The weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1869-18??, 1870-04-27

S--us 1nu eye - ~ -
lII - a 8 u ecssadsnee ss51a - ~ u
lII5 6o1b& rather than witk 10 6l0czs. On the
whole, the negro has done his part: !: b. has
given proofs Of q capacity and q disposition
/ to undertake bis new career in an inoffen
sive and promising manner, and he holds
outa standing offer to the South of peace.
full relations It is rather the schite persons
who are to be schooled and educated up to
the necessities ofthe question before the ne
grs problem can be satisfactorily determined
and put on conservative basis. a
Andihis education, admit, is to be te-
tliEus and difficult, yet not impossible. Just
nov there are particular difficulties in the
way. The South at this time is sore under
the great disappointment inflicted upon it
/ in the general aversion of the negro vote,
after it had been busily, and even insolently
proclaimed that theiblack men would as
sgFedly vote just as their "old masters
close to have them vote. This soreness is
almost universal and quite fresh now in the
Sputh. sTiWhen the enfranehisement of the
negro was first proposed, the common
thought in the South was that bis vote
night be easily commanded; a. few cheap
Words the least cozening might procure
d for his "old mastersn But, to the utter
|, surprise and dismay of the South, the black
toter was not 4 so easily persuaded or pur-
chased and nothing is more remarkable in
4 The short career he has exhibited to the
world, nothing could have been more unex-
Ipected, nothing is more significant OF the
true worth of the. negro that the indepen-
dence and discretion he has shown at the
polls. land this we say although bis choice
has generally been ayowed against our own
.noIiticaJ oninions)l The negro who was
vet as humble and defcreutisl as in the days
Jof slaveryl who once saed aAIass,r.n y and who
vet uncovered his head in the presence of
white persons. must have possessed consid
cradle strength OF character, the true sub
stance Of a man. I'd, have gone out from the
homes IN which he served abiectly and cast
his vote il, thelverv face Of persons whom
otherwise 1 he was sccustomed on every day
If The wear TO accosti with every token Of
isrb,,,;ss;on and fbu,ni,tv q Suck q disnIav
IF ;ndenendence of fbe moro voter tbnng6
icsst : sos;nst nv marty y'bonor from the hot.
INN ofmv,b,s,t 4 - been trnlv 'drama,;c
and IA some sense sublime. 7l5'Tli :
Is But the resentment of the South at their
disapu0lntment in the negro voter is now
notably taking the form of sudden and
angry declaration Of the Democratic party
|rhst It does not desire the vote of the me-
GRO. and that to solicit his "besotted and
1ndiscrimiuatinc ballotu would stultify and
degrade the party. This declaration will
inevitable call to mind the fable of the
49, aad TIA Grapes.na But in the real se-
stbject We waive the fable,
- - d1Wihing to afford anything for lev
~ or for'2ippancy, but in the most pro-
found concern We would ask all thoughtful
and n4conservative persons IN the South to re-
consider this declaration, and to accept and
ponder the real Lesson conveyed in what has
hitherto been the disappointment Of the
CONSERVATIVE party IN the South, to concili-
ate and secure the negro. This lesson is,
that former appeals Of this party to the
negro have failed through their paftriness
and insufhciency; that the black man is to
be addressed hereafter by arguments more
sensible and more substantial than the cheap
coverings which were at first thought sufd-
clent 70 Diind ana 70 seduce him at the
polls, and If we are to- compete with the
Radicals for the neoro vote we nust do n
on such broad and deem grounds as viii
recognize our 9 new citizenn as fulIv snch
onite "a much a citizen h bis estate and
intellioance and as likely to understand his
true interests as any other class of voters
whom we are accustomed to solicit. This
is emphatically The lesson of. the times for
( the South. and il il inst to this mint { that
that education of the ash;te pao,,L of the
South. which we have indicated as the one
present q, nre,ne necessity @ Of the sass & die. die
Charge of the negro Question. must come.
The necessary change is to be on the side
of the white man. the needed transforma.
tion il to be there :2it il AZ that end Of the
line the work of ;educat;on "a IN ha done
necessary TO- secure the fifteenth amend.
r,ent and To obtain for II the. hest ,oss;bie
resnlfs- ! - '~1sr :, : 1-S srfeS'''- r'.'' :
nj Thevie should he nla;n enopob And
vet.iI dopbt not n will find sore cr;t;cs wb I
vii, l,istort n ~ thew have aires Do .l;stoyted
INV article Il, LiDnijn soft,s as sometbino vert
offensive tn fbe nice and ar;stoc,at;c sens;'
,h;lit;es of the South 1Snch cr;t;c;,ma a 70
NO mower ovar mo md nyohobl, not ovor : :
onfs;de The paradise IT fools Tbev oene! @
ally emanate from absurd and ilI-condit;on.
ed news in the South which nroduce moth.
ino.hpt, sillv- and wearisome sentimental.
isms from The frst. and whose habitual tone
IN tbe neoroNconst;tnt;na 40 he doss ons
~ M most ,,rsarant sn5 ,om.t;c oresS
t;,ns 49, AZ % nur ssysa - tS.+ II. !. snssr ~ ;sstI
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found no better or higher occupatIon- since
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