The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-19

| any Otner TRANSATLANTIC lecturer, cOuld expect
to compete successfully with her.
The Revolutionary Laws of Congress-Or.
ganization Of Darbarism In the Nine.
teenth Century.
The United States are running into an epoch
OF barbarism for which the experience of The
early ages can scarcely afford parallel. At
one time in the Congress of the United States q
Senator from Massachusetts presented the
"barbarism Of slavery" in colors that chal-
lenged the resentment Of the South. Personal
| violence ensued. Then the infamed North,
spurred on by incendiary orators, offered COM
bat by the election of candidate for the
Presidency at that time most offensive to the
| South. That candidate was elected. The tele-
gram announcing his election was the sounding
of the tocsin of war. War came. The issue
was fairly brought and the victory was with
the North. Then followed, not period of
peace, but the organization of a spirit of "bar-
barism in the North" that has fairly eclipsed
in intensity all the horrors Of the "barbarism
of slavery" The compacts Of the constitution,
| for the time forgotten in the exigencies of the
rebellion, were ignored as far back as the
| Thirty-eighth and Thirty-ninth Congresses, and
it will be miracle if the same disregard of the
solemn league which made tho Union should
not prevail in the Fortieth Congress next win
ter. The leaders in this attack upon the foun-
dations of the government, in time of peace,
| unblushingly avow that they fight for their
cause outside the constitution. All the laws of
Congress affecting the South are passed outside
that bulwark of our nationality. Hence they
are demoralizing, dangerous and revolutionary
These lawmakers proclaim their right to
enfranchise in twelvemonth q race just born
into civilization and Enlightenment; and if
half the stories of those who abhor the CHAR
barism of slavery" are true, a most melancholy
condition must that be in which the whites OF
the South will be. placed. The equality of
rights OF the negro with the white is demanded
by these outside-ofthe-constitut barbarians.
The supremacy of tho blacks is required by
others. We see, in the numerous outrages
committed by the blacks in the South, the
spectacle Of liberty run into licentiousness.
| In Alabama the blacks have over fifteen thou
sand majority Of registered votes in Louis
lana they have over thirty-eight thousand ma
jority in North Carolina they are running
largely ahead Of the whites in South Carolina
they have already twenty-five thousand major
ity in Mississippi they have large majority
in Florida their majority is as two to one in
Georgia they are four thousand ahead. The
whites have a majority in Virginia, and proba-
bly, will have in Arkansas and Texas-only
three out of the ten Southern States.
Knowing that the blacks have the advantage
in point of numbers in the States above
named, the radicals are moving to secure
being appointed to or nominated for federal
and local offices. The State Conventions, State
Legislatures, other local official positions, the
Congress of the United States, and even the
White House at Washington, are held out to
these uncivilized and untutored blacks as
| objects at for their aspirations. States recon-
structed upon this system will become simply
waste lands, in which tho ignorant or those in
| an incipient or in perfect state Of barbarism,
or both, will be the ruling spirits, or they will
| become like Jamaica-scenes OF interminable
| disorders and outrage. Sambo will be sove-
reign. The white men will be no where. Many
| of them are now excluded by the laws of Con-
gress from voting, as they will hereafter be
debarred from the privilege Of holding Office
in these negro-ridden States.
That the radical power in Congress is re.
evolutionary we see in these political affilia-
tons OF the radical whites with the ignorant
blacks of the South. Send blacks as represen-
tatives to Congress, and it will prove the signal
| for another attempt to break up the Union. 1t
will be but an effort to organize barbarism,
anarchy and revolution. 1t will be
against the will of twenty-five mil
lions of American people, who have never
been called upon to vote upon the question Of
| the reconstruction laws nor that Of negro
suffrage, and Is In the face OF the policy
that has actuated every administration since
the government was formed. California sees
| In 1t the Inauguration Of Chinese and coolle
suffrage, and has already spoken against it. The
men of intelligence in Maine have also regarded
IL in an autagonistic light. The people Of Ohio
will speak upon 1t on the 9Th of next month as q
separate question; and we suppose in November
the people of New York will have an opportu-
nifty to do the Same on the question of adopting
or rejecting the new constitution. In no State,
with perhaps one or two exceptions, we repeat,
have the people had an opportunity to express
their views at the ballot box for or against
negro suffrage; and the laws Of Congress which
force upon the South such tyrannical rule are
abominable, and the threat to force II upon the
Northern States ID atrocous. When these North
ern and Western lawmakers, who openly pro-
tess to make laws outside OF the constitution,
find popular sentiment in their sections Of the
country in favor Of extending the elective fran
chise Unfortunately to any race or class Of
beings hitherto debarred by State and national
l "a H. g. to