The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-08-19

what colors are we to wear, and who are our
foes
The Golden RuIe-"POetIc Justice
BFoBl nc ". T. EUentng Express.
We have no idea that any supporter of the
Rump Congress, any Republican, or any
Northern or Western man, would willingly
place himself and his interests under a gov
ernment of negroes and of negroes, more
over, who have scarcely acquired the habits or
restraints of civilization, and in some cases,
still cling to fetish worship of their native
Africa. To be forced into so unnatural and
revolving political connection, they would be
very apt to consider a grievous hardship,
which only the most implacable foes, not
friends, could impose upon them.
Now, what we could never be reconciled to
ourselves, we are enforcing upon our own race,
our own brethren, in ten States of the Union.
Pluming ourselves upon our Christianity, 1t
suits us in this matter to set entirely at naught
the golden rule of doing unto others as we
would that Others under similar circum-
stances, should do unto us. We do not know
whether the great masses of our people ever
take that idea into their heads or not; but of
the fact itself there can be no gainsaying.
The party by and through whose instru-
mentality this work is now in process OF ac
complishment, ostentatiously processes to be
the exponent of ''great moral IDEAS" Yet it
boldly and persistently ignores that funda-
mental principle of the moral law which
enioins one to love his neighbor as himself.
This may be good radical policy, but it is bad
Christianity.
1t cannot be pleaded in justification of this
stupendous wrong to our race, that negro en-
franchisement is but a temporary measure, to
be abandoned when the white ''rebels" become
more attached to the Union. A class once in
vested with suffrage can never be deprived of
it. That proposition may as well be accepted
at once as an invariable truth and an unate-
rable fact. Hence the perilous experiment the
radicals are now making in the late slave
States is to be attended by enduring effects.
As the experiment itself cannot be reversed,
but must 60 forward from development to de-
velopment, so its Influences whatever they
are to be, must be borne.
We repeat that under the existing radical
machinery established in Louisiana, the white
man is placed politically at the mercy of the
negro. We have a statistical demonstration
of the fact in the returns of the registry lists,
now for the first time officially published.
Here are the fgures:-
LOUISIANA.
Black majority. ,l75
NORTH CAROLINA.
As in Louisiana, so we presume it will be
in all the other States. The so-called registry
in the formerly geod old conservative Whig
State of North Carolina has just begun-and
the complexion of that beginning, as seen
below, is a foreshadowing OF the general re-
suit
Blacks
WhlIes Il
Black majority 3O5
SOUTH CAROLINA.
In Charleston, S. c., the registry commenced
on Monday last-and thus far we have the
following returns:-
blacks
Black majority. PSI
1t may crafty the vindictiveness of a "party
of great moral ideas" to witness this thorough
subversion of the civilized Anglo-American to
the semi -barbarous African; but vindictive-
ness ever brings with it, sooner or later, and
and in this case, part of the punishment will
be the presence of this new, semi-barbaric
element in the halls of legislation (Federal
and State), to help make laws for us of the
North and West as well as for the South.
This is what the philosophers would call
'poetic Justice" 1t may not come at once, it
may not come for few years yet, but the
radical policy has set the machinery in
motion which must, sooner or later whether
we like it or not, be productive of that very
result.