The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1874-09-04

[From the Louisville courier-Journal

I peculiarly sOO1hlng influence upon IN,
/, Washington Republican. When move,
e by IL, the Presidents organ becomes sig
e nificantly childlike and bland IL mode
4 ates its tone II chirps like any nightin
2 gale. Referring To the mattcr-offact OBJ
servations which have appeared from tim,
TO time In these columns, and which IN,
r professional dead Jewelers. and the drivel
: ing red-tapists have dismissed AS mer,
sensational nonsense, that valorous teach
! or OF the true faith says:
, The objection 10 this platform OF the Courier.
Journal Is that in what might be called the poiit-
zeal portion Oh II II Is vague and misty. Nna
would II have General Grant do toward the over
throw OF " negrophilism In the South 2 - The
mere veto OF The Civil-rights bill, in case il
should be passed would not do II The univer-
sal complaint rs that now, without civil rights,
''negrophilism' ilourishes like green bay tree
In the south. Would II have him set the consti-
T tutional amendments at defiance and pave the
chsement OF the black man, or the restoration
OF slavery? We ask these questions merely for
Information, for the reason that so much Is SAID
and written upon the subject now that II would
be well 10 have precise definition OF the ques-
ton. What is 10 be the result OF the alliance be-
tween General Grant and the conservative men
OF the country In return for re-electing him,
what exactly would they have him doY What
do our conservative friends propose TO do with
the colored man Where l. he 10 stand in the
reorgan lzatlOn Of parties VIII he find enemies
or friends In the new coalition?
Bearing i'm mind the distinct, clear-cut
proposition that the election of General
Grant for third term is the virtual aban-
donment of republican government in
America. and that ii cannot possibly come
about except as the price which the con-
servatism of the country. Disguised by its
experience of an irresponsible, purchas-
able. universal suffrage, may be willing to
pay for hard-money, free-trade and home
rule, wisely though despotically admins
tered, we are ready to answer the Republic
CAMS question plainly and "all at once"
No one in this part of the country will
accuse us of what is called "prejudice y
against the negro. When he had not a
friend in the South, except the carpet-bag-
ger who wanted to take advantage of him
and the scalawag who was merely a
secondhand scrub edition of himself. we
stood resolutely between him and harm.
We excited the hostility of all our political
accociates because we fought for negro
testimony in the courts. We did so be-
cause il was essential TO justice, as needful
10 the white man as 10 the black man. in
dispensable TO the well-being of both.
Again, we ostracised ourselves for sea
son because we urged the acceptance in
good faith of the Constitutional amend
ments. 1t was our opinion that they were
logical results of the war. We had not
travelled at the point of Buell's, Rosecrans'
and Sherman's bayonets for nothing. We
took our political alma mater land blood
stained. powder-sooted piece of parchment
ii was too = during the collegiate course
of ls6l-65. We perfectly understood, and
the representative Confederate element of
the South understood, not only the terms
of the surrender, but the meaning Of the
terms, emancipation, citizenship, suffrage.
We were not such fools as TO suppose that
gigantic revolution like that Of which we
We're the victims was going to evaporate
like bottle of ginger-pop. We very well
knew that it would go the full length of the
fanaticism which had been the soul of the
successful war waged against us. Many of
us disbeieved in slavery. Indeed. the intel
lgence of the South was always as sound
in its opposition to the principle of slavery
as that of the North. The trouble with us
was that we had no way of getting rid of
ii, and a modification of its term was never
presented to us. In the North-where
people had sold their slaves when they
found slave labor nprofitable-never for
getting to pocket the proceeds-in the
North the question was sublimated and
sentimental. In the South il was con-
nected with multitude of practical diff
culties. not the least of which was that a
Niger was worth a thousand dollars.
But the war, which abolished slavery. con-
WINGED thoughtful people in this part of
the world that it would not end there
and consequently, that class of observers
and spectators were not unprepared for
the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amend
ments. Long before they were declared
by authority to be parts of the organic
law, we had anticipated them, and, when
they began t o operate in civil affairs, we
advised the people TO accept them, TO aid
in their peaceful execution. and, by every
possible means, to give them and the ne
gro covered by them a fair show. In a
word, we recognized the fact that the ne
gro. as an experiment, had entered into
American politics. and we had made up
our mind that il was best TO give the ex-
pertinent forced upon us an honest trial.
We are still OF this mind. and we. like the
rest of the Confederate element in the
South. are assisted in the position TO
which we have committed ourselves by
familiar, local sentimcntali.m for the
blacks. which Is exceedingly unctuous and
eflcacious wherever IL Is put in the field,
and sweetened with little liquor and cur
rencv.
The Northern people must not allow
themselves to be deluded by the notion
that the Rebels and the niggcrs are at
outs. As far as the blacks are concerned,
the longest pole knocks down the persim-
mons, no matter what tree ii may have
been cut from. Nothing is to be gained
for the North by concessions to the blacks
on the assumption that they are to be pur-
chased by legislation; for a weeks man
agement. backed by little money. can
undo years of intrigue. har-splitting and
cute craftsmanship at Washington. That
which the intelligence of the North should
look 10 is the tendency of its policy. Thus
far the tendency Of that policy has one By
one turned the Southern States over to
anarchy. as in South Carolina and Louisi-
ana. or to few picked men. as in Virginia