New-York tribune., 1871-11-08

bo kindly and oompassonateiy 90 we'll % justly treated
| By tho white man L In common With many others OF
cnss desire 10 the Union Of fthers preserved
and handed down intact 10 futaro generations We SEQ
In tho perpetuaon Of the Federal Union the only safety
400 for Southern White men. We ind country I'M
poyershed and our taxes averaging etate County and
City about three per cent on high valuation; and ths
instead of going school the negroes and pay for noces
sary public improvements and public services, We nnot
goes 10 enrich men who came here from the North poor
and after being In Office short time, travel North
| every Summer and spend money freely.
Mr.. Editor, those who Like myself only want 10 see
some material prosperity return 10 War-blasted
country, who wish for Office, ana willing 70 and DO
work cannot In this state Of affairs any pros
pect future prosperity The ignorant negroes poor
creatures are taught that high taxation for the pur
pose of selling out lands that they may buy when they
can already buy for half years work 40 Of land.
and with tho savings OF another years wages, mule
Sir II honesty docs not soon become tho rule among
ofcehoders of your party among shall be as bad
! off as you are In New-Yosk with this disadvantage
agapst US: cannot expect roller by change in
| the sentiments Of negro voters.
Mr. Editor cannot you start new party having these
| as the cardinal doctrines:
0The Unon the Constitution, and the enforcement
y a Honest men, and only honest men, In oface;.
One term OF ak years ior every rro''uen' VI 'n0
BrotSey between contsdsTa.ss and ISs Fsdsra e.
"kndpess and disposition to bo charitable 70 each
0'S' s. impartial Suffrage and Universal Amnesty. cat
| once" now and for evermore"
Get I'D such party and you will find all the young
men Of the South at your bacK-men who arc willing 70
obey every law and do everything TO bring peace aud
| prosperity back TO this unhappy land. HoNEsrS
| Ansuer by The Tribune.
| Our correspondent is asked to consider these
facts:
| 1. The Government of Mississippi Is in the
hands of her people, nine-tenths of whom are
natives of the South;
2. It is not even pretended that her cleo
tions are decided by votes illegally cast or
dishonesty counted.
1t seems to US, then that the Mississippians
have their destiny in their own hands-that
they may easily remove the evils whereof they
complain. The Blacks generally fear that those
Whites who endeavored to break up the
Union in the interest Of Slavery are still bent
on reducing them to virtual serfdom if not to
| legal Slavery is that to be wondered at,
| when we all know that Seymour and Blairs
election was ardently desired by those Whites
barely three years ago, when Blair avowed his
purpose to overthrow the negro governments
and restore the rule which they had super
sededi If our correspondent were Black,
would he be ready to trust the late slave
holders with power just yeti
| The Blacks are generally ignorant. but they
need not and should not remain so. Let the
| Whites eagerly cooperate with them in behalf
of Universal Education. Let them resolutelY
stamp out the mean prejudice which says,
"My children must not 60 to any school
"where negro children are taught; 1 cannot
"ride in any stage or car where negroes are
allowed except as servants to Whites"
| We shall surely carry Universal Amnesty
this coming Winter; and then the
Southern Whites will all enjoy every right
which any one else does. If, then, they
can only be made to realize that Blacks are
human beings-individualy good, bad, or in
different, as the case may be-but nevertheless
men and women. to be estimated and treated
| according to their conduct, not their color
the government of every Southern State will
soon fall into the hands of its wisest and
worthiest citizens, no matter OF what
color. 1t is by the Whites, not the
Blacks, that distinctions founded on color are
perpetuated and intensifed-if the Blacks vote
for unworthy in preference to worthy candi-
dates they do it because they fear the loss of
their most precious rights. Let the Whites
persistently treat the Blacks as fellow men,
and the grievances of "HOnestas" and his
crowd will speedily vanish.