Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-07-09

be prolonged, and the most bitter Of any
in history-because anarchy in q repub-
lie is like fever with an individual, most
violent with the most vigorous, will not
cease until strength is reduced or des-
troYed, and no people ever had such
strength aud material prosperity for the
prey Of anarchy as have the people OF
the United States. Besides, in the transit
ton, two races will struggle for the
mastery, greatly increasing the horror Of
these writings of liberty ia her passage
to death. Iattr h.kU
3. need not, and l cannot-itis be-
yond the power Of the pen-enumerate
the terrible evils that win spread over
all the land during this reign of disorder,
discord and decay. Among them will be
the prostration of commerce, the paraly-
sis of all industrial agencies and pur-
suits, the reputation Of all debts
national, State, and individnal; the
disregard of all legal sanctions; the
removal Of all restraints upon the wicked;
the withdrawal of protection from the
helpless and the good; the demoraliza-
ton Of men; the prostitution OF women /;
the starvation of children; the rise and
fall of factions; the burning and sacking
Of cities, and the general devastation of
the country Robbers will fill our noun
tains and forests assassins will come
boldly from all hiding places; civil wars
and instructions will multiply; leaders
and followers will slay and be slain /;
clans of burglars and thieves will hunt
the rich as herds of buffalos hunt the
green pastures, and Insulated wicked
ness will rend and tear all that is pure
and good, as the hungry lion when flesh
ing his tooth in the young and tender
fawn. ~
A. But there is one feature of this or
deal Of anarchy-one result Of this devil
ish choice to destroy the Constitution
by those who take solemn oaths, and
make sanity pretensions to preserve it,
which is distinct from all others, involv-
ing hypocrisy without example, delusion
without limit, and cruelty without par
allel, and which | cannot contemplate
without feelings of peculiar sadness. l
mean, of course, the effect upon the
African race.
A separate note must elaborate this
point; but as am announcing general
conclusions, must not omit the result
which will be, must be, the most certain
and inevitable of all, A war of races
will come, and come early, in this hideous
programme of ruin. This war will be
produced by three chief causes l. The
ignorant, vicious, imaginative and ex
ceeding credulous habits and passions
of the negro. O. The delusions practiced
upon this imaginative and credulous ma.
ture by emissaries from tho North, aided
by bad men from the South, some of
whom will act from mistaken notions of
philanthropy, some with wicked purposes
of selfshness, but the most dangerous,
with views of party ascendancy. 3. The
protection to the white race and to every
interest of person and property, and
life, which this nature, thus deluded,
shall render absolutely necessary. The
result of this war will be the substantial
determination of the negro race in the
United States; or its exclusion there
from and final barbarism; or its practical
.enslavement under the government of
force which | have indicated.