The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-14

mond letter are positive as indications upon
the point.
Nor are, we at liberty to consider the ques-
tion of responsibility for the altered state of
things an open question. 1t is not the effect
of the mere possession of freedom. 1t is,
distinctly and unequivocally, the consequence
of the teaching of ultra radical emissaries,
who, under the pretense of nstructing the
negro as to his rights, are filling him with an
over estimate OF his importance, and wild
ideas of enrichment and supremacy. Left to
himself, perhaps, Sambo might be lazy until
experience taught him the necessity Of in
dustry as the alternative of starvation But
his disposition, without prompting and gui-
dance, is not prone to assert mastery over white
men, or the right to live out of white mems ac-
cumulated property. For these manifestations
as now occurring in Virginia, we must seek
an explanation in the appeals of demagogues
and incendiaries; who preach the disfranchise-
ment OF the whites as punishment for rebel
lion, and the distribution of their lands as a
recompense for the suffering loyalty of the
blacks. We do not apply the remark indis-
criminately to Northern politicians addressing
Southern colored audiences. We know that
Senator Wilson, for example, demands neither
wholesale disfranchisement nor ga mild mea-
sure of coniscation." That gentleman is not
the type Of the class of whom we speak.
Hunnicutt, of Virginia, is much nearer the
mark He and such as he are unceasing in
their endeavors to organize the blacks as
party that shall hereafter control Southern
affairs, and with this view they teach the
superiority of the negroes as race, with all
their Ignorance and semi-savage vices over
the whites among whom they dwell The first
fruits of these endeavOrs may be seen in the
claim of the New Orleans negroes to the offices,
and in the turbulent insolenCe of their breth-
ren in Virginia.
We apprehend, indeed, that the circum-
stances which seem to us pregnant with evil
are not only the direct results of ultra-radcal
teaching, but are in entire harmony with the
purposes of the extremists III this latitude.
Wendell Phillips is no longer content with
negro equality. So far as the South is con-
cerned, he favors the doctrine of negro supe-
riority which doctrine the negroes are trying
to reduce to practice in some of the Southern
cities. And of course his amended doctrine
of confscation will equally commend itself to
negro instincts. The original object of Mr..
Thaddeus Stevens, was by confscatiOn to
realize the means of paying bounties and pen
sions, and so reducing the cost of the war.
But the demand of the Anti-Slavery Society
now goes much further. Ignoring the fact
that the vast area of Government land at the
South is available under the Homestead law
to black and white alike, the society, under
Mr.. Phillips manipulation, calls for such
measure of confscation of the improved lands
of the planters as shall give to every freedman
forty acres Emancipation from bondage is
not enough now. Absolute equality before the
law falls short of what is required. There
must be dominance instead of equality" and
ready made farms of forty acres besides That
is the latest version of the platform on which
the noisy friends of the freedmen profess to
stand, and the knowledge of it will assuredly
not tend to make the negroes more orderly in
their demeanor or more moderate in their re-
quiTements.
There can be no hope of peace for the coun-
try until the negro be banished, as a distinct
and separate element from it's politics. The
true friends of the slave, as in Mr.. Garrson's
case, held that with the destruction of slavery
all preteXts for agitation in regard to it ter
minated. All that the opponents of the sys-
tenn contemplated has been realized; and if we
are hereafter to be troubled with the negro
question as an element in party contests, it is
with view to the advantage of agitators,
regardless of the effect upon the negroes them
selves or upon society. The South may do
much towards averting the peril with which
it is threatened, by prompt use of the oppor-
tunities afforded by the Reconstruction act
and with the Union restored, the various
organizations for sowing the seed of mischief
among the negroes will soon be rendered COM
paratively harmless. In any other aspect, the
Disraelrs Compromise and British Re-
form.
From the Tribune
The cable has brought us news or another
victory achieved by Lord Derby's Government
on the Reform bill now under discussion in
the House of Commons. The tenor of the
dispatches received through the same source
a few days ago led US to the conclusion that
the Liberals, driven by the pressure from
without to close up their ranks and to take a
decided position relative to this important
measure, were about to have everything their
own way, and that, with their divisions
healed, they would, in their united strength,
compel the Government so to modify the
measure as to make it acceptable as a large
instalment of justice, to theAgreat bulk oil the
people. All this, however, has been suddenly
changed. Mr. Disraeli, it appears, pretend
ing to accept the amendments of the true
friends of Reform, and having thus gained
time to SOW the seeds of dssension again in
the ranks of the Liberal party, has proposed
a compromise, accompanied with the alterna-
~tive of dissolution. Of the latter the mem
bers of the "New Cave" whose recusancy
at a critical moment caused the defeat
of Mr.. Gladstone's amendment a short
time ago, stand in mortal dread; and so
the threat has had its intended effect, is
causing them again to desert the party banners,
and to help the enemy to victory. But the
triumph, in this instance, will not prove to be
so great and so decisive as some people may
imagine The insincerity and double-dealing
of the Government with regard to this Reform
question are evidently having the effect OF
rousing the leaders of the opposition and the