New-York tribune., 1867-05-28
THE SOUTH IN 1867.

The population of the fifteen former Slave
States was a little over Twelve Millions in 1850,
and is nearly the same to-day. The heavy waste
of War has been made up in part by immlgra-
ton and in part by natural increase Several
States NAV have even fewer inhabitants than
in 1862 but Texas has many more, and we
think there has been a gain also in Tennessee,
whose two principal citics-Memphis and Nash
ville-have grown very considerably. Assim-
ing the present population OF those States
(including Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia,
Maryland, and Dclawarc) at Twelve Millions,
we estimate that it may he divided politically
as follows:
White Unonists who mover faercd. ..... 100000
Black ditto
Original Unionists who became Rebels 2OOoWo
Original secessionists now loyal..........3 30O,CO
Implacablo Rebels. cls.........................2N 2NoWV
This last class is more noisy than numerous,
and even more venomous than noisy III de-
rives power and consequence from Its partial
Identification with the Five Millions who have
been Rebels but are Rebels no longer Every
act done, every sentence uttered at the North,
which confounds those who have been with
those who still are Rebels, is grist to the mill
of those who are at heart as much Rebels to-
day as they ever were, and who are tuliy
determined never to he anything but Rebels.
This body of malignants arc as ready to-day
TO burn negro school houses, insult the female
tcachers therein. and assault negro camp-mcet-
ines as they ever were. They are the insti-
rators of New Orleans massacres and Mobile
riots. The country can have no solid peace
till they are suppressed or driven out. They
Ifts paol
what means; but they may be isolated, ana so
exposed To discipline or reduced to insgnIll-
cancc Whoever and whatever tends TO con-
found these with the far greater number OF cX-
Rebels wrongs the latter while strengthen
ing the former.
The Five Millions of ex-Rebcls make far less
noise than the Two Millions who are at heart
Rebels to-day. They are hard at work, trying
to earn bread for their families, restoring their
burned buildings, aud doing their utmost to ciiace
the hool-marks of ravage and contagration. we
seldom hear from them, save in the statistics OF
the crops annually grown, or of houses and stores
rebuilt. Still, they are part of the American
Pcoplc; and il is not wise nor well TO cOnfound
them with the Pollards and Semmcses, who aspire
10 speak for the South. They may have been
comrades four years back they arc quite other
wise now.
The true mon of the South-those who have
ranounccd ns well IA those who never har-
bored the idea of dismcmbcring and humbling
the Union-nccd TO be assured that their rep
rcscntativcs will bc welcomed 10 seats in Con
cress and their States restored to sclf-goven-
mcnt whenever they shall in good faith have
fulfilled the conditions prescribed in the Mill
tary Reconstruction bill TO this end, We
again urge that Thirty to forty OF the ablest
and wiscst Republicans in Congress be sent
down to explain the views and set forth the
kindly feelings of the great mass Of the North
ern people. The result cannot fail to be be-
neiiCent.