New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-08-06

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THE THREATENED REBELLION
Tie World recently devoted several leaders
TO proving the self-evident fact that the new
State Governments in the South can be law
fully changed only through the regular action
of their own Legislatures and legal voters. We
did not suppose that the Rebels would agree
To this. but we did count on the perseverance
of The World. Yet that journal now prints an
old speech of Frank Blair's, and says:
owe must not he understood printing this speech as
anudOe to Gen BlairS more recent letsGi a. ct
nothing in that letter which we could WISH MN 10
or explain away His position Is, that II DehociatG
President is elected the negro TecOnStruCli0n cnU,
stand. We are aware that the Republican Senale eau
offer prolonged resistance TO ITS overthrow ana VIZ our,
selves took pains to have tins obstacle iuy Negdeu anu
appreciated before the DenocIauc t srata n,mst
That obstacle is but temporary; Tor we oei3te mus
ultimately be brought into harmony WIN ne p,p
ment of the country But the IcPuEndIt,,,OI J ,,s,r
ern people to negro reconstruction Is setted anu s"
mountabe. In full view OF the poca StI u.
the Senate and the long terms OF the senators VIC SUIT,
ern people decide that they Will never NOuntai SUBMIT
to the usurpations OF Congress Inns heNoio opRb Pho
stion much Jdct rs the long terms Oh we NE
Senators The Senate in time be changed; Dut me
intense repugnauce OF the Southern Whites TO be ruled by
their former slaves permanent feature OF the p0hl
cal situation. This uncOnqueabIo rtpughdhce Wcn no
obstacles daunt opposition shake, rcndeist llOs
sble ever 10 tranqulhze the country anu uiSoauu u y
pansve armies unless negro supremacy III the sOuth is
abolished. Gen. Bairs letter Is IN substance "a STATE
ment Of that fact II secured ms homna.io SlnPy oc
cause the The hundreds OF articles denOunG
ing 1t which we have read In the RepuDncah PAPERS ~,
cOncede that IL accurately reflects the pubhG sentiment
the South If this be So If II be true that, hOtWh-
standing the great obstacle interp0sed 10y te
Senate the Southern Nhcs VIII never elNt oScI vli
opposition TO negro supremacy, TINS fac must De iaGeu
well the fact that the Senate Is FOR the present re
When the Democratic party has elected the next
President, IL will he manifest 10 everybody tha e negro
governments cannot be permanent III lne Sea.S a t
thc Southern negroes shall then yield To me VIII Oh tc
country shall have immediate Tranquility Bnt IL
they choose to make factiOus opposition the southern
Whites VIII probably cut the gordan KNOT without VAT
ing for change IN The senate 70 nave ~ unicu, Ie
negro governments should suddenly collapse, Demo
cratic administration will not interpoSe to resnScl'aie
them and the local authority will easily revert into the
hands Of the Whites II there should be devaon from
the usual forms it will be because The senate ana the ne
gTOes refuse TO comply with the VIII OF the majority Us
expressed IN the Presidential election
Comments by the Tribune.
| |. The World falls into the Rebel mistake of
confounding the Southern Rebels with the
Southern people" The census returns and
popular vote concur in demonstrating that
majority of the WhOle people OF the States
! lately in revolt approve and sustain the Recon-
struction policy of Congress. In the States Of
North and South Carolina, Louisiana, and
Florida this majority is decided-unquestion
able. In Mississippi there is large majority
of Blacks, and only common sense is needed
to convince any one that they approve the
policy that found them slaves and left them
freemen and legal voters. The recent Rebel
! triumph in that State was achieved just as
! Tories are frequently chosen to represent
Irish Catholics in Parliament-just as Wade
Hampton proposes to carry South Carolina
for Seymour-by saying to the Black voters;
ave own the land you live on; we employ
"and pay you: if you do not vote as we
dictate, your children shall have no shelter
land no bread" We defy any intelligent
Democrat to deny that this is the way, and
the only way, in which colored men are induced
to vote the Democratic ticket.
But the Rebels are not "the Southern people,
not even a majority of them. Assuming that
| the ten States recently unrepresented in Con-
gress have a population of Eight Millions, that
population is politically divided very nearly as
follows:
White Republicans 0oO-Whte Democrats 500 900
! Colored do. 1920, OOO-Colored do. 10000
Total. 4,2jOOOO Total .........-.5'oOOW
What Sham Democracy demands is the dis
reimbursement and political notification OF the
Blacks in order that it may work its wicked
will on the Republican Whites. "Neyer speak
d" to one of the wretches !" is the watchwOrd Of
Cobb, Toombs, Tie Mobile Register, Charleston
Mercury, and other oracles of Rebellion. "No
"scalawags white Republicans are wanted
here,n is advertised with their goods by Rebel
merchants. "When Seymour is elected, we III
make short work of the carpet baggers," is the
general cry of The Worlds political allies in
Dixie The Charleston Mercury gives formal
notice that no debt contracted by "Gen. SCOTS
government will be paid OF acknowledged
after The MercuryS friends get the upper hand
in South Carolina. That journal, like The
World, recognizes no Southern people" but
such as are technically White
Now this is an assumption utterly unsup-
ported by fact, reason, or the Federal COnsti-
tuition. There is not even a hint in that Con-
stitutiOn that a Free cOlOred man is not equal
in political rights to any other man. " Free
"persOns" are Disseminated from "all other
"persOns," but Blacks from Whites never.
Impregnably fortified by that charter we most
emphatically deny that "the Southern people"
or a majority of them, are opposed to what
The World calls "negro reconstruction"
ii. Now as to "the intense repugnance of
"the Southern Whites to being ruled by their
"former slaves" Is it any stronger than was
their repugnance to having those slaves freed
or allowing them to give testimony against
Whites or conceding to them civil rights
And have they not conquered their repugnance
to theseY Then why may they not consent to
their voting also7
But admit that their inhexible opposition
to negroes voting is a fact. Is it any more a
fact than their opposition to the Union recently
was1 Aud have they not braYelY surmounted