New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-11-27

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aoncv "a completely the rulers OF ]r,on0
dencS as ards the leaders Of ;he Rebellion
And again, with a remark worth ~ou come more
EVERY day that you are in the South,S he control
and more to see that the mean whites are Va Ner,
ling power The landowners not only rev - rs,ng
but their apathy during the present th Govern
The men who demand their readilss'On 80 fellows
ment Of eleven States are unkehl' -, ,ho very
not one whit better h IN the oranco' v w. lea
men, strangely enough who themselves ~ ..,t do
,,.I Cors,i,ution, first began dsfrareh'se"eh, uo
~ ht the qualification for electors IN the nc" '"S'
., Vonsos sboud be the taking oath to uphou 'no III
famous Fugitive Slave Law"
He was naturally struck by the intemperate
| ,ononooe of the Southern press and Oh Southern
sneakers and after quoting come stroGg examples OF
obstinate and violent dslOySiJy, makes remark
which seems obvious, but which will have all inc
force of novelty in England at least:
ct is clear from the occurrence of such dinners 'ne
publication Of such pare graphs and leaders rs 'ho "
which have spoken, that there is no military tyranny
existing IN the soath The cOuntryis indeed administered
nv military commanders this was In le6O puV IL 10
ruled by troops Before can give ear 10 INC
that arc adoat in Europe of the Government OF M'Joi
General we must believe that five millions OF EHES
men inhabiting country as large as Europe arc
down by some ten thousand men-about as many DO ~"
needed to keep order in the single town OF WARSAW"
Soufh
now at issue is merely whether lhey shah "i'o A WV
former slaves the negroes
Mr.. Dixie went to see, among other objects Oh
interest the Negro People to whom the negro has
ceased TO be an object of interest need not be re-
neled they will find but single chapter OF l2pages
devoted TO him. Some things Mr.. Dixie saw clearly
the testimony of old Shareholders he does not re-
| ceve with suspcion In the South you must take
nothing upou trust believe nothing you are toiu'
| sweeping maxim which our author sometimes lot
| GETS But the merit of his observation Is that he
used his own eyes and thought for himself on most
points The pretense of the masters that they alone
/ understand the negro was imposed on many North
orn minds But Mr. Dixie says: or The old Southern
planters find it hard to rid themselves of their ira
dtions they cannot understand free blacks-a SEN
tence that explodes whole fabric OF specious and
| selfish political philosophy on which the old OIL
garchy bears its claim to frame what 1t calls It's
| own municipal legislation The codes OF Florida
and South Carolina establishing the vagrant and
annrentieeshp systems-Slavery is all but the name
had there lately been enacted by the legislatures
of Mr. Johnson's Sham Provisional Governments.
| Apparently Mr. Dixie knew nothing of these, but he
saw enough of the planter and enough of the negro
10 anticipate the attempt of setting up serfdom.
He does not in the least idease the negro is rather
| inclined TO dwell on the ludicrous traits OF the
plantation hand his immoderate laughter, his love
If CANDY coors. his innocent acceut. He believes
it true that the negro slaves were lazy tmlftless,
upchaste thieves but it is shares and not as negroes
that they were all these things" The North will do
well TO try 10 understand the fact as clearly as an
| English traveller does seeing 1t. Mr. Dixie has no
difficulty in anticipating a happy future in America
for the emaneipated race. There Is reason to be-
leve that the American negroes will justify the
hopes of their best friends they have made the best
of every chance that has been given them yet; they
made good soldiers they eager TO learn their let
y ters they are steady at their work" Apparently Ia
recognizes the justice OF their claim to land which II
Il some shape has yet TO be conceded 49, Ell yer don
glib us de land reckon de ole IL starb de mig
{ gahS was plain straightforward summary OF tn
negro view OF the negro question: given me by
ite-bearded old uncle in Richmond, and backed
+ bv every black man within hearing in n chorus o
OATS true for Shore" Whether they got land o
not. he comprehended that the Southern negroes
must be given decisive voice in the appointment o
the Legislatures by which they are to be ruled, Of
that the North be prepared TO back up by force
of opinion if need be- by force of arms, tho Fed
era! Executive when it insists on the Civil Rights
Bill being set in action at the South. Government
through the negroes is the only way to avoid govern
ment through an armyn-a sentence written two
years ago. running the risk Of prophecy, having
now the force of a truth based on experience.
With all this good and quickness of observa-
ton, Mr. Dixie suffers himself to be alarmed by an
apprehension lest the negro may be driven 10 distress
and emigration by want of work. Some
body has disconnected him with the
old electioneering notion that the blacks
will flow northward in mltitudes. The En-
gish limitation of thought and unconscious estimate
of broader facts by insular sandards-not often TO
be met with LET say, elsewhere in these volumes
is at the bottom Of this apprehension Millions of
untitled of the richest land in the world. The
cotton lands themselves half cultivated under
a slave system. cotton at - cents pound for mid
ding upland the mills of England still unsupplied,
the worlds market increasing its demands daily,
boundless capital and endless forms of industries
waiting only tUI security 10 20 southward-did Mr..
Dixie think of none of these influences They are 10
create such demand for labor white. and black,
and Chinese coolies and European immigrants, all
together win not be able to satisfy five hence
Next to peace and order the craving need OF the
South to-day is capital. In five years. on
ten at most, her unsatis6ed want will
be labor Mr.. Dixie has rayersed this continent, and
Australia, and Polynesia, contemplating the future
of America. Can he not rid his mind Of the feal
that distTesses every thinking Englishman for his
own island-how to find work for mutiplyng hands,
lie would not then he haunted by the shadow of
coming day when the work Of repairing the damages
of war shall be over and when the blacks shall
"drive the Irish out of hotel service at New-Yorl
and Boston, as they have done in Philadelphia ano
st. Louis" How many hotels shall we need to bull,
in order to find places for four millions of blacl
servants!
But though Mr.. Dixie did not suffer his mind to b'
alarmed by terror of the emancipated negro, he ha
discovered more formidable figure. His b6te nOir
is the Irshman, whose portrait is etched in backes