The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-08-29

suree was the downfall Of aristocracy You win not
need to b. reminded OF the utter dssruction Of that
Southern arstocracy which controlled the govern
men, tllsd the oces and misspresentsd the people or
Of he Enss sssoe.sy es !. n -sI sas
o oppo. OF IL. ''ds dssS
not insist apon its amendments to the Commons
bill. The peers Ns iorcsd 70 vote against their
speeches In America have seen the Legislatures Of
slaveholders voting fof abolition and in England
chamber O. srstoorats has passed democratic bill II
cracy has fallen. In America the arisocatc destruction
y nscsssity and in England IL became necessity
also the result is the same though the processes were
Another and still striking result Of the twin sgta
s % Oh ss ~ s
south have enabled you TO form estimate OF the
.um6er Of negroes added to the voting population by
by which We can tell, As yet. how many new
voters the Reform bill will The bill does not go
prior 70 that date win be conducted under the present
system. But enough 10 known verify the fact that
the new voters in England will swamp the old constitu
encies just as the negro voters in the Southern States
can swamp the white constituencies II they all the
same way This state OF affairs puzzles the politicians
that oil the voters share their opinions The
: r. conservatism i the lower classes Of
same principle that many Of the democratic leaders in
America hope and expect that ultimately the emanci
and % revive the defuuct democratic party State cleo
tons, like that in tennessee, furnish some basis for q
calculation regards the negro voters but until 1860
sides. Ultimately, OF course both parties will gain by
the addition To tho franchise for votes like water
they nd their level But this must necessarily DO pre-
coded by reconstructon Of parties and here you ind
another point of similarity in the results OF eancipa
democratic party has died in the United states New
parties built upon new platforms and dealing with new
issues, are inevitable IN both countries.
The Reform bill gives the right TO to every house.
holder Who pays his taxes, even though his rent
amounts only to twenty 1--WE cents week and his
to cents year. and also to odger who
pays fifty dollars year for his apartments II is hardly
possible that negro voter in the South will less
rent or less taxes than these aud the one years rcs
dence. which Is the only other qualification OF the
English voters, would not exclude negroes from our
polls Az matter Of fact, this Reform bill practically
which desire to call attention by this comparison is.
that England has gone far, by admitting unooInted
admitting thousands of negroes and that on the whole,
s probable that the United states will have the best OF
the bargain in their new voters Tho lower classes OF
Englishmen have often been called "whte slaves
Certainly they are not much above the former condition
OF emancpated Southern slaves in any respect.
Putting preudces Of color aside the negroes quite
equal to the lower class OF Engshmen in morality SUI
peror them in quckness OF perception and the desire
to learn and by no means TO be compared to them in
brutality If many negroes lived In immortality without
marriage while they slaves do many lower class
Englishmen. Negroes have been deprived Of education
generally been willing learn aud to have their chill.
dren learn when they had opportunity, while 1t is
ton in England must be compulsory or it will fail 10
affect the lower orders who had rather have their chill
dren's wages than have them educated
In letter like this written for columns always over
crowded with there is space only for SUGGESTIONS
but the facts to support the hints here thrown
be found IN the police columns OF any English paper
Mr. Lowe said most true though bitter sentence when
he advised Parliament aeac future masters their
letters The new voters are to be the masters OF Eng
lind fha ratnr fnffl do NJ tha
But although a similar amount OF ignorance exists
among the negro voters OF the South education has
already begun there; schools established; men,
women and children are being taught. fhls IS an i'm
ADVANTAGE. Then again, the religious training Of
tne new noeio ,rotets Is equa IL not super OF 10
that of the English voters There Is Obi and fetish
worship in the south. but there IS equal amount
of bel OF in witchcrat in ENGLAND BIT the
naturally religious aud love religion and tho church
emonials while the lower classes of Englishmen gener
ally do not and in journeys through Great Britain,
1 have yet TO church built and minister sup
ported entirely by lower class Engiishmen, like tho
negro church with its VIII parson that the slaves
the plantations around Richmond formerly maintained
at Manchester Of their little say ngs. Even the
form agitation has developed such orators from tho
working classes have ALREADY from the negro
classes II is to push this comparison too but
still think that the that in dealing with the
problem OF pcsro voters tho United States take
greater risks than England expect in dealing with
her reform problem The situations in both countries
almost identical.
In the HERALD you have already alluded to the re.
semblapces between Lincoln and Disrsel under whose
auspices the crandest OF century have
boon passed. We have Reform League here, you
have Loyal League in the United States that has
tributed much to the agitation and Ia trying to
npulate tho voters Earl Derby and his Clique havo
merely played in England the parts that the war
democrats played Ia America. In both countries the
majority OF the new voters presumably radical and
viii probably continue until parties formed.
Neither the negroes the lower classes here
poet to be immediately represented in Congress in
Parliament by member. Of theii Own order, although
many people clamoring here for laboring
men In the House OF Commons just as poor Wendell
Phillips clanors for negro Congressmeo but shrewder
men discounenance this idea for tho present Ulti-
mately 1t must come TO that however; and we might
well make up miads the inevitable Mr. Love has
hit upon the Of safety his educational scheme,
and with that all dangers from the and swapping
In the South and in England indeed
be obsatcd England has at last been convinced that
mans poverty ought not to exclude him from in
the government Of the country and the Uni cd States
have learned the lesson in regard to color.
When IL Ii also admitted that an educated negro Is
equal TO an ignorant white man, and that poor man
with brains is superior to an arisocra'Ic or wealthy
numskuil, then all the difficulties OF representative
government will be solved and We may anticipate the