The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-08-07
A Batch Of Blacks in Congress.
and what then =? -


I The New York Horald is ever
/ prepared to veer round with the
current and its many;changes OF
course during the last few months
( prove its anxiety not to miss. the
occasion for increasing il reputa.
( tion for enterprise sagavlty and
| inconsistency, More than once it
7 has limited that the North would
! be fretful and snappish If If the doc
/ trine Of negro equality were push;
d edtoe far, and in an editorial pub;
4 lished> ON Frinay last,8it makes
the4issue fairly and then squarely
I meets,it.,~r : = ~. . - 3:s9r : -
! The Herald alludes to Mr.. Sum
ners' admonitien that within
! twelve months there WOULD be in
the United States Senate a sprink-
ling Of colored Southern Senators.
and says it viii not be surprised
if the outside States, send ten or
twenty such to the halls of Con:
gress. Tn these estimates that
4 there VIII be in the South five
! hundrcd> thousand black voters
/ against six hundred and fifty thou.
E! sand white voters land. that,-=al.
I lowing for the disfranchised,z2 elas,
SEES the indifference .or4diseast;i on
/ those whites who are not dish'an:
! chised and the>fraetions of the
whites which viii go with the
b1acE from the Potomac to the
Rio. Grande, the Republicans, with
their: black vote and white sup
port, will hold the game in. their
own hands; :The Herald contin-
ues. as follows - y~.:..,..' shs- - -
" So; from the facts and fl cures
before US, The. actual situation of
things; warrants; the con clusion
that the Repubiean party will
carry nearly adj, If nots salr these
ten outside reveiutionized South:
ern States; in. their work ofsrecon-
:struetion: or is 1T likely that
the blacks, constituting in all
/ these States The bulk and strength
/ ofthe party will consent to DO al
the work without any Of its re-
wards: They have only tosdemand
share ofsthe honourssand offices
kto get&them. Hence. we may
confidently expect, and < during
| the present Congress, that sprink=
ling Of members of. African descent
ii. both Houses suggested by Sen:
ator Sumner. ~ ~ s1.,I .<.,s-:>. -;
| : We are called then, to: inquire
what will be. the moral effect in
the political world of this start
ling innovation upon the: :soh @or-
der Of things 2 We may be sure
that negro equality, ,proelaiming
itself through negro sFoiees from
both Houses Of Congress viii
I make a profound impression upon
the public mind, throughout the
North. We dpprehend thatMe RE-
~sadt nil be d general reaction against
| fhe Republican party IN tie North
err States ): for we know that there
is stron ger wall.of: white -Freju-
dice against the negro: in. the
North than exists in the South.
This prejudice elected Buchanan
in 1856, and would have elected
Douglas or Breckinridge IN 1869,
had the Charleston Convention
consented to- unite npon~either.
We may expect, then, w hen the
blacks assume the political bal
rance ofpower Of ten reconstrue-
ted Southern States, and send up
their black representatiEesto to Con-
gress, that there erH{ be a reuolu-
fionary reaction against them among
the Vhites Of the North eohich e1iN
upset the Republican party. This
may be the real object Of those
leading Southern white politicians
who are urging their people to
the experiment Of allowing the
Radicals and the blacks all the
rope they may desire in this, busi-
mess of Southern reconstruction.
Let US push this thing of negro
equality, say these Southern lea
ders, into Congress, and then the
laboring white masses Of the
North against this Southern ne
gro political balance Of power will
take the alarm, and a Northern
reaction Of the whites against the
blacks Will be the inevitable re-
suit and thus the Republican ne
gro party will be destroyed by its
own weapons.
This will, in all probability, Re
the solution Of the experiment of
the political organization of the
blacks against the whites. in the
South-a reaction Of the ghltes
aqninst the blacks and the Repu6i-
can party in the North. Meantime,
however, we suspect that the
spontaneous and powerful popu-
lar movements North and South
in behalf Of General Grant for the
succession will carry everything
before them but with the settle
lnent of this question there will
unqucstionably come a decisive
Nor+lo,,, ,.o,-nl,t;on On this Othe1.