The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-10-31

agrarianism, under the name Of reolamations
for past robbery, will be the chief object of
their policy.
There are various ways in which legisla-
ture under negro control could begin their at
taoks upon property. One of the most obvious
and easiest is through the power of taxation
The negroes own no property, and by laying
the State taxes entirely on property they
would escape all the burdens of the State
Governments AS they would not share the
burdens, all motives to economy would be re-
moved Profuse expenditures would be made
for schools, to which all negro children and
youth would be admitted, and as a conse-
quence the spirit of caste would keep out the
whites. The same would be true of hospitals
and asylums for the insane, the infrm, the
aged, the INDECENT; for orphans, widows, and
even laborers out of employment. A militia
would be organized efficient enough to enable
the negroes to maintain their ground against
the whites. This militia would be paid for
the time spent in drills and parades; and their
arms, accoutrements, and uniforms would be
paid for out of the State treasures, and be
often changed or renewed. Taxes could be
made so high as to equal the ordinary income
on the property taxed, and when it had thus
become valueess it would be exposed to sale
for the taxes, and finding no buyers it would
be forfeited to the State and finally appor-
toned out to the negroes under some sort of
an agrarian law. In this manner the negroes
could in five years acquire all the landed
property in the States of which they hold
control.
We have sketched what would be the natu-
raj progress of the negro suffrage experiment.
if the white people OF the South should sub
NIT. But certain it is that they would not
permit the experiment to reach its natural
termination without uprisings to resist it.
Before it had proceeded far, the South would
be a wide theatre OF violence and blood, or
| else il would require Federal army of half a
million to keep the peace. But the North will
| refuse to support such armies, and the final
| upshot will be that the Federal Government,
after having whetted the appetite for ven
geance, will leave the two races to wTeak it on
| each other, when the negroes will be slaugh
| tered with as little compunotion or remorse as
| if they were herds of wolves.
| We supplicate candid men to weigh these
| probabilities; and explain to themselves,
| they can, how calamities so hideous are to b
| averted. Is it not true that the RecOnstruc
| tion scheme has, thus far, produced nothing
but division and bittemessl Is it not certail
that, if pushed through with a high hand, i
will increase the evaporation Does it no
| plainly follow that the only security for peac
in the South is an increase of the miltar,
| force And when an overburdened peOpl
| shall refuse to be taxed for this purpose, an
the armies are withdrawn and disbanded, an,
| pent-up vengeance is let loose, its desolatin
effects will cause the negroes to rue the da
when they fell into the hands of the radicals
| If Congress persists in this mad experiment
the condition of the South will be very mucl
worse than it is now before it is better.