The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-07-22

South in political bondage for eight years, WITH
laws of pains and penalhes with proscriptive
test oaths, with reconstruction under negroes,
scalawags and carpet-baggers; with suspension
of habeas corpus and the enforcement Of mill
tary despotism They have taught the ignor-
ant, suspicious and passionate blacks to vote
the republican ticket not from generous inn
pulse, but out of hatred and revenge against
their former masters. Secretary Boutwell,,
in his recent stump-speaking pilgrimage,
cautioned his negro audience against trusting
their white fellow citizens, and urged them
never to suffer the hands of the two sections
and OF the two races to be clasped over the
bloody ohasm made by the war. The solid
support of the republican candidates by
the Southern negroes has in It, then,
no trustworthy and laudable feature,
but Is the result of teachings that
have instilled into the hearts of the blacks of
the South deadly hatred of their white neigh
bors and a belief that there can never be peace
between the two races They were told by
Secretary Boutwell, that they can only pre-
serve their liberty and their civil rights
through federal aid, for that their former mas
tiers would re-enslave them, or. at least strip
them of the privileges of citizenship if they
should ever get the opportunity to do so.
Under these circumstances we regard the
consolidation Of the negro vote on one side
in the present election as an evil and danger.
The effect Of such appeals as Boutwell's upon
the negro mind can be seen in the outrages
already committed by the North Carolina
blacks upon such colored men as choose to
support the democracy. If the colored vote
should be divided as we'll as the white vote in the
South, there would be better prospect of
a restoration of constitutional government in
that section of the Union. As it is, the South
ern negroes, who will probably support Grant
with scarcely an exception, will demand of his
administration new privileges and new
advantages over the whites in the event
of his reelection; while if Greeley should
be chosen President they are very
likely to plunge their States into riot and
INSTRUMENTATION. In either case there is prob
ably more trouble and suffering in store for
the unhappy South unless President Grant
should choose to avert the calamity by bold
and patriotic movement He has evidently
seen the mischief of Boutwelrs incendiary
harangues and ordered him back to his
post at Washington. If he will now re-
move from the Southern States every federal
soldier whose services are not actually neces-
sary, issue peremptory order to the federal
ofice-holders to take no active part in the
campaign, turn adrifs the disreputable men
who have been fastened on to the South
through the influences at Washington, and
leave the Southern States as free as the
Northern States in the approaching election,
he will not only avert the threatened evils,
but may carry the South without revolving
and incensing the North. It is certain that
the country will demand more liberal and
next administration, whether headed by Grant
or Greeley, and will not be content with
the passage of an amnesty bill wrung
from the majority of Congress in the
last hours of the session through
terror Of the Cincinnati nominations. Presi-
dent Grant, if reelected, will be in heart in
favor Of this liberal and just policy; but he
will find it difficult to carry it out if he allows
his supporters to raise barrier Of distrust and
hatred between the blacks end whites of the
Southern States, or if he wins the Southern
vote through federal influence and military
tyranny. Let him now follow out those gen.
erous and noble principles that dictated the
terms he granted to Lees army and that led
him to denounce policy of revenge against
the ex-rebel States, and he will satisfy the
North as we'll as the South that the interests of
the whole Union will be safe in his keeping for
the next four years.