The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-19
Political Rovvdyism Among the Blacks.


The infammatory appeals to the worst
passions of an ignorant and credulous race
which conscienceless carpet-baggers have been
making to the colored people in the South, has
borne it's natural fruit in the attack made in
Raleigh on Cross and Craven because of their
adhesion to the liberal republican cause
Looking on Grant and the republican party as
their only protection against their former
masters, the colored people regard as rene
gades those Of their race who follow the
Greeley standard. From their point of view
and with their limited vision, this is logical
enough, and so long as they have recourse
only to moral means to enforce their opinions
no objection can be made. AS soon, however,
as they threaten to enforce their opinions by
violence, it becomes the duty of the indepen-
dent press to warn them of the danger they
incur. If ever there was moment when the
colored race should give evidence Of their re-
spect for the law 1t is now. All parties have
agreed to bury the bitter memories of the past
and accept impartial suffrage, with the full
rights Of citizens secured to men Of all condi-
lions and colors. 1t is not the interest of the
blacks at such moment to awaken the hos
tility of powerful section of the community
by acts which must be disapproved by the best
friends of equal rights. Onlyby the protection
Of the law and the sympathy Of the vast white
population can the black element hope to enjoy
peace and the full rights of citizenship. 1t is,
therefore, madness on their part to inaugurate
a struggle of race, in which the result could
not for moment be doubtful The people of
the North are DESTROYS Of protecting the negro
from any thing that smacks of oppression. We
have given some of our noblest blood in order
that the blot of slavery should be washed from
the nations flag. Even now, when all can
calmly count the price, we do not regret the sac
rifces we have made; but we have no intention
to foster in the South black or hybrid
tyranny to Cypress our own flesh and blood.
We struck 10 secure liberty and equal
rights for ALL and we will not tamely stand by
while ignonnce and selfshness seek to build
up despotism as hateful as the one we struck
down. This is what the colored population of
the South must learn, unless they wish to see
terrible reaction in the Northern mind.
We do not much blame the ignorant dupes,
who, after all, are only the tools of the un-
scrupulous carpet-baggers, who enjoypower by
encouraging prejudice and hate between the
races in the South. 1t may be as useless to
appeal to the sense of honesty or honorable
feeling of these men as 1t would be to address
ourselves to the intelligence Of the freedmen
but the leaders of the administration party
must learn that the country will hold them re-
sponsble for the evil work of their agents and
supporters. To them we look to have this in
cipient violence checked, lest the just in
dignation of tho people should be thor
oughly aroused. We want peace, and
the only way TO secure it is by
scrupulous respect for the rights OF
all men. The disposition to violence mani
tested by the North Carolina blacks p,ust be
suppressed at once, and the colored supporters
Of Greeley be protected from insult or outrage.