New-York tribune., 1868-01-03
THE PRESIDENTS ORGAN


now in its 9th year, favors its readers WIN
new prospectus. 1t is called q CohserVauVe
paper. and the calm dignity, the stately styie'
and the exhaustive erudition OF Its Iong-tlihe
editors, Gales a. Seat0n, are not yet Ioigo''eh'
The depth to which it has fallen since IL De-
came the mouth piece of President johnson
can be inferred from these "elegant extracts
which we transcribe from its present prospec-
fms "Black Radicals of the foolish, demented,
or fiendsh type"-" stupendous acts oil
usurpation, corruption, and proflgacy =
"the animus of the Black Radicals as
"to measures Of legislation seems to be
"still bitter, yindictive. cruel, and per
"secuting g." another atrocity OF the BLACK
"Radicals in Congress y" the doom OF rotten
Radicalismr-"t "temerity or audaclty IN crlnlinai
"design -" Black Radicals and rotten Radical
"ismn-" the dishonored fragments OF the usurp-
cling, corrupt, and prohigate party OF Radical
"ism.r 1t concludes as follows:
"Tbe editorial staff Of The IneHgeneer will continue to
he i'm number and ability all that is necessary 10 1uy uIs
c,iss the leading questions Of public policy"
All those who desire to have the leading
"auestions" discussed with the ability IN
dicated in the above extracts. can obtain the
Daily at SO per year, invariably in advance"
Evidently the Presidents speeches, when
"swincing round the circle" are the inspira-
tlon of his favorite paper; and its editorial
staff, envious of Brick Pomeroys large circu-
lation, are determined not to have their
liability" in this line hidden under bushel
hereafter.
Its leading editorial in the same issue is de-
voted to "the condition of the South" which
is painted, financially and industrially, IN the
darkest colors All its wretchedness, however,
is attributed by the editorial staff" to having
been "prostrated and crushed by the bad men
"who now WELD the powers of the Govern
"ment-men at whose upas touch every great
"industry withers as if by some deadly blight"
And it calls on "the fpeOple of the North to
"move promptly in this matter, to consider the
"eyil and to bring to account It's guilty au-
" thors. Argument on these hardened men Is
"thrown away. By their fears only can their
"career of crime be arrested"
The failure of crops in the South Is, or
course. the work of these hardened men,"
The decline i'll the price OF cotton in the mar
kets of the world is charged upon these
guilty authors" The overflowing from the
leyees. cut by the Rebels must be :" the fiendish
"act" of "black Radicals" The appropriation,
last Winter. of half million of dollars, raised
by taxes in the North, to feed the destitute
whites of the South, is one of the "vindictiye"
acts of "rotten Radicals" The Freedmens
Bureau, which has, by indisputable statistics,
relieved as many whites as blacks In a ma
iority of the Southern States, is another of the
persecutingr measures of this corrupt and
"prohigate party" The overwhelming ma
ority in the House for the repeal of the cotton
tax is still another of these "bitter" and
"cruel measures of legislation" And the
absence of ali coniiscation and punishment for
treason is, of course, another atrocity." 1t is
such food as this The National Inteltigencer
provides for its Southern readers, to promote
concord and peace, we suppose!
Let the men of the South realize, on the con-
trary, that their former slaves are now men.
Let them work themselves, az our Northern
farmers do, as many hours per day as their Ia
borcrs. Let them abandon their combinations
to prevent those who work for them from vot
ing as they please. Let them turn from such
guides as The Intelligencer, only less pemicious
than the leaders who bankrupted and devas
tated the South by their insane and wicked
Rebellion. and a brighter and happier day will
dawn upon them.