The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1874-12-09
TIE soUgH IND TIE NEGRO

THE SOUTH IND THE NEGRO,
Mr.. Edwin De Leon, Of Charles
ton, South Carolina. now residential
London, and formerly United States
consul at Cairo, has been writing
for Frdse1's Magazine a series of pa
| pers on efThe Southern States since
the War" We quote the following
passage from the paper in the No
vember number Of the magazine =
q THERE are not adozen men left in
! the whole South Ito fine writer's 'knowI-
| edge) who entertain either tie idea or
| the hope that the political privileges of
| the temancipated slave viii ever he wrest-
ed from him, or who doubt their own
! power to regulate and control 1t ulti-
mately for their own and the common
| benefit, could the disturbing element,
the. carpet7bagger, be removed either
peaceably or forcihly. - Neither does any
sane Southern man seriously content
plate the possibility or ACCESSIBILITY of
getting rid of the four million. blacks
born, bred and domiciled at, the Sonth,
nor desire. any substitute for the labor of
those strong and willing arms; convinced
that the freedman never can or viii be
the rival or the successor of tlie white
landed proprietor, but only his hired
help, or laborer hereafter, asheretofore.
The imprudenta qtterances and. foolish
sayings made by or attributed to SOUTH
ern men on this subject, have been con
demned as severely at the South as else
where by the mass of the population,
who synlpathiZe innO such frenzied or
absurd Outgivings, Even the war could
not kin off all the fossils or all the fools
in the Southern country, few of whom
may still splutter,. rant ana rave, talk
wild nonsense, and become the petty In.
struments of mighty mischief sothe peo-,
pie and section for whom they profess
so much, by giving fresh pretexts TO
their, Oppressors: but the great Southern
heart beats not i'll unison with such in
sane talk, or with lawless acts perpetrat-
ed in the name of patriotism. Her peo-
pie desire peace, both with the North
and with the negro, and will not imperil
it by any act of theirs The Southern
people to-day are asstTue to the Union
and the Constitution (even with its
amendments, which have changed the
status Of themselves and their slaves1 as
the people of the North; and, il there be
any other movement for disunion in the
States within this generation, it assured
ly WIlI.1lOE come from tlG South, VINO
win hereafter bear the ills she has
rather than fly to others she Knows not
of / OF this both friend and foe may
rest assured. OF politics the Southern
people have had sufficient, and more
than sufficient Their most earnest as
piration is to be let atone If they seem
almost as a unit in favor of the Demo
cratic party, it is only because that sym
bOlizes the opposition TO the Administra-
ton, and the party which have so terri
bly, and vindictively oppressed them,
and sought to put them not only on an
with, but under the feet of their
former slaves, and of the crawling white
reptiles that have controlled them. There
has been no time within the last eight
years when General Grant and his party
might not have disbanded the Southern
Democracy, and secured a cordial sup
port at the South, by even show of
Justice and magnanimity, and a cessa- |
ton of almost intOlerable persecution.
They might do so tomorrow if wisdom
ruled their councils and their action
To sum up this statemcnt0of the actual |
it is necessary only to repeat |
hat the mutual feeling Of the great |
masses Of Blacks and whites throughout |
he former slave States is kind, and for |
bearing, and friendly in all things not |
The old relations exist be- |
ween the races, in spite of this discrep- |
lncY, everywhere outside of the narrow |
limits already indicated; and this area is |
'apidly diminishing and dwindling into |
vanishing point -" .e..a