The union Democrat., 1871-03-18
The Radical Prezramme.

The Radicals of the new Congress have
held a caucus. They have determined to
transact no business-so we are informed by
telegraph-s'except to enact measures for the
protection of Southern loyahsts. The ques-
ton came up tosaholish the duty on coal.
which now enables few railroad monopolists
and coal-mining millionaires to freeze out the
poor people Of the Northern cities and levy
an enormous tax upon all classes The pro.
position was Immediately voted down. They
We're not there to benefit the poor people. 1t
was net their business to Interfere with the
combinations of heartless capitalists to .extort
money from the necessities of the country.
Oh. no "The caucus definitely decided
that no measures shall be enacted except such
as relate to the condition Of the Southern
States
Yes, that is the game. The old thing over
again. Preparations must be made for the
Presidential campaign. New schemes must
he devised to control the vote in some Of the
leading Southern States. The Northern
mind must be fred ht new stories of outrages
and new pretexts furnished for declaring the
South in a state Of semi-hostilities. The very
phraseology of the dispatch shows the AMI.
mus; Except for the protection of Southern
loyalists.' OF course there are no outrages
perpetrated by loyalists. They are meek,
long-sufering, harmless aud inoffensive.
That there are disorders at the South tn ere
can be no doubt. There always will be so
long as Northern mischief-makers are suffer
ed to use the power of the Federal Govern
ment to stuff themselves into Office aud to
work upon the ignorant preiudices ofthe ne
groes. Between negro savagery and white
civilization there is an irrepressible conflict
which must and will exist so long as the two
races are brought in contact up1n terms of
political equality. Federal soldierv NAV he
sent to shoot down the whites and aid the ne
eroes. but this conflict cannot he reconcied.
Tho history of IIayti and San Domingo is an
illustration OF what may be expected wher-
ever the negro element predominates.
OF course where the whites ere in an over
whelming excess, as in the Northern States,
the presence of the negroes IS not perceptible
In parts of North Carolina and most Of Sonth
Carolina, however. the case is different. The
blacks largely predominant, and conscious of
their strength and fortified with the knowl-
edge that. no matter what occurs, they will
have the sympathy of large and powerful
party at the North and the backing of the
Federal Government. they are stimulated to
all manner of aggress;ons upon their white
neighbors. These, of course, provoke retail
alton, and straightwav howl is raised of
rebel outrages and Ku Klux atrocities. And
so the war is to be kept MP for the next Pres
idential election. The Northern mind must
be diverted from the contemplation of the
true issues. The contest must be one of pre-
JUDGE and passion. The foundation must be
laid for declaring, if necessary, come of the
leading Southern States in state Of insur-
rection about the time of the election and
thus exclude their votes. There is nothing
too desperate for the men who rule at Wash
ington to embark in. They are prepared for
any scheme, no matter how revolutionary or
anarchial to perpetuate their power. They
would provoke civil war. and once more
light up the land with the fires of a sectional
conflict. What care they so long as there is
money in it? With their bayonet election
law for the North, and their measures for
protection of loyalists" at the South, they
think the game will be entirely in their own
hands, And thus another four years of pub
lie robbery, corruption and maladministra-
ton will be fastened upon the country unless
the people rise to the emergency Of great
occasion and grasp back the stolen sceptre of
their power Examiner.