The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-21

born, as well as criminal injustice towards
the freedmen. for which we should deserve
hand. e an isaoble desire q we Venre oet
upon those who have fought SO bravey In defence oil
cause 80 bad, would be disgrace 10 the American
name. We shall be al Americans again at some fu
ture day. and the citizens OF the lately rebellious
States viii. in the next generation perhaps be in
spircd by the same haughty but legitimate pride oi
nationality whca now swes the breasts OF those
Who dwell In the Tree aud loyal States and the
to preserve the life OF the republic l. for one would
Tot relnqush the glorious hope OF Free united and
lraternal population over the whole surface or these
United States FOR the most golden visions OF any
separate empire But even IL the reconstruct n
laws are constitutional. are they expedients we are
told that the seeding states are treated with cruelty;
that In time oil profound peaoe They subjected to
military despotism ana negro supremacy. The part
now Ia power ~ arfaigned for its career OF I'M
paralleled oppression and tyranny during ana since
the rebellion. Unparalleled tyranny! Will you search
the records OF all the civil wars ever waged upon THIS
planet and find me one solitary remote parallel to
querors in this civil war; VIII you go back to re-
publican Rome and tell me or the career or alter.
nately dominating parties In her civil wars WIll
you read OF the wholesale nassacres OF Marius when
his party was uppermost, The blood-drlpDing edIcts
OF tho triumphant syiia, in his turn looming the
men OF the vanauished party to death-soders,
citizens and all--faster than he could remember
their names, killing them by hundreds and thou
sands irst and recording Judgment against them
afterwards as fast as he could recall them or get
them recalled to his nlemoryS Win you remember
how the triumvirs dividing the worlds empire met
together over table and in one evening Sentenced
twenty-three hundred Roman citizens 10 death and
on the following day, murdered ten times the num-
bers Think Of the mead OF the mangied Cicero. ex-
posed In the Forum, which had often rung to his
inpassoned oratofy, with his ampntated hands
placed in ldeous mockery OF rhetorical gesture be-
MEATH and with Fpiva's needle thrust through that
tongue which even now after nineteen centuries SUI
enthrais the civilized world with its cloqucncci
Turn to the civil and religious which desolated
France for nearly the whole OF the sixteenth century
and count the thousand and ten thousand cod
bloodcd massacres, executions, conliscagions pro-
EcrintlQna which ra6nra1 n "A
ness and the population to pauperism from genera
ton to generation. Look at the boodstaiaed soil Of
lions, with the hanglngs, beheadngs, drownngs,
burnings alive and Duryings alive by whole town.
eg, hundred ana thousand daily vic
the country by the dominant party; to
mere OF the rebels, but OF whole provinces at
swoop. Recall that hideous civil war which con-
yerted Germany-then the most civilized region OF
Europe-into Pandemonlum for thirty miserable
years; when deeds of fendish oppression and cru
city, such as the human mind can scarcely conceive
renee, as one party or the other gained the asccn-
dancy. Remember the wars OF the Roses IN England,
annihilating races, dcc!mating counties over ana
over again With their maSSacreS, their PRESCRIPTIONS
ana executions their attanders Of the blood, Incrim-
mating and impoyerishing generations yet unborn
Think OF Jenries' bloody assize Pause upon the
Thames beneath the Traitors Gate, and listen the
groans still sounding through the black past from the
Tower Of Julius Englands lasting shame Think
Fleet street and the Tobooth in EdInburg Listen to
the eternal sghs from tho famous bridge In the fail
throng OF what was once the most powerful republic
In the world. Or II You think these days too distant
and imagine the world grown too mcrc!ful to offer
parallel TO republican tyranny and oppression here,
cast glance at the deeds OF revolutionary France,
and shudder at hideous Images Of massacre and MUIR
der in every imaginable shape. OF coniscation and
desoIation 10 more than conceivable extent. Recall
the oppression which marked the career OF the Brit
ism East India Company In the East; the tyranny and
eXtortion by which vast populations were goadcd
QlmOgt
conquerors, ana the iightful prescription and
robberies when those rebeons wcrc sup
pressed; think Of whole kingdoms Of great extent,
ancient civilization, enormous wealth, literally put
up at public auction and knocked down for n song to
few needy adventurers Proscrlption So gigantic
greatest orator 1t stands forever .as monument TO
astonsh the imagination ana confound the reason of
mankind" Sup full OF horrors like these With which
the history OF civil war in every age and land IS
and then turn 10 this country, still heav-
ing With the commissions Of war dsbanding It's million
look In vain for single execution, for connscatons
or atandeIs behold the very head and front OF the
leased upon bail bond. aud now the guest OF mobiles
In England; look ut the gencrallssimo OF the rebel
youth In the academic shades OF Virginia. ana hailed
by Union general and ambassador as ''a represent
iatiye man ~ reverence and regard for the rn,on;
!, for one, am prouder az an American OF the IN.
stantaneous dis0anding OF our victorious hosts
when their work was done than was OF their assent
bling with such unexampled patriotism when the
Union was assaIled More than all Is IL gratifying to
every patriot heart that there has been no initiation
here OF that foul vengeance upon the vanqu'shed
which has stained the conclusion Of every civil war
except our own with the indeblc marks OF useless
ling on every lip throughout the country and must
be spoken: but prudence honor, justice require
that with that benecent word should be coupled I'M
partial suffrage ana irrev0cabe guarantees OF equal
rights. This Is not the time TO examine the question
o. sage IRON o am p ena poaa q ~ ew Inc g
corresponding duty or understanding the subject
voted riDon and an educational suffrage for whole
population, whatever It's colors, would perhaps he
The most reasonable condition. But doubt whether
I'm present circumstances any better way vi protect
ing the. freedman In his civil rights can be
found than by giving him the vote. The
end justifcs the means. To refuse the franchise
to q man not because he is ignorant Tut because
he IL black seems to me rs preposterous ss to deny
1t to him because he Is not SIX feet high. As ID
what Is called negro supremacy confess this 10 he
as sae,ec, neyoad my 81 non sspeel ana
will find even less dlf1culty i'm manipulating the
negro vote OF Tie South than they did for thirty
years or moro In controlling the majority Of white
voters Of the North. Negro supremacy may be q
good phrase 10 conjurc with IN these regions, but
doubt whether the white citizens OF the slave states
are much appalled, by the sound. We are told that
the Southern people are not hostile 10 the negroes
and would not Cypress them II they had the power
TO do so; that they have grown up among the
whites, have becn accustomed TO look upon them
with Kindness SO much the better Now that
Kindness TO me negro = 10 pc manies'ed In some
slavery, by selling his wife and children before his
eyes, by tracking his fugitive steps with
bloodhounds, by refusing his testimony IN
courts OF justice, By deprivIng him OF every
right OF human creature IL IL perfectly possible
that better relations between employer ana
laborer may ere long b. established. But doubt
whether any one seriously expects that the negro
VIII obtain political or intellectual supremacy In
any part OF this continent; or that the Caucasian
race anywhere needs discriminating legislation IN
is favor 10 prevent from lapsing INTO subsection to
the African. II we can protect these unlortunacs,
who have ever trusted us, and whose hopes or delv
have ever pointed TO The north star. against tho
possibility OF falling into some kind Of bondage aud
disability ayain if We can give the means of self
protection by putting the ballot IN their hand, II II
as much a. we can expect at present. But beyond
that unequvocal expression OF the democratic dogma
IN regard 10 the reconstruction laws, we learn on
highest authority the practical purpose OF that party
should they succeed 10 the election. THIS purpose,
lar rs can understand the English language,
seems to he o renewal OF the war. The democratic
candidate for the Vice Presidency IL q di-tin-
guishcd leader In the Union armies. His name
II indebly associated with some OF the most
iustrious campaigns, hardest fought battles, tri-
umphant marches OF the war. Throughout tho
picturesque and brilliant man0uyres and desperate
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