New-York tribune., 1867-03-07
"CONSERYATTTED NIGGERS.

The World, after little coy hesitation, frankly
advises its Southern friends to accept the stu
alton, organize under the Reconstruction act,
and fratemze with the negroes 1t says:
In the interior of the South. tho negroes VIII be
brought contact only with Conservative Influences
aa pons 10 RsSeSi ejpes aioh the press This is con
ditiOn OF things which ought 10 DC tDP0ced Whe u %ds %
by such kind treatment and educational helps as WIN
lead them to look to their White neghbor Instead OF Ge
distant Yankees their benefactOis. vote they VIII
under the new regiDe in any event IL depends on ie
great body OF intelligent planters whether the ballot IA
their hands shall prove an unmitgated ana iht9eIhpdS
regular eectioin Virginia takes place in May only two
ta state hinges upon the decision which she may neal
while make In several OF her counties the negro pop
tOn Outnunbers the White Peace ana Orler ia tnose
counties obviously depend upon courinS anu SGn.rOnS
the negro vote 10 abstain % m rom ON pgatTatd resnaon
TO ruin. workman must not quarrel WIN MS toVss,
Ith h m nossss the more il behooycs them to make
effective OF what little they nave 10 WIN agdl' ag
odds by superior skill is altogether better than despond
eScy and tame surrender To prevent tho negroes
voting under the new law is impossible 1t VIII be more
Them although In most districts they can be outyoted
But the blndest policy Of all would be to stand SUI ana
do nothing thus RadicaELng tAe hcgrOes' anu 'nc1cDJ
Kfricauzing the South
Pemarks-The better half of the above is
quite true; and il is a striking confirmation OF
what we have been urging upon the Southern
politicians ever since Lees surrender. Had
those politicians been wise enough to anticipate
Lincons second Proclamation of Freedom by
decreeine universal and instant Emancipation
calling every ablc-bodied negro to arms, and
promising him forty acres of good land Oh the
return of Peace with Independence, they would
probably have tIiumphed. Lee and his lieuten-
ants were ready for this; but the politicians
would not be taught by events, but insisted
| that, having begun the contest for Slavery,
! they must fight for Slavery to tHe last, though
| the certainty of defeat thereby stared them
! full in the face. SO they only consented to
| free and ann the negroes after their cause had
become hopeless
The Union having triumphed by Emancipa-
ton, it was the manifest policy, the clear inter
| est, Of the Southemcr5, TO turn at once to the
Blacks and say, 1--WE upheld Slavery so long
"as we cOud because we believed it best for us
"and for you. But Slavery is dead and yOu are
free: now we will show you that we were
"honest in our devotion TO Slavery by treating
"you Justly and kindly as frcemen. Choose your
"wisest and best men for consultation with us
| let them tell us what guarantees yOu require
for your rights, and they shall be freely ac-
"corded. We are of different races, and must
"remain so 4; but we are all Americans and
"S0utherners and, if we do not henceiorth live
" in harmony, it shall not be our fault"
The Southrons can persist in the old folly If
| they will. As the Dutch justice correctly de
cided, "If God Almighty DEGREES that man
shall bite his own nose off, then he UiU bite it
| "ofl' Aud it is very clear that the SOuthrons
cannot now control the negro vote as they
would if they had anticipated Lincolns second
Proclamation of Freedom, nor even as they
might ii they had frankly accepted the situa-
ton upon Lees surrender. They cannot safely
count. rs The World would have them, on the
negroes temporary inability to read; !" for, in
this age intelligence is sped on the wings of the
lightning. The negroes that have been muir
dercd and the negro schoOl-h0uSes that have
been burned-not by Republicans-will bother
them. The foolishly tyrannical laws they have
enacted since Lees surrender touching Negro
Testimony. Negro Labor, Negro Landowning,
Negro Arms-bearing Sc, will all rise up in
Judgment against them. But the better class of
old planters are still regarded with kindly con-
fdence and affection by thousands of their ex-
slaves, and can exert great influence over
them if it be not neutralized by incorigibles OF
| the school of the MonrOes and POllards, with
the donkeys who will want to run White
Mans tickets as at Georgetown, rs if on pur-
pose to rcpel every negro vote. The political
| power of 1.-THE South y is not diminished-it is
largely increased-by the new order of things I;
but whether the old rulers of "the South y
shall or shall not hereafter WELD that power
is a question Of peculiar INTEREST t9 themselves
Il they have finally resolved that the Blacks
shall nerer vote with nor for them, they will
probably now achieve that end, if no other.