Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1865-1872, 1867-11-08
RECONSTRUCTION.

right along in the Southern States thai
seeded, and will no doubt result In bring
ing about much better condition OF af
fairs in all Of those States. Although II il
bitter pill Cor disfranchlsed rebels Il
swallow, they will fnd il tho bes, policy
TO submit to tho dose. AS an indication
Of the spirit which aciuates this class Of
Southerhers, in the old State Of Virginia
since The vote was taken aud the people
have decided IN favor Of the CoDgressioua
plan by agreeing to call a Convention &c
reconstruct their State Government, let Us
quote some Of their rawlings as given by
the Gazette;
They use the most warlike phrases "a
describe the conflict which is already de-
clared, sucl as this, which we quote from
the Richmond Wing, which is moderate:
"Now that the negroes have drawn a
blood line between themselves and the
whites, and have manifested fierce and
stubborn determination 10 establish then
supremacy at the hazard ofruiu to all ouI
interests, it becomes US TO cast about for
means Of self-protoction. y y y
mo matter where the whites shall come
from, or what may be their antecedcnts,
they will make common cause with us; for
il is against their skin. color aud Kindred
that this crusade has been set afoot"
And this from the Charlottesville Chron
icle:
The ELECTION Of Tuesday settled the
fact that tie whiterac and the negro race
in Virginia are enemies. The negroes
have voted almost TO u man tho most Radi.
cal tickets
And the New York World, which has
oscilaied from negro suffrage to negro
determination, with the turbulence that
belongs to such instability of mind, us
suming that the elections which have al
ready taken place have shown that the
blacks will carry all the rebel Suites,
declares conflict Of races in political
affairs which will require great national
army to keep down, and with this cou
summation:
"But the North will refuse TO support
such armies, and the FINAL upshot will be
that the federal government, after hav-
ing whetied the appetite for vengeance,
will leave the two races to wreak it on
each other, when the negroes will be
slaughtered with as little compunciion or
remorse as if they we're herds ( wolves"
All is to end in the butchery Of the
blacks. And yet when we come to exam
inc the ground for this bloody Democratic
anticipation, We end that il consists OF
in body in support Of governing
party which has given them liberty aud
the privilege of voting, and that they
have not voted with their old masters who
hold an attitude OF hostility to this gov
erning party and to their liberty, and to
all the results Of the war of rebellion
This is all, and for this the Southern
whites and their Northern Coniederates
presume to proclaim war of determination
and their own papers urge iIs immediate
beginning by turning out Of work every
black who had the audacity TO refuse 10
vote as tie master class dictated; aud
they publish with exul,ation the dis
charge of many black laborers for exercis
ing their right to vote. For instance, the
Lynchburg News states that several per.
sons have discharged their negro work men
for their Radiealism, aud that "this course
will be general on the part of the whites,
and that the Wythe Iron Mills discharged
$50 negroes on Tuesday for voting the
Radical ticket. aud it. remarks: by
Tuesdays work the negroes have set seal
TO their doom"
1t is an old aiage, "They who take the
sword shall perish by the sword " and this
declaration Of war of determination uI-
on the blacks, will DO looked upon ly
candid men as simply the raying Of fana-
tics and madmen, us the result will prove
The Northern people arc not at all disposed
to rally to any such war, aud feeble in
deed will be the response to the wild
cries of such madmen. AS the Gazette
further says: .
The blacks have simply voted for the
National Government, and for their own
protection in the rights of all men. If
they are alone in this, il is the fault Of
those who vote on the other side; and il
they, upon this just course, have carried a
political preponderancy, it docs not seem
iudicious for the minority TO make their
defeat in wrong course a declaration @.
war. They have once tried the experiment
of rebelIing against the voice tt the con-
stitutional majority, and it has worked
badly. II would be wiser for them to ac.
cept the situation. They ARE they who
have dawn blood-line in political par
Ties; it is the bloody line between loyalty
and hostility to the National Government
IL Is incumbent on them to obiiterate it
The abandonment OF the dcIerm' nation
to make reconstruction restoration Of
rebel hostility TO power will do this. Qles-
tions Of governmental policy, which do
not mean hostility 10 the Government.
would abolish this blood-line Of political
parties which disloyalty has made.
The political lcaders Of the South aeie1
the part OF madmen in all the work Of re.
From tia womoGi when
Johnson transferred the power CT The Exc
cutive ofhco TO them, their Submission,
which before vas sufficient, ceased. and |
then they made the restoration of,he reb
Il class 20 rovsr with unsutmissiyc spirit, l