The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1867-12-04

negroes will perform it for Us. Ger
tainly we ought not to ask their as
slstance until We despair az our own
competency. The great difference be-
tween these two PAGES IL physical.
mental and mora. characteristics, will
prevent an anna z nation or fusion o.
them together IN one homogeneous
mass. If the inferior obtains ascend
ancy over the other, it will govern
With reference only to its own inter-
ests, for it Will recognize no common
interests, and create such a tyranny
as this continent has never yet
witnessed. Already negroes are
Influenced by promises of cOnfscation
and plumber They are taught to re-
gard as an enemy every white man
who has any respect for the rights of
his own race. IF this continues, it
must become worse and worse, until
all order will be subverted, all indus
try cease, and the fertile fields of the
South grow up into a wilderness. OF
all the dangers which our nation has
yet encountered, none are equal to
those which must result from the sue
cess OF the effort now making to At
ricanize half our country I would
not put considerations of money in
competition with justice and right,
but the expenses incident to Recon
struction. under the system ado pied
by Congress, aggravate what | re gard
as the intrinsic wrong of the measure
itself. 1t has cost uncountAd mill
lions already, aud if persisted
in, will add largely to the
weight of taxation, already too OPP
pressive to be borne without Just com
plant, and may finally reduce the
Treasury of the nation to a condition
of bankruptcy. We must not delude
ourselves. It will require a strong
standing army, and probably more
than two hundred millions of dollars
per annum, to maintain the suprema-
cy of the negro governments after they
are esta blished This sum. thus
thrown away, would, if properly used,
form a sinking fund large enough to
pay the whole National Debt Ia less
than fifteen years. 1t is vain to hope
that negroes will maintain their as
tendency themselves, without militia
ry power. They are wholly incapa-
Bile of holding In subsection the white
people of the South. | submit to the
judgment of Congress, whether. the
public credit may not be injuriously
affected by a system of measures like
this. With our debt and the vast pri-
vate interests which are complicated
with it, we cannot be too cautious
of a policy which might by possibility
impair the confidence of the world in
our Government. That confidence can
only be retained by carefully inculca-
ting the principles of justice and hon
or on the popular mind, and by the
most scrupulous fidelity to all our en-
gagements of every sort. Any serious
breach of the organic law, persisted
in for considerable time, cannot but
create fears for. the ability Of our
institutions Habitual violation Of
the prescribed rules which we bind
ourselves 70. observe. must demoralize
the people. Our only sta ndard Of
civil duty being set at naught, the
sheet anchor OF our political morality
is lost, the public conscience swings
from its moorings and yields to every
impulse, passion and interest. IF we
repu late the Constitution We Will not
be expected to care much for mere
pecuniary obligations -
The violation of such a pledge as
we made on the 22d OF July, 1861,
~ilI assuredIy diminish the market
value of our other promises. Be-
sides, if we now acknowledge that the
National debt was created, not to
hold the States in the Union, as the
tax payers were led to Suppose. but
to expel them from it, and hand them
over to be governed by negroes, the
mora duty to pay it may seem much
less clear.l 1say. it may seem so, for
l do not admit that this or any other
in favor of reputation can
be entertained as sound, but its infu-
ence Oh some classes of minds may be
we'll apprehended The financial
honor of a great commercial nation,
largely ind ebfed, and with Republi-
can form Of Government, administer
ed by agents of the popular choice, is
a thing Of such delicate texture, and
the destruction of it would be fol-
lowed by such unspsakable calamity,
that every true patriot must desire to
avoid whatever might expose it to the
slightest danger. The great interests
of the country require Immediate
relief from these enactments. Bust
ness in the South is paral-
yzed by the sense Of general
insecurity, by the terror of con
fscation, and the dread of negro .su-
premacy. Southern trade. from
which the North would have derived
so great q profs under a Government
of law, still languishes, and can never
be revived until it ceases to be fetter-
ed by arbitrary power, which makes
all its operations unsafe. That rich
country, the richest in natural re-