The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-20
Tho Campaign In North Carolina-
No Clasping OF Hands Across thu
Bloody Chasm.

NJ SA~spAuS VI kA"AAs 0SAoSS s.AS
Bloody Chasm.
The campaign has boon opened in North
Carolina this week on the part of the admins
tration with speeches from the Secretary of the
Treasury and the regular republican candidate
for the Vice Presidency. Senator Wilson was,
as usual courteous, plausible, bland and in
sipid, and his address, no doubt, made
favorable impression, although it cannot be
considered powerful argument on his own
side. His main object was to show that the
present contest is between democracy and
republicanism, and that the success of Greeley
would bring about the determination of the
republican party. He would regard this
sequel as national calamity, inasmuch as he
does not look upon tho work Of the republi-
can party rs completed, but believes that it
has yet much to accomplish before
liberty and equal rights can be con-
sidered secure. The republicans have
removed the letters from the limbs of tho
slaves after four years of war, says Senator
Wilson, but they have yet to remove prejudice
and error from the minds Of three mil
lion American democrats, and this
is the task they contemplate per-
forming during the next four years
of Grants administration. But Senator VIII
son bears a merited reputation as phanthro-
pist, and he must surely concede that tho
conversion of the ungodly democracy may be
more speedily and more certainly brought
about by Greeley than by Grant; for would
not the former, in the event of his SUCCESS in
November, be enabled to add to the example
of sound republican principles the persuasive
eloquence of the federal spoils? A famous
missionary once declared that glass beads and
tobacco ar6 powerful auxilaries of the Bible
in bringing the heather TO grace; and custom
houses. post offices, revenue Offices, diplo-
matte missions, consulships and the pickinss
of the departments would be wonderful aids,
no doubt, in turning unregsnerate democrats
TO the true faith. If, therefore, Senator Viii
/ son sought in the present election only the
conversion Of the democracy he would, no
doubt labor for the success of Greeley at
whose feet that contrite party has laid its
ancient SINS But the republican candidate
for the Vice Presidency is believer in the
propriety of period of probation, and hence
he requires the democrats to 60 to Congress
next winter and vote for Summers Civil Rights
bill in proof of change of heart, after
which they may be regarded as fully
redeemed, and tho mission Of the republican
party will then be fulfilled. The little difficulty
does not seem to occur to Senator Wilson that
the republicans, who are in large majority in
Congress, defeated the Civil Rights bill last
session themselves, while they passed tho law
extending military despotism over the South
similar manner next session the democrats
would be unable to furnish the test Of repent
ance required Of them.
Senator Wilson deserves especial credit for
the courteous tone of his speech towards the
opposing Candidates and parties, as well as for
the moderation with which he appealed to the
colored voters for support. In following the
admirable example set by August Belmont and
Senator Doolittle in the Baltimore Convention,
the republican candidate for the Vice Presi-
dency has administered rebuke TO those ora
tors and journalists on the regular republican
side who have injured the cause of their own
friends by the violence of their personal abuse
Of Greeley and his supporters. The opening
speech of Secretary Boutwell, OF Greensboro,
on Wednesday last, was altogether Of q differ
ent character. Apart from its review Of the
financial policy of the administration, it was.
in its political aspect dangerous and repre-
hensible effort to array the Southern
blacks against their white fellow-citzens
and to scatter the seeds of distrust, hatred and
revenge broadcast over the South. The Secre-
tary of the Treasury denounced and spurned
the proposition that the people Of the Northern
and Southern States---the men who had fought
the battles of the Confederacy under the BAN
ners of Lee and Stonewall 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
animosities and hatreds 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
rotary Boutwell,, was the cause Of this 'deep,
dark and portentous chasm," AMI injustice is
the essential Characteristic of slavery. He
refuses to recognize 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 citi-
zens Of the South ask only to be allowed
to live in peace, to repair their shat
tered fortunes, to reconstruct their desc
lated homes, and to place their States once
again on the road to prosperity and
happiness. He sees in the solid vote of the
blacks, ignorant, idle and vicious though a
majority of them undoubtedly are, a prospect
Of socnrin q The Southern States for Ihe admin.