Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1867-08-24

speculations on coming Political Events

Speculations on coming Political Events.
One of the most striking and significant
articles that we have seen in the political
weather cock, the New York Herald, for
long time, appears in its issue of Fri.
day last. 1t is leading editorial on the
Johnson.S Stanton imbToglio, commencing
as follows:
"The rupture between Presiden, John
son and the refractory and defiant SeCre-
tary of War, considered in connection
with recent events and developments bear,
ing upon Southern reconstruction, brings
Onward The new issue of Southern negro
supremacy into bolG relief. 1t is morally
certain that under The stringent ani.rebel
and universal negro suffrage policy of re.
construction now pursued in the South the
len excluded States will be reorganzed
and reinsIaied in Congress by the FREEDOM.
inant negro vote. Let US see what is the
inevitable drift Of this business, as row
progressing, from the facts and figures be.
fore u.s."
The Herald then figures up victory
for the new voters with their few white
allies, in every Southern State. Evident.
ly alarmed al the portentous display Of lis
own figures, it submits the following
"Thus it appears. from the develop
ments and all the evidence before US touch
ing the reconstruction programme OF Con.
grcss, that if carried out according 10 The
laws as applied by Secretary Stanton and
the present commanders of the five mill
,ary districts, the whole ten OF the States
involved in this ordeal will be al the mer-
cy Of the blacks. We are called, then, to
meet the question of the probable Conse-
quences Of this METRO supremacy. The
return OF twenty, thirty, or forty coored
Senators ana Representatives to Congress
is but an item among the resulls which
may be reasonable anticipated. The con-
Quences Of negro ascendency in the Leg
islature of this or that State are most 10
be feared when I'VE consider the unsettled
balances as slaves which these Southern
blacks will be apt 10 enforce against their
late white masters. Some very signif-
cant hints in this direction have already
been thrown out in the resolutions Of the
negro reconstruction meetings OF South
Carolina. We know, 100, tha; those
Northern white radical stumpers in the
South who have most broadly suggested
the possible application from Congress of
odd Thad Stevens's' panacea Of confs
cation have excited the lveliest enthusi.
asm among the blacks. Is it any won
der, then, tqat ex.Gov. Perry, Of South
Carolina, and other leading Southern men
counsel the policy Of quiet submission TO
their present military government indeiin-
iIely as preferable 10 this reconstruction
and restoration scheme, which will place
the State absolutely under the control Of
the blacks Do we not also perceive
that in this matter there is all opening for
a decisive political diversion on he part
of President Johnson in his execution OF
these reconstruction laws in the interval
to The next meeting Of Congress !
"Granling ths, the Northern States are
prepared for the recognition and acCep-
tance Of equal suffrage 10 the blacks, IS
New York, or is Pennsylvania, or is
Ohio prepared for the full-blown expert
ment Of negro supremacy in ten Southern
States, as contemplated by republican
radicals in Southern reconstruction ? As.
suming that if, with conservative acting
Secretary of War,in the place of Stanton,
and with five military commanders Of Mr..
Johnson's way Of thinking in the places
Of the five commanders who think and
act according TO the gospel Of Mr.. Stanton
80 - the resnlt will hP 10 de-