The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-05-15
The Negro Riots In TIichmOnd and New

BFom he World,
The slight threatenings and beginnings of
riot in Richmond, on Saturday, do not Indicate
white men in that city who have given the
colored people bad counsel, which some of them
have been foolish enough TO take. Contrasted
with this local and partial disorder is the gene
raj excellent and moderate behavior Of the
freedmen throughout the south by which they
should rightly be judged-1ribune
In spite of the TriJunes attempt to belittle
the riots, authentic intelligence from Rich
mond makes it evident that saturnalia of
carnage is prevented in that city only by the
vigilance and alertness of United States troops.
That the negroes need to be overawed and
terrified is proved by the speeches made in
the African Church, on Sunday night. bv
Judge Underwood and Horace Greeley. JUDGE
Underwood warned them, by repeating what
one of the generals had said to him during the
day, namely, ''that there was a possibility
of a riot being made by the negroes tomorrow
and that if there was, he would plant cannon
and sweep the streets with grape-shot"
When the rabid and ribald Underwood finds
it necessary to go into negro church and
utter such warning, the volcano of riotous
passions must be on the point of great erup-
ton. Mr.. Greeley's speech, as reported. con
sisted almost entirely in discussion from
riots. The fact that the 1lth United States
Infantry Is 10 encamp permanently in the City
| Springs Park, within the city limits, shows the
necessity which General Schofeld thinks him
| self under, of using vigorous measures of re-
preston. The arrest of the Massachusetts
radical, Hayward, for using incendiary Ian
! guage, and the putting him under heavy
| bonds; the beating of policemen by negroes:
the patrolling of the streets by mounted SOL
diers; the stationing of squads of policemen
at all the churches on Sunday to protect the
worshippers against negro outrages; and the
| excited threats made by the negro populace
are evidence of a most violent and infamma-
tory state of feeling.
The contrast suggested by the Tribune be-
tween the conduct of the negroes in the
Southern cities and the great mass of them on
| the plantations, is instructive. 1t affords a
| correct clue to the cause of the riots. The
| negroes on the plantations come into contact
only with Southern whites, and reports from
all parts OF the South concur in showing that
| in the rural districts the freedmen are in
creasingly orderly and industrious, and that
there is gratifying friendliness of sentiment
| between the two races. Why is it different in
N New Orleans and Richmond? For no other
4 reason than because in the cities the ravina
| and incendiary radicals have an easy access tC
the negroes, and are exerting all their energy
| and ingenuity to breed mischief. If the torch
and-turpentine radicals would forbear to stil
\ up SIlllej Iu6 BIedJ prODleu Ol COuJnerI
society would solve itself in peaceful, orderly
| fraternal manner.
These plotters of disorder refuse to let thu
South alone because it is apparent that, j
things are left to take their course, the freed
men will recognize the identity of interests
between themselves and their section, anC
that their vote will not go to strengthen tn,
Republican party. Perpetual discord and dis
sensions between the two races is necessary
to enable that party to reap the crop which i
has sown. When the radicals find that
though the freedmen vote, they are not likely
to vote with them, they begin to conclude tina
their advocacy of negro suffrage was politi
cal blunder, unless they can detach the negroes
from the Southern whites. The South viii
have larger representation in Congress anG
more power in the government in consequence
Of emancipation.
Unless, therefore, the South can be divided
and the negroes organized as wing of tn,
Republican party, the radicals have beel
fabricating weapon for their own destruc
ton. 1t is for this reason that they ar
making desperate efforts to array race agains
race. In intlaming the passions of the negroe
up to the point of riOtous outbreaks, tn
more cOnsiderate and crafty radicals are sensi
BILE that they have overshot the mark. 1t i
their policy to foster hatred, but to make
run only in the political channels. The in
stigation of riots and the Inauguration of
war of races tend to recoil which will brin
the party into odium. Hence the energy wit
which the rascally Judge Underwood, who's
iniuriated charge so powerfully stimulate
the present dangerous state of feeling,
eXerting himself to prevent an eruption {
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