The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1872-08-01
BoUTwELL ON PEACE.


No ReconciliationLNo Clasping
/ of Hands across the Bloody
ChasmAThe War Spirit to be
Continued to Secure Grants
Re-EIection,a ssas"Rt adI 10 aot
| The New X orky Herald, which has,
heretofore been a supporterlof Grants
Administration, speaks out in just
denunciaton of the barbarous and.
brutal utteranees of Grants Secretary
of the. Treasury Boutwell,, who, has,
been neglectings his official duties in
making speeches for the corruption
lists in North Carolina. In speaking
of one of the Secretary's late speeches
in that State that paper says: istas blH.
Apart from its review of the fiiiarf-
/ cial policy of the administration, it
| was, in its political aspect, a DANGER
/ GUS and reprenensible effort to array
the southern blacks against their
white fellow-citizens, and to scatter
/ the seeds Of distrust, hatred and, re-
venge broadcast over the South. The
Secretary of the Treasury denounced
and spurned the propositions that the
/ people of the Northern atid Southern
States-the mon who had fought the
battles of the Confederacy under the
banners of Lee and Stonewall > ackson
and the men who had marched to vice
/ tory 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 animosities and hatreds that
4 led to the rebellion, until the chasm
shall be filled. it may be withs the
mangled victims of a more cruel war,
a war of races.v :Slavery.Ys says Sec
retary Boutwell,, % was the cause of
this deep, dark and portentous chasm1g
and injustice is theo essential eharae-
teristic ofs slavery. D He efuses to rec
ognize the fact that slavery is, dead ;
that it can never again be revived in
the United States while the world
continues; that the Southern people,
, one and all, accept the results of the
war that. the white citizens of. the
South only ask to live in peace and
|, repair their shattered fortunes, to re-
4 construct Itheirid desolated homes, and
; to place their States once again ON the
road to prosperity and, happiness. He
u sees in the solidsvote of the blacks,
| ignorant, idle and vicious though a
J majority of them undonhtedlvJ are, q
T prospect of securing the Southern
> States for headministration of which
he is amember.l and so he tells the ne
groes of North Carolina that it must
J, still be war between them and ,theil
: white fellow citizens, and pouring into
their eredulons ears the insidious poi,
, son of suspicion. b If you are wise, he
e L. ,1~ok, - Il IL
: he harrangues,s you will never trust
, your liberties and dIimmunities to, youI
: old masters, for whenever they obtain
the power, if they, cannot destroy the
: 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 g0ppres-
} sors. Clasp hands across the, bloody
, chasm?' No rather fill it up with
moro blood and with the corpses oil
, men, women and children whose
: white skins point them out as, .youi
: natural enemies. We do Secretary
J Boutwell, no injurtice in this interpre-
tation of chis 9unfortunate speech. 3 II
will bear no, other.a Hisladdress. is an
, effort to excite the worst passions OF
, an ignorant and violent people; to
J 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 .,per-
, ished; to open ,afFesh the wounds
J made by the war when, the country is
} at peace. fthe language used by the
Secretary is less brutal and coarse
than the ideas it conveys, the talent
J displayed In his rhetoric only renders
the oflense against humanity the more
J objectionable. .a4ssl 81, 81 tta,t,..1