The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1868-10-02
Fruits Of Radical Reconstruction IN

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Fruits of Radical Reconstruction.
"The wrath of the negroes at Gov.
WARMoUTH's veto of the negro equality
bill, is unhounded, and threats against
his person are reported" is the opening
sentence of late dispatch from New
Orleans.
Last week O mob of two thousand
negroes broke loose in New Orleans !;
and nothing but the timely arrival of
troops prevented destruction of life
and property.
About the same time fierce negro
riot ragged in Nashville-a riot confined
solely to the negroes, and a political
one at that.
The Camilla riot in Georgia is talked,
and written of, still, from one end of
the country to the other.
The proclamation of Governor Bull
LOCK, of Georgia, ordering the negro
ruffians of that State to disband their
military organizations, was wrung from
him by the multiplicity of crimes and
outrages they had perpetrated. The
white Radicals there, after trial of
negro equality, are renouncing it, and
are expelling negroes from Office.
Iu the Legislature of Louisiana, the
negroes are expelling whites from office.
Not a newspaper do you pick up,
scarcely a column of kilograms do you
read, without encountering the details
of some fiendish outrage perpetrated by
negroes upon white women.
Wherever you look, all over the
South, you see that the war between the
two races has already begun. The me-
groes have it all their own way III some
of the States. Arkansas, for instance,
is overridden by a negro State Guard;
and every person, before he can vote,
has to swear that he will support negro
equality as long as he lives. OF course,
pillage, murder, and assassination are
of frequent occurrence there.
There is no effect without cause.
The present condition of the whole
Southern country is similar to our In
dian frontier. 1t is similar, because 1t
springs from similar causo-G conflict
of races. The White would own the
soil, which the Indian claimed as his.
The Negro would usurp the sovereignty
and rights of the White. The differ
ence is, the conflict i'll the one case
arose from the distractions which the
advancing wave of civilization encoun-
tered. 1t arises in the second case, from
the reflaent wave of barbariSm, strik-
ing against the bulwarks of civiliza-
tiOn.
What we would impress upon the
minds of our readers, is the manifest
failure Of Radical Reconstruction. The
disorder, violence, anarchy and blood
shed which prevail in the South, are its
accursed frnits. The prescription OF
the whites by the Louisiana Legislature
and the Ku-Klux organizations in Ten
nessee, are alike outcropings Of 1t. 1t
has inaugurated war of races.
1t has constructed an arena, and
dragged black and white into it, while
it sits aloft Watching the issue, and
hoping that the many special advan'
tages it has heaped on the black will
enable him to overcome the white.
But there should be peace, instead OF
war, between them; and hence, instead
of being pitted against each other as IN
a cock pit, their relations should be SO
adjusted, as that the governing and
guiding power should devolve on the
superior race.
No peace or progress is possible IL
the South, while the Government keeps
the inferior race on top and the superior
race under.
Congressional Reconstruction is th'
Babel of this new world. 1t is th'
" folly" of our age and country-th'
unfinished monument that will attes
to future ages the inability Of the mel
who destroyed the old order of things
TO organize the elements of society II
new and benefcent forms. Yet the
party which has established white sla
very in the South-which has disfran
chised the intelligence, the genius ane
the valor of that couRtry, while 1t ha'
put the sceptre of power into the hands
of the rude barbarian-this party cries
out, let us have peace"
By all means. But in order to secure
it, the first step and paramount duty i:
. to restore the normal relation of the
1 two races. While negro ascendancy is
upheld by the General Government
there will be no peace. 1t is not in the
nature of things that there should be
There is no peace in Gambia, in Pc
land, in lreland-in any country IL
which the people are deprived of thei
political rights. How then can we ex
e. pect peace to reign at the South, wher
the people are not only danr;yed O