The New Orleans crescent. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1866-1869, 1868-06-27
The TRIBUNE BAcKsLIDINe.

The New York Tribune grossly insults
Africa. 1t sings an editorial paan TO the
crusade which is emptying the surplus popu-
lation of Western Europe into the great
American reservoir; but it has not one word
about the glories and felieities that would at
tend a similar movement from Western
Africa 1t exults over the essence Of relu-
venescence which the various streams of eau
casiap migration from the Old World bring
to the native stocks of the New World; but 1t
is fagrantIy silent as to the regenerating
power of the rich African blood which Theo-
dore Tilton and other radical philosophers,
plagiarizing from one of the senile and pruri-
ent 1hspsodies of Michelet, have proposed to
invoke, as the future salvation of the dwarfed,
witheIed and emasculated nations of Europe
and their offshoots in America, as the only
source from which the effste Cancasians can
be hereafter restored to manly vigor and
feminine beauty. But the Tribune is not in
sultingly silent only; it is insultingly explicit
when it says /: Z" 1t is fortunate, as it is also
natural, that our miraculous access of popula-
ton should come mainly from the northern
races, with which our older population can
to the best advantage assimilate." Here
Africa is plainly snubbed by a deliberate and
precisely worded discrimination which ex-
cludes and taboos it as source either of i'm
migration or regeneration What dire conse-
quence does this portend? Is Mr.. Greeley,
along with his party, prepared to Ego
back" on their African allies? That
he has put a grievous affront upon
the native statesmen who preside over
the destinies Of Guinea, Senegambia, Soudan,
and Ethiopia, and that he has, more especi-
ally, lacerated in cruel degree the sensibili-
ties of the dusky generals and warriors of the
west coast of Africa who are compelled to
eat their captured enemies because they can
no longer sell them to New England slave
ships for deportation to America, there can
be not the least question. Their poverty,
rot their will, consents to this eccentric diet.
But still the case has Its puzzling aspects.
How account for Mr.. Greeley's anxiety to con-
vert the South into political Africa, in the
face OF the announcement to the necessitous
canpibals reieIred to that he desires no con-
iribu,ion from their race to swell the tide OF
migration TO these shores from the Old World
He agrees with Sumner that the triumph OF
reyullicansm can not be assured until negro
representatives take seats in both houses OF
Congress- lie has labored with might and
man to discriminate politically in favor Of
the blacks 10y giving three millions of them
more senators than fifteen millions of whites
are permitted to have. He is committed to
the doctrine of political regeneration by in
Producing into government all the African ele.
ment which the situation affords Then why
should lie object to opening the flood gates Of
African emigration SO that Africa may do 1t:
work witt out needless delay, and he and
Sumner, and Tilton, and Philips may wit
ness the realization of their dream of per
feet civilization Mr.. Greeley either has nc
reason to object to more of Africa, or he be
lieves that the country has already too mucl
of Africa, and yet wickedly insists on max
ing this African element the corner stone o.
political dominion.