The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-06-08
Y EVENING TELEGRAPH-PHILA SATURDAY, JUNE

TO characterize the performances of those WIN
are trying to persuade the blacks that Il is
office or confscation they are to seek through
their votes, and not protection for the fruits of
their industry more detestable sight than
an educated orator preaching this lesson, and
preaching nothing else, to this unfortunate
race on their very entrance to freedom and
civilization, we cannot well conceive of. We
do not doubt that il is exercising most iniu-
rious influence on the negroes, and on their
account every good man ought to set his face
But it is on their account alone that IL is TO
be feared. Mr. Perry knows, and every
Southern man of sense knows, that the plan
of taking away white mems farms to give
them to negroes finds no favor in Congress. or
out OF 1t amongst any sensible or influential
portion of the community. There is about as
much real danger to Southern property from
negro voting as there is from an invasion of
81. Dominicans. If Mr.. Perry and others like
nm would sit down and do a little thinking
instead OF basking in the smiles of 'loyely
woman" he would see this as plainly as we
farther North, 10 whom "noble ladies' never
say word of approval. A wholesale or even
very extensive confscatiOn of property by the
majority in any State is never likely to take
place, because the public sentiment of the
other parts of the Union would forbid it, and
would find means, we may be sure, of making
itself felt. The one thing which is least likely
to happen in our politics is the introduction or
liberation anywhere of any practice shaking
the security of property. Even in the widest
of our border communities a man may COM
NIT as many murders as he pleases, but if he
takes to hoTse-stealing the people rise upon
him. In fact, over-sensitiveness on this point
is one Of the great weaknesses of the Anglo
Saxon race.
Moreover, the negro population of the South
will have always to rely ON its natural increase
for its growth, while the white population is
swollen every year by an enormous immigra-
ton. Let it appear that political tranquility
is once restored in the South and we may be
sure that, slavery being gone, the great and
advancing tide, which is now eating every
year farther and farther into the heart of the
Western Wilderness, will begin to steal very
rapidly into the Southern forests, and to swamp
the black vote everywhere. There is not the
ghost of chance that in ten years there will
in any Southern State be black majority, and
that the ballot will be of any use to the negro
except to defend the fruits of his own toll.
THERE'S danger just now, however that the negro
may be led astray, and that his education in
civilization may, by bad counsels, be made
bitterer and harder than it heed be. But there
is no danger that Southern whites will have to
pass through any heavier ordeal than they
ought to expect, and than they really deserve.
What the South needs now is common sense.
and the suppression of Cavaliers" and blus-
tering orators, and-we regret to say too-of
'lOvely women" A more malignant political
influence than these same 'lovely women
are now exercising all over the South is not to
be found on the continent, but it is to be
hoped that Southern men will get free from it,
Politics, they must learn, is not ''tourna-
ment." The great problems of the science are
not solved by fitting at rings under the eyes of
Queens of Love and Beauty, but by the dill
gent Studv and RIGHT II of tho corop,O,, faotS
of life. The South is not an enchanted land;
the negro is not dusky giant in a big castle,
sezing white men, babies, and tender ladies,
and making ragouts of them. So we have no
longer any need of knights errant, and the old
Southern armor, the lance of vituperation, the
shield of bombast, the helmet of rant, may be
put into the local museum.