Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-05-23
sNOf..od,X od,XXXIV ..,,f r., a. .ta e',,. ~ ",
)Ga idErem the Boston PostI is,
Meddlimg I'm the South.

When Mr. sGreeieyFcouns the black
men, who listened to him in the African
Church in Richmond. not to think of get
ting land by demanding or expecting con-
hscation in. their Behalf, it was an aImis=
sion on his part'that mischievous and med
dlesome demagogues had to his knowledge
been at work among them, to corrupttheir
minds with expectations founded on moth
ing but hatred and injustice. The advice
to them was off the same piece with that
anonymously offered Judge Underwood ia
| regard to Jefferson Davis-malicious, re-
yengeful, and 4fraught with the utmost per-
II; and we wonder how men, who profess
superior qualifications for undertaking the
tufelage of q race just come into possession
| of their civil freedom, can lend themselves
| to the deliberate Incubation of such fatal
| lessons. The least reflection must satisfy
them that their teachings will react with
| terrible effect upon the unfortunate class
whom they urge to adopt them. =.
IF the freed blacks of the Southern States
are really TO elevate themselves industri-
ally and socially, SO as TO command an irfu-
enee a6ah worthy of the new gift they Have
been'T unexpectedly endowed with, COM
naohn sense makes livery clear that they
should caitivate the vefysbest' terms with
theswliite population that is to share the
country nwith them. If it is the native
home OF one class, so it il of the other, and
the whites oiltcount the blacks more than
two to one besides. Those who go down
among them fromf the North to sow the
seeds of dissatisfaction and discord, and to
plant afienFtlon between them and the very
class who are, and who always ought to be,
I ptdefrfnends are DONG d work for which
fature reflection must requite them with
nothing but self-condemnation and regret.
1t is not discoHtent that be festered
among the blacks to-day, but rather calm,
self-poised and grateful acceptance of the
new circumstances into which they have
been b0rne. ri sd7iiHT7g1 h99usHiHs59 I5ds 60 .
| ssThes work Iof Reorganization was going
IoRmNch1 better than the most sanguine,had
yent1red toexpeet, when this new element
i of mischief was suddenly thrust ia by de-
signing partisans, who would thus make
ESodomrapplest1 at once of all the possible
fruits of the war. The negroes are ignor-
ant of the best way to turn, and do not yet
\ begin to comprehend their new situation, or
L they will of course understand better about
Iit;. but never, If their minds are to be con-
fused and their passions kept stirred by the
II iHunnicuts and Underwoods and Kelleys
that infest the Southern States with their
lIcouhsels. Labor is the first lesson for the
blacks to learn; politics will come along
Iias due order The devastated South
needs to be relieved from the effects
of war and waste. Industry must be put
upouits feet again. Its fields want fences,
seeding, cultivation, and watchful care.
Its desolations are to be erepaired with little
delay. Fhe adesolate ruins of houses thai
tonce made the landscape smile are TO be re-
moved out of sight and replaced with evil
idences of cheerful industry and thrift.
These are the means. and the only ones, by
which recovery is really within the posi-
bilities of the South, and without whose
use even the Union itself will be practical
! ~ va1ueless to It's people. 1t is not politics
that promote industry and insure prosperi-
| ty first; it is steady and well-applied labor
that does that, after which policies and
/ public measures become of substantial in
terestto the population that has faithfully
practiced it. a''# 5ihl z
| Furthermore; the people of the North,
too, ernulous Of their own interests, have a
right to insist that this negro question shall
be dismissed from the discussion of legiti-
mate political questions. The nation does
notmean to see wrong done to any class;
J neither does it stand in the place of pat
I ron, a school master or a preacher to any
oneclass, or even to the great whole. That,
| like, all other matters, must learn to GO
alone, The conviction lis rapidly becom-
ing fixed in the popular mind, that all this
talk and agitation over the negroes is kept
up solely for the benefit of a handful OF
| greedy party. leaders, whose runtimely
| rawlings at rebellion seems 1udicrous,, now
the sOanReE is past anu gOne.l Ii nj Lne
country we're to follow their chart in its
progress towards the, future, its energies
would soon wither and die. They know
nothing of natural resources, pay no regard
to human feelings and opinions, allow nc
playafor' thevarious views which regularly
j have their dawning and setting over the
sky of the popular mind, and conceitedly
i suppose themselves the oehosen few into
4 whose han6s is delivered the keeping ol
i -SfQfnc--SSn-fQnOa npOnfe
lend them an ear, they will keep this mon
totone going, and everything like advance
nent must be kept waiting for the playing
tout of their poor air. We shall never have
Union under their lead, or even with the
1 consent of their influence. The people OF
1.-THE Southern States would soon become 6
more wretched class than Ireland evel
showed for the warming of Government
that professed. alliance with civilization.