New-York tribune., 1868-09-21

pointed out as eAnlOllcu III aii o''" 'N' ~
the address of the Democratic white VoIers
"of Charleston to the colored voters OF the
Estate generallyn-a document excessively
smooth and saccharine III spots, Dut whlcn
ends with q promise OF "wretchedness ana
"ruinr TO all blacks who are base enough 10
cast Republican ballot. OF course, the AMI
mus Of such n production is logically evident.
The exnression of hatred is always more sin
cere than the wbeedling OF an anected IN
terest, and men do not bully those whom they
are anxious. from disnterested motive, to
persuade These t-patriarchs must learn 10
control their tempers-a very difficult thing
for them to learn-if they would convince the
Freedmen that Seymour is their warmest and
most Trustworthy friend-feelng for them, pray
ing for them, planning for them by day, and
aflectionately dreaming of them by night. Inc
Freedman may not be learned In American
politics, but bitter experience has sharpeneG
his faculties of observation, as they would haye
been sharpened if he had been no more than
mere animal and he knows well enough that
he might have waited long indeed for his liberty
of voting, or for liberty of any description, IL
he had waited for HOratiO Seymour to under
take. in the dark drama of the day, the
benevolent part of Noses lie knows that
the men who talk thus smoothly to hlm nave
ten thousand times announced to the wOrlu
that his bondage was perpetual, that 1t arose
from the nature of things, that it was based
upon the Holy Scripture, was established under
the Old Dispensation and confirmed under the
New. and was az permanent and immutable as
Christianity itself. He knOws-he knew long
\. nlv lant i'm a m
dition of ignorance and degradation. lie
knows, text and margent, the whole OF the ola
Slave Code, for the commentaries upon 1t were
constantly written in blood and scars upon his
back. He understands alike the cursing and
the coaxing He estimates vt their full value
the temptations which are extended to him;
and if he is frightened into apparent acquies-
cence for moment, he will ere long, by the
force of instinct. reason himself back to a just
comprehension of the situation. Any class Oh
men would under the same circumstances, DO
this: but these Freedmen will be specially
helped and kindly encouraged, and, If neces-
sarv. their rights will be steTnly defended
should thev be cruelty and inequitably assalled.
They know that they have friends; they know
who they are; and it is the consciousness that
they know this, and will know it bet
ter day by day, which rOuses the i'm
potent wrath of Southern Seymountes and
occasions all the idle talk about scalawags"
and carpet-baggers' which is the burden OF
half the Democratic" speeches in those re-
gIons. Is il to be for an instant supposed that
the ignoble timidity of which the Southern
Democrats are making a display dscreditable
To human nature, will promote their interests,
selfish and shameful as those interests are 7
There was but one prudent policy for them
TO pursue. and they have avoided it with child
ishSbsurdity. They might have been consist
emily humane; they might have recognized
frankly the real rights of the emancipated they
might have mastered the passions of hatred and
revenge which the failure or the Rebellion has
left smolderng, and addressed themselves with
cheerful and hearty alacrity to the
wise arrangement of their social rela-
tons Then the presence of the Black
population would have occasioned no un.
manly embarrassment, nor would they have
been driven to the expedients of discredltable
and unavailiDg duph,ity. They would have
been saved from fawning and tiattery on the
one hand, and frCm cowardy menaces upon
the other. They have chosen a different course
but while they pursue it they settle nothing,
adjust nothing, advance no real prosperity of
the South, remove no private prosperity of
their own from jeopardy. One position or
another they must ultimately accept. They
must recognize the human and natural rights
of all. without the least fraudulent reservation,
expressed OF implied, without the smallest
unjust limitation, or they must lose the little
hold upon the Coored Population which the
Rebellion has left them.