The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1869-11-12
Prospects In the sOuth,

We hear no more from Democratic
orators and mouthpIeces OF the bloody
war oiraces which was TO follow negro
emancipation at the South. The grim,
ghastly pictures OF anarchy, turmoil,
and strife which were CouJnred up In
vivid Democratic lmagInRtlons, have
all been dIspelled by the reality, and
for fifteen years there have not been so
much order and quiet In the Southern
States, take them as a whole, as now.
None ofthe evil iorebAdlngs, In which
many, North and South, INDUCED at
the close OF the war, have been realized
The master and slave appear to have
harmonIously adjusted themselves to
the new regime, and while the latter 70,
Joices In his liberty, the former IL
thankful that he Is no longer taxed
with the care and keeping OF slaves. Il
Is Indeed most gratifying, as we'll al
surprising, the friendly relations which
have grown up where hatred and AMI.
mostly were looked for. The Macon
Telegraph, which was an extremely
Southern journal during and after tht
war, In the course Of very suggestive
and ably written article, cites atten,
tion 10 the agreeable disappointment
which has been experienced all ovel
Georgia In this respect. The close o.
the war, says the Telegraph, found
many OF the most intelligent men Of
the State thoroughly impressed with
q belief thas q war OF races was not only
a natural but an inevitable sequence Of
emancipation. They believed that the
civil and political subordination Of the
blacks was indispensable 10 the Be-
curity OF society against vlndictlve
rivalry which would eventuale in VIC,
lent conflicts and deadly antsgonIsm
No subject at that time occasloned &C
much uneaslness among the people
Many emIErated, and hundreds kept
the means Of ready escape In hand OF
on deposit In the event Of their sud.
denly being demanded by the exIgen.
cles OF social anarchy.
But says the Telegraph, NEARLY five
years have passed and we see that the
theory Of race conflict Is not q sound
one. We see that the Colored race can
exercise all the civil and political rights
belonging TO the whites and yet no con.
titct OF violence necessarily take place.
Doubtless, It IL a great evil that politls
cal power should be shared between
people 30 divided by the hand Of God,
and there Is danger In It; but this dan.
ger can BIO ObvlAted by prudence and
iOrbearance. On the whole, every man
looking back through these five years
feels assured that the relations between
these races Instead Of getting worse, are
vastly improvlng-that the feeling OF
security has Increased until 1t has
become well nigh absoluIe-and that
emphatIcally the whites OF the South are
masters Of the situation, and have the
whole future under God in their hands.
We have but TO 90 on NJ we are moving,
and our social, iudustrial, and political
future will all DO, In time, secure be.
yUnd contingency. We have con-
quered our prejudlces and PASSIONS
we have learned to role our own spirits
-weshall certainly maintain the peace,
order and security Of Georgia."
What Is true Of Georgia is particular.
~ true Of Virginia and South Carolina,
and more or less true OF all the recov-
cred States. SslE-lnterest, II nothing
more, has rapidly harmonIzsd the op.
posing elements, and no approximations
OF future troubles need be apprehend.
ed, unless the mischief making leaders
Of Democracy should succeed In re.
gaining national power, and then make
use OF that power TO reEIdle the en-
bers OF the strife and reawaken the an
imosltles and heart>burnings begotten
by The unhappy civil war,