Wilmington journal., 1867-11-22
From the New York Herald
The Negro Conventions in the South
Their Effects ON the North.

"A
struction of the United States by the negro.
| Other States are to follow until, under a
glorious negro rule, the ten Southern di
visions of our republic are bound and given
over to Africa to be governed according to
the Haytien style. The principles Of the
Conventions which frame these negro gov
ernments are shaped by the most unprln-
cipled of all our demagogues. Without a
dollar of interestin the country they stir the
pliable black man to passion against the
white, and while moulding the mass to
suit Radical aims, SOW the seeds OF an una
voidable war of caste. They do not fall to
promise the negro all that his barbarous
! Imagination may desire-freedOm from
labor, division of property, and even the
government of the country. Thus, for
transient political purposes they force the
whole sun-burned brain OF Ethiopia to the
same focus, and teach it to expect what 1T
can never realize while there is n Southern
or Northern sword left to defend Cauca-
sian blood-blood originally purer than
that of Africa, and purified still more by
long centuries of arduous labor towards the
summit Of civilization blood progressive,
in contradistinction to blood retrogade and
naturally barbaric in its impulses.
In the face Of all this We see power cen
tralizing in the South in the hands of that
element which, according to all history, is
a threat against any civilization with which
it comes in contact. The platform of the
Radical Republican party of Louisiana is q
fair exponent OF what threatens us in all
the Southern States by raising up power
ten times more destructive and nationally
t,emoralzing than any that has heretofore
existed. That platform states eve, as a
party, insist on perfect equality, without
distinction Of race OF color, in the right to
vote and enter the jury box without any
educational or property qualification being
required" Again ''The Radical Repub-
lcan party Of Louisiana will support no
man for Office who will not openly and
boldly pledge himself to make an equal
distribution among white and cOlOred alike
of all Offices to which he may have power
Of appointments"
These are the mad principles which, at a
terrible cost, we urge upon one-haf OF our
territorial extent, thus threatening its COM
plete desOlation. Were it the destruction
of only one-half OF the country, We might,
IN our wonderful stamina, live under it !;
but the radical programme means more
, than this-it means the draining Of every
energy of the North to support the one
grand black idea, and, at any cost, forcing
, the negro down the throat OF the nation
We struggle under it, we bleed, we expend
our millions, we tax our people to the last
feathers weight, we fairly writhe beneath
the terrible effort to swallow dose that
would choke a mammoth anaconda. We
cannot do it, and we cast it aside as some
thing that would give the coup de gr0ce to
all the cherished hopes of q people who are
struggling for civilization, not barbarism.
, We are taxed to-day one thousand millions
per year to support the radical idea that
Africa has higher civilization than Eu-
tpoti ic fn1s hA 11OI-
ted States, at any sacrifice, to approximate
itself to the African standard.
The radicals. determined to give all the
strength possible to the negro card, train
every element in the North to its support
and while in the South they tear down all
barriers which distinguish races, while they
: abolish every aristocratic privilege, while
. they inaugurate there a Utopian agrarian-
ism, they give Us Il singular contradiction
of principles in the North. Here they
strive to build up great moneyed monopo-
) lies, a dictatorial banking system. a cen.
; traliZatiOn of party power, an enriching of
the rich and an impoverishing Of the poor.
Thus it becomes difficult to discover that
3 there is any great underlying principle in
, radicahsm, unless it be the sole idea to re-
tain at all hazards the power into which
the revolutionary throes of the country
forced them.
The North is beginning to dive into this
problem and is rapidly discovering it's in
consistencies. There is q deep and settled
resolution taking possession of the masses
that they will no longer support aristocrat-
ic privileges in the North or negro eleva-
ton and barbarism in the South. Bled to
the last drop of blood and treasure, the
people begin to ask, "What is this money
used for % and, look where they WILL they
see the question answered-To prop up a
quarter section Of Africa, until we see if,
centuries hence, it will be able to march
onward unguided. God never made one
race to support another. For this we made
war in favor Of the black men. As smatters
now progress under radical rule, we fast ad-
vance to a war to relieve the white from
supporting the black.
The future aspirants for the Presidency
~must learn the truths which we here enun
ciate. If General Grant accepts the radi-
cal nomination upon such platform as
the radicals now tread he will be defeated,
despite his national popularity and his mas
terly reticence. General Scott was de-
teated where there were similar but minor
principles involved, and President Pierce,
with all his imbecility, then stepped into
power.
In the South we see all the preliminary
movements for desolating war of caste if
| tllo present programme DG carried OUT
The negroes have numerous leagues and
are providing themselves with arms, which
are given to them by the radicals. The
white people, despairing of returning again
to prosperity, and seeing their every eff
fort met by crushing blow from Congress
now give the country over to negro rule
and emlgrate elsewhere. Domestic capital
threatened and Northern and foreign capt.
tai frightened away State and municipal
privileges completely under military domi-
nation, which is destructive to every ele-
meht Of our boasted republicanism the
| credit of the States destroyed; and one half
of the country desolated at the expense of
the other half-are all mournful indica-
tions of approaching barbaric government.
The effect on the North is already indica-
ted by the late elections. The negro wave
must now ebb. It has had it's greatest
flow. The radicals may still float on the
receding black tide; but the white people
of the United States, as mass, have too
much sense left to place their future civili-
zation and government under negro domi-
nation.