The New York herald., 1868-04-09

The War of Races in tho South.
Many months ago we warned the radicals
that they were sowing fearful harvest in the
South. We told them that the measures they
were adopting would inevitably result in con-
fict between the two races. Needless of the
solemn lessons which history teaches, and
utterly regardless of the laws of nature, our
radical rulers forced their policy upon the
South, and already are we beginning to see
what the consequences will be. From all ap-
pearances war of races in that unhappy Sec
ton of the Union is rapidly approaching The
first seeds of dstrust were sown by the Freed
mems Bureau, which, although under the
patronage of the general government, was
most shamefully used by the radical party to
poison the minds of the ignorant blacks against
their former masters. At later day, the
Bureau not being as secret a concern as was
desirable, Loyal League clubs were formed
from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. These
organizations were composed almost entirely of
negroes; they became so powerful in numbers
and political importance that eventually their
members assumed to be the rulers and masters
of the whites. So long as they were permitted
to display their arrogance and assert their
usurped power so long was the danger averted.
But the logical result of two years of despotism
lies now before us in the fact of a counter ac-
ton on the part of the whites. From one end
of the South to the other new secret society,
known as the ''Ku Klux Klan," has been Or
ganized in opposition to universal negro suf
frage and negro rule. The aims and purposes
of the association are not concealed from the
world. The Southern whites have declared
that they will no longer tolerate policy which
sinks them into servitude and makes a semi
barbarous race their masters. Thus we now
have two intensely hostile elements organized
and organizing, and facing each other-the
Ku Klux Klan, or secret society of white men,
on the one hand, and the Loyal League Asso-
citation, or secret society Of negroes, on the
other, each struggling for supremacy and
each of q race alien in civilization and ideas to
the other. How long will it be before such
antagonistic elements pass the bounds of politi-
cal warfare and engage in a contest of blood
shed and desolation?
We are no alarmists, but we cannot ignore
the fact that nothing can be done now to pre-
vent war of races. And to the action of the
radicals must he ascribed this terrible prospect
for the South. They and their emissaries have
in1amed the minds Of the negroes with ideas
which cannot be obliterated except by the
stern and bloody experiences of the battle
field. They have goaded the Southern whites
into desperation; forced them, as a means of
preserving their race, to initiate the example
of their black antagonists by organizing pow
erful secret society, and they have planted the
seeds of the most fearful conflict that this Con-
tinent ever witnessed. Unfortunately, the
| races are nearly balanced, numbering, as they
do, some six millions of whites to over four
| millions of blacks. A war between them will
be much worse than any of the insurrec-
| tions in st. Domingo or Jamaica. In the
| South the whites are numerous; they possess
| superior intellectual powers and have won
| worldwide reputation for valor. But they
have to contend against a horde of semi
savages, backed up by the entire power of the
radical party and half crazed by the pernicious
teachings they have received. An army costing
three hundred millions per annum will not suf-
fee to keep the peace between the two races.
The inhexibility of the whites and the dogged
determination of the blacks never to submit
to each others rule appear to render in ad-
vance any attempt at reconciliation or resto-
ration Of kindly feeling utterly impotent.
The situation in the South is a sad one I;
the future offers nothing better than interne-
cine war. In the "black BELTS" as they are
called, Of the different Southern States, those
whites who can get away are already leaving
the homes Of their nativity and seeking safety
elsewhere. They are fortunate in being able
to leave; for those who are compelled to
remain win have to bear the brunt of the
storm; and for this impending confict--for
this certain annihilation of one and possible
destruction of both races-the radicals are
alone responsible. They attempted to over
turn the laws Of nature, to strike down the
barriers which God has placed between the
white man and the negro and to elevate the
inferior race into the position Of ruler of its
superior. That this attempt must eventually
fail we firmly believe; but before It's impossi-
bility Of success has been demonstrated the
wretched people Of the South will have TO con-
front another and more terrible struggle, and
another and greater hecatomb of graves must
be reared from the Potomac 10 the Rio Grande.
Such will be the results of radical policy oi
reconstruction; and VIC claim no remarkable
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