The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1868-10-10
From the New York Herald, 25th inst
StraWs In the North Wind.


The truth Is. the reconstruction of
Congress IN the South, ander aohich
all these evils hare arisen, has tailed.
The reconstruction laws are fast be
coming, ilthey are not almost already,
things Of the past-nulI, void
and inoperative-dead letters, politi-
cllly and moral y The Radicals relied
upon the negro vote to carry out
their policy, and now they are fast
losing their grip upon Sambo. The
ambitious colored Demostheneses are
disappointed; They boil with indigna-
tion when they reflect upon the
treatment Of their fellows by the
Georgia Legislature-their igno.
minous expulsion therefrom-whereas
mot single Northern adyenturer
would have found seat therein had
lit LOT been for the black vote. They
have been promised houses and plan-
tations, and eminent political posi-
tions, and have been deceived and
befooled. They have been formed
into secret Leagues and armed bands,
under the delusiOns that such organs
IizatiOns were necessary to enable
them to preserve their freedom against
the Injustice aud encroachments of
their former masters. But they are be.
coming awakened to the motives of
their white radical leaders in forming
them into these bodies. These white
radicals, as an intelligent Southern
contemporary observes, wanted a
"means of binding the negroes to-
gether, of giving the political league
power for attack on aggression, and Of
projecting themselves, if necessary,
against the people whom they had
outraged and wronged" But, adds
the same authority, ''it remains to be
? seen whether they will be able to SO
direct the huge machine that it will
always move or be still at their bid.
ding, There Is danger that the 1ohite
f Radicals mag be hoisted Nth their
ot0n petard. Their topls toill sooner
or later learn that The justice Of III,
Soathemer is safer than the par,
TALLY of tie needy adOenturer. The
already Lao,o that they haze neitheI
land aormoney nor office to erpec
from their ,ohite leaders. They ar
aware that their armed organization
are in appearance gigantic power
And they may ere long be tempted t.
, take up arms to secure their share 0
the sroils of war, their share of pom
and state, their share Of proftabl
' plunder. Every day lessons tn,
danger of serinns cnllisinn hetwee
4 ltn!e3N !e3N Ma day increase the hazard that tn
= poor negro worm may turn upon. an
n wound the miserable kuayes who no
It tread him in the dust
:. Here, then, we see the bow of prom
ise of which we have spoken. II
> reconstruction laws Of ofCougress hayir
r. failed to preseserve order aud prote'
!. persons and property 10 the Sonthol
States, but having, on tile contrar
r. yiyen license to outrage. robber
=. ronire and bloodshcd, the true black'
comes to the rescue aud wakes up Il
South to u new position and mo
IN copgeuial destiny Now comes Il
bGlbip struggle. Who shall have {
no EbIaekeys? The Radical adventure
i from the North and West, who, n
he being able to make living at hoI
MI without getting into the penitentiaE
as went South, like an army of Jerer
Diddlers and Peter Funks to humb
BOO and swindle the poor, deluded blaeke
700 are making all sorts of false promise
ooo secure their votes. Opposed to the
600 are the old masters, to whom
tba blackeys are naturally endeared,
,ix children are to their parents, III
Of some viper iutervenes between tn
and weans lheiFefeCtions away, v
X. are able to fulfil thss promises I'll
make to their former servants, I
,ts. whose honor, when oncepledged
INK them, they have le"rned lQregard
nd unimpeachable. Travel the South
new over before the war, aud where
tn. master or mistress could be to'
twoIw who had failed to keep faith with
six or her domestics, you would , !
Won found thousands who would have
the in it the utmost letter and sP
tbatI Hence the freedman is more hkel
otter believe his old master, who is to
oter manner bora aud whom he has tru
oter and never found wanting, than
your bird Of passage adventurer who c'
the among them like the locust or &C
,tion worm, to ravage and destroy
own --''''
need The health Of Queen Victoria,