The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-23

Everything appears to be getting into he worst
kind of a muddle in the South. Tennessee is
in an almost inextricable middle about Brown
lows militia, the violent doings of the Ku
Klux Klans, the distrust and distraction of
people in remote districts, the fierce struggle
for power among the partisan leaders, and a
generally uncivilized condition of things all
over the State. The President has been
appealed to to send down United States troops
to preserve the public peace. This he has
agreed to do, and we suppose we shall in q
short time hear of something like the restora-
ton of order in Tennessee out of the present
chaos.
North Carolina is in q middle about her
State bonds and the general mal-administra
ton of the civil law. With Holden, radical
of the Brownlow pattern, to lead the ultras,
there is very little courtesy or common de-
cency to be expected in the campaign going
on. But North Carolina does not seem to be
quite as bad off as South Carolina. There the
reign of disorder seems complete. Deputa-
tions have been sent to Washington composed
of her first citizens appealing for protection from
the depredations of bands of armed niggers.
Think of proud, imperious South Carolinian
craving from the ''rotten old wreck of
a government" at Washington defence
against the "cussed nigger!" South Caro-
lima is like beautiful coquette with
favorite lover. One day she does not like
the military and dismisses them but the next
the brutal blacks menace her with outrage,
she regrets her decision, prays for the return
of the military and implores their protection
In one case the blacks, it will be seen have
just taken the law into their own hands, and
were about administering justice to one of
their color according to their own notions of
right and wrong when they were interfered
with and prevented. Armed bands of negroes
are roaming about the country and have regu-
lar organizations on the islands adjacent to
Charleston. In giving them in their ignorant
condition the right to vote they have been
made the victims of the batteries, brides, temp
tations and trickeries of every soulless wretch
of politician who would use them to attain
political position which he has no just, native
or Christian right to possess. The negro there
upon conceives himself to be allowed to run
wild in his career of riot and RIGHTEOUSNESS, to
defy the laws insult white people, and be
shielded in his crimes and insolence by the
whole power of the nation.
This is not only true of South Carolina,
but of every other Southern State where
the radicals have been using their in
luence to retain their grasp upon the reins
of government, with its fat money bags
and untold stores of plumber, rather than to
restore peace and order and to establish anew
substantial and well adjusted system of local au-
thority. Georgia has got herself into curious
muddle It appears that the radicals have
been expelling negroes from the Legislature,
whereat the colored population have become
indignant and are about holding State con-
vention to deliberate upon what they shall
next do. If the democratic leaders in Georgia
manage rightly-and they are sharp and auda-
cious enough to do anything-they can turn
this negro expulsion business to their account,
and, by dividing t,Io nesro vote, defeat the
radicals and easily carry the State for the
democracy. The latest reports from Georgia
represent q horrible and bloody middle of
whites and blacks, in which it is difficult to
ascertain at present who were the wrong
doors. Probably both parties. A proposition
made by the radicals in the Legislature to call
upon the President for United States troops to
preserve the peace was voted down, making
another middle precisely the opposite of that
which prevails in South Carolina on the
same point Alabama will always be in a
middle so long as her democracy are led by
but they are gradually becoming toned down
and are not half so ferocious, but yet, perhaps,
more willy than they were three weeks after
their return home from the Tammany Conven-
ton. The negro vote seems to be inclining
democraticward in Alabama, while in Arkan-
sas the latest report is that Intelligent
negroes are going against the carpet-baggers.
This is good sign. In Louisiana the demo-
Gratis are making superhuman exertions and
may be assisted by the Warmoth middle,
about negro professions, negro outrages, negro
murders, white prosecutions, and the like,
which is disturbing the radicals. Florida
seems to be luxuriating quietly among her
orange groves, now and then excited by
some local middle about offices and carpet
baggers. Poor old Virginia, with Mississippi
and Texas are in a middle because they are
left out in the cold. In the case of Virginia,
however, there appears to be middle among
s portion of the blacks, who have held Con-
vention and passed resolutions declaring
want of confidence in the Radical Executive
Committee, middle which may prove SER
viceable to the democrats when the proper
time arrives.
On the whole, we have reason to still
| think that our prophesy that a majority
| Of the Southern States can be carried for
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