The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-06-10
AMERICAN RADjCALlSM.
English Opinion of the Liberated Negroes
Wendell PhiiIips' Attack ON Gen. Grant.

wendell Phillips Attack ON Gen. Grant.
New York (May 15) Correspondence OF London Times
Mr. Horace Greeley has been bitterly at
tackled by the wing his party for the share
hs s ha n IN tns release o. M Davis Ins morning
his assailants howlns Pharsees and dismisses them
with sovereign contempt.
While this phase OF the history OF tho coniederacy
passing fresh troubles, long anticipated, beginning
10 appear. TIE warmes friends OF tho negro have
Deen quite Tree rom Tears respecting his conduct But
hitherto there has been lito 10 make them uneasy.
Now however, tho storm begins TO gather. The blacks
begin TO feel their power aud TO understand the
10 which may BIO applied They see that all
the means for the preservation OF order which the
government has placed in the south arc intended for
their special advantage benefit and that the whites
practically helpless They waited with lolera-
bio patience for that distribution OF land among them
which has SO often been promised by Thad Stevens and
others, and which they have been taught look upon
as theirs by right. When was last 10 Richmond
negro said to me, .sWe don't think much of tree
dom without they give land Suppose they don't
give you any" The man laughed aud said, Il reckon
we knows how to get it, Some months have passed
AWAY and the negroes find the promised land' far
away ever The consequence is that they arc becOm
ing dissatisfied and turbulent spirit Is growing up
among them which may yet lead To memorable conse-
quences The NEGRO question: ia not yet settled
whatever may be thought or said by English philan-
thropists.
Look at the incidents which have lately taken place.
The negroes 10 LOUISIANA demanding not merely q
fair distribution Of Office and place among them but the
total exclusion OF whe candidates In Richmond there
have boon two negro riots within week. At
Brownsville, in Tennessee meeting OF radicals was
held on the l4h inst negro present made speech,
in which he SAID, Every man who has owned slaves
ought TO have his heart OUT This caused dis
turbauce, in which i've men were shot.
Such have been the troubles Of single week. It Is
to be hoped they will teach the radical orators who are
now stumpng the South the duty or moderation.
They have intammmable materials TO deal with, and
nothing viii be easier for them than to in
cite the negroes " commit violence. The
odinm is TO fall upon the Southern people,
whatever evils may happen but the conscientious rad
calls cannot bur be opposed to the attempts of their COL
leagues TO strengthen their party the OF Pres
Dental campaign, by inventing fresh cry against the
South Mr. Greeley in this respect sets good example
TO the rest He made speech last night In Richmond,
in which he owned that each side IN the believed
they fought in righteous cause and declared that a
heartourning and strife should be abandoned for
ever lie warned the colored people not 70 expect
that lands would bs given 10 them-the conlscation
policy would mover be carried out
In speech delivered in this city few evenings ago
Mr. Wendell Phillips renewed hts attack upon General
Grant He called him - half and-half man. with NO
ideas" and said the party would lose nifty per cent?
BY nominating him for the Presidency Fessendsn and
Sherman he referred 10 "huckstering traitorsn He
thought that all the Southern States should absolute
iy excluded from political power for seven years.