The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-05
An Intelligent Englishman's View
of Radical Policy.

of Radical Policy.
The following letter is from we'll
known English author, (Anthony Troll
lope), now on visit to the United States:
WASHINGTON, June =, 1868.
It has been deemed by Congress that
each of these States shall choose new
constitution for itself, but that in choosing
it all men, blacks and whites alike, shall
have an equal voice, except that white
men known to havo been leading rebels,
and that other white men who will not
take test oath 80 worded as to be utterly
irreconcilable to the feelings of South
ern white man, shall be debarred from
voting at ALL The upshot is, that the
framing of the State constitutions is to be
given to the men who, four or five years
since, were slaves, and who are stillnegroes.
But it must not be supposed that these
black men have really been asked to frame
their constitutions, OF do anything else
than vote. Their constitutions have been
sent to them by post, and consist in an
undertaking on the part of the State in
question that all men shall hereafter vote
alike. 1t will, therefore, go forth to the
world that Alabama, Georgia, and the
others have themselves declared that white
men and black men shall be the same for
all political purposes, and that on this
basis the States have been RECONSTRUCTED"
and restored into the Union. hold that
tyranny never went beyond this. 1t may
be rs we'll at first to point out that In none
of the great Western States can negro
vote at all. In Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and
Missouri none but q white man can vote.
In Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan
white men and Indians can vote, but
never negro. In the great Eastern States
negroes arc kept away from the polls,
either practically or by actual rule In
PENNSYLVANIA no black man can vote. LII
New York negro can vote, but net
without a real property qualification and
three years residence. In the States OF
New England, excepting in Connecticut,
negroes can vote; but their number Is so
small as to make their votes OF no possible
value. Yet it has been ordained by these
victorious Northern States that in the con-
ouercd Southern States all political power
given the whites shall be put into the
hands of race of men who yesterday
were their slaves. For myself L am pre-
pared to argue, if it be needed, that ne
rro is not fitted by his gifts and nature to
exercise political power amidst communl-
tv of white men. He is SO naturally SUBJ
seryient to the white mans greater power
of mind that, when passion is over, he Will
always do as some white man shall instruct
hin, Rnt buttinp aside for the present a
subject which is very vast IN It's bearings,
and in which mon have and will dispute
loudly. here has been made provision tor
a war Of races with the express object OF
keeping down q people, i'll order that that
ncopla NAV be dcbarred from all political
bower in the empire. 1t mast be remen-
bered that government in the unrteo
States is State government for the most
part. In Georgia the black men, on these
lines of reconstruction, would have the
mower of making all laws for the restraint
of the white. They would be enabled to
enact that q man should be hung for this
or that so-called crime-a white man, II
YOU will. for not taking off his hat to q
| black man. But it has never been for a
moment intended really to entrust this
power to tho negroes. The intention is
that, through the negroes, all political
power, both State power and Federal
, power, shall be in the hands OF members
of Congress from the North-that the
North shall have it's heels on the South,
and that the conquered shall be subject to
the conquerors. Never has there been
more terrible condition imposed upon
? fallen people. For an Italian to feel an
Austrian over him, for Polo to feel q
Russian over him, has been bad, indeed ;
but it has been left for the political ami
mostly of Republican from the North
man who himself rejects oil contact with
the necro-to subject the late Southern
: slaveowner to dominion from the African,
who was Yesterday his slave. The dun
peon chains are knocked off the captive in
order that he may be harnessed as beast
of burden to the captor's chariot But 1t
will not be SO. There will III these South
) ern States be war of races; hatred from
tho white man to the poor, tiniid, uncon'
, scious negro; suffering for both, Infinite
suffering for poor Sambo, who will gradu
ally begin his appointed task of disappear
ing; there will be rapid death OF negro
children, negro want, and all the following
of negro vice; but the white man who
lives near him will gradually resume his
power. There will be al influx Of North
ern men into these States, and they vii
gradually become as the white men of the
; South. The scheme after while will fail
1 but in the meantime all the hatred OF
conquerins md a conquered people will be
: maintained. Such, sir, alo my ideas o
Q 'reoonstruction."