The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1870-07-04

lishp forrer1es OF woud.be humorists ana all the
faces that the Richmond man can make 70 inc 9iE
Cling "beauty and fashion, Of his audience within
the limits OF nftv cents q head, have not ayailed
to prevent the exhibition OF Senator RevelS
speaking purer and better Engisn IMAM nine
tenrhs OF Southern editors; the triumph Of the
!amented Bland, surprising all the white orators OF
virginia who spoke before the Rec0nstruct,on Uon-
mlttee Of Congress, or the romance when mas re-.
Gently figured in all the newspapers OF despised
virginia slave, escaping from the scourge TO ono
euucatng himself IN two colleges OF the North,
gong thence to Europe winning In the Crmean
war promotion from the ranks TO a c0onecy in the
United states at the court OF Hayti
me iu.,f Ire Is mainly with yourselves But would
won by few OF your race. want want YOU to under
stand the whole situation. You are but at the COM
mencelnent OF what yon have to learn In your new
za0n OF the white man Is the work Of many CEN
turtles; It IS the accumulation Of hundreds Of years
learning wherein the Ango-Saxon race mas been
garnering from q time whereof the memory Of man
while nations have passed away. This civinatioS
Is not so cheap that you can be ADMITTED into In
day. You can't vote yourself into 1t. You can't
get 1t by putting wishing caps on your heads or
little pieces or paper In your hands, The ballot no
tallsman; it has no miraculous power IL IS n0tnin4
more Than a human instrument. You have got 20
work for your civilization as truly as for your bread
For YOU as for every nation and people, there Is bae
one law OF progress. one possible esson- 8U
Learn to labor and 70 wait
The coored freeman Is only commencing his edu-
caon, and have This to say, that 70 force him into
country-and this is what mean by negro rule in
les bad sense-is to destroy the negro as well as to
great notice; It Is well disposed towards every effort
you put forth to make true progress and to take on
the reproacn OF your race; let this large and Denef
cent regard encourage you to continue for time In
pupilage, to work steadily on, showing solid
foundation Of merit for every increase OF that re.
gard, and not TO ruin your future and destroy tho
whole experiment Of your race IN this country by an
eager, childish desire to appropriate suddenly civil
zatiOn and influence beyond your true and preScnt
capacity. There are just and Intelligent white
men ia the South enough. who will keep
Achievements and VINO Will be constantly Interested
and sympathetic observers OF your progress. Trust
them; make them your friends; make them your in.
structOrs They are naturally both.
The good relation Of the two races In the South
is important to the white man, but to the negro II IL
vital. The immigration of white laborers into vir-
gina, which the colored people themselves are
directly encouraging by their desertOn OF their old
masters, to give their votes and confidence TO
strangers, and even by their diversions from the
fields Of steady labor to political excitements, Is
already threatening to take tine bread from their
outstanding and rightly approaching just one thing.
II Is that, humanity speaking, ms labor Is MS all.
not even bit OF shelter nothing more of wealth or
Of hope IN the future than what is locked up In the
horny flesh on your hands Your labor, rs your all,
Just the most impO,alt OF earthly consider atoms
TO you. and your whole policy In the South should
be to conserve and cherish It, In other words to
T %n the White eeope to wnom YOU mas
look for employment and wages. In this mat
ter you cannot serve two masters. do not say
s'VOte with US or starve." That Is foolish and
cruel speech, and do not think anything was ever
really gained, even on the lowest grounds OF inte-
rest by making man vote against his CONVICTIONS;
for you don't purchase any amount OF real opinion
or of good Will; you merely buy hypocrisy, which
will in The end turn and sting with increased aspe-
rty. But do say that you cannot expect more than
average human nature from the white people OF the
South, and that when you prefer the advice and In
terest OF the Northern carpetbagger and agitator,
when you collect around sucn men ana joan with
them in Remuneration Of the native whites OF the
South robbers. outcasts, &C., you cannot with
firm and uilshanled lace turn around and ask these
people you have been thus abusing to do deeds
Of Kindness to you ana to stand your friends IN me
all, come out OF the delusion that he can sell himself
to the League and Northern agtators ana yet at the
same time curry favor with the white people
against whom these are In daily and ulireniitting
enmity.
He must make his choice, and he should UNDER
stand what that choice is limited to. 1t is choice
that does not properly affect his rights land
mere 1t Is he SO often mstakesl; 1t only goes
practically to the question whom he VIII select
FOR friends and couniellors as between self
seeking and insidiOus men OF the North and
those Southern people, who have common home,
common interest and-as far as laws can make ia
common future with him. wish to be clearly and
completely understood when say that would not
abate one ot the rights OF the cOlored man accrued
under the act OF emancipation; and believe there
Is sufficient number or Just and enlightened white
men In the South agreeing with me in this DISPOSE
ton to make perfectly safe to the freedmen. long
as they exist on the statute book the guarantees he
mas Obtained rom Congress- DO not ask nlm 10
part from his rights; do not ask him to diminish
them. In sum and In substance this Is all that is
asked Of the cOlored people OF the SouthThat they
should set their faces as flint against Northern erns
saries. that they should be recOncied with the ma
tive whites OF the South and that they should take
the position OF learning from them, following the
lead OF superior civilization and friendly in
tereSt.
This is all And believe me, colored friends and
fellow citizens, when you have done these things
anu have occasion thereafter to stand up for your
rights, TO ask why justice has not been done you In
any case, why right has been withheld or wrong
inflicted there Will be thousands ana tens OF thou
sands Of white men in the South who will stand with
you TO confirm your Voices to emphasize your de.
mands, to make your cause their cause and to say
for you what you now requested to say for.
them-"Let justice be DONE"
EDWARD A. POLLARD.
TIE NEW JUDICIARY.