New-York tribune., 1867-07-25
DOLEREL DNMP.9

DOLEFUL DUMPS.
In all ages, all countries, people wha could
not have their own way have agreed in prog
nosticating-possbly, in forebOding-that the
world was going headlong to perdtiOD. So
thought our Revolutionary Tories; so said the
onponents of the Federal Constitution; so
proaned those whom Mr.. Jefferson's election to
the Presidency precptated from pOwer-as
| thousands had proclaimed, under like inn
| mise before them. The obstinate old world
mayer beeds these ravens, but keeps right on in
her own willful way, which happens not TO bo
the way of the croakers. ,-
| How many different series of false prophesies
| the Freedmen Of this country have already
lived down, files of the Democratic journals of
the last four years instructiyely show. That, IL
emancipated, they would incontinently fall to
| emitting the throats of their late masters, and
| of those masters wives and children-that they
would all rush North, and underworld our
White laborers down to starvation wages-that
| they wouldn't work at all, but crowd our aims
houses and prisons in myriads, and have to eever-
moro supported out of the earnings 0t the
Wbites-that they would unanimously LAY
"dOwn the shovel and the hoe and betake
themselves to fiddling and keeping dance
honses-that they would inaugurate civil war
with the Whites, and be extermnated--such
| are a few of the confident Democratic augurles
| of the last three or four years that they have
| already proved mistaken. There Is not to-day
| a White man in the SOuth--save q few who were
| stunned as cruel masters when shareholders and
swindling employers sinco-whO cannot get all
| the Black labor he wants, provided he can
| and will pay for it. We inquired especially on
| this point while in Virginia, and were assured
| by miners, choppers, &C., that they could get
| all the Black labor they wanted-good, hearty
| labor-for 81 per day in greenbacks-the la
| borer being provided with shanty and gar
| den-patch, but otherwise subsisting out OF his
wages. There was no employer in or near
| Richmond who complained of any scarcity Of
| Labor.
The last horror predicted as about to over
whelm the South is not InsuTecton-nOr Mas
sacre-nor Universal Thriftlessness and Famine
| it is nothing more awful than Negro Office
| Holding The Blacks of the South, instead of
killing the Whites, or begging them into bank
ruptcy, are about to choose themselves Gov
ernor, Member of Congress, &c Says The
| World:
are more discouraged and tless than before, aud are
likely surrender the whole business OF reorganization
the hands OF the negroes aud the Radicals The con
sequence will be the organization OF negro Governments
As the constitutional Conventions VIII mainly represent
negroes cqaiiy eligible to every office, well equal
participants In the elective franchise We shall then see
Senators and Representative TO Congress. aud negro
holders of the countless inferior offices necessary for
| carving on the government Of state. Every white
man who has vote to offer at the polls or dcDt 10
| collect or u deed TO record, or complaint TO
/ .L.f Iuafie gnffh he "A y. "A
suit 10 conduct Will be brought into contact win oncia
the whites outnumbcrng the negroes, and heartily dcs
psng their nsolence Will not submit TOT for day after
the military pressure l. removed The col sequence VIII
De bloody conflict ~ the all the south or
recall Of the Federal troops for the preseTN oh o
order But military repression VIII only the hatred
to smolder Ike n closed furnace. ready % blaze out
whenever the pressure II withdrawn. IL easy Ia see
therefore that nsolent and dctested negro governments
supported Nv Federal bayOnets, will bc the chronic con
dton of the South, unless the neges are disfTanehised
their influence oyerbaanccd by giving frcc pay 10 thc
| political activity ~ the whites -
Mr.. Greeley probably see. that n black suni2ge ds
Joined from white ainnesty rpens 10 rs hhtua CONS,
gucnccs. it viii canse powerful reaction against th'
Republican party The ignorance aud incaacity OF ne
groes In ONCE viii produce such universal harvest o
plumbers and niustce 90 disgust the country and
deepen the natural contempt and anpathy FOR
race In the course 81 year or Two every newspaper
would teen every day with accounts Of laundering MS
ducton Of negroes into potcs the scorn and scandal ot
the Such state of things would prove ultimately
disastrous 10 the negro uee ~ II would meanwhl
be detrimental To the peace OF the country
These portents are visible only To those
who manage to comfort themselves by invoking
prospect of misery. Nowhere so far ~ we
have seen, have the Blacks been eager to claim
office, and ninetenhs of all the clamOr for their
selection as candidates has been raised by
Whites. OF course, we presume, they will, in
some instances, be candidates, but only because
they are deemed fit, MT because they are Black
As a rule, they will vote for the most competent
Republicans suggested, regardless of their color
They are not likely to make color qualitca
tion, when they have ~ long suffered unjnstly
because of that absurd discrimination.
As 10 the bloody conflict foretold 10y
The World, il will be sad business for the
insurgents, White or Black. Peace will he
kept. and Law upheld in the South, no matter
at what cost. the "bO0dy conflict of lSSl-j
having surfcted om people for at least "a
generation In short, the Blacks are not
likely TO revolt against the Federal authority
which has served them so well, nor the eN-
Rebel Whites against power which they have
woefully proved mvincible. Croak on, them
ravens but the country will remain peaceful,
orderly and prosperous i'll spite of your pre-
dictisns.
|
Montgomery Blair is stumping Virginia III
behalf of Democracy, and in a late speech ac-