The tri-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1866-1868, 1867-05-18
From the st Louis (Mo.) Democrat.
WHERE IS " THE WAR OF RACES 2"

The public has been favored with re-
the speeches made and the resolutions
passed, the spirit prevailing, etc,
throughout the South. On Saturday
last another of these mass meetings of
late slaves was held, in the heart of the
Gulf States, in Augusta, Georgia.
About one thousand, says the Telegraph,
were present. Speeches We're made and
resolves adopted approving the position
Of the loyal party of the country as to
reconstruction and suffrage-the meet
ing in this respect resembling the most,
if not all Of the previous ones of the
kind in other localities. 1t resembled
them in another respect, in being adj
dressed by gentlemen representing, or
claiming to represent, the public senti-
ment Of the white men Of the South to
wards the colored voters. That senti-
ment rs thus avowed is one of amity
and confidence, not of hostility and de
tiance. 1t occurs to us uSt here to ask,
where are the premonitions of that
war Of races" SO gravely predicted
heretofore as certain TO follow upon ne
gro suffrage? Where are there any in
dications of it? The Richmond press
has been notably emphatic, sententious
and solemn in portraying s. the inevita
bic conflict that can only end in the ex-
termination of the colored man." to sue
ceed to the g tanatical policy of radical
ism" The rest of the Southern press and
Johnson and the Conservatives have
echoed the warning. The result is fall
styling all their vaticinations. Just as
emancipation, though the same classes
of citizens fought against it as the direst
of calamitics to the public peace, has
passed quitely into salutary and estab-
will continue to do the same thing. The
bugbear of anarchy and ruin as attend
ant upon radical reconstruction is dis
PEELED. The path of justice and ulti-
mate security proves to be that of pres
ent safety and eXpediency as well. We
now behold the spectacle of the whole
country. almost irrespective of party,
practically accepting negro suffrage and
wisely seeking to make The best Of it.
LoAFERs AND LoAFING.-We know of no
more reprehenslDle practice than that of
" loafng" Some persons become SO addict
ed to it, that they entirely neglect their own
business, and spend all their time lounging
In the stores and places of business of their
! nelghbors. They seem not to be aware of
the fact that they are incommoding their
neighbor, injuring him in his business, and
| annoying him In various ways; or if they
| are aware of it, do not seem to care how
much INJURY or annoyance they occasion, but
continue to force their company upon him
| at all hour, I" in season and out of season.
No class of persons suffer more from the
practice than newspaper editors An editors
room, or place of business seems to he es-
teemed by these people as if specially fitted
up and maintained for their accommodation.
They enter it as if it were their own domi-
cile, which they had kindly permitted the
poor devil to occupy temporarily y-take the
best chair; occupy the editors desk; grab
up the late exchanges, before the newspaper
man has had an opportunity of glancing
over them, asking at the same time, innu-
merable questions, and otherwise interfering
with the necessary business of the Office.
However desirable the company of such per-
sons may at times, it is certainly not to be
desired at all times. Too much, even of II
good thing is too much; and we are some
times induced to excaim with the poet,
Sake:
We do not tremble when meet
The stoutest of our foes,
But Heaven defend US from the friend
Who comes-but never goes"