The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1867-03-07
From the New York worldl
What will the South Do2

II
talion: If il is ever to Tatify the pend-1
ling constitutional anendment as a con-
dition Of restoration, there are manifest
advantages in not postponiug til an-
other year what they may be brought
10 do at last. ;.s5. ,;y,.ss.ss /
f. Whatever may be the ultimate basis
!on which this great controversy is, set i
lied there must be advantages in the
early adoption of thai basis. The Grip ;
pied business interests Of tue South are
to be lifted out of the stagnation caused
by the existing. uncertainty. To post
pore reconstructiens under Sherman's
bill for the sake ofrestora ion Under the
simple uuamended Constitution, would
be wise and reasonable delay but to
postpone reconstrIciien on the new plan,
10 adopt the samo or some simil*f plan
three or five years hence. would be
short-sighted, passionate folly. Every
year OF military government puts back
The recupetation of the Sopth,;' and,
(what IS -worse) aecusloms The federal
government and the Northern peopIeio
The dangerous practice of domination.
The lossesAand dangers, thus. eu;ailed
may be reasonably accepted in the per-.
/ ;,istent pdtsuit- Of compensating ends;
but not .graruirously-not as a halting
place at. which the South only loses
Ftlme, property, and quiet, 10 enter al
las, on the ssme repddiated path. AS
between the Sherman bin, pure and
simple, and the sherman bill plus sew.
eral years of additional Distraction,
reasonable people should not Hesitate,
" the Southern people are ever to
re crganize, under the Sherman bill,
they should do so this wear, and there
by gain he advantage of participating
in. the Presidential election. lfihey
form new Stale constiIhlonsdnring The
summer and autumn, and present them
TO Congress for acceptance al neXtw win
lers session, their sixty or rseveuty votes
may determine the result; but post.
ponemept tM,next year would shut them
out completely, and might be The meaps
ot, su6jeciing them to four years more
Of radical tyranny. If they shnuld're-
organize next year, their constitutions
could not be submitted 10 Congress for
approval until after the Presidential
election is past. The South has n far
deeper stake than any of US at the
North in rescuing the government from
radical control, and their votes would,
In all probability, turn The scale. ..
/ As-to negro. suffrage, which we sup>
pose to be the most odious feature cf
the new scheme, the same mode Of rea
souing is applicable. If negro suffrage
can be permanently prevented, there is
sense in fighring it. But if the South
is 10 concede it at last, it would lie btt.
ter TO accept it at once. Whatever
may he The ultimate decision, it seems
tolerably certain that, during the pro-
visional period, while the South is held
under martial law, there win he negro
suffrage any wav., In every Stale, lex.
cept South Carolina, The whites out.
l number the blacks and, If they are
united, they can elect all the officers.
1t is the purpose Of the-radicals to Gre
ate a schism in The white vote, and, by
reinforcing their own part Of It with
the negroes, 10 control the elections. II
the Southern, people promptly accept
The situation, they can fiils:rate. this
design. II is bel ,erio welcome the ne.
gro vote and control IL. than, by.inef
fectual resistance, 10 sour and exaspers
ate the negro mind, and thus surrender
II, as a Pohtiol tool, into the hands Of
the radicals, The interest of, the negroes
is the interest Of their section; and they
can easily be made to perceive il. !,
Mere Perseverance without unity viii
tproft nothing. If the Southern people
split en- this question, the dissenting mi,
nofiiy will anite with the negroes, and
with them. soon become a majority, re-
organize The State, and gre, admitted to
Congress. Whether this can be per,
= manently prevented we are no judges
and our .SoG theru fe low citizens are
1t all depends upon whether The whole
Southerp people are sound to the core
and infiexibly fesolu,e. II enough o
them finally Yield 10 make with the ne
groes majority, all the intermediate
r opposition will be loss Of time, fern,
) per, ,quie, ard material prosperity, with
!, ont any compensating advantage They
! ought either TO stand firm and stant
together, or, else take time by the fore
lock and make the best Of what tcanno
: be helped. n they are going to bldste
now and yield by and by, they will draw
upon themselves the evils of both line
: y of policy, and secure the advantages o
,, neither. ..1E"-..:.. -
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