Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1867-08-13
speculations Cd Coming Political Events.


ticles that we have seen in the political weather
cock, the New York Herald, for long time,
apnears in its issue Of Friday last. It is &
leading editorial on the Johnson-Stanton I'M
broglio, commencing as follows
The rupture between President '"'l'>"n
and the refractory and defiant secretary ..
War considered in connection with recent
events and developments bearing upon 2o"''',
ern reconstruction, brings forward The new l.
sue of Southern negro supremacy INTO bou r.
lief II is morally certain that under the strlh'
gent anti.rebel aud universal negro suffrage
policy Of reconstruction now pursued IN s!2
South the ten excluded States will be reorgan-
lied and reinsta,ed in Congress BY the prcdou'-
inant negro vote Let H. sec what ID the n@E-
liable drift OF this business, as no" progrc5s!nE,
from the facts and figures before H..
The Herald then figures w victory Tor lie
new voters with their few white allies, IN every
Southern Stare. Evidently aar;ned "a. the
rortentous display OF H. oVn tignrr~, q sub
mits tue following
Thus il appears, from tl;. developments
| and .)l the evidence before IL touching h, ~
| construction programme OF Congress, ihat II
carried out according 10 The laws - appllci ~
Secretary Stanton and the present commanders
of the five military Districts liz whole: ten Ut
! The States involved in this nrlra! will be II The
| mercy of the blacks We are ruitrd then, IL
meet the question: OF the probable Consequences
of this negro supremacy. The return or eve"
| ~, thirty. nr forty colorcd Senators and hepfr-
scntatlvus to Congress Is but All item among
| the results which may hr reasonably antiti'A-
ted. The consequences Of negro "scrnochcy III
the LEGISLATURE OF this or t!irt state axe uloSt
to he feared when We consider me uh>rtlira
balances as slaves Which these Southern blacks
will be apt to enforce against their tate white
masters. Some very significant hints in this
direction have already been thrown out in Tho.
Resolutions OF the NEGRO reconstruction meet
ings Of South Carolina. We know, too, that
! those Northern white radical Slnmpcra ~ III"
South who have most broadly suggested me
possible application from Congress "l 'Oid
Thad Stevcns's panacea Of cOnt>cariou have
excited the livelicSt enthusiasm among In"
blacks Is it any wonder then, that "X-H"V.
Perry, Of South Carolina, and other leading
Southern men counsel the policy OF quiet sub
mission to their present military government
indefinitely as preferable TO TINS reconstruction
and restoration scheme which will place the
State absolutely under the control OF The blacks
DO we not also perceive that in this matter
there is an opening Tor 4 decisive political III
version on the part Of President johnson IN ms
execution of these reconstruction laws in the
interval TO the next meeting Of Congress?
''Granting that the Northern States are pre-.
pared for the recognition and acceptance Of
equal suffrage to the blacks, is New York. Or
is PENNSYLVANIA, or is Ohio prepared for the
full-blown experiment Of negro supremacy III
ten Southern States, as contemplated by repub-
lican radicals in Southern reconstruction? As
sumine that if, with conservative acting Sec
rotary of War, in the place Of Stanton, and
with five military commanders Of Mr.. John
sons way Of thinking in the places OF the five
commanders who think and act according &c
the gospel of Mr.. misunderstanding that the
result will be to delay the work Of Southern
restoration for even two Or three ycars-w!
this not be wiser than to rush headIong int
this danger OF Southern negro supremacy
Will not the inevitable tendency of negro SUI
premacy in South Carolina, for exarAplc, Re &c
drive ont the white population or to prccIpI-
tate that war of races which, if commenced,
will be apt speedily to ripen into 4 war on both
sides Of indiScrimlnate determination? VIII
social harmony or peace, or financial conll-