Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1875-08-31
a Negro InSurrccfiOn.

Acknowledgement Williams has
gone, but his policy in the South is
bearing It's fruits. There was time,
it will be remembered, when he ex,r.
cised all the authority Of the Executive
and the Secretary of War over the
South, and was practically deposit.
President Grant was beset with Il
strange fancy that by turning over his
duties to the Attorney-Gene and
giving up to him also the powers Of
the Head of the War Department, he
could himself escape responsibility.
And in that interval, drunk with his
new power, the Acknowledgement as
sumed TO upset or tranple on State
Constitutions, ignore personal rights,
fling the local judiciary ont of the win
dow. 9nd dictate laws and constitu,
tons to the Southern people at MS
own will. Then carpet bagism was
indeed Il furnishing plant in that sec
tion, watered directly from the Fed
eral fountain. Outrages rained down
upon the people until they We're tairl.
drenched with them. \ bloody war
ofraces was reported TO be not merely
impending, but actually set ON foot
The whites Of the South were banding
together-so said the nlmor-mon9ers
Of Williams-tO butcher the blacks in
IA body. There was 10 occur the most
hideouS Scrie, OF massacrrs known to
history, All this was ri pcning to
sicken the sense Of civilization, while
the President took his yagrant sum.
mer ease and left the management Of
the calamity TO his Attorney-General
from Oregon. Happily nothing came
Of it for the time. hut the effect on the
imag'nations of the negroes in an en-
tended strip of Southern territory Is
just beginning to manifest itself. The
tables, however, are turned iii place
of the whites eXterminating the blacks,
it is the latter who are found to have
perfected all their preparations for Il
general massacre Of the whites.
A number of counties in Georgia
are in y state of tcrment oven an ap.
pretended rising of the negroes, whose
chief reliance is upon the colored COM
mander of the South Carolina militia.
Acknowledgement Williams is gone
ont Of Office. but his agents remain to |
do the work which he cut out for
them. Ii is they WHO have inhamad !
the passions OF the i'll informed and
unreheciing blacks, by appeals and
promises too lncendiary to he tolerat
ed in any community that is consttu
ted Of similar elements. y greater
wlckedness could not be set on foot |
than that Of exciting the ignorant and
credulous class, as the Southern ne
groes are, against the vastly larger
white class with whom they are to
live in u state OF peace if they live
with them at all. The goth was the
date fixed by tie leaders in tins insur-
recion for she rising, the purpose be
ing to massacre all white persons in
Discriminatory. The head Of the con
s. tracy has been bruised, and let lis
sincerely hope broken but the gen
eral feeling of doubt and apprehension
which is to supervene upon the APP
pearance ofnumerous struggling bands
OF armed negroes, unsettlln5 the plans
of farm work AMI terroizing the black
population while forcing the whites
into an attitude OF self.protection, is
such as cannot be allayed in \ long
time, and will inevitably produce IN
fortunate results for both races. Tins
is the fruit of carpet. bagism. and for
it the Administration at Washington
is directly responsible. 1t has foster
ed thi, iniquitous system of punder
ing a whole people, first by taxation
and finally by the hayonet, until the
deluded blacks, seeing that no more
is to be secured by the caucu, and the
farce of legislation, are arming them
selves for an indiscriminate raid on
the whites, in their persons AS we'll as
their property. -Bosto" Post.
The New SENATOR FROM TENNEs-