The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1874-04-30

II e.. EDITOR - Il 4atc tdhCH t4C
Cleveland Herald and N. Y Tribune
some years, because l do not want to
miss the chance of believing anything
and everything. Their teachings give
a pupil wonderful opportunity to
belong to every persuasion under the
sun. They have affirmed and disaf-
firmed, time and again, the Virginia
and Kentucky resolutions of '9S and
90. They have been in favor of re-
deemable and an irredeemabIe cur
rency. They have opposed the an
nexatien of territory and then fought
the secession of the same territory.
In the winter OF go, '6I they recog-
nized the right of state secession, and
in the spring after smoked with ven
gence against the States that assumed
the right. Since the war they have
suggested and advocated every inag-
Unable plan of return and restoration
to prosperity and peace. They have
placed the responsibility of the whole
matter at one time, upon the whites
of the South. They have at another,
relied upon the importation of North
,ern thrift and enterprise. At another
they have reckoned upon the prodig-
ious results that would follow misce-
genation and the introduction of q
new race into our political system
They are German and anti-G German,
I7rangefs and anti Changers, Strikers
and anti Strikers, Crusaders and anti
/ Crusaders, Strict lovers of law and
| firm defenders of mobs, Constitution
makers and bfeakers-Indeed, they
are always like the Vicar of Bray,
ready TO serve aany King provided
that King is their editorial money
But i keep in good humor with
/ them. 1t is a time TO look at all sides
of every subject. feel grateful
towards them, they surpass the French
| in vefsatility-suit surprisingly our
people, and are good newspapers.
Indeed, I like the HerdLd's stG.A =
/ IF the letters are pronounced in enc
/ syllable child can understand what
they mean.
&c. A. B.,r has been Southreeently
has looked carefully and profound-
"; and has discovered that all that
/ has been said about the means that
should be employed in the recupera-
ton of that country has been a mis-
i take. The volumes that have been
written he thinks DOW are idle breath.
MiscegenatiOn, Northern enterprise
1 and the adoption of new measures
by Southern whites, are all out of the
question. They separately or all to-
Il 0efher, are pUw1rfess to restore the
i South. They are dreams. If there
are no other means than these then the
best half of our country must forever
remain semi-cultiyated and semi-bar-
barous. ~ eHt
It IS a pity to see the Herald try
q TO correct all its teachings on this mo-
mentous subject at so late a day
what might have been saved to thiE
nation had it seen earlier what mus
have been the results of Northern
fanatieism and aggression
Here is the conclusion, as stated BY
sc. A. b., a few days ago, on hi
Home Stretch:
"And now, in looking back ovel
, Ethis trip, it strikes us that one errol
+ prevails as TO the future of the South
We have believed that a fresh whit,
element must COME in to redeem thu
: land from its poverty and idieness
!. and shiftlessness. We do not nov
believe The South is to be TegenorateC
: by that means.R H
This unsettles and unsays what th,
i Herald has taught time out Of mind
, But again: sE 9
It has been already demonstrated
that the. .colored people of the Soutl
can be made entirely competent to fiji
all the ordinary occupations of life
? To that population, educated, is tn
, South yet to be indebted for its re
; demption and recIan1atioH. We be
iieve the colofed population must b
the ruling race in the cotton and ric
I States, and to that complexion mus
r these States come at last pssaa1 se ~
ri And now I ask, what would havl
been the effect in 1861 if such hat
been ANNOUNCED dandunderstood as tn
. object and result of the war on tia
Il South? And wheny probably, will tb
2 black race become sufficiently edu
!, leatedn to govern themselves and de
! velop the resources of the country
conquered by the bay yonets of th
North?s When we have seightio or tel
Black States, what a chance smart ed
! itors and great statesmenswill have t
imultfply theories and questions, ant
: stand in every possible relation t,
/, them Z ours, 9 e.
. Aurora, april 1874 ggs .ss rs
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