New-York tribune., 1867-09-30
TBlT UJyDERs RECoNSTRUCTION'

earnestly desire an early and complete adjust
ment of all remaining difficulties connected
with or growing out Of our late Civil War.
The interests of Business and Industry imper-
atiyely demand it, Property and Enterprise
unouestionably need it, There are millions OF
acres of Southern lands held in tracts OF 5OO TO
80. 900 acres by men who are hunted by sherlls
and pinched for bread, yet who could pay
every dime they owe if our troubles were
settled so that immigration and Capital would
he attracted to their section and their lands be
salable at something near their actual value
The South, badly shattered and scathed, is still
rich in natural resources, and could soon pay
all she owes and become thrifty if our country
were really at peace while her paying would
diffuse activity and thrift throughout the North
Every thing good waits for a real, essential
closing up of our great struggle Nhat hlhdcls
that benefcent cOnsummatlon ?
The Herald is the special organ of Johnson
(for whose impeachment it fiercely clamored
through the year which closed with last July)
and Johnsonized Democracy. 1t has beyy OF
correspondents traversing the South to report
whatever can be twisted into the service OF
Johnsonsm. Here is sample extract from the
report of its Mississippi correspondent, dated
Vicksburg, Sept. 81:
"Until quite recently. it seemed to be Acknowledged
that tho Convention party must succeed and that the
only ground for Southern men TO take was that OF
masterly inactivity hoping in this way to avoid the
of consenng to the yoke of Negro Suffrage
and leaving an open door for them TO turn against IT,
and IL possible, abolish IL, when the state shall havo
been restored the Union But since the returns from
the elections in Maine and in California have come ill.,
very different feeling and policy have obtained.
'The hope of reaction the North, and OF Democratic
ascendaney has awakened the hope Of defeating the
Convention, and, from supneness and inactivity, tho
Southern leaders have launched ont with equal sudden
and unanimy. upon earnest campaign to secure
their great object The singular feature OF this reaction
is this that the party that has all along been nreghHg
bitterly against ne military rie IS NOR Torkng most edr
ncsty and he1ryCor Us continuance for years simply n
an escape from the odous domination OF the negro
To-day a general meeting convention Is held In
Jackson 10 commence the organization of the White
Mans party and warm work may be expected IN Nsss
sippi for some time The White party work at
great disadvantage from their atcness OF organization
and sudden and complete change of policy.
1.-THE methods adopted by these two great parties are
in striking contrast The one quiet secret burrowlng IN
the Leagueroom at night and plcdgng their parisans
10 cooperation with instructions which few will disfc-
gard The other bold. outspokcn. vehement and pngna-
cous in words and lu1urating IN offensive epthets.
This is very bad policy, TO say nothing Of bad taste
The Tioksbrg Herald delights TO call tho Republican
Convention THE BabOon Convention The Tines calls
1t The Black and Tan Convention, and others fol
low I'm the same style Of graceful description But how
ever appropriate and descriptive may be the name The
BabOon Convention. and of gorillas as members OF H.
IL IL quite certain that baboon would do 30 foolish
thing as insult and worry the power that may very
soon control the affairs In Mississippi and constitute
anew the state But common has never bad much
Thg iurl IL Ter
10 this sort OF talk and uwary hut dccisvey resolve
that they will never TO place In power the men
who thus beray their hatred and contempt OF the Black
people and thus the Greeang Whites are nnconscionsy
cooperating with the Yankees In consolidating ana uniy
Ing the sixty thousand Negro votes OF Mississippi ana
rendering almost certain the calling OF the Convention
the election OF Radical members 10 IT. the adoption Of
Radical constitution. and the election Of Radical per
haps negro representatives. Congress Ihee1ctemen
OF the canvass already wakes warm, and threatens
great heat
Here YOU see exactly why and how the
! Southern States are to be kept out of their
proper place in the Union for years longer if
the White Mans party have power to
achieve that result. They have been groaning
over Military despotism," "thc Five Sata-
! pies" &C., for MONTHS but they are doing
their best to keep their States for years longer
under Military rule, in the hope that their
Northern friends may meantime achieve power
and then help them to trample the Blacks
under foot They complain that the Blacks are
banded against them, when their organs are
daily calling those Blacks "baboons" and go
"rillas,' and openly proclaiming their purpose
to remand them into serfdom whenever they
can. Is it any wonder that the Blacks are Re-
publicansf I Who can blame them2
Mississippi has some 100000 inhabitants
whereof nearly 100000 are Black. The HerdidS
reporter says there are 10000 more Black than
White men in the State. Every one of those
Blacks will vote tomorrow to enfranchisc every
White, however bitter pro-Slavery Rebel he
has been, prorded the Whites will agree that
there shall bc no dsfranchsement of either
race evermore. But Democratic gains at the
North are stimulating the Whites-Rebcls
though they were, and some of them still dis
franchsed therefor-tO band together for the
single absorbing purpose of DISTINGUISHING the
Blacks evennorc. Democracy at the North
means the restoration Of the late Rebels TO
uncontested power at the South, in order that
they two Qf you can call them two) NAV com
bnc to rule the country as of old And il is
this conspiracy that now stops the car of Re-
construction and compels the maintenance of
Military rule at the South. The country ought
to be rid of the cost and trouble of it forth
with; but Democrats and Rebels conspirc TO
perpetuate it, in the hope of thus furtherinc
their mutual ends. Will the country permit
them thus to triumph?
The meeting of the merchants of San Fran
cisco lately held to consider the navigation of
the Colorado River was of great importance