The Louisiana Democrat. [volume] (Alexandria, La.) 1845-1918, 1867-08-28
The New Issue Of Southern Negro
Supremacy.

The New York Herald, Of the 9th, after
abiding to the Stanton embroglio andsthe
Radical reconstruction programme, says:
Thus it appears, from the Developments
and all the evidence before US touching the
reconstruction programme of Congress,
that if carried out according to the laws
as applied by Secretary Stanton and the
present commanders Of the FIVE military
districts, the whole ten Of the States IN
volyed in this ordeal will be at the mercy
of the blacks. We are called, then, to
meet the question of the probable conse-
quences of this negro supremacy. The re-
turn of twenty, thirty, or forty negro Sena-
tors and Representatives to Congress is
but an item among the results which may
be reasonably anticipated. The conse-
queues of negro ascendancy in the Legs
lature of this or that State are most to be
feared when we consider the unsettled
balances as slaves which these Southern
blacks will be apt to enforce against their
late white masters. Some very Significant
hints in this direction have already been
thrown out in the resolutions of the negro
reconstruction meeting of South Carolina.
Granting that the Northern States are
prepared for the recognition and acceptance
of equal suffrage to the blacks, in New
York, or is Pennsylvania or is Ohio, pre-
pared for the full-blown experiment OF ne
gro supremacy in ten Southern States; as
contemplated by the Republican Radicals
lin Southern reconstruction? Assuming
that if, with Conservative acting Secreta,
|ry of War in the place of Stanton, and
with FIVE military commanders OF Mr.. > ohu'
sons way of thinking in the places OF the
| FIVE commanders who think and act &C
cording to the gospel ofMr. Stanton as
suming that the result will be to delay the
work Of Southern restoration for even two
or three years-will this not be wiser thar
, to rush headlong into this danger Of South
ern negro supremacy? Will not the inevl
table tendency Of negro supremacy II
y South Carolina, for example, be to drlv'
? out the white population, or to precipitatt,
t that war of races which, ifcommenced, VII
be apt speedily to ripen in q war on BOT
t sides Of iudiscrimiinate determination +
Will social harmony or peace, or fnancla
n confidence or active and systematic indus
try ever be restored to the South under tn
s threatening danger Of negro supremacy?
u We cannot answer the questions trul
without recognizing the sagacityeend vii
d dom of President Johnson's policy OF CIV
inc to the Southern whites, as far as POI
lie sible under the terms Of Congress,
n, chance to recover their lost ground and
N take the lead in Southern reconstructlo1
There is no security, and there are tho
err sand dangers, in the Radical programim
st which now distinctly foreshadows the ,pla,
e. ing Of the late governing whites ot II
South under the political control and sa
e. iect to the caprices and revenges OF u
,g black race, relieved but yesterday from II
moral darkness, expressions, wrongs al
disabilities CT African slavery: These da
or GERS are 50 menaciag that they must be !, q
ce preciated by thinking Northern men. y
hold, accordingly, that the time at last \ .
come for Northern reaction, and
ce time, therefore, for decisive measures
ce the part OF President johnson.