Wilmington journal., 1874-09-04
N0ssTsHE:.eN VIEW or Z
SOUTH.


the Editorial colums of the Now Yorl
World. A few of our Northern cotem
poraries seem to endeavor to under
stand the difficulties of our politicu
situation, but even the "ITOr,d' doe
not fully realize the inevitable result
Of the policy of the Radical part,
upon the political situation of til,
South.
It cannot bc too distinctly under
/ stood at the North that what is JUS
now known as tho "whitc mans party
ut the South has been called into being
| the Northern Radicals. Not only
common fairness and justice to the
.3orth, but the best interests of tho
whole country, require that there
| should be no befngeing Of the North
| nrn mind ON this point. We are nC
longer ut war with the Southern States
nor is there any longer danger of their
| beng built Up with European help i'll
to great power, threatening the
Northern and the Western people.
IIey are once more an integral part of
| our common country. We can no
more afford to make serious mistakes
III our dealing with them than Eng
land can to make mistakes III her deal
inSs with Ireland, Or Austria III her
dealings with Hungary. When the
" tti nar ended in 1865 it left the
south n cuirpncf, united people. made
l;p OF tWo races closely connected by
Their social necessities ~ we'll as by
their soci traditions The violent
ithOiiTI,n Of slavery by the Federal
tiuvcriment broke with Il blow the
thread II the social traditions which
connected these two races. 1t did not
break, nor in the nature of things
could it break, the social necessities
which connected them. SO far a. We
have any authentic grounds on which
to form an opinion about the matter,
the reciprocal feeling OF the two races
at tho South to each other Mt that time
was as friendly rs reason and expert
ence combine to show that in such
circumstances it would be likely to be.
The simple fact that during the whole
period of tho civil war there was no
such thing known "a negro rising
in the South against the whites, cstab-
fishes an overwhelming presumption
That the cmancipatcd negroes, If they
had been ieft to themselves, would
have quietly adjusted themselves to
the new order of things i'll such a way
as not to seriously interfere with the
restoration of prosperity and of order
throughout the South. The history
of the raising of the so-called "colored
troops" of the Union army has yet to
be written, and when it comes to be
written there will be curious revi-
siou of regulations in connection with
that particular phase of what Presi-
dent Lincoln, with unconscious sar-
casm, but too truly described as the
prodigious s'iob" of the civil war.
But it is already perfectly we'll under
stood that SO far as the Southern
States were concerned, the regroes
enlisted within their border were liter
ally ''corralled' by the Union forces.
precisely as negro troops had
been some eighty years before by
the royal armies of Great Britain in
their struggle with the rebellion Of the
colonies. The percentage Of blacks
divorced from their normal connection
with the community in which they
lived by the accidents OF war was no
greater in 1865 than in 1888.
But the Radical leaders at the North
soon perceived that ii they were to pre-
~ iNG IIItiE COIbioI ol Ilitt tti'-I III Wv
prn,npnt against tho pcriIs Of any
change in the political sentiments OF
the North, they miist fortlfy them
selves III Congress with n Virginiun
of rotten borough members,
would be to split Southern society
completely in two, depress and dis
franchise the whites, who, OF course,
could not be relied upon TO support
Radicalism as a persistent national
policy, and regiment the negroes po-
iitically III opposition TO the whites
This they accordingly proceeded to do,
and this they did with their now i'll
fanOuslv famous Reconstruction"
measures. From the moment when
these measures began to be carried out
AZ the South the execution of them, and
the political organization of the ne
grOcs under them, were cOnfded to
a set of political adventurers, rap
scallions and rascals, the like of whom
no country in our times has
produced. These people undertook
this work distinctly for their own ad-
vantage and for the advantage of the
Radical party at the North. We might
fill this journal to-day with extracts
from leadidg Radical newspapers of
the North, published between 1865
and 1869, in which it passionately and
openly maintained that the Southern
States ought to be governed not prl-
marily with an eye to restoring order
and prosperity within their borders,
but with an eye to furnishing" the
Southern whites and perpetuating the
domination over the whole country of
the Radical party. The Southern ne
groes, utterly ignorant Of the very ex-
istepce of such thing as political re-
sponsibility, were disciplined by the
agents of the Radical policy, backed
by all the machinery of the Federal
>iJv..ui.I;ilt, into q belief that their
liberty depended on their putting and
keeping the whites of the South COM
pletely out of all the offices and ad-
miristration of the several States OF
the South. These agents of the Rad
ical policy were disseminated through
out the whole Southern country
Whenever there was post office, a mill
tary station, an office of the Freedman's
Bureau, fiscal agent of the Federal
Government, there they were at their
evil work, dividing every county and
every village against itself, ,compact1ng
the blacks into a body of ignorant
hostility against the whites, making d, III
short that "black mans party" by
which they were to rule and ruin the
country. They succeeded in their
atrocious undertaking. Thieves in the
State Legislatures, thieves in guberna-
torial chairs, thieves in the Senate,
thieves in the House of Representa-
tiyes. thieves Oh the Judicial bench, at.
test to all of us the completeness OF
their success. Bullock, Scott, Moses,
Kellogg, Patterson, Sawyer, Durell.
need we we go through with the misera-
BILE catalogue of the pestilential scoun-
drels inflicted first upon the South,
and then upon the whole country by
this "olack mans party" thus concoiv,
ed, begotten, brought forth and
brought up
Now, this "black mans party" hay
ing been thus created, what possible
form of opposition to it was left at the
South, which. from the very nature OF
things, must not be white man s
pa,ty ?" What is party? 1t is the
of division for the