Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-09-10
THEMAYOuT.

From the Mobile Register and Advertiser.
To make the negro the ruling power in
the "RebeP South is an evil upon which
perhaps the white North could look with
good deal Of patient complacency. But in
its execution the rump plan envelopes the
Southern borders and extends its march
and its influence to the whole United States.
The negro political power obtrudes upon
national ground, and the white Western
and Middle States men, the German and
the Irish adopted citizens, everywhere,
find their political influence neutralized
and their votes triumphed by the sufrages
of a race which they despise and hate with
an intensity that has never been compre-
hended in the South. Hence the Black
Pretorian legion which the Bumpers have
organized in the South, will cost them le-
gions of white enemies in every loyal
State. And thus the violence of the negro
mania will cure itself by its own headlong
violence. Already, men at the North,
Republicans included, are holding up
their hands aghast at the prospect
of lively sprinkling of blacks in the
Southern Congressional delegations. Radi-
Gals are disguised that the negroes, in
whose hands they have placed the ballot,
are showing signs of an Independent use of
il for their own advantage, and not alike
slaves, exclusively for the benefit Of North
ern white adventures and renegades in
the South. 1t may now be taken as fixed
fact, that the Southern States, reconstructed
under the Radical military bills, will be
represented in Congress by a respectable
squad of negroes, and it is not certain that
they will not enforce the demand (which is
within their power of a negro for the
second place on the Presidential ticket.
Thus the negro, az a political entity, Is
launched into the national arena as a
prominent, and ceases to be, exclusively,
Southern one We shall see how nearly
thirty millions of white people will deal
with il, and we see that, at last in the
political negro the Radicals have Caught
Tartar" of the most brawny stature.
Hence our advice has been unceasing to
such Southern men as have been permitted
TO register to vote for negro candidates for
Federal offices, in preference to Northern
Radicals or Southern apostate whites. The
reasons for it are abundant. In the first
place they cannot more misrepresent the
South than Northern Radicals or Southern
traitors. Next, it is 10 the interest of the
negro race to find out by this experiment
who and where his true friends are, and
finally, TO put an end to all present sgita-
ton and doubt and fix his status under the
government of the United States, and it is
to the interest of the South, as the best me-
dunn to cure the black distemper Of the
dav, and to cure i: retributively, as the
bite of the dog is cured by the hair thereof.
In brief it is the shortest and readiest
road to the full deaoueTaeat and winding up
of the negro mania which has for so many
years distracted the country, and for four
years deluged it in blood. We firmly be-
lieve that the remedy will be certain and
effectual. Until, by this means the two
races settle down into their normal condi>
tions, there will be no enduring peace be-
tween them and no more prosperity for the
land which they both occupy. The people
of the United States have this question to
settle, and it cannot be settled until the Is
sue is fairly made in the national arena, by
bringing the political white and the politi-
cal black face to face upon it, Let US send
all the negroes we can to Congress 10 adj
just the great question. 1t is a happy
thing for the South that this is becoming a
national question.