New-York tribune., 1868-08-11
TIE 1RRSS BEEORE Us.

If it were possible that the American People
should commit their destinieS to the keeping OF
Horatio Seymour and Frank Blair, these con-
sequences are inevitable:
|. The Sei:are of unbOunded pOwer orer the
Southern States by The late Rebels. In stating
this, we state but what they. through thousand
mouths, have already proclaimed. Not Frank
Blair only, but nearly every talking COnserv-
ative' in the South, has assumed that the
election of Seymour will be popular verdict
against the whole Reconstruction policy OF
Congress, and especially against the right OF
the Blacks to vote. They tell us that the election
of Seymour and Blair will be a ratification OF
that plank of their Tammany platform which
stigmatizes the Reconstruction acts as "revolu-
"tionaly, null and void" and that they shall
proceed to treat them accordingly. That is to
say: They will treat the new State Govern
ments as nullities, and proceed at once to re-
place them by what they call "White Mems
Governments that is, governments based
on their own good pleasure. That they VIII
be resisted, and that bloodshed and anarchy
will result are inevitable.
II. Another result of ScymOurs election will
be the triumph of that Sneaking, cOlCdrdiy form
of RepudiGtion termed paying the Fire Iwenties
IN GrecnbackS We do not mean that tins
villainy will ultimately prevail; but its adyo-
Gates will for the moment be uppermOSt, and
will push it to the extent of debasing our cur
rency so that it will have no definite value,
and the property of the widow and orphan,
now held in trust, will he rendered worthless.
Knaves will pay their debts with ten to twenty
cents on the dollar, and Labor will be paid OIL
in money that has little or no value. Ulti-
mately, the infinite evils of this scheme will
strip its advocates of power, replacing them by
champions of financial integrity; so the Debt
will at last be paid, but not till after 1t has
! changed hands to the loss of many timid or
needy holders and its reputation will have
wrought general bankruptcy and ruin.
III. The White UniOniSts rU be hunted from
the South as they Were IN the Winter and Spring
of 1SCO-6l. Many of them will be killed III the
process, as they were on the former occasion.
"They [ReDublcansl want to get up free
debate" said Clingman of n. c. in the Senate
| in December, 1860, as the Senator from
"New-YOrk [Mr. Seward expressed 1t,
in one of his speeches. But a Senator
from Texas LWIgfaill told me the other day,
"that great many Of these free deJdteTS Cere
"hanqing from the trees Of that country" Texas
Such was the Southern response to pacific
oyertures from the North after we had elected
our President. 1t will be rougher than that if
! they should now elect their man. From every
! Southern stump, it is proclaimed that " the
"carpet- baggers" Republicans from the NOrthl
and scalawags" white Republicans born IN
the South] will be run out the moment they
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prospects. Should he be successful in Noyem-
Der, the White Republicans in the South will
be hunted over the Potomac and Ohio or into
their graves, before Christmas.
". The Blacks will generally be allowed
to stay if they crnge enough and abjure the
| Right of Suffrage. A few of the leaders will
he killed for examples sake; but the great
mass will be simply reduced to the condition
of beasts of burden and tolerated so long as
they abide in it. If they grOyel sufficiently and
| keep their mouths shut, their lives will be
| spared.
V. But the whole business of Black Educa-
! ton will be arrested at once. The schools
kent by Whites will be burned those kept by
Blacks will be peremptorily shut up. A negro
seeking education for himself or his children
VIII DC regarded ana uIedteu rs al HlCchuidI!
All that has been so nObly and well begun for
the enlightenment and moral elevation of the
Freedmen will be stopped and their education
made crime in fact if not also in law.
Darkness will again settle upon the face of
the land and common schools, even for
Whites, either be forbidden or generally allowed
to fall into disuse.
Such are some of the inevitable results Of
Seymour's election were that election possible.
The condition Of the South resulting from such
triumph would make angels weep and devils
blush. 1t would be a victory of Darlness-a
Jubilee of Treason-a long stride toward Chaos
and primeval Night. 1t is not possible that
such a fate is in store for our tire-tried Re
public. "