The New York herald., 1872-09-06


been those generated by the rivalry of distinct
races rae involved IN war for mastery and bequeath
struggle in another.
MILITARY INTERVENTION.
consider now the policies which the present
1tiate and pursue In the presence of that grave
peril which no one not utterly blinded with par
tion las already been called somewhat in detail
TO Its iSoso dealing with the white population
the ae Of a Ssen nm
MED to them by the nncalled for and unconstl-y
tntional prolongation OF military intervention, how
the security OF property has been assailed by !
system OF wholesale spOliatiOn, how the very ser
blance Of reconciliation has been repudiated in
sistence In making Of them mere political )as.
lures for worn;out party hacks 1t only remair IS to
lection to the coored citizenship. That is th sole
ground on which Justification Is anywhere p eaded
been sustained by the President and his partv unsre
But i does not require much sagacity te realize
that If coiored citizenship is to be identie hence
nine states with the denial Of civil right to to them thene
selves the war of races will have aread v been sig
that sarage to the black gan sre means 20 Ds
the imposition Of sl7o,ooo,ooo Of az bt in three
wo and four mes its exac 70
to ton ess tan at a an its an
annual decrease Of cultivation by nany thoSsands
Of acres, In the face OF deprecat IN Of real Values
amounting to nearly twothIrds M O itsiormer
will generate undying hostility. II this be taken as
The necessary and ustiabe reg uit OF participation
not hesitate to declare our 81 overnment win have
gone far-very far toward ef ,tabishing an excuse
f % tse e9ss NJ the Il s wor % hitherto mreS tea
President ana his parry haze enforced any lesson
upon the white IA race OF the south that unqueston.
evident equally from the ,lact that to-day. with an
almost unanimous voice, that race charges the ills
as from the fact that ~ is urged even now as
reason for continuing this administration In power
coored in its new y acquired right OF suffrage.
Indeed what other Inference Is possible II the argu
of the President is TO be credited That such ar9u.
ment is false one, that 1t Is only designed to mis-
eaa tae tea m 10 % 81 e IN % other sect
establishment OF centralized personal
thorty is sufficiently manifest in the sinister ends
to which this policy has been chiefly addressed.
Partisan, not patriotic purposes crop out from
every exposure: But whether true or false it only
to such control will involve us at no distant day i'm
fresh calamites n true it foretells Of races
If false 1t unmasks designs fatal to the liberties Of
all our people.
Let us now inquire, on the other hand, what has
an administration professedly so jealous of their
welfare
ON WHOM THE WEIGHT WILL FALL.
If anv true Judgment can be formed by reasoning
back from effect to certainly the present att
tude Of the colored race there does not justify be-
lief that the President and his party have even at
tempted to perform that task. Inducement to rely
on an external support has stripped their citizenship
rather than lterng it through the units that give
vigor to republican institutions. Instead of build
ing up the state fostering industry projecting
In the expression common with their leaders, that
"the way to bring white men to level with col
sighted creed, that wN react in degradation to the
inventorsl Bear In mind that the blacks there
dependent altogether upon daily work pfpr for main
tenance. They are not capitalists They are
not to any great extent land owners They
skilled industries. They are confined on the
contrary, to the rudest forms Of manual labor.
political economy than that the burdens Of State
must at last fall on the producer: and fall heaviest
be ever so, for that class has nowhere beneath to
shift the load. The life labor ofgeneratons therefore,
and waste, by millions OF debt-and exhaustive tax.
alton, VIII weigh heavily upon the colored race in
be- e d al at M Tose mistake a w ucv eaye who
imagine that this vast robbery of the white race Is
not eveed likewise at the black race In so far as
debt is slavery they have In fact been ordered back
into bondage by the corrupt partisans of the Presi
dent.
RADICAL ISOLATION OF sAMBo.
That feature, however, which is more sharply de-
fined than oil else in the dealing Of the President
the rigid Isolation they have been Induced to main.
aan TO hat enG every legal and Poca; app
have been INVOKED from partisan Congress- such as
that of July 10, 1867 and March II, 1s6s The latter
was supplemented by the Ku Klux act of April 20,
1871, and still further enactment In the same behalf
was demanded at the session Of 1872. To that end
the operation of the Freedmen's Bureau was pros.
the officers of the army converted into political
agents, and the service made stepping stone to
es enas ia Ft 'eaT enS or the cs nsa states
punished, the penitentaries were transformed into
partisan schools and, in one instance, Of 2o5
vlctS pard0ned on the eve OF election 100 were
negroes. To that end the control OF the Southern
states was organized upon an almost exclusive
tenure ever since. The doctrine incucated there
has ever been, as 1t still is, an imagined necessity
protecting liberties which they are Taught to
believe threatened. To band them solidly in the
of republican government, and invite collision
sure to develop into violence. This, of course, in
yolved the arming OF the race, as well its conso
dation into a political unit. And the facts fol-
lowed swiftly upon the inference. The garrsoning
by such armed partsans of the States Of Arkan.
ment of martial law by Governor Holden, OF North
Carolina, through colored soldery; the clandes-
tine enlistment of fourteen negro regiments and
illegal purchase OF arms for themby Governor Scott
OF south Carolina. pending his re-electon the re-
peated rejection OF white enrolments when volun.
tarly rendered, and in one instance the disarmng
OF white cadets to turn their guns over to COM
pany Of blacks, are conclusive evidences not only
the shape such antagonism must necessarily as
sumo at last. On this point the Congressional
Arkansas land in 1868 it was SO In Tennessee
and elsewhere), the emancipated slave regiments
parade In state uniforms, armed cap-a-pie with the
while the white men are denied the right to bear
arms to organize as militia for the protec-
OF their wives and children.n
80 STATES IN WHITE HANDS. 8
AZ facts are what are wanted rather than theo.
res 1t will be best to set forth In contrast the con.
dition OF those States which able to throw of
the administration interference and confde
Illustrations Virginia, Tennessee and Missouri.
They had been more devastated by war,
and more charged with batreds and rancors
bred Of slavery and rebellion than any communi-
ties at the South Every neighborhood, every
connection, nearly every nreside had been
discord. At the outset the same regimen was
applied under federal auspices to each and with
results precisely similar to those exhibited re-
fy at the me rst to aa ner 9r tem mem
ces for relief Perfect amnesty to oil the
white population engaged in the war and fun