Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1868-09-02

The neutral New York Hound 1d6tt
declares that the attempt to force uni
versal negro suffrage is the chief cause o.
the downfall of the Radical party. This
whole country is for white mans gov.
| ernment." 1t will have nothing else.
And if we were an enemy instead of a
friend to the negro, we should select the
ballot as the worst of all calamities
which could be imposed on him. In
grasping supremacy he may lose the
chief blessings Of liberty, The rule of
intelligence Isl indispensable to him as it
is to others. And he should no more
take the reins than an infant, if be does
not wish to rush to destruction. In the
following, the Bound Table photographs
the rock on which the Republican party
strikes and shivers, and speaks the en-
bodied sentiment ofthe great controlling
North, where States, not vassals, are
yictors, and the people, having sent of
their carpet -baggers, are free;
The violence aud bitterness of the
Radical leaders, their want of generos-
ity in dealing with and speaking of the
South and their curious deficiency in
tact and practical craftsmanship, are
mainly responsible for q sweeping re-
action that many wise and patriotic
thinkers and reason to regret BY iden-
tifying themselves with the cause of uni
versal negro suffrage, the Republican
party have become pledged to stand or
fall by principle which it is clear the
American people are not prepared to
maintain. We have always believed,
and in these columns have frequently
expressed the belief, that this was the
rock on which the Republican party
would strike and shiver, and successive
events have strengthened this persuasion
Whatever may be just or expedient
for the future, there are at present teo
many voters in this country, not too few
and there are tens of thousands of intel.
ligeat men who thoroughly believe this,
although they are not always quite as
ready as they should be to avow their
conviction. Justice to the blacks is a
very good thing, but the nation is evil
IDENTIFY not yet ready to assent either to
the necessity or the policy of securing
that Justice at the cost of the liberty Of
the whites. The election last year in Ohio,
the election We have Just witnessed in
Kentucky, indicate in the dearest man
ner the strength and determination
of the popular win on this subject.
4 revolution ia in progress which
all bloodless though it may be,
promises TO be resistless in ex-
tent aud efficacy. The people are say
ing to the Radical extremists, in language
not to be misunderstood: THUS far
shall you 90, but no farther. Freedom
for all bondpen we agree TO and insist
upon, but we will not agree TO a precipi-
tate and indiscriminate bestoval Of the
best cherished privilege of American
freemen upon the post ignorant and de-
graded Of the community. We demand
tina, you pause here until decent space
be given to preparation, and until the de-
libsrate sense Of the whole com munity
shall have been thoroughly tested and
fairly expressed"
Hypocrisy always sooner or later be-
gets bitterness, aud there cannot be
doubt that, however honest and admit
rable the motives Of many Republicans,
there have been some among their most
conspicuous leaders and spokesmen who
have thought more Of reinforcing and
perpetasting the poger OF tbs party than
of assuring the welfare of the negroes
Against this class Of men, whether poll
ticians or journalists, there has grown up
in the last year or two an intense popular
hostility which has led TO not q little
violence Of expression, and which
threatens greatly to highten the asperity
Of the Presidential contest.