The Cairo daily bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1870-1872, 1872-09-13


Spaniard in their deadly feud, Redeemed
the waters OF Granada from the sea to the
Guadaiquiver, Hungary was torn by con-
tiict OF Magyar and Sclavonic populations,
by peasant wars and fomented iealousies,
until 1t lapsed hopelessly under Austrian
dominion. Poland owes half its miseries
and all its subjugation to a fateful rivalry
OF races. In fact, only the severest forms
Of despotc authority have been able
to maintain the semblance of order wher-
ever such animosity has once been fully
antagonized
Am not right then in affirming that
one of the weightest of all tho public
| questions we are now called upon to solve
Is, how these races shall be harmonized in
political society resting on popular ap-
| peal for its controlling power. Am not
equally correct in affirming that unless
this can now DO done unless this rancor
of races shall be successfully avoided
unless some early re-adjustment of civil
society be attained, the forms of all re-
publican government must there eventu-
ally be replaced by harsh and cruel re-
preston founded on force alone. And in
that event who will be the vanquished--
who will rise TO substantial mastery ]
do not need to answer that question, but
1t Is one l present to you rs well wor-
thy of profound reflection. Indeed, the
very interrogation Is a danger signal in
the path of all prosperity, implying disas-
ter not to one race alone, but to both
! threatening not merely to that brilliant
| progress that may otherwise be securely
anticipated but equally so to all the en-
largements of freedom already establish
ed
| Consider now the policies which the
present administration has deemed it wise
and safe to initiate and pursue in the pres
ence of that grave peril which no one not
utterly blinded with partisan passion can
fail to recognize. Your attention has
already been called somewhat in detail
TO its dealing with the white population
of those states. 1t has been shown how
the principle Of self-government has been
denied to them by the uncalled for and
unconstitutional prolongation of military
intervention how the security of proper
ty has been assailed by system Of whole
sale spoliation how the very semblance
OF reconciliation has been repudiated 10
refusal of amnesty, threats of martial law
and persistence in making of them mere
political pastures for worn out party
hacks. 1t only remaines to add that all
this has been done in the name of pro-
lection to the colored citizenship. This is
the sole ground on which justification is
anywhere pleaded tor snch disgraceful
administration rs has there been sustain ed
by the president and his party. But it
does not require much ssgacity to realize
that If colored citizenship is to be ident-
fed henceforth in the minds of the white
population of those nine states with the
denial of civil rights to themselves, the
war OF races will have already been sig
nalized, on the one side at least. If they
are to be convinced that suffrage TO the
black man means the imposition Of one
hundred and seventy millions of debt in
three years space, the increase of taxa
ton, to two, three and four
times its former exaction, and that
upon an assessment reduced to less
than half its previous listing, the
annual decrease of cultivation b y many
thousands Of acres, in the face Of de-
probation of real values amounting TO
nearly two-thirds of its former worth
then assuredy the seed will have been
sown that will generate undying hostility
II this be taken as the necessary and just
liable result of participation in equal
civil rights by the colored race, then l do
not hesitate TO declare our government
will have gone far-very far toward es-
tablishing an excuse for rebellion which it
has never hitherto merted in the eyes of
the world. Yet SO tor as the president
and his party have enforced any lesson
upon the white race at the south, that I'M
! questionably has been the teaching incul.
Gated. And this is evident equally from
| the fact that to-day, with an almost unan-
imous voice, that race charge the ills which
| Cypress 1t upon the national administra-
ton, as from the fact that it is urged even
| now AS reason for continuing this admin
! istration in power that such action is still
necessary to protect the colored race in its
newly acquired right of suffrage. Indeed
what other Inference is possible if the ar
! gument OF this canvass on the part of the
supporters of the president is 10 be cred
tied. That such argument is false one,
that 1T is only designed TO mislead the
friends Of the freedmen in other sections,
that it is but deception used to cloak the
establishment of centralized personal au-
thority, is sufficiently manifest in the sim
lister ends to which this policy has been
chiefly addressed. Partisan, not patrI-
otto purposes, crop out from every expos
ure. But whether true or false it only
demonstrates that longer trusting of our
affairs to such control will involve us at
no distant day in fresh calamities. If
true 1t foretells war Of races if false it
unmasks designs fatal to the liberties Of all
our people.
Let US now inquire, on the other hand,
what has been the influence exerted over
the colored race by an administration pro-
iessedly so jealous of their welfare. Has
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