The New era. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1865-1871, 1867-03-21
THE SITUATION IN THE SOUTH.

plantations.
TIE SITUATION IN THE SOUTH.
That able and good journal, the Co
lunbus, Ohio, Crisis, discusses the situ-
Military Despotism Bill, in most mas
terly manner, and rebubes with wither-
ing scorn such impairment and otfieious
advisers as the New York Horld Chi
coso Times, ct I'd onane GEMS, who have
been urging quiet acquiescence in an in
decent and degrading sanction of this
Ubiquitous measure by the noble people
against whom it is intended, that they
may get back into Congress, and help to
bring power to these gentlemen and
their ilk. Oar Southern friends under
stand these gentlemen-they were aros
De11ocfdfs--and SO Beast Butler, and
VANITY Fair Logan, of Illinois, and
others were called for awhile, but now
who so virulent, and mean, and coward
ly as they are? The Ohio Crisis, who
has a right tosspeak to the South, and
with whom the Southern people will
gladly counsel, thus cheers our sister
States, and bids them to look up, to
to make the best of their situation, and
strive all in their power to prevent their
State Governments from passing into
the hands of mean white men, and
vagabond negroes. We have only space
for an extract. 1t says:
"To allow the negroes and the per-
jured Vagabonds, who pretend to be
Southern loyalists, to control the South
for series Of years will be to crystalize
despotism and hopelessly Africanize
the Southern States. These are a few
of the practical difficulties presented to
the South by this devilishly devised
military bill, and in their presence we
confess that voluntary advice from
Northern Democratic journals, such as
have taken the South under their es-
pecial guardianship, partakes of the
qualities of officious impertinence. The
case OF the Hungarians and the Poles
who struggled through years of misery
and despotism, is not parallel to the
case of the South, for they had no in
ferior and servile race to be infamed to
instruction and massacre. But the
SOutleFnefS nave Stlll power WHICH
neither the Poles or Hungarians had.
They can, like the blinded Sampson in
the scriptural story, tear down the pill
lars of the temple which supports their
oppressors, by refusing to raise cotton
for there can beno considerable amount
of cotton raised without the assistance
of Southern white men stop the North
ern mills, and enhance the balance of
trade against the country to such an ex-
tent as to insnre the speedy collapse of
the financial bubble of the North, and
bring the monied power of the country
to realization of the fact that the most
virulent fanaticism cannot SO far contra
vene the laws of nature as to strike out
of existence ten States and ten millions
OF people, without retributive punish
ment. Such must be the solution of the
problem brought ON by the insane folly
of the Abolitionsts, whether the white
men of the South "accept the situation"
or not; for, if the governments of those
States faliin to the hands of the negroes
and the beggarly band of loyalists who
are recognized as the ''loyal people, the
Industrial and commercial interests of
that important section must be paralyzed,
to the infinite danger of the public debt,
and the chaotic confusion Of Northern
finances"