White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1867-12-26
THE TRIBUNE FOR 1888.
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The year 1858 viii long be rsmamhsrei
for its settlement OF the boundary CUES
ton between Aristoeracy of Color an
Impartial Human Liberty. The War o.
the Rebellion being closed. we have nos
to decide whether the fundamental idea
which impeIled and justified the Rebel
lion shall dominate over our whole coua-
try. molding her institutions and shaping
her destiny. II it be true that God has
not created ell men. but oaly White men.
10 His own image. and made them equal
in political aud civil rish;s. then it is a
worldwide calamity that Grant did no,
surrender to Lee at Appom attoA; and
"The Lost Cause" trodden into rire
under The hoofs of Shsridan's rough-rid-
ing cavalry. not only should but will bs
regsiued in Consultations! Conventions
and st the ballot boxes. If the Black
race. because they are Black. should be
excluded from the j1ry-box and repslled
from the ballot-box then Stonewall Jack.
son ought to head the roll of American
martyrs, emblazoned high above the
names of Warren and Mercer and Pulas
ki: OF Ellsworth. Lyon. Baker. Reynolds.
Wadsworth. Kesrney, Sedgwick, and
Mcpherson.
If is dificul: to argns with blind.
besotted prejudice. grounded in ignorance
and fortified by selfconcei.. Devoid Of
reason, It is hardly emenabls to reason
Bat millions who would be unmoved to
appeals based on Justice and Hum snity
can be stirred by facts which affect their
own interest and safety. The naked
truth that every Southern State recon.
structed on the White basis is to-day a
Rebel S,ste-sh,ped and ruled by men
who execrated Lincoln's reluctant and
tsrdy resistance to tbs REBELLION az a
canseless and cr;miaa, aggression. and
profoundly tejo;ced over Bnll Run as
their victory-will prove invincib,,. we
can but bring it Loms to the apprehension
Of every ioya voter. I,aeTe i. no para
mount question Of COOL 'anil oF ers'i uio
to the Blacks. Their votes sre as neces-
sa-y 20 Tie Prsponderencs of White 10y
atty as to their own protection and s.cu.
rity. Reconstruc. the South on the
White basis. and every one of the fifteen
States which held slaves in 1860 will be
intensely. overwhelmingly Copperhead
thencsforth and evermore. Allow to-day
the ples that the Blacks are ignorant and
degraded. and those you thereby cloths
with power will take good care that the
plea shall be a. valid and well-grouded
century hence as it now is. Public Ed.
ucation and Civil Rights for the Freed
mcu can only be achieved and maintained
through the ballot. 1--WE are for Negro
Suffraga-the woy they suffered in New
Orleans" was the inscription on q ban.
ner borne in the hate Conservative or
Democratic procession in Baltimore; and
the spirit that dictated that avowal is
still rampant in the South. But for whist
is stiguatized as Military Despotism. it
would daily avenge BY outrage and iufiic.
ton what it deems negro treacbery to the
Southern cause.
The Tribune has declined to be lured
or turned aside from the Main Question.
1t has presistently refused TO swell the
clsmor for vengeance on tas defeated
Rebels. whether BY execution or BY con-
6scstion; and one Of it's strong reasons
for this course is Q conviction that no
drop of Rebel blood could be coolly. de-
shed without essentially cloud
ing the prospect Of securing the Right Of