The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1867-12-12

negroes IL proposed at q time peculiar
ly unprobtious. The foundations of
society have been broken up by civil
war. Industry must DO reoreanized.
justice re-established, public credit
maintained, and order brought out of
confusion. To accomplish these ends
would require all the wisdom and
virtue of 1he great men who framed
our institutions originally. | cnD6.
deutlY believe that their defendants
will be equal to the arduous task
before them; but i: Is worse than mad.
ness te except that negroes will per.
form it for us. Certainly we ought
not to ask thoir assistande until wo
despair ofour own competency. The
great differences between the two ruccs,
in physical, mental and moral charac.
toiistics, will prevent an amalagatlon
or fusion of them together in one
homogeneous mass. IL the inferior
obtains the ascendcncy over the other.
il will govern with reference ouly to
itfown interests; for it will recognize
no common interests, and will create
such tyranny rs this continent has
never yet Witnessed. Already the
negroes are influenced py promises Of
cOntiscation and plumber. They are
taught To regard as an enemy every
white man wha has any respect lor the
rights of his own race.
II this continues, 1t must become
worse and worse until all order will
be subverted. all industry cease, and
the fertile fields Of the South grow up
into wilderness. OF all the dangers
which our nation has yet encountered,
mono are equal to those which mnst
result from the success of the effort
now making to Atricanize half our
country. l would not put consldera-
tons of money in competition with
Justice aud right, but the expenses
incident to a reconstruction under tho
system adopted by Congress aggravate
what regard as aR intrinsic wrong of
the measure itself II has cost un-
counted millions already, and, if per-
sisted in, WILL add largely to the weight
Of taxation already too oppressive 70 be
borne without just complaint, and may
finally reduce the Treasury of tho ma
tion to IL condition of bankruptcy. We
must not delude ourselves. 1t will re-
] quirc {; strong standing army, and
probably more than 100000 900 per
anuum to maintain the supremacy Of
negro government after they are estab-
lished. The sum thus thrown away
would, ifproporly used, form sinking
fund large enough to pay the whole
national debt in less than fifteen years.
Ii is vain 10 hope that negroes will
MAINTAIN their ascendency themselves.
Without military power, they are who
lily incapable Of holding IN subjectlon
the white people Of the south. l submit
to the Judgment Of Congress whether
the public credit may not be injurously
affected bv system Of measures like
this. With our debt and the vast pri.
vate interest which are complicated
with it, we cannot be too cautious of a
policy which might, by possibility, i'm.
pair the confidence of the world in our
Government That confidence can
only be retained by carefully inculca-
ting principles of justice and honor in
! the popular mind, and by the most
= scrupulous fidelity to all our engage
= ments Of every sort.
Any serious breach Of organic law,
persisted IN for considerable time,
CiiHllOb pul tItdbb lbNl y lpI luS blaOlilll
of our institutions. Habitual VIOLA
!, ton OF prescribed rules, which we bind
y ourselves TO observe, must demoralze
: the people. Our only standard of civil
duty b2ing set at naught, the sheet
g anchor of our political morality is lost
~ pubic conscience swings from its moor
% ings, and yields to the impulses of pas
It sion and interest If we repudiate the
~ Constitution, we shall not be expected
" " to care much for mere pccuniary obli
- - CATIONS,
# The violation ofsuch pledge as W,
i. made on the 22d OF July, 1861, wilt 'as
suredly diminish the market value o
40 our other promises; besides, if we nov
I, acknowledge that the national deb
~ was created, not to hold the States Il
h. the Union as tax payers We're led [
a suppose, but to eXpel them from It an,
90 hand them oyer to be governed b,
a. negroes, tho moral duty to paylt MAJ
i seem much less clear. say 1t ma,
IL, seem no, for do not admit that it,, o
nj any other argument in favor of ropu
- Idiatlon, can bo entertained AS sounC
"a but it's influence on some classes {
nv, minds may we'll be apprehended.
s"c9I The financial honor Of great com
' ,"t mer cial nation largely indebted, an
nM,v M with arepublican form Of government
,ot administered by agents of the popala
10 choice, Is a tmnG of such delicate tex
y ure, aud the destruction Of 1T would b
H. followed by such unspoakabe calamit,
bo that every true patriot must desire
tr W. avoid whatever might expose it to I'll
H. slightest danger
bv The great interests of the countr
~ reouire Immediate relief from theso 81