The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-09
"The New Rebellion"

The radical papers are beginning to fume
about what they call the thew rebellion IL +:
the South" =" me- :, -.ci.n the ebulitons Of
some crazy democratic editor, recall the out.
RACES Of the Ku Klux Klans, the assaults
upon professions, the turbulence, riots and
bloodshed that have recently occurred ID
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, Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana and
Ivza, ;:s. a.! owe. the South, as evidence
that new rebellion has been inaugnrafed,
and the people are warned to prepare for the
consequences.
Now, we admit that state Of alarm,
confusion, anarchy, quasi-rebellion and quasi
war, II you please, exists in the South. We
admit that Cociety there is plunged into con-
dition of chaos from which it may take
years to recover; that business is FRUSTRATED;
that the agricultural, commercial and all in
dustrial interests are paralyzed; that distrust
aud discredit prevail; that education and the
cause Of religion are languishing; that the
people are in great measure strangers to
any law except lynch law, and that ORDER the
first law Of God, is utterly unknown. But
what Is tho cause Of all this public disorder
and social arrangement? Who are to blame
for precipitating upon this rich and fertile
land this gigantic fusion of evils I? The an
swer is plain. They arise from wild and
utterly preposterous attempt Of the radicals to
establish in the South the supremacy Of race
utterly unprepared, unfit and incapable to as
sumo for years to come any other position in
social and political life than that sanctioned by
o condition of semi barbarism. 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 ''new rebellion" as the radicals call It.
In this effort to elevate the black race above
the white the radicals have excited in
the former visions of ease, plenty and
equality which they know can never be
realized in this age. They have awakened in
the Negroes mind an idea that he Is greater and
more powerful than his late master, and that
WHICH qucstiOH VI JuStlc6 Or right arises De-
tween 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 becomes an alto.
gcther different creature from what he was
even in state Of bondage. His savage and
cruel nature is developed He becomes ma,
rauder, n ravisher, an incendiary, debased
and inhuman animal. White citizens are them
obliged to defend themselves against the depre-'
dations Of the blacks, and naturally q collision
occurs in which II would be singular II some-'
body were not hurt. All this springs from q
violation Of the laws Of nature and OF the statute
in regard 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 like attempts
made in the North or In any community where
the blacks have settlement In any numbers,
Here, then, IL . solution Of tha question
a. to whom the existing reign Of vio-
lenoe In the South should be ascribed. Now