The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1870-02-19
GOvernIncnt by Negroes.
a New View OF Radical Tactics-Takfnr nm
for Abstinence from Es!oo(,siicd.


From the Pail Mall Gazette.
Except in the ease of the United
States, there has been great uniformity in the
history OF tho suppression of rebellions in mo.
dern times. First, there has been severe and
often sangninary punishment inflicted on the
chiefs OF the revolt then has succeeded a period
during which the successful empire has enforced
strict obedience 10 itself from its subiugated de.
tendency: and finally has oome a strong desire,
growing sometimes out CT policy. sometimes out
OF a sense of justice and sometimes out of mere
emotion, to win its affections, or at ell events its
voluntary acquiescence in accomplished facts.
England is just ct present feeling an almost
passionate wish to be reconciled to Ireland and
to be beloved by the natives of India Austria
has done her best to come to terms with Hun
gary, and there are signs that the sufferinys of
Poland are beginning to cause discomfort and
compunction even in Russia The United States
seem destined to an experience of different
kind. On the morrow of the conquest their
treatment OF the southern leaders was marked
by gentlencss which will always be 1emem.
bered to their honor. But in the next stage of
their relations it'll the south, the necessity for
combining despotc rule with something like the
forms OF local self government forced them to
adopt policy which has more than made up for
their abstinence from bloodshed. Nobody whose
intelligence has not been impaired by the hsbit
OF repeating formulas about universal suffrage
can doubt that the punishment inflicted on the
southern whites is far the severest which one
community has ever inflicted on another Eng.
land governed Ireland through minority which
the mass of the Celtic population, however it
might hate, never dreamed of despislng; tho
United States rule the south through majority
OF negroes, contempt for whom was almost re.
ligion with the planter before the attempt at
session. We are not considering whether the
punishment was deserved, or whether the north.
ern states could possibly help infiicting il We
merely say that, after the capacity of the negro
Tor improvement has been rated AS highly a
possible, and after all possible deductions have
oeen made from the credibillty of the stories
published by the democratic press, the fact re-.
mains that government Of white men by colored
ex'slaves is the acutcSt form OF mortal torture
which has ever been applied to community.
How unfortunate it has been that the punish.
ment OF the south has taken this shape the Uni.
ted States are not likely to feel until the time
comes land 1t will certainly come when the peo.
pie OF the north will be animated with tho
strongest wish to be reconciled to even the most
obstinate zealots Of accession. We should be-
sorry TO lay down that the United States would
have done well to shed blood like water in the
hrst moments 'of triumph, il only they could
nave devised some less degrading contrivupce
ior tne provisional government of the south. Yet
Hsq quite certain that bloodshed IL easily forgot.
Ten personal outrage with the greatest Difficult.
". The hungarian mobiles appear 20 have for.
gwen the Emperor Francis Joseph for his whole.
SAFE executions Of their brethren but nobody
can iail to see that tho rreooncilability" Of
some OF the most eminent Of French politicians
greatly due to the recollcctions Of the onal
a.snonor to which they were subjected on the
memorable morning Of tho comp fctM. At the
psesent msment, VIC are well aware that nothing
less Important to tho great majority Of tho
a aua people than that the experiment they
are trying in tho south, causes excessive discom.
tort tol a parcel of conquered rebels: but they
VIII probably, hereafter view This Experiment.
WIN other eyes when there comes The inevitable
waxing to sympathy a.d pity, and whom, much