New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-11-13
ARLnING TIE ISSUE.

Grant by O small majority wherefore, those
of the South who were not for Grant should
conform to the Judgment and set TO work to
build I'D their sections industrial md COM
mercial prosperity. We heartily second the
motion. Let the South, like the North accept
the situation. Let her resolve not to waste
years in signing for the impossible, but what
ever her hand fndeth to do, that do with all
her might.
This advice will sound harshly in the ears of
planters who cannot possibly grow enough TO
nav the taxes imposed on them by men who
nav nothing under such mockeries of govern
ments as those of South Carolina and Arkansas
yes, or even Louisiana as she has been, to
saw nothing of North Carolina under Holden
or Georgia under the rule of her later fugitive
1t 10 hard that men should be hidden to stop
erumbling and go to work, when their earnings
must be snatched away and deyoured by such
daughters of the horse-leech as impose taxes
on the lOng-suffering people OF the States
abOve-named
But what else7 The South must live; and
she cannot live on sterile agitation. She has
appealed for kindlier usage, and it has been
fatty denied her. Now, we are well assured
that the chief victOrs i'll our late struggle are
inclined to correct abuses and satisfy just
complaints to the extent of their power. We
urge the just overbOrne Whites of the South
to meet every kindly overture with cordiality
and trust. "Let us have peace" Is
q cuckoo song; but let us try to
have it nevertheless. 1t were IDLE to
prolong a contest when hope has utterly
fed. If the gentlemen of the South would
give more heed to the education of their poor
neighbors, especially the Blacks - would treat
them from this hour as fellOw-citizens, having
like interests and duties with themselves - 1t
would not be possible to keep the ignorant
voting for plunderers and peculators ever
more. The gentlemen Of the South may
vet 20 to the polls and find Their
field-hands and cottage tenants voting with,
not against them. This is work Of time:
wherefore, it cannot be begun too soon. The
idle, tho diesolutc, arc not amenabie to tho
influence of association with the better classes;
they choose other comrades, other CONVERSE
ton. But even in South Carolina, we must
hope that there are Blacks who do not choose
TO be taxed as even they must now be, when,
by comforting and acting with Whites whom
they know and respect, they may sweep away
their robbers into an oblivion Of all but Their
infamy.
The late canvass has enlightened the North
with regard to Southern local rule, It's causes
and its perils. No one longer pretends that
things are as they should be at the South,
even in States like South Carolina, where Re
publican rule meets no serious opposition. 1t
is quite generally understood that Universal
Suffrage is not all that is required; there must
be a hearty accord between the educated and
the better class of manual labOIers. Where
these vote with the TOughs and plunderers,
from apprehension of wrong from the gentle
men and land-holders, the present is hopeless.
We have said that the renewed Admins
tration must be impelled by its very strength,
if by no higher consideration, to pour oil upon
the wounds of the South. 1t has no longer
any need Of Moses or Clayton or Spencer it
has only to hint what these must do and 1t
will be done. We shall be sOrely disappointed
if Gen. Grant does not soon, in his own way,
let it he known at the South that thieves may
no longer hope for immunity from just retri-
button by shouting themselves hOarse in his
praise and stigmatizing those opposed to them
as Rebels. 1t IS certainly high time that tins
game were played out.