Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1868-10-13
IFrom the N. Y. Herald. Oct. 81
tsThe New RebeIlion.,,

The Radical papers are beginning to
fume about what they call the "new re-
bellion in the South" They recite the
ebullitions Of some crazy Democratic
editor, recall the outrages of the Ku
Klux Klans, the assaults upon process
sions, the turbulence, riots and blood
shed that have recently occurred in
Nashville, New Orleans, Camilla and
lately in Opelousas, parish of st. Landry
in short, they point to the unsettled
and menacing condition of things
throughout the States of Georgia, Ala
bama, Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas,
indeed all over the South, as evidence
that new rebellion has been Inaugural
ted, and the people are warned to pre-
pare for the consequences.
Now, we admit that state of alarm,
confusion, anarchy, quasi-rebellion and
quasi-war, if You please, exists in the
South. We admit that society there is
plunged into a. condition of chaos from
which it may take years to recover; that
business is prostrated; that the agricul-
tural, commercial and all industrial in
terests are paralyzed; that distrust and
discredit prevail; that education and the
cause of religion are languishing; that
the people are in great measure strang-
ers to any law except lynch law, and
that order, the first law of God, is utter
" unknown. But what is the cause of
all this public disorder and social de-
rangement2 Who are to blame for pre-
cipitating upon this rich and fertile land
this gigantic fusion of evilsi The an
swer is plain. They arise from wild
and utterly preposterous attempt of the
Radicals to establish in the South
the supremacy of a race utterly
unprepared. unfit and incapable to as
sumo for years to come any, other posi-
tion in social and political life than that
sanctioned by condition of semi-bar-
barism. IF the white and black races in
the South had been left to themselves,
as they are in New York and in all the
North, there would have been none of
this anarchy, none Of this bloodshed,
none, of this 'snew rebellion" as the
Radicals call it. In this effort to ele-
vate the black race above the white
the Radicals have excited in the for
.mer visions of ease, plenty and
equality which they know can never be
realized in this age, They have AVA
kened in the, negro's mind an idea that
he is greater and more powerful than his
late MASTER and that when a question
of justice or right arises between them
the influence of the black must kick the
beam. But when the ignorant negro
finds that the promises of his white
radical friends are not fulfilled he be-
comes an altogether different creature
from what he was even in state of
bondage. His savage and cruel nature
is developed. He becomes marauder.
a. ravisher, an incendiary, a de-
based and inhuman animal. White
citizens are then obliged to de-
fend themselves against the depre-
dations of the blacks, and naturally
a collision occurs in which it would be
singular if somebody were not hnrt.
All this springs from violation of the
laws of nature and of the statute in re-
gard to the status of the two races which
the Radicals insist upon carrying out in
the South, and which would be followed
by similar deplorable occurrences were
a like attempt made in the North or in
any community where the blacks have
settlementin any numbers. Here, then,
is solution of the question as to whom
the existing reign of violence in the
South should be ascribed. Now
what is the remedy? To apply cor
rective to this state of things would be,
first, to cease giving the negroes ideas
above their capacity; second, to make
them understand that they are amena-
Bile to the laws and as liable to punish
ment for their infraction as the white
man; third, to make them comprehend
that they must work or starve, '.root,
hog, or die;" and lastly. to leave the
whites and the blacks in the South to
settle the status of the two races among
themselves, just as we do here in the
North, without interference from North
ern place-seekers or corrupt and venal
adventurers from any quarter.