Wilmington daily commercial., 1872-04-08
TIE NEW YORK PREss.
Edltsrl~I Extracts From the Great DaIIles.

swEKNY AND GOULD FALLEN But NOT CRUSHED.
IFrom the N. Y. Tribune.
Both have fallen through the lack OF shrewd-
ness or the reckesness Of their chief tools, aud
each is now out of place, scheming to defend
himself and TO regain his lost power. Whoever
supposes that Sweeny and Gould areit Il bemoan-
ing that they have lost, or bewildered are sitting
down disheartened becare discounted. is not
fitted to fight them, for he does not know them
They are desperate in defeat, and more danger
GUS now than ever. Whoever would destroy
them must push harder than ever before
THE NEEDS OF THE SOUTH
IFrom the N. Y. Herald
With pacfcation and Reconstruction must come
instruction. We must smite the LoWery gang
and the Ku Klux clan with the strong arm Of
the law. We must remove from the South by
general amnesty and wise legislation those irrl-
tating causes which underlie and in many re-
speots, justify the universal discomfort existing
among its people. Then We must send the
schoolmaster and the missionary. good,
painstaking missionary would do more good in
Robeson county than a regiment of soldiers.
Let there be law, then justice, then mercy, and
above all, lighE Let us deal with the South
upon these principles, and we shall have no
more romantic scandals like what We Irnt this
morning in North Carolina or in any other
SJuthern State.
POPULAR EDUCATION IN LOUISIANA.
From the n. Y. Tribure.l
More than one thousand schools have been
/ established and are now in full operation no
county being without one or more Of them The
| whites who at first declared that their children
/ should never be educated in common with no
| groes have in many instances rCconsidered tho
| matter and come to a wiser conclusion. Teachers
| in abundance have been found, though in some
| districts no school had ever before been Taught
| Some of the first teachers finding their vocation
| odious resigned but their places were promptly
and satisfactorily filled. The Superintendent
himself was often threatened, but stood firm
so did his assistants. and most of the teachers
Most Of the white children who deserted wheI
they found that "niggers were also to be taught
have returned. and the aggregate attendance il
1871 was much greater than it had been in 1870
THE PENALTY If Mr.. GREELEY's ADVICE BE FOL
LOWED.
[From the N. Y. Times.l
What if Mr. GIeeey's advice had been take
in 1864? The country would have beea split il
tSain and the South would have gained all
ever asked for. What il his advice pre7aile
now? He would cause split in the Repubhca
Party which would not indeed result in the affair
meni of his personal ends, but would suffice I
bring the Democrats back to power-wth col
sequences which all but the wilfully blind ca
foresee. There is scarcely any intdeiity to hi
party which Mr.. Greeley has not committed dr
ring the past twelve months. he has throw
a unmerited reproach upon it. He has kept out {
sight its meritorcus work. lie refused to pei
form purely formal duty in signing the Regr
l lar Republican Convention, while he hastsne
5 to sign a call for 'bolting" Convention, got Il
bv rejected office seekers and Democrats in d
guise. For offenses tifteth part rs grave {
these. good men have been cruelty hunted dow
a by Mr. Greeley himself.