The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-10
a Negro Political Balance Of POwer-Th
Counter Revolution Approaching.

Counter Revolution Approackfng.
From the developments of the registrations
of voters in the five Southern military districts
we see that under the rebel restriction and
negro suffrage conditions of Congress the
blacks, in each and all of the ten Southern
States concerned, hold tho issues Of recon-
struction in their hands. From the results of
the late Tennessee election and other revela-
tons on the subject, it is manifest that these
Southern blacks from Virginia to Texas, led and
managed by Northern radicals, are already.
en- masse. banded together under the flag
of the republican party. From all these facts,
and from the general drift of the reconstruc-
ton movements of the day, it is morally GER
tain that the negroes, with the restoration of
these ten Southern States to Congress, will
hold the political balance Of power therein,
which, before the late rebellion, was held and
exercised by their white masters in the con-
troll of the general government.
In view Of this startling transfer Of our
national balance Of power we are called upon
to pause and consider the probable conse-
quences. After terrible civil war Of four
years, involving the bloody sacrifice of over
half million of able bodied men and putting
upon the country the heavy burden Of three
thousand millions of debt, we were released
from the political domination Of three hundred
thousand Southern shareholders Heavy as
were the costs of this liberation from tyran-
nical and insolent oligarchy, the end achieved
was still regarded with proud exultation as
amply rcwarding US for all our contributions
in men and money. But IL the power welded
in their day by those three hundred thousand
domineering white shareholders Is to DO trans
ferred to their four millions Of ignorant, de-
based aud credulous negro slaves, we may
well inquire what have we gained or where
are 10 be our compensations for all these
stupendous efforts and sacrifices required to
put down the slaveholders' rebellion? Are
we drifting from the "excesses of liberty,
equality aud fraternity" to French reign OF
terror, or to the bloody reprisals of St
Domingo, or to that fusion and confusion Of
races which eliminated in Mexican anarchy
We have been making history at a rapid rate
since 1850. In that year it was thought that we
had comprised an enduring adjustment on
slavery and the negro question in the great
compromise measures Of Henry Clay. But, un-
fortunately, inflated with false notions Of power
from the Presidential election of 1852, poor
Pierce, Marcy, Buchanan Ind other narrow
sighted and flexible democratic leaders Of the
North, bowed to the yoke prepared for them by
JEFF Davis, Mason, Slidcll and other democratic
pro-slsvery potentates Of tho South, in the re-
peal Of the groundwork of Clay's adjustment,
the Missouri compromise Of 1920 Then came
the border ruflsn war In Kansas, the overture
Of the rebellion; then the infamous bred Scott
decision, and next that tremendous Northern
popular reaction which elected Abraham
Lincoln and then the bold revolt Of those
three hundred thousand audacious and despotic
| Southern shareholders, with ell its bloody and
! decisive consequences. That insolent and In
siderable oligarchy was demolished, the debas-
| ing institution OF negro slavery, upon which Its
masters assumed first to rule, and, in the last
resort, TO ruin the country, was swept from
existence, and, with the rebel Lees surrender,
The reign OF &e kingdom Of Bslshazssr passed
away. '<-,S,c. h.
The people Of the loyssfl sssssss, through thelr
servants In Congress, the Executive Depart.
meut, the army and the navy, after many blum
ders aud fearful disasters, finally, with Grant
and his able subordinate generals, shattered the
rebel cohisdetacy into MACS Of ruius, 10 thai
terrific campaign which opened the gates o.
Richmond 70 Abraham Lincoia. Thus thu
rebel States and theif people fell completely
subject 70 The discretion Of the government
which they had 80 oescely rejected, denied, de
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