Nashville union and dispatch. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1866-1868, 1867-08-15

ANoTHEE HAST FRON TsIE NEW
YORK HERALD.
We pablished yesterday two articles
from the Herald which serve 70 show the
bone Of opinion which the recent election
in Tennessee, and tie military admins
ration of the reconstruction measures IN
rhe South has served to excite in the
Northern States. The Herald is a news
paper full OF vices as all agree, bat it is
live ORGAN, and the secretof its success is
due 10 the sagaeity with which it dis
Germs and the frankness with which it
gives uiterance to popular sentiment
Fer two years past it has been Radical,
and has Contributed powerful influence
70 sustain that party It's MANAGERS have
discovered however, that negro rule as
tae thing. Is now fatty presented, viii
not, perhaps, be borne and, if it is, viii
bear terrible fruits HiHe iHe OIjHr~
gationes The issue Of the 18th thus dis
coursea
sHas not this experiment Of negro en-
franchisement and white disfranchisement
gone quite far enough, and is there no ma
ferial danger to the United States in per-
hitting ten States to be rolled by an ignOr-
ant race, aided by few nnprincipled white
men? This question must not be regarded
In the light of present political necessity.
We must look 70 the future, ana reflect
whether good can come from our present
policv. 10 the State Of Louisiana there
are in round numbers one hundred thous-
and white men above the age Of twenty
wears. OF this number not forty-three
thousand have been permitted to register.
On the other hand, the male negroes Of the
came age. who number barely ninety-six
thousand. have registered fully eighty
thousand votes. These figures are appall-
ing. although they can be easily explained.
No white man was permitted to register
who held the petty office OF parish consta-
bic, city policeman, notary public Ia pure
" business ofice), or village alderman.
And while this vigorous system was pur-
sued towards the whites, untutOred negroes,
and even colored minors, it has been as
serted, we're permitted to register without
question. The result, then, of the recon-
struction law, in one Of the richest States
of the Union, will be the Inauguration of a
Stale government filed with negro officials,
| and counterpart presentments of Parson
Browniow and the Radical Hunnicutt.
! Nay, more: we learn that negro members
of the New Orleans city government have
been demanded by the Republican leaders
and already appointed by Gen. Sheridan.
| We TINS perceive The natural result Of a
policy of repression on the part of the
| government.
What has been said of Louisiana must
be applied 10 all Of the Southern States,
excepting, perhaps, Mississippi and Arkan-
sas. where the law has been literally con-
strued by General Ord. The sum total,
however, will be the same. Now, the ques-
ton, is, whether the whites of the ex-Rebel
States will consent to be ruled BY negroes,
and whether the North will compel such
| consent. In the first instance ii would be
we'll to reflect that no case can be cited
/ where superior race ever submitted TO the
rule Of an inferior one. But placing aside
this point, which is, after all, but cues
ton Of opinion, so far as it relates to supe-
riority and inferiority, LET us take the ques-
! ton in another sense. The relative posi-
sion Of the whites and negroes in the South
is and will be that of taxpayer and voter
| This is the whole point in a nutshell. Will
the ruling negro be provident of the money
that he has not to supply, or will he, conf
dent in his numerical superiority, vote just
such taxes as his fancy or caprice shall
dictate2 This is a point that cannot be
overlooked. We very much fear that a
most unhappy state of affairs will be the log
fcal consequence of negro domination. Will
the whites-the landowners, taxpayers and
sole dependence Of the States for their
material rosperity-quietly submit to the
rule Of an ignorant and poverty stricken
majority, beaded By men whose desire for
ofipe Ia prompted solely by their impecu-
niosity2 If regarded purely as a political
move, We still perceive danger ia this plsc-
ing OF white men under the heels Of negroes
Look at the policy through any light. and
evils ever appear. The aggressive spirit
Of the blacks, and the implacable hostility
of the Southern whites towards them as po-
litical equals, are most potent arguments
against persistence in course which must
inevitably lead to a collision between the
two races of a most dangerous character.
We do not believe that the people Of
the North are ready or willing to subscribe
to negro rule. The day when they will
welcome Fred. Douglass as Vice President
of the United States, and John NJ. Langs-
ton as a Senator from Virginia, has not
yet come, nor is it likely to come for a
long number Of years. The negro must
therefore, be made TO understand that al
though he will never again be reduced to
slavery, he must be content with his person
al freedom and not aspire to that political
and social equality which cannot fail IN
the end to bring him more blows than
| honors.