The Van Buren press., 1869-09-07
" The Riot in Mobile. The Irreprsssible
Conflict Again"

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and Fredonia On. ~ Advertiser ana
Onton of the tn, while responsible Will
all others who have sustained Radical
Ism in our national politics, for the pres
ent unsettled condition of matters South
and elsewhere, it is equally different from
the majority of the Republican prints, in,
asmuch as. its editors are Independent,
enough to denounce a policy they now
see is ruinously wrong. There was a ne
gro riot in Mobile last week, disastrous
to life in hs consequences, and the Her
aid makes it the subject of the following
truths.
The serious riot in Mobile, Of which
we published a telegram report, yester-
day, is but one OF many similar occur
rences in the South. 1t is the natural
fruit OF Radical reconstruction The eff
forts made by Congress to reconstruct
the Southern States in manner to Sc
cure the political power of that section
for the Radical party, have failed but
Nature. common sense, the experience of
the world, all protest against the insane
attempt to govern the South through ie-
norance and a semi barbarous race, and
to make the intelligent majority of our
own superior race political helots on their
native soil. What could come of such a
monstrous and desperate policy but con
ilicts between the races
But such scenes as this one at Mobile
might have been avoided had there been
no outside interference in the local affairs
Of the Southern States, and had white
people of that scction-the former mas
ters of the negroes-becn permitted to
exercise healthy influence over the ig-
norant blacks. Even with the ballot in
the hands of these negroes, these riots
have left terrible legacy of disorder and
bloodshed. Setting aside the native and
intelligent white people, and crushing
them to the ground, while placing their
late slaves, a semi barbarous and ignor-
ant race in power, could have no other
result. 1t was the most monstrous po-
ltical expcrimentev ever tried. The crazy,
levelling dogmas and frightful course of
the sans culoNe regime Of the first French
revolution never exceeded in folly or
recklessness the Radicals in the South.
might have been avoided for the South
erncrs could not have failed to see that it
must be for their own interest, as well as
for that of the blacks, to give their for
mer slaves good advice, and to harmon
ize with them. But this was not allowed
A Radical Congress and the Radicals of
the North were determined to destroy
the influence of the Southern whites in
their own States, and hence Radical car.
pet baggers poured into the South. and
by Misrepresentation and bad advice ar
raycd the negroes against their old mas
ters and best friends. These emissaries
of disorder are the cause of the riots and
other troubles that afllct theSouth. They
have inaugurated an irrcpressible conflict
between the races, and so long as the in
telligsnt whites are deprived Of political
power, and these wretched carpet bag Off
scourings Of the North are permitted to
deceive and influence the passions of the
negroes, there will be trouble and blood
she'd But what do these wretches care
if they can accomplish their political OBJ
ject? In the conflict the negro must 90
under, and if, unfortunately, it should be
continued long, they will be swept out of
existence. That must be the inevitable
result. That is what the so-callcd North
crn philanthropists and Radical Jewellers
are bringing upon their dcluded proteges
The negroes are the victims of unprinci-
Piled carpet-bag politicians, and the
sooner they discover the fact, the better
for themselves and the country.
And such has been the Democratic DO
sition all the way through Is it not
sound