The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-03-07

supremacy OF the white race. We wish people 70
supreme Court We believe that the duty OF voting nj
tue approaching elections Is ~ imperative a. that Of pro-
.scsng our wives and children To this point the path
OF duty Ia very clear 10 aud cannot zee how any
rational man can hesitate doubt.
As oil doubt about tho equally inevitable conven
when shall IL meets should deeply deplore any d.
OF sentiment among our people upon this subject
me question OF real Importance is not who shall call the
convention but when shall Il meetS
there Is yet faint hope that we may be spared the
Outrage Oh constitutional negro sufrage-but negro
suffrage which Congress at The point OF the bayonet
poses Is inevitable. We place confidence while public
sentiment at the North remains now is the abil
ity Of the Supreme Court to save US; and we have
labored TO disabuse the minds Of our readers upon
that point. But there symptoms at the North OF
fast approaching monetary crisis which may in few
months burst with the relentless fury OF tornado
the heads OF the destruconsts The horizon is already
dark with lowering clouds, and from the crashing Of
their magnificent looking, but rotten hollow and inflated
paper money system, our deiverance NAV come The
black despair OF universal bankruptcy the topping
of many princey merchant and banker and the wide.
spread and which will then crush the laborng
masses may be the shape which Nemesis VIII assume.
No nation has yet given itself body and SOUL
vndictve legislation that u has not eventually been
Hoy she 80 So Ranz Gs e be H Mar
We remember distinctly, just after the great battle Of
Manassas. Va, that we heard number of the most
about Richmond say that there could be but sort Of
compromise made between the two sections. North
and South, that could at all meet their approval
and that would be 10 give the South her independence
and pay all the expenses OF the war incurred
up to that time. We had the widest rumors in
camp, to the effect that the North just in
the act OF granting US our independence. Indeed
the rnmors were only among the privaes but also
officers of high rank wrote home telling their fellow
citizens that the war had ended and announcing their
names for civil Office They had fought and won the
victory and had laid their enemy hors dc combat.
to paper. for at least six months, until it was
pat on every counirymans tongue that peace was
already made between the two sections and con-
sequenty there was general lethargy all over
the entire standardization on the part OF the farmer and
stupidity among the officers OF the army. The papers
all the entire South preaching the doctrine
that one Southern equal, in battle, to three
Yanks Aud, strange To saw, this mischevous and wild
inflammation had many votares at the South The con-
sequence of such stupidity on the one hand and self
conceed Boosting the other. has made the entire
people OF the south 'hewers OF wood aud drawers Of
WATER
And strange to say, of ministers OF the
gospel absolutely preached the doctrine that the
the South pure and holy that every soldier
OF the South who was slain in battle would be saved
through grace that fighting for their homes ana resdes
was an ample aoncment for all their former SINS Now,
We think that this was grave error and 1t reminds us
OF an old Roman adage that reads thus: -"Whom the
gods would destroy they FIRST make mad and does
TO that this Is truisCl. far the people
or The South. concerned.
All this kind o. huubng was written in the newspa-
pcrs, preached from the pulpit and stump and false I'M
presons made by the kilograms until the spring OF 1860
at which time all the sad realities OF bankrupt and
snbugsted people forced Itself upon us.
in rebellion, provisional governors appoint
ed. and the reoplc or the several seeding
States aimunlshed to send loyal 10
ali the dit rent branches Of legislation 1t was
known hy ri, M every section OF country, that
wornF resia;si friend ., the South, ana desired
That >Noa.d voice all leg station pertaining
10 in,eca.a and had aoss been in
kcc.ing with the an caalked out for by friends
tEcrst an he n"T ae~ ear in imbe Judgment, but
tia, We won'd - sac. We representation In all tina
legislative r,sct''s ,;.c aud federal government
But ow ,'e' u '.ld NO act. Instead Of harmonizng
hest conservative Uninn at the
SOUTH, we trr aiie, called thcm traitor, tory and
all other hard ng..i.-: ard should such dare TO
Tor Off .cncfssi thing would not receive
many votes Al cnsn woild make q respectable
corpora's guard Oar generals, colonies, cap
ains with ali the Ire OF the South, must Of
have preferences Office aud those old tools
that brought nbon the war; then In the day Of
countrys peril sneaked ous like whipped DOES dictate
to the people who they soio vote tor In the several
elections OF state. This mode OF procedure,
part, Is cumbnsiibe for the radicals.
They not stupid some OF our people
the south To think them; nay, they
wide awake and plotting ruin Stevens bili for
instance with ali the horrors of military rule, Is
upon the writ of habeas corpus suspended in all
where the civil and military authority come in
conflict with each other I'll this, reader could have
beoD avoided. This terrible dcspoiism could have beer
thwaried II people had only mixed little common
sense with the r moro than overburdcned ambition.