Rebels may be very souy for the
outrages on negroes which are constantly occurring
around them-but their sorrow does not take posi-
tive shape. aud is of very little practical account.
Iii. The Post deems il the vital matter that those
whom it miscas the Southern people" shall obey
the laws respect our rights, and those OF III men 81
,ohat,per color" All that is indeed important; yet we
consderit even more vital to show that ire respect
those rights How can this appear, if We consent to
reconstruction which places the loyal Blacks (and the
LOYAL Whites as we under the feet Of tho late Rebels
who are every day indicating the nature OF their 10y
atty by canonzing Stonewall Jackson, toasting jeff
Davis, dining Raphael Semmes, and choosing Rebel
Generals like Withers and Hays to THO most important
and lucrative offices II is mingled mbecility and
treason. not theirs, that we are deprecating. We
honor the Rebels persistent deyStion to their bad
ruined cause; we cannot honor the baseness that
would impel loyal Congress to put the sharerS in
our struggle and triumph under the feet OF those
we and they defeated and Oyertgrew.
w. Our New York Riots were direct and natural
result of our Negro Dsfranchisement. Hit him
again! he s got no friends" lis natural impulse OF
debased Human Nature. The Irish are not a whit
more popular with the nGn-Irsh here than the
Blacks are; but the Irish have votes and this fact
shields them from outrage And fragrant wrong. A
shrewd observer once declared that eff the Blacks
all voted, our managing Democratic politicians would
soon be claiming that they had negro blood in their
veins" Power protects ITSELF.
V. The Post excuses the Memphis and kindred
outrages on the plea that their authors have been
educated to believe that niger has no rights"
That seems to us an excellent reason why we should
teach them better, and improve the present oppor-