The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1867-06-13
The Southern Situation.

will not be republished by them:
Judge Kelley, Senator Wilson ant
others who have recently visited the
South, whether as orators or news
paper correspondents, though they
may differ in opinion as to the
amount of loyalty shown by those
who were engaged in rebellion, seem
to be agreed upon one point, and il
is the one that now mainly concerns
the nation-that the Southern States
will reorganize under the Military
Bill, comply with it's requirements
and seek admission to Congress un-
der it.
There are many good reasons fol
looking forward to this result with
quite much certainty as to any other
fact in the political future. Chief
among them is this: That the ne
groes, who are clothed with politi-
cal power by the bill, constitute in
two of the States clear majority,
and in the rest such large minority
that, with the cooperation of the
loyal whites, they can complete the
work Of reconstruction without the
assistance of the rebels Those who
now oppose the Congressional plan
and advocate non-action, will, when
the proper time comes, and they are
convinced that their non-action is
likely to hurt none but themselves,
make virtue ofnecessity. and them
selves assist in doing what, were
their assistance withheld, would sure
ly be done by others. When the
work of registration is once COM
pleted there will be no more letters
from Governor Perry; and Cover
nor Sharkey will quietly aequiesce
in what he can't prevent.
Every man in the South will then
see it to be his duty to do what he
can toward shaping the policy ofthe
State Conventions to suit himself
and his party, and the struggle viii
be for the control of those bodies,
not as just now, to prevent their be-
ing held.
The visits of Judge Kelley and
Senator Wilson to the South have
not been attended, so far as we are
able to learn, with any Of those dire
full results predicted for them by the
fire eating press. These gentlemen
have not stirred up any insurree
tions, nor set any thing on fire ex-
cept here and there Southern heart,
which is inflammable material at any
rate, and quite too prone to spon-
taneous combustion. Opinions may
differ as to the wisdom of attempting
to organize party in the South be-
fore the States themselves are Or
ganized, but since the close of the
war there can be no difference of
opinion as to the right of Judge
Kelley or Senator Wilson or any
other Northern Or Southern man to
travel where he pleases, and advocate
such political doctrines as he pleases,
to those who chose to listen. When
an attempt is made to drag Southern
men from their homes, and force
them to listen to Northern speeches,
it will be time enough for them to
think of pistols and and Mobile riots
as defensive measures. But so far
as we heard the ''Abolition emissar-
ies' have been content to speak to
those who came voluntarily to hear
them, and there was no punishment
threatened against those who staid
away. In the course of time we
hope the Southern people will cease
their denunciations ofNorthern men
in sufficient degree to give them a
little time for the examination OF
Northern measures, and We shall
look upon this as step in the right
direction. At present they devote
so much time to hunting up vituper-
ative adjectives for such men as Kel-
ley and Wilson, that they never think
of inquiring whether it may not be
exactly true as these "emissaries'
state, that the principles of the Re
publican party are better calculated
to promote the prosperity of the
South in its new condition, than the
principles of the Democratic party
are.
Those in the South who oppose
reconstruction under the Military
Law, base their opposition, first
upon negro suffrage, which is pro
vided for in the law itself. and sec,
ondly, upon the disqualifying clause
of the constitutional amendment
which must be ratified as one of the
conditions of reconstruction. II
may perhaps, be worth while to re-
mind such persons that nearly every
Southern man who, during the war
spoke of the issues involved, state6
distinctly that suffrage was natu
raj consequence, and corollary O
emancipation; and admitted the i'm
possibility of keeping the blacks in :
condition midway between slavery
and freedom. 1t may requie few
years to introduce negro suffrage
into every State, North and South
but that it will ultimately be done
is as certain as the Government it
self will live long enough to Civ
the people an opportunity for doing
it.
AS to which political party tn
negro will vote with in the South
we regard that, as q matter of secon
Diary Importance at the present time
and that the less time spent in drill
ing him for one side Or the other
the better. National causes will op
crate to give the vast majority of th
negro vote to the Republican part,
for few years to come. The black
will then, as they grow in inteligenc
and new ISSUES arise divide anon;
themselves, and it is impossible t,
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