The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-16

JnIOugn congress lJSell, we lear LQhJ Ln6 II6Sl-
dent cannot divert them from negro supremacy
without bringing upon himself the fate of
Stanton. What we want then is such pres
sure flom the people of the North upon Con-
gress, in our coming fall elections, as will
compel the two Houses to reconstruct their
measures of reconstruction, so far. at least, as
to give the Southern whites fair play, as
against the blacks, in this important business
of rebuilding the political and social State
institutions of these ten excluded Southern
States. Surely at least upon this issue of the
supremacy of negro minorities over white
majorities in the South, the public pulse may
be effectively touched in the North, and upon
this question even the present radical Congress
may, through our approaching fall elections.
Negro Government In the South.
From The ~. Y World.
The fact that many even of the whites who
would be permitted do not register, while the
blacks all register and are all radicals, deter
mines in advance the character of the recon-
struoted State Governments. They will be
completely under the control of the negroes.
Whether their officers are black or white will
make little difference, since they will be an
swerable to black constituencies; but probably
the greater portion of them will be black That
such governments will run into great abuses is
as certain as it is that they will be formed and
their abuses will inevitably lead to a great
political reaction.
The natural disgust of the prescribed whites
at upstart negro domination would prevent
the success of such governments, even if they
perpetrated no bad legislation. 1t is not in
human nature that the white population of
the South should patiently submit to be gov
erned by their former Slaves even if the freed
mep could govern well. Negro equality would
be distasteful enough; but negro superiority
will not be tolerated except by compulsion.
The impossibility of the negroes governing
well does not result merely from the pride of
race, or prejudice of race, which will cause
their ascendancy to be detested, but also from
the relative situation of the two races in
respect to the property of the South.
When the Government, that is, the taxing
power represents the poverty of the COM
munity, and not its property, there will be a
constant tendency to rob property of its rights.
AS taxes will not be felt by the negroes who
impose them, they will be voted literally; and
as the property holders will not be repre-
sented, they will have no power to call reck-
less and wasteful legislators to account,
Heavy taxation and full treasury leads natu-
rally to squandering prodigality; and surely
the negroes have had no training which will
preserve them from the corruption into
which white rulers so easily fall when beset
therefore, that the negro governments, being
under none of the restraints exerted by tax
paying constituencies, will be among the most
wastetul and corrupt that ever existed. This
will not result from the fact that the rulers are
negroes, but from the fact that they are men.
No race of men could be trusted under similar
circumstances, When the government which
lays taxes is not elected by nor responsible
to that part of the community which pays
thOSa Whn fax ha
they who are taxed will be oppressed. 1t
would not be otherwise if both belonged to
the same race; and the evil will probably be
aggravated by the insolent contempt of the
negroes for those whom they lately served as
slaves, but now govern as rulers.
AS the negroes will have full power to rob
and oppress their late masters under the forms
of law, it is easy to foresee the pretexts under
which their extortiOns will be practised. The
predominant idea of negro legislation in the
South will be, that the property of the South
has been created by uncompensated negro
labor, and belongs of right to those by whose
sweat it was produced. The negroes will uni
versally entertain this idea, and will urge it
in justification of every attempt to perpetrate
robbery under the name of taxation. The
negroes will not only exercise all the powers
and shirk all the burdens of government, but
they will make eXtravagant expenditures for
their schools, their churches, their hospitals
and for all kinds of charitable institutions:
and they will moreover change the tenure of
real estate so as to render it worthless to its
white owners, and make it the easy prey of
negro rapacity.
That things will take this course is as GER
tain as it is that there is human nature in
man. And equally certain it is, that this kind
of oppression will provoke resistance and re-
taliatiOn and that nothing but military intimi-
daton can prevent the outbreak of bloody
and exterminating war of races.