New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-06-10

OF them lie hoped Bullock would forge lot Of them,
and give the NewYork Yankees ALI they would take at
any price II way of foraging the enemy that
he liked 10 see Not dollar OF the debt since
the war would ever he paid. He gave an entertaining
description Of the character and anecedents OF the
prominent Radicals in the State, and would admit
that there was decent man among then all. Most OF
the members of Legislature he said never yentured
TO 20 back to the counties they pretended 10 represent
for they knew the people would hang them II they did
The two Inembers from the neghbOring County OF Ian
coin had never been there since they were elected IN
1863.
As regards negro suffrage, that he Thought an uiAo
evil. great lump OF ignorance and vice hdu DooH
made part oil the governing class. He said vice Deod
the negroes were ali thieves They were Ike animals
and would steal anything they saw that they "ah'e" DC
naturally as q hog would break into potatoneid OF
dog would seize piece Of meat. lie did not think an III
tcugpnt qualification for suffrage would remedy 1ne
evil Reading and writing did not III man lor 'o'ne'
The Paris mob intelligent, but they were tue most
dangerous in the world to be trusted with any Vi
the powers Of government. property quahhcaDioh
WAS what was necessary for stable government. Ony
those who owned the country should govern
it, and men who bad property had
no right to make laws for property holders. lie
said there was TO CHARM In the negroes Young
as long as the whites all belonged TO Que party but the
danger he feared that the whites would eVehtuahy
DIVIDE into two parties state issues. and that party
menthe dangerous, irresponsible element-and that the
negroes by natural affinity. would join that party which
would then be in the majority and being able TO cohrol
the state would then attack the interests OF the landed
propretors The Radicals have been greatly mistaken
ia counting upon the negroes tho basis OF their party
1.-THE negroes that they are satisfied there Is no
danger being reGnslaved win vote just as their ent
ployers tell them. They can't afford to do anything else
They attached TO their old homes and have no money
with which to and find new ones, andthey wDlnot
sk being discharged by voting against the planters who
hire them" TwO-thirds Of the negroes IN this county
voted with the Democrats last Fall, he said.
asked IT, when the golden age Of Southern ndepend'
ence came which he 80 confidently expected the blacks
would DO reduced 70 Slavery again. He thought not,
and said that Slavery would have gradually died out Il
Secession had been successful because it would soon
have ceased to be profitable Only IN cotton culture DID
slave labor pay, because cotton is crop that must DO
worked SOS days in year. Corn requires but 10 days
labor and wheat but 2 there profit in feeding
a man and his family whole year to get his
labor 10 raise corn or wheat. There never
was any question Of morals connected Win
Slavery he said; IL only matter OF
profit or loss was glad 10 find that on this question,
Gen ToOmbs had made some progress in his opinions
during past years and that he no Longer expects
to have that rocal at the foot OF the monument Cen
TooInhs characterized the KnKlux the natural pro-
test OF an oppressed people against tyranny Madame
De sae heS1id had described the Russian Government
as a despotsm tempered by assassination. Although lie
did not say in explicit terms he let it be clearly III
crred that he considered the reconstructed governments
OF the Southern states as despOsms tempered by hu-
Kluxism.
The conversation lasted hour, and much OF the
time a discussion which I considered more acrimonious
than courteous the part OF Gen. TOombs, as he was
the aggressor and assailcd the Northern people, their
habits customs, ancestors and character Win extreme
violence. Half hour afterward we parted. While
/ hfa guuU hnFnn
and he cordially invited to take tea with him, some
what TO my surprise. We walked up narrow street bor
| dered by handsome white houses, with pretty
! door-yards, and turned into lovely garden filed
with roses in bloom and many varieties OF blossom
ing shrubs AID ornamental trees. through which long
path led mp the hghpilared piazza OF hne house, He
presented me to his family in pleasant ROOM fed-wh
pictures books and other objects OF taste. Once at homo
the manner OF the Generachanged at once and instead
OF the bitter political partisan no became the genial host
and talked in the most entertaining manner Oh his
travels abroads Of his residence In Paris, OF English
politics and statesmen and OF tho future u the CONT
neutal nations Speaking Of home affairs he said that
al Of his Old slaves came back TO him when
he returned aom Europe 10 1867 and that his coachmsn
was the same man who drove his carriage when he
seDator at Washington and thatthe mans grandfather
was his crandfahers coachman. An hour passed in the
most agrecabo manner. and when / took my leave
should have concluded that the General had incur first
conversation, amused himself by astonishing me with
extreme views no did not really entertain, had
I not heard from many sources OF his violent
reacdouary opinions. He "a man Of striking
personal appearance Tie IA SIX feet in hight,
with q powerful frame head somewhat resembling
that Of Daniel Webster in its unusual size and IN the
great ght and breadth OF the forehead. He s rapid
and brilliant talker.and has q memory that 10
lose nothing that he has seen, heard or read His
knowledge history is especially thorough particularly
OF an efforts and struggles for liberty that the world
has mOwnthe most glorious OF all these struggles
being. ia his opinion, the southern Rebellion He II
nan that is easy would be leader wherever he
might be placed and his influence in Georgia admitted
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