The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1867-08-20

GETTING SCARED.-The New York Herald Ia
paper that never had any honesty fixed prn-
cple<) Processes to be terribly alarmed at the
prospect of the Southern State Governments
passing into the hands of negroes or being
trolled by that race. The Herald urged and ad-
vsed the passage of the very laws that placed
the negro above the white man in the Sou tn, and
it denounced the President and applaudel Con-
gress. But great change i'll its tone seems to
have taken place, and now it denounces Congress
and calls on the President to interfere. Such
professed friendship for the South comes rather
late if any reliance could he placed in it.
AS specimen of the Herads present talk, we
give the following extract
There is no security, and there are a thousand
dangers, in the radical programme, which now
distinctly fore>hadows the placing of the late
governing whites of the South under the political
control and subject to the caprces and revenges
of the black race. relieved but yesterday from the
moral darkness, expressions. wrongs and disabil-
! tiles of African slavery. These dangers are SO
menacng that they must be appreciated by think
| ing Northern men. We hold, accordingly. that
the time at last has come for Northern reaction,
and the time. therefore. for decisive measures Oh
| the part of President Johnson
| We fear that the object of the Herald is to get
the South deeper into trouble, for in subsequent
issue it makes the following suggestions:
THE plain question of Mr. johnson is whether
! he has the courage to take the current of this
national tendency Opposition to negro rulc) and
make bold fight with Congress and the radicals,
now that they are i'll the wrong-to fight when he
may have the people on his side with the same
spirit with which he a>sailed Congress when its
acts were in harmony with the national will. If
| he has. the case is plain before him. He must
! make clean sweep of all the present personnel
! of reconstruction. He must brush away all the
! commanders, and if there are generals to take
! their places, make some. lie must not stop with
! Stanton leaving his Cabinet. Taking thus new
! departure, pursuing an honest policy of recon
| struction never losing sight of the real objects
of the war, but breaking up utterly this mis-
! chievous attempt to secure niger supremacy,
he will merely 60 before the wishes of the people;
and though an attempt at impeachment would
come as sure as sunrise with the assembling Of
| Congress. the attitude of the nation would awe
! it into silence"
| A re- action in Northern sentiment will GER
tany take place at some time-no political party
can always remain in power-but the diff Guilty is,
the Southern people cannot afford to wait for such
re- action. Before it takes place. if we refuse or
| neglect to reconstruct in accordance with the
requirements of Congress. we may bs ruined in
body and estate. 1t is too late to procure par
| don for d man after lie has been hung or to tell
! him to push forward enterprises and make money
| after his capital has been destroyed. 1t is our
! duty to make the most we out of the terms OF
settlement now offered, and put ourselves in posi-
tion to assist in correcting abuses and getting co
rights hereafter.