The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1867-09-29
Progress Of the Negro Revolution In tn
United States.


United states.
When, shortly after Lees surrender and the
collapse of the rebellion, Mr.. Chief Justice
Chase undertook his missionary tour through
the dismantled rebel States, preaching equal
rights and negro suffrage, it was doubtless with
the calculation of the probable value to him
self of the Southern negro element in view of
the Presidential succession. He anticipated
Southern reconstruction on the basis of negro
suffrage, and, perhaps, in season for profit
able use of the Southern negro balance Of
power in the approaching republican Presi-
Dental convention. But while through the
action of Congress a Southern negro balance
Of power has been set up in the place Of the
late imperious slaveholding oligarchy of white
men, it is extremely doubtful whether any one
of the late so called Confederate States except
| ing Tennessee, will be admitted to voice in
| the coming Presidential contest Indeed, there
are reasons to apprehend that those outside
| States may be excluded even from the election
| Of 1872 unless in the interval the Inscriptions
party in power shall be supplanted through
| decisive counter revolution in the North.
The Presidential forces contrived and
set in motion by Mr.. Chase and his
helpers and followers are now developed in
| two tremendous engines or political machines
his financial system in the North, embracing
| his national banks-a gigantic moneyed mo-
| nopoly-and negro supremacy in the South If,
through the power of this financial machinery
| in the North, he can be carried into the White
House in 1868. he will, we may safely assume,
take good care to maintain and employ the
same means for re-election-stil holding the
| North in the clutches Of his national banks,
and. TO make all cafe, still holding the outside
Southern States under their military COM
manders.
From the returns so far Of the Louisiana
election for State convention Of reconstruc-
ton, IL Is probable that the total vote cast
will not be up to the requisition Of Congress,
which is a majority OF the voters registered.
| II this election, In State where the blacks
have a registered majority Of forty thousand
shall fall through by default, may we not look
for similar failures in the other Military Dis
trictsi We know that the Southern whites arr
. disposed either to oppose these reconstruction
elections or TO let them 60 by default; but
the blacks also are Indifferent and lukewarm
when will anything be accomplished From
! all the developments before us, and all tn
signs Of the times not one Of these unrecon
structed States will be put In shape to secur'
, recognition in Congress this side the Presi
: Dental election-not one.
. What thenf The military despotism unde
which those States now lie PROSTATE will hav
become q chronic disease. The elements Q
!. self.sustaining political vitality within them
h now dormant, II they lie dormant much Longer
y will die out. Negro supremacy, with negr
: ignorance, credulity and clannishness, 1t wi
:. be found convenient 10 the party in power sti
n. TO hold under military law, as well as the II
IN tractable whites who will not recognize u
IT, beauties OF military Dictatorship Beside
r. there are elements Of power, patronage ar
"a. spoils In military establishment OF hfty tho