Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1872-09-21
A NOTE OF WARNITa.

In the New York Herald, Of the Goth
ultimo, is one of the most signifcaLt
and remarkable editorials that we havo
read for long time, In any paper.
The Herald has all through Grant . Ad-
ministration given him a decided sup
port; now it utters serious notes Of
warning. On the 18th ultimo, Mr..
Boutwell,, Secretary of the Treasury,
made speech at Greensboro, North
Carolina, upon which the Herald COM
ments. Aside from the indecorum Of o
Cabinet officer deserving the post of his
duties to wander over the country as q
partisan stump orator, the Herald thinks
this speech in every way reprehensible.
We extract: .Aia1Elt}
"The Secretary of the Treasury de-
nounced and spurned the proposition
that the people of the Northern and
Southern States-the men who had
fought the battles of the Confedracy
under the banners Of Lee and Stone
wall Jackson, and the men who had
marched to victory under the lead of
Sheridan and Grant-shall. now clasp
hands across the bloody chasm made
by the war and bury forever the bitter
memories of the past. No, rather let
us keep alive the animcsities, and hat
reds that led to the rebellion, until the
chasm shall be filed, it may be, with
the mangled victims of a more cruel
war, a war of races. Slavery, says Sec
retary Boutwell,, was the cause of this
" deep, dark and portenious ehasm,"
and injustice is the essential character
istic of slavery. He refuses to recog-
nize the fact that slavery is dead; that
it can never aga;n be revived in the
United States while the world gcontin-
ues; that the Southern people, one and
all, accept the results of the war; that
the white citizens of the South only ask
to be allowed to live in peace, to repair
their shattered fortunes. to reconstruct
their desolated homes, and to place
their States once more on the road to
prosperity and happiness, He sees in
the solid vote of the blacks. ignorant.
idle and vicious though q majority of
them undoubtedly are, q prospect of
securing the Southern States Tor the
Administration of which he is q mem
ber, and SO he tells the neQroes of
North Carolina that it must still be war
between them and their white. fellow
citizens; and he pours into their credu-
lous cars the insidious poison Of suspi-
cion. Ii you are wise, he says in sub
stance to the black crowd he harangues.
you will never trust your liberties and
immunities to your old masters. for
whenever they obtain the power, il they
cannot destroy tho former, they will
deny you the latter. Their professions
may be fair, but their hearts are false,
and if you would protect yourselves
your cry must be, no peace with such
oppressors. Clasp hands across the
bloody chasm No; rather fill It up
with more blood and with the corpses
of men, women and children whose
white skins point them out as your nat
ural ene,sies. We do Secretary. Bout
well no injustice in this Interpretation
OF his unfortunate speech. It will bear
no other. His address is an effort to
excite the worst passions of an Ignorant
and violent people; to array race
against race; to persuade the negroes
that the white Democrats of the South
are their mortal enemies; to revive the
deadly animosities Of slavery when
slavery itself has perished; to open
afresh the wounds made by the war
when the country is at peace. If the
language used by the Secretary is less
brutal and coarse than the ideas it con-
veys, the talent displayed in his rhet-
oric only renders the ioffense against
humanity the, more unpardonable."
y ** We tell him Grant, once
again that the people of the Northern
States are watching this unwise and
dangerous attempt to forge govern
ment OF bigoted blacks and character
less whites upon the South BY exciting
jealousy, hatred and saistrust between
the races, and that they will resent il
at the proper time in their votes ct
the polls Their voice has declared that
the hands of the two sections shall be
clasped in friendship across the bloody
chasm made by the war, and that the
liberties of their fellow citizens Of the
warm and generous South shall no
longer be held at the mercy of political
intriguers. i N s'aiTsiii
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