The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-22
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The final issue OF the struggle has neve
oeen doubtful. 1t is impossible to maintain
except by external force. The supremacy o.
even the equality Of al inferior race, which i.
also in the whole of the Southern States a
minority of the population. Dispassionate
critics, who were condemned by pnilanthro-
pists IS .heartless partisans Of oppression,
| from the first warned Republican Legislators.
| IN vain that the ambition which they strove
| to implant IN the negro WAS dangerous ii not
suicidal 1t was certain that the Norihe,n
! community would ultimately sympathlze with
| lis own cOuntrymen Father than with the OBJ.
Jects OF temporal pa rOnage and benevolence
The Southern whites wi have no difficulty
| N re-est btishing their predominsnce when
hey and their political allies from the major
ity IN the Union Some political symptoms
seem 20 indicate the appro ,ching decline OF
the part whlcl has now directed the policy OF
the United States for thirteen years. The re-
urn OF the Democratic party to power would
not be an mike advantage; but alition
Of Democrats and Ii eral Kepubli ANS might
perha ps not be found SO useless in 1876. as /,
proved through the absurd selection OF Mr.
Greeley in 1872. A Republican convention
which has nominated MIR. Hartrantt AZ Presi-
dental candidate, also denounced the pr ject
Of Canadian reciprocity treaty and the prin-
ciple of free trade.
The large section of the Republican party
which is int ested in the removal of protec-
tive duties can scareeley cooperate at the next
election with the protectlonist manufacturers
OF Pennsylvania and New E gland. New po-
Etical combinations will fiiciuts.ie chang ol
policy toward the Southern Sta es; but, even
if the Republican party shoul retain its unity
and its predomnance, there is no danger Ina,
second Hayti will be established within the
territory Of the Union.
Ii the Americans are rash in mourning po-
litical risks. they have also remarkable apti,
tude for redressing the evils which they have
carelessly produced. They have apparently
not been cured Of their superstitious belief i'll
universal suffrage either by the condition Of
the city of New York under the rule of Fisk
and Tweed, or by the spreading anarchy OF
the South, with its Kelloggs, and BrookseS.
and Moseses but it was found possible to
send Tweed to the penitentiary, and in ali
probability the nuisance of negro domination
will ultimately be abated. A large proportion,
OF the difficulties with which it will be neces-
sary to grapple was inherent in the relation OF
the two races after the inevitable abolition OF
slavery.
by i. long succession of CO, lily experiments
the true medium between chaotic equality
ard oppre ssion may, perhaps, be ultimately
discovered. Enthusiasts WHO disregard ali
dis motions OF color ere not aware that the,
supply posthumous justification of the slave
trade. Negroes W 0 are supposed to be equal
to the best citizens of Eurok can descent ought
to rejoice in the vicarlous suffering. by WHICH
their ancestors purchased tns extraordinary
elevation Of their race. More temperate OBJ
servers acknowledge that the colored poll
ticians Of the Southern States have made II
great advance on the condition of their
indigenous kindred. Jobbing and reprdl-
ating and riotlng are more civilized occupa-
tons than slave-hunting for the Zanzibar
market or participation Ashantee customs.
Even the right OF voting night be compare
tive y innocuous If the negroes elected ruler,
only tor themselves, and not tor their letters
Universal suffrage which is rude and cum-
rous instrument even when il is unavo .d.
bic, becomes absurd and lntolerable when the
constituency is not practically homogeneous.
The example OF jamaica illustrates the incon-
venience OF representative institutions, when
the franchise is either confined to white ma
jority or extended to colored majority. Ii |
remains to be seen whether or ,er and civiliZa-
ton in the Southern st ates can be reconciled
with the retention OF any share of electora
power by he colored population. The poll.
tician who may provide for the security OF
the negroes against oppres> lion, without allow
ing them m schievous and unnatural pre-
dominance, Will deserve a high place among
American statesmen and Legislators.