Wilmington daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1872-1874, 1874-08-20
The Black Mans Party makes a White
Mans Party Necessity
From the Netv York World Aug. 10,
THE WHITE MANS PARTY"

1t cannot be too distinctly understood at the
North that what is just not known as the
white mans party at the south has been
called into being not by the Southern whites
at ALL but by the Northern radicals. Not only
common fairness and justice to the South, but
the best interests of the whole country require
that there should be no befogging OF the
Northern mind on this point. We are no long
er at war with the SouthernStates, nor is there
any longer danger of their being built up with
European help into great power, threaten
ing theNorthern and theWestern people They
are once more an integral part of our common
country. We can no more afford to make seri-
GUS mistakes in our dealing with them than
England can to make mistakes in her dealings
with Ireland, or Austria in her dealings with
Hungary When the civil war ended in 1865
1t left the South q compact, united people
made up OF two races closely connected by their
social necessities as well as by their social ira
dltions. The violent abolition OF slavery by
the Federal Government broke with q blow
the thread OF the social traditions which con-
nected these two races. 1t did not break, nor
IN the nature OF things could it break, the
social necessities which connected them. So
far as we have any authentic grounds on which
to form an opinion about the matter the re-
ciprocal feeling of the two races at the South
to each other at the time was as friendly as
reason and experience combine to show that in
such circumstances it would be likely to be-
The simple fact that during the whole period
OF the civil war there was no such thing known
as negro rising in the south against the white
establishes an overwhelming presumption that
the emaneipated negroes, If they had been
left to themselves, would have quietly ad.
gusted themselves, to the new order of things
IN such way as not seriously to interfere with
the restoration OF prosperity and of order
throughout the South, The true history Of the
raising OF the so-called "colored troops or the
Union army has yet to be written, and when
it comes to be written there will be curious
revision OF regulations in connection with that
particular phase OF what President Lincoln
with unconscious sarcasm, but too truly de
scribes as the prodigious job Of the civil war
But tits already perfectly well understood that
so far as the Southern States were concerned
the. negroes enlisted within their border were
literally "corralled' by the Union forces, pre-.
cisely as negro troops had been eighty year;
before by the royal armies of Great Britain il
their struggle with the rebellion of the colon
les. The percentage of blacks divorced from
their normal connection with the community
in which they lived by the accidents of war wa!
no greater in 1865 than in 1873.
But the Radical leaders at the North sool
perceived that ii they were to preserve the
control of the Federal Government against
the periis OF any change in the political senti
ments of the North they must fortify them.
selves in Congress with Varangian phalan1
OF rotten borough members, and that to d,
this the shortest way would be to split South
ern society completely in two, depress and dis
franchise the whites, who, of course could no
'1 ieheo uPon " support faolcansm as per
slstent national policy, and regiment the ne
the negroes politically in opposition to tn,
whites. This they accordingly proceeded to d,
and this they did with their now infamousl,
famous reconstruction" measures. From tn,
moment when these measures began to be car
RED out at the South, the execution Of then
and the political organization of the neproe
under them, we're confded to a set of politica
adventures, rapscallions and rascals, tho like
of whom no country in our times has produced
These people undertook this work distinct,
for theR qYR advantage and fQg the aayantag''