The New York herald., 1867-05-24

| Tue keDubS4caa Party and the Negro Vote
The Lsfest Radical Masifesto..
The address TO the Southern people OF th
Union Congressional Republican Committee
q document that may well give us pause i
pursuing the thread Of reflection upon th
troubles Of Reconstruction. II is intended =
point out to the Southern people what will b.
the consequences II the radicals are disap
pointed by the Southern vote. Il isa warning
Indications have not been wanting that tn
negro vote may yet prove . delusion to tn
republican party-that the party will not find
through Sambo's new privilege that roya
road to continued and supreme power tina
certain leaders look for. Eagerly sought for
elutched Of with an avidity that has already
their balance, vi olating the proprieties Of poll
Tics, what II IL should be will-o' '-the-wisp
after ALT Whist n, having tempted men from
the broad. direct way, and mired them up to
the lips In all the unCleanness Of partisan
struggles, it should finally be only deceit Of
the political atmosphere. and not the grsnd
prize they counted upon gaintngs Then II
must be shown. intimstes the committee. that
the Military bill is not inality. Thon we
must adopt some new plan that will give us
in reality the effectuai control we expected
that bin would give us.
We may safely estimate the whole present
vote of the South at twelve hundred thousand
in round numbers. One-third Of this is the
negro vote, and thus the white voters of the
South will outnumber the negroes fully two
10 one. Upon any just system Of reconstruc-
don, therefore,, the political power Of the
South will be still overwhelmingly in the
hands Of the whites, and the radicals
can have no hope to gain any point
by the nigger vote except through a
division Of the white vote. But tho prospect
for such division is,so dim that radicals hardly
hope for it. Indeed. the very prospect that
they will secure the united negro vote renders
IL the more improbable that there will be any
division Of the whites Tho steps taken to So
cure the negro are driving the white man into
inevitable opposition. II is certain that the
negroes can only be rallied on platform upon
which the white men. cannot stand. Extrava-
giant promises have been made by republican
orators, and if they are not kept it is anssbso-
lute certainty that the nigger vote will be do
mora.ized and scattered If they are kept, If
there is any step tow ,rd keeping them, the re-
pubi:clns will scarcely poll white vote In
any Southern Stat. The bad policy Of tho
republican party, The headlong precipiEancy
OF issfrantic leaders. have placed it in such .
false position on tho great subject Of rSc0n-
strue aon that its promises TO the negro are
threais to the white MIN; and these tnre0ts
have driven the white man hopelsssly beyond
the radical reach. A psominent republicaa IN
Virginia sat on>a jury with 6ve negroes, con-
scious that his refusal would have been ps{iti-
cal capital for the democrats (; but he is now
openly repudiated by the adherents os bis
dusky ALLOW jurors, his rapublicanism being
of too mild type for their violent taste. His
propossl for platform. On which whites. and
negroes can stand side by side is scouted'as .
trcasousto nigger interests II Is the saE1s in
the whsle South, the Law prevailing. as In all
revolutionary times, shaA there must be nSmod-
crate measures.
Having thus consolidated its black vote
and by the same steps consolidated the. white
againsA it-and finding this latter far the
largest, the next bad step of the republican
party,vill be to repsdlate the settlement 1t
has already made, in, 90 FAR a. it involves the
white vote. II will throw overheard the plan
involved in the Military bill on the day when
it becomes certain that the votes given to
white men under that bill viii be cast against
II, and overbnlance The nigger vote. sThe
republican party" says mis- last programme
Of the republican committee, adesires the
restoration Of the Union only on such terms 40
slAn render Il impossible to involve the
country in sectional strife" Ballot box
victories against ths radicals in the South will
indicate, therefore, condition that win render
restoration Of the Union not desirable 10
that party. In order to have sn assurances Of
political millennium, says The same document
"thcre must be cooperation of the races" and
not only that but this cooperation must be
@upou the principles which prevail In she
North, and to which the republican party Is
iully commitied.v The point Of which Is, that
II the Southern white men do not Sco-operat Q,
IL they do not vote with the niggers, they shall
not vote at oil, so long as the radicals car
prevent It. II Is not enough for Southern
whites to return; but they must returr
ON their knees-they must come in re.
publioans or stay out; for at the las
moment. when the South has, as 1t supposes,
done all that Is required, and comes to Con-
gress for admission, then Congress must b
satisfied that the people Of the proposed States
respectively are, and are likely to be, loyal b
the Union by decisive and Trustworthy
majorities" Congress will not be so satisfied
IL is clear, unless these "mjoritiesr are fo
radical power e
And what must be the result Of all this
Radical extremists have bounded the nigger
to their side Of the line and driven the white
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