The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1871-06-10

HORACE GREELEY ON SOUTHERN WHITES.
Having, with an unconscious intimation of
his own estimate of the relative Importance
of the two subjects, first devoted letter to
the condition of the blacks in the South,
Mr.. Greeley next dcvotes Il column of Tn
bune "editorial correspondence TO that
OF the white race; and this is the substance
of his conclusions. To the question "Do
they acquiescc in the abolition OF slavery p
he answers:
81 am entirely confident that no conSid
cradle number of the southern people
either expect or purpose to rcenslave their
former chattlCs. None know better than
the great body of the southern whites that
moral impossibility. Their very genera
complaint. he adds, that we can't contro
our labor has Il very real foundation. A
given force, say twenty families, will moi
pick so much cotton in the month as they
did ten years ago.
He thinks that emancipation has borne
less hardly upon planters than their wives
Of these he says " Many Of the wiscSt anC
most rcsolute among them have learned tC
do their own work. with their daughters
help some have obtained white help. main
lv Offoreiyn birth others get on with hireC
black servants, but most Of these get or
badly"
The poor white next claim his attention
and is found TO be much less black than he
has been painted. Certainly there are idle
trifling "poor whites' Still, as there art
equally worthless blacks; but they are fewer
than they have been, and growing fewer
day bv day. The I" corn-crackers," sand
hiilerS," /" clay-eaters," &C., Of the last gen
Grafton. will Dc unknown Is q class utter
this century.
The political views Of the southcrners arc
thus intimated: "They propose 10 renew
the fight, but not with gun and sabre
They expect to regain as Democrats
through elections the power they lost as
rebels through war. They herein evincc
that wisdom which profits by the lessons Of
experience.
And while bitter spirit is cherished by
many, feel sure that the number who ac,
qucSce, if they do not absolutely rejoice,
in the restoration of the Union is daily III.
crcasing. Thousands hue the carpet.
baagerS,' with their alleged corruptlons
and spoliations, who protest that they du
hot hate the UniOn.'
Unon review of the immediate outlook
in Il partisan sense his conclusion is:
"Should the South show an anti-Repub-
lican majority in 1872, it will be Il cOnsc-
uuence OF injudici0us appointments and
removals, of actual or reputed prod igalty
iu legislation or i'll office"
A summing up of the situation in mate
rial and moral sense is stated in these terms
That the South is steadily recovering
from the calamitics and losses consequent
on our late civil war, Is very obvious. The
process might be more rapid, but could
hardly be more substantial"
Iii were irrational to expect that all the
bitterness cn.endcred by twenty years OF
sectional collision, including four Of bloody
war. should be eilaccd i'll day, and OF
course it is not bur the tendency is right
and time will exert its healing influence if
no untoward event should interposc to pre-
vent It."
And in this connection 1t may be interest
ing to quote the extract from one OF Mr.
Greeley's speeches, rs reported by the
Vicks6urg Herald, if only as throwing some
light upon the character of the man, and
his mental attitude toward the Southern
pcopie while making the observations upon
which the foregoing conclusion were based
"I greet you here" SAID Mr.. Greeley.
&C as citizens who will in time feel honor in
the glory of Stonewall Jackson as We'll as
those who were in the opposing armies
[cheersl; who will glory alike i'll the glory
of Il. l.. Lee Us we'll rs those who fought
acainst him. He felt that the clouds thai
now hover over the country would soon bt
swept away, and vanish in the grand, grow
ing, and rising republic, which will one day
embrace all the countries and all the people
of this North American continent.'