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MONDAY, AUGUST Q, 1865.
HTAR OF RACES.
Whenever the Republican party ha4 pro-
claimed through 1ts conventions, Its jour
nails, or its statesmen, the principle OF nlan-
hood suffrage, 1t has been met with the CRY
of "War Of Races" Andrew Johnson ex-
uoscd this zaw-head nd.bloody y-boncs at the
TING he commenced reorcsnizing the South
cru States. Dool1ttle painted II on his BAN
thsrty-eix stars, which, he snid, had not been
erased. All tho coppeshead prints In the
country have kept 1t standing Mt their eaito.
rlal heads. Finding that 1t did such good
bugbear service as agdfust negro suffrage, I
they have used 1t whenever a practical meas ]
nrc has been proposed to protect the freed |
men against the cruelty and rapacity of their |
late masters. They paEaded II when the |
Civil Rights niH2*as passed. They dung it |
ont when the Constitutional Amendment was
reported By the Reconstruction Committee,
and they are still making 1t perform such
service IS venerable scare-crow Is capable
of during the present campaign.
The. massacres Of Memphis ard New Or
leans prove TINT war Of races olresdy
c1ists-thnt is, an unpnoroked war Of the
white raee against the b1.ck. This Is the
only kind OF a war that was ever threatened.
When johnson and Doolittle, and thelr Cop
perhcad echoes, predicted var Of races as u
consequence ofimpartIal suffrage, they never
intended, never dreamed, that the blacks
we're going to make war Oh the whites. They
meant tt-t In the event Of negro sufragc.
the white racc would commence an indts-
eliminate, massacre OF the blncks, nud that
there would be 60 power to prevent them
from executing srch a hcllish pur-
pose. But the Memphis and New Or
leans riots show that the massacre
has begun without the provocation. The
stzccts Of both those cities have been bathed
In the blood Of loyal men, In the absence Of
any Congressional action looking toward
negro suffrage. The question is now solemn1y
presented to Congress and the people,
whether, admitting that there is any founla-
tfon for the forcbodiugs Of johnson and Doo-
little, impartial suffrage could make the mat
ter my worse. II man is to be
killed, and his wlc rarishcd, and his
honse, according to the Memphis style of re-
construction, might be not as swell die with
the ballot in his hand as withoutlt: Better,
We think, It Ia more rcconcIInb(c with tho
average prejudices Of mankind that man
should fa,l in battle r.nspinp his musEet
than be cooped M and Slaughtered withont
the means Of defence. This question Of re-
solving two centuries OF slavery into per-
pctual freedom NAV uot-probabiy will not
--bc settled In a wear. We do NOT affirm that
giving The ballot to the negro v1uld settle
it Immediately. All history shovs that
the evils growing ont of pe.uIc,ous and rot
ten eystcras OF society and government can
not be stopped On tbs instant, even by tho
orcrth1ow Of those systems. Tbs French
Revolution uprooted a tyrnupy OF area.
which no civilized nation q. this dav could
endure for u moment. But the Immediate
consequences OF the rcyofutlon we're barhar.
ous and reroltinr. The Frnnce nf tbe afr.
teenth century caye birth to the France a,
The nineteenth, not without the nanrs which
nature has ordained for the iutroduction
OF new lie Into tho world. No nne
will deny that the ftuits of the French
Revolution ere worth all that thcY cost, No
one will affirm that It were better a great na.
tIon shou1d be suffocated through all TING,
than that It should wade throut,h blood tn
the.pnre atmosphere of equal rights,
Impartial snf1rarn Ia .hc drstfnr 1T 4h,.
cnunf-s-- 70 IN tne logical CONSEQUENCE cI
the Declaration Of American Independence.
CT the war Of the Revolution, and Of tho va,
OF th3 Rcbe1aion-Jea, OF the "War Of Raccs''
which Is now going on. It may be impedcd,
int It cannot be prevented. It may come In
a baptism OF blood, q. through the peaceful
agencies Of the Constitution, bat come II
Will! The fact, now fully demonstrated,
that the negro exists ut the mercy Of saragea
eager TO takc his life on the first plausible oc-
caaon, wi1 tell upon the loyal mil.
Hons q the country, who will
demand that both classes shall be equally
ven armed for the conflict, aud that no such
aasantase as monopoly OF political power
shau be given to the aGeressora, who already
ne'o Inc hasantaee OF monopoly OF educa-
ndn. 6fsn1ea that the transitfon period ol
soathefn society, Ike the transition period
Of french society IN 1'sa, involves blood,
shed, Why should the innocent alcne suffer
and the guilty alone escape? II We arc Il
have *nr Of races, let 1t be real war nni
not a p:fcous massacre. Tho Judgments o
heaven will be visited upon us as people I
VIC permit this appalling state Of things Il
continue. The condemnation Of the civil
lied world rests upon MS already for haTln!
tolerated II so lar. ...,..
But VIII not the granting OF the ballot
the negro tend 10 arrest, rather than tntens'
y. TIC ~ar OF faees which Andrew Johnso
mas done 50 muca TO bring shout We thin
RA1' IN the hrst Plsee the south has
pfoioano respect tor the power Which pu
down the rcbell{Ou-the DDTer Of the p4ottl