The national Republican., 1868-11-30
An Anomaly in Government - Tho
Prejudiccs of Glass, Race, &c.

American press was agog about II last week.
Hundreds Of appeals we're made to the Gov.
ornment, through the newspapers, for prompt
and thorough action in vindication Of tho
rights Of American citizenship as thus as.
sailed In foreign land. The quantity and
quality Of "Banoombe" which this affair gave
rise to shows that asa Sovereign people" we
arc as spread. eagleish and frothy as ever.
But in view Of other facts, palpabie to all
the world, am inclined to think that the
patriotic demonstration in question only
served to generate contempt for America and
Americanism on the other side Of tho water.
II was published In q hundred leading jour.
mails that our Government was surely about to
take prompt and energetic action In the case,
and all that sort Of thing.
Between you and l, good REPUBLICAN, I
have no faith whatever in these announce
ments, as in the last three years the Govern.
ment Of the United States have not been able
to coerco single Southern State court or Jury
into Furnishing or obtaining reparation for
single one Of atleast i've Thousand worse out.
RACES upon the rights Of American citizenship,
under Its very nose-within its own jurisdio.
tion. Here, at home, those rights are far
less respected, and are far less protected than
in any other civilized land, and under any
other Government under tho sun. It is all
very well to talk, nay to rave, about demand
ing indemnity from the Syrian Government
for the outrage frst above referred to. Yet
it would be Infinitely better were measures
taken to make the rights Of American citisen.
ship-nay, life itseif-safe to those In the South
who dare to admit that they approve and
heartily support tho Government Of the Uni
ted States. There, to avow preference for tho
cause Of the Union over the "loJt cause" In
our Iate civil war, and to dare attempt to
carry that preference into effect at the polls,
is to court martyrdom In business and social
relations, aud, indeed, 10 the matter Of life
itself.
Fortunately, Congress, can initiate meas.
ures week after next that may eventually re-
lieve the national reputation from this foulest
Of all stains that ever rested upon q Govern.
ment pretending to be based on popular
rights, only think Of i,--a Government as
powerful as ours, and protesting to be the
| frssst and most advanced in liberalism In the
world, permitting Eve thousand of its subject
or citizens to be murdered, tortured, or out
ragged in 4 hundred different ways, for tho
hoinous crime of being its devoted supporters
in portions Of its own territory where "the
ruling class" are REASONABLE to II at heart!
Wo have surely fallen on strange times in
governmental history. know no parelel Of
them recounted by Hallsm, or S!smundi, or
abbon, or any other historian who has writ.
ten accounts Of the strange things done BY
governments, and the outrages suffered by
peoples, since the beginning Of the Christian
Erai-that Is, Of q Government that has failed
to protect its supporters among Its subjects
from Wholesale oppression, outrage, and muir
der on account of the support thoy gave 1t,
at the hands Of others Of its subjects who
were notoriously its enemies.
Your eotemporary, the Chronicle, wonders
over the perversity of the Northern Demo.
eording civil and political equality to those
whom the rebellion necessarily and inevitably
made citizens OF the United States; that Is,
when, as at present, the Democracy Of the
South, or at least the leading minds among
them, are beginning to understand that labor
in their midst must bO endowed with all civil
and political privileges enjoyed by labor in
the North and West. II the South would ar.
rive at the same condition of prosperity that
labor, educlted, protected, and properly fos-
tered, has worked out for our States that were
non-slaveholding before the rebellion.
can explain that enigma, think. The
Southern Democratic leaders, every one Of
powers, and indeed Of nearly all tho rest oi
the undeveloped wealth of that section, begin
to comprehend that skilled and thrifty labor
in thoir midst is their one great need as,
without it, all the elements Of eventual i'm
menss wealth thoy own will continue to be as
valueless to them as during the time when
every influence Of Southern society and every
possible legislative enactment was directed to
the end of strengthening slaveryi-that is, te
the end Of riveting stronger Its chains upon
all, without distinction Of color, who worked
with their hands, and Of extending and
Strengthening tho profits aad privileges Of
those owning negro labor.
Such Is the philosophy of the only idea Of
sectional progress that prevailed in Southern
society and Southern legislation from Cal.
houn's timo to 1904. Lees surrender OF.
ploded that idea as thoroughly as 1t exploded
the fallacy Of the notion Of the ability of the
current South to destroy the Union. Mum
berS Of the Southern Democratic leader
already realize that the agricultural, manu-
featuring and mining wealth of the souti
(rsndered utterly useless and proltlesS to he
by slayery's incidents SO long as she knew M
other interest but that of slavery Is capabl,
of in twenty-five years making her tenfslt
richer than she could have become under tn,
government of her old ideas-her old system
In a century. They begin to see, too, thai
the advancement Of the condition of labor hal
been the condition precedent to the utilization
Of the North's similar resources These South
ern leaders, many Of whom are most astut'
men arc simply becoming practical enough t
cast aside the prcjuiiccs of two generations t.
avail their section Of the opportunities Of thu
times.
The strength of the Northern Democracy IL
In the cities. II Is made up in them, for th
most part, of those who pass their every leis
uro momen. in grog shops or other evil place.
Of resort, and OF the NEST ignorant and vicisul
Of tho last thirty years emigration from th'