The New Orleans bulletin. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1874-1876, 1874-09-20
THE SOUTH. r rH E r AND TIE

THE SOUTH, TIL ,RIslS AND TIL
RE- DY.
Nothihg Is easier an to give advice
especially. upon suDJe with which the ad
WISER Is 'narqln'lhted; % fragrant illustration
Of which truIsm are til columns OF editor; !,
wisdom in which the Them peopIe are IN
structed from time to e by New York iour
nails in regard to their ubles with the neey,
race.
One pay acea Is oHefi after another now
ii is edu cation. nov is civil rights. the,
Cancellation, an theI 1T is patience for.
bearance and human =" overlooking The
tolerabiy obvious and eieyant facts that al
the inte lectual and md u training the negro
ever had IN the hist " OF the race he got
among the Southern beople, where fe has
been treated with a pa ence forbearance and
humanity such as no previous people in a
condition OF slavery yer experienced from
their masters.
All this while the SO PtAern people reply il
they reply at all, that the moral maxims and
psychological principles deduced from the
idiosyncrasies OF the White man have no ap-
plcation to the neg1b. Each race il law
unto itself.
Civilization and m1rals the machinery OF
legislator ana Of justice, and complex sys-
checks and balances, are the out; rowth Of the
white mans intelligence and experience, as
are the railroads, telegraphs and printing
presses trumphs of the white mans invention
and his more marvellous and characteristic
power or faculty of retaining and connecting
separate ideas ana results as the factors of
mighty c0mbin tons and elaborate organiza-
ton.
TIL growth and development Of civilization
IL. l.1 a
language, a natural and organic growth its
roots strongly entwined in the instincts and
sentiments of the white race. and its lofty
head and infinite qualifications the flores
cence and extolilti ton OF his Unborn talents
and aspirations.
To expect civil zation to retain its character
under negro administration is rs sensible as it
would be toplant cabbages in the rice swamps
or to expect oak trees to flourish on the beach
at Coney Island.
The making a citizen Of the negro and
voter is IA tolerably harmless yagary where lie
is in a small minority, and where the enlarge
ment and degradation OF the suffrage can do n
harm. At the South It is the precipit ,tion of
a mortal struggle between the races, for while
the ascendancy OF the white means peace and
prosperity to white and black alike the ascen-
dancy OF the negro means his relapse into the
savage state which is his normal condition,
and ALSO ute destruction to the white man.
The latter cannot exist in subsection to the
negro The imagination OF sucn a state is AZ
frightful and repulAive as Switts fable Of the
Houyhnhnms In the history Of mankind
there is no example Of the white race living
in subsection to any other race, nor OF two
races living together in harmony ,r the
operation OF equal laws. tits the rcam Of
sickly sentimentalists and impractical theo-
rists that such state can exist.
Is the Fifteenth Amendment TO be repealed,
and is the North to stultity itself by re"eding
from the position taken with much una
nimity ana eclat ? This is also moral i'm
possibility. No nation ever yet had the mag
nanimty TO condemn its own errors. and to
reverse Il policy which it had adopted in
moment OF seli-adulating exultation,
Ii any all Walton to the present disgusting
and abnormal state of affairs in the South "a
gangrene which affects the health of the whole
body poltic) is to be attained, it must by an
indirect remedy which does not compromise
the pride OF the people, nor impeach the Wis
dom ct It's past action.
That remedy lies in the qualification OF the
right Of suffrage by property and ednca-
tonal test, or both; not III the south alone, but
throughout he United States
The practical effect of such an amend
ment would be to purify the polls of vast
amount of ignorance and imbeci ity; and to
confne the sovereignty where is the intelli-
gence and character OF the people: and while,
as particular result, it would TO a great and
desirable extent shut off negro suffrage, il
would send demagognes and rascally political
adventurers, North and South to the right
about, 10 seek another occupation.
To this complexion it must come. or amer
chy and wretchedpess must continue: nor
viii the evils which are now preyiug upon the
vitals OF one part Of the country be long con
fined 10 geographical or. sectional limits.
Tint, Feid and Farm. Ne,c York.
NEW ENGLAND INDEPENDENTS. - Burleigh
writes to the Boston ,Io,Taai: In New York
the restaurant keeper greets you with his cot
off, sleeves rolled up, face red and a breath in
dicative OF lager In New + gland Your
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