The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-11-16

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The Negro Conventions In the South
Their Effects ON the North.
Alabama has led the van in the reconstruc-
ton Of the United States by the negro. Other
States are 10 follow until under a glorious
negro rule, the ten Southern divisions of our
republic are bound and given over to Africa to
be governed according to the Haytien style.
The principles Of the conventions which frame
these negro governments are shaped by the
most unprincipled Of all our demagogues.
Without dollar OF interest in the country
they stir the piable black man TO passion
against the white. and, while moulding the
mass TO suit radical aims, sow the seeds of an
unavoidable war of caste. They do not fail
TO promise thu negro all that his barbarous
Imagination may desre-freedom from labor,
division Of property, and even the govern
ment Of the country. Thus. for transient politi-
cal purposes they force the whole sun-burned
brain of Ethiopia to the same focus, and teach
it to expect what 1t can never realize while
there is a Southern or Northern sword left to
defend Caucasian blood-blood originally
purer than that Of Africa, and purified still
more by long centuries of arduous labor
towards the summit Of civilization; blood
progressive, in contradistinction to blood retro
grade and naturally barbaric in its impulses.
In the face of all this we see power central
izing In the South in the hands Of that element
which, according to all history, is threat
against any civilization with which 1t comes in
contact The platform of the radical republi-
can party Of Louisiana is fair exponent Of
what threatens US In all the Southern States by
raising up power ten times more destructive
and nationally demoralizing than any that has
heretofore existed. That platform states:-
"we as party insist on perfect equality, with
out distinction Of race or color, In the right to
vote and enter the jury box without any edu-
cational or property qualification being re-
CURED" Again:-"The radical republican
party OF Louisiana will support no man for
ofice who will not openly and boldly pledge
himself to make an equal distribution among
white and colored alike OF all Offices to which
he may have power OF appointment
These are the mad principles which, at
terrible cost, No urge upon one-half Of our
territorial extent, thus threatening Its complete
desolation. Were Il the destruction Of only
one-half Of the country we might, In our won
derful stamina, live under it; but the radical
programme means more than this--it means
the draining Of every energy Of the North to
support the one grand black idea, and,
at any cost, forcing the negro down
the throat Of the nation. We struggle under
II, We bleed, we expend our millions, we tax
our people to the last feathers weight, we
fairly writhe beneath the terrible effort to
swallow dose that would choke mammoth
anaconda. We cannot do 1t, and we cast Il
aside as something that would give the coup
de grace to all the cherished hopes OF a people
who are struggling for civilization, not barbar-
ism. We are taxed to-day one thousand mil
lions per year to support the radical idea that
Africa has . higher civilization than Europe,
and that 1t Is necessary for the United States
at any sacrifice, to approximate itself to the
African standard.
The radicals, determined to give all the
strength possible to the negro card, train
every element In the North to its support;
and while In the South they tear down all
abolish every aristocratc privilege, while they
insugurate there Utopian agrarisnism, they
give us singular contradiction Of principles In
the North. Here they strive to build up great
moneyed monopolies, . dicta.orial banking
system, . Capitalization Of party power, IN
enriching Of the rich and an impovsrshing Of
the poor. Thus Ii becomes dif1cult TO discover
that there 10 any grea, underlying principle in
radicalism, unless II be the sole idea 70 retain
at all hazards the power into which tho revo-
lutlonary throes Of the country forced them.
The North is beginning to dive into this
problem and Is rapidly discovering its incon-
sistencies. There Is deep and settled reso-
luton taking possession Of the masses that they
will no longer support aristocratic privileges
In the North or negro elevation and barbarism
10 the South. Bed to the last drop Of blood
and treasure, the people begin to ask, What
Is this money used for" and, look where they
WILL they see the question snswered-1o
prop mp quarter section Of Africa, until we
zee Il, centuries hence, It will be able TO march
onward unaided. God never made one race
10 support another. For this we made war in
favor Of the black man. Az matters now pro-
grsss under radical rule, we fast advance to
war 70 relieve tho white from supporting the
black.
The future sspirsats for the Presidency must
learn the truths which we here enunciate. If
General Grant accepts the radical nomination
upon such platform ~ the radicals now tread
he will be defeated, despite his national popu.
larity and his masserly resicenca General
Scott VS. desssssd where there were similar
but minor principles involved, and President
Pierce, with al his imbecllisy, then stepped
into power.