The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1867-09-03

greatest wreng that States ever suffered.
He has inflicted upon those States inJu-
ries that many years of patient industry
cannot repair. The only way that the
President can mark his disapproval of
such inhuman conduct is by superseding
Sheridan by man who is known to be
governed by different sentiments. Gen.
Hancock is such man; yet the President,
it is said, has been prevailed upon not to
appoint any man whose political senti-
ments differ from those Of Gen. Sheridan.
I hope this will not prove to be true. If
Lit does, what deplerable weakness will it
indicate.
The great danger to be feared in the
South, is war of races between the cit.
liaens of the Southern States and the me-
groes. Of the one hundred thousand cit
|izens in Louisiana, less than fifty thous-
and have been permitted by Gen. Sheri-
dan to register their names as voters,
while the names Of eighty thousand bru-
tai and ignorant negroes have been regis
tered. Gen. Pope and Gen. Sickles have
pursued the same course,so that fully one
half of the citizens of the Southern States
find themselves disfranchised, while the
whole political power of those States is
thrown into the hands OF negroes. Now,
there must come time when the dread
full effects that must result from such a
state of things will goad the white peo-
pie to madness. The white people Of
this country will never consent to be
governed by negroes; yet they must be,
unless the President interposes and ap-
points men of a different stamp from Gen.
Sheridan, or unless the people Of the
North will interpose, and declare that this
Infamous wrong shall not be perpetrated
upon the people Of the South. There
are some indications that the latter will
be the case. The New York Herald
snuffs change in the wind, and now
comes out strongly against negro domina-
ton and negro supremacy. In fact, all
the indications point out that the great
issue in the next Presidential election
will be: Shall the white men rule this
country under civil government,or shall
the country be ruled by negroes and a
military despotism2
Events are fast shaping themselves to
ward this completion Of affairs. The ne
groes Of the South, as general thing
have shown that they are unfit even fol
freedom, by their unwillingness to work
and by their idleness, in consequence Of
which the rich lands of the South have
become entirely unproductiye, while theil
Ignorance and stupidity have shown theil
unftness to exercise political lrights. Or
the other hand, the cruel and vindictiy,
punishments that have been inflicted upor
the Southern people by Sheridan, Pope
and Siokles, in depriying them of all th,
rights Of citizens, are beginning to excit,
horror and indignation all overithe North
1t is felt that our liberties cannot be SAFE
when we SO wantonly deprive our fellow
citizens of theirs. This feeling, depanS
upon it, will manifest itself at the coming
| elections. The President, too, is full,
aware of its existence, and have reason
to believe that he will follow up the dis
missal of Stanton, Sheridan and Holt, b,
still more energetic steps toward restor
| ing their liberties to the greatly wronge,
people of the South. II. M. f.