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From the New.Y Ok Jodrnai d Commerce. q
The news from EheGeorgia election will
produce different effects nponT different
minds. Some win reioice in the abondono
ment of the feld by the whites became
that iusures, temporarily. The triumph of
Radical policy in Georgia. BeYond that
single fact men Of this class do not look.
They are. not e1travagantly ford Of the
negro, and would hesitate to let him vote
in New 4 ork, but they think thatthe South
requires radical measures, and these can be
applied only through the instrumentality
Of the negro vote. This class comprises a
majority of Northern Radicals, men who
are better than they seem to be men whose
Judgment is warped by the present inau.
enceo Of leaders like Phillips Stevens and
Sumner. # FH Eea EF
There u another, and We believe, nn.
merically small class, the extreme wing
Of the Radical party, including such men
as We have named and their Immediate
followers by bels~f4ap~fscsiF4f hated
feroeiously. Sitting at their COSY break
iasts in the North, they read the news from
Georgia with a grim delight. It sweetens
their coffee to know that in Savannah only
one white man voted; in La Grange, out
of five hundred votes, but one was cast bv
a white; in Americas every voter was a
negro, Throughout the State the white
vote numbered less than a thousand, we
would say, Judging from the returnsa already
in. The humiliation, the down-hearted-
ne7s Of the Georgia whites appears to he
complete. They have reached that last,
that saddest stage in misfortune, when
man sits down in despair and will not lift
a finger 10 save himself Such a spectacle,
which would extori a pang Of pity from
most men-even though il was their bit
terest enemy who was thus Frustrated in
the dust before them-eauses the ultra
Radicals 10 thrill with joy Now the tri-
umph for which they have looked and
longed is nearly complete. The Southern
whites humbly crouch before the negro and
acceptthe yoke. Ofcourse there are other
raptures in store-the prospect of confsca-
ting all the estates belonging TO Southern
whites, parceling them out among. the
blacks, and finally of fexpelling the wretched
whites from the land Of their birth, and
converting the fair Soath into Havti-to
these pleasant things the Radical leaders
still look forward, but gheir fruition will not
confer upon them deeper delight than that
which they derive from this Georgia cleo
tion. 1t is the first delicious draugnt from
the cup Of their vengeance. .-as-
Bnt all the men in the North who are
pleased to a greater CT lesser extent by the
Georgia news, constitute, we believe, a
small minority Of Northern voters. A ma
iority of Northerners have outliyed that
animosity toward the South which existed
during the war. With the surrender of
Lees army, the low, merely animal in-
stinei OF revenge, disappeared from the
healthy, well-regulaied Northern mind it
| survives only among those unstrung, i'll
balanced persons who did not take out
! their grudges against the South in fighting
which seem to be natures own relief for
national and sectional antipathies. The
manly white race of the North-the class
that fights batiles--is the one which, we
think, will be painfully touched by this in
telligence from Georgia. They will Judge
the case of the Southern whites by what
their o~n feelings would be in the same
| circumstances. But little imagination is
needed to understand sympathelically that
| complete deadening of ambition, that mel
ancholy surrender to fate, which must have
preceded this widespread determination Of
the whites TO keep away from the polls.
The sight which arouses such emotions Of
pleasure in the intensely Radical breast
will have, if we mistake not, precisely the
contrary effect among the mass of right
thinking men, whether Republicans OF
Democrats They will look upon the
Southern whites not as enemies or aliens
but as men of the same race who are now
about to be lorded over by idle, ignorant
semi-civilized negroes. To snch observers
it matters not whether the experiment OF
negro supremacy is instituted in Georgia
or in New York The instructive, immu.
table pride Of race is touched all the same
and they viii feel a sense of sorrow and
shame that 8 Republican Congress should
have subjected conquered people to this
humiliation.
1t may be said that the whites of Geors
gia should have appeared at the polls, and
gone through the empty show of voting,
ii only to demonstrate their strength. We
wish that they had done so; although that
would not have affected the foregone con-
Clusion Of negro supremacy. An iugeni.
Gus registration law, the support of the
Iilitsry, the money and influence of North
ern Radicals. settled the question before
hand, The sequel may show, however
that the Georgia whites have acted not un.
wisely in abdicsting all their rights of cit
iEenship, for in so doiEg they have made
the mule appeal of despair to Northern