New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-01-19
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GENERAL GOOD FEELING BETWEEN WHITE AMP
CoLoRED PROPLE-TnE SOUTH RULED BY IT'S
LOWEST cIAss-REsULTs OF THE RULE OF IGNo-
RAHCE-THE FRIENDS OF TIE ADMINISTRATION
TIE ADVOCATES or MIsRULE.
To me BdttOr or The Tribune
SIR: AS the son of an English politician who
has been a feow-worker with John Bright. Richard
Golden ri Russell have been Interested. during
nv recent tour in the Southern States In conversing
with OF all parties aud shades OF opinion may
say first that the general got feeling between the cot
orcd aud hite men has pleasantly surprised me- re-
gard the idea Of Of races chinera. Outbreaks
there undoubtedly have been, but they may mainly nc
attributed 20 the misrue which has largely resulted
from a ciyl and from social and political revolu'
ton still more serious aud permanent 10 its effects
Congress Judged wise and necessary to accord tie
franchise 10 a very large who we're recently IN
servude ana uOtOriOusy the moss Ignorant, heipess
aud poorest section Of the community. class that had
been always accustomed 10 have their daily wants sup
piled by Others aud had not the fanest political eiu
cation, suddenly called to east vote which las
had great ea6ct upon the welfare Of the country In
States where this class OF formed the majority OF
the population the result has been Of the greatest mo-
and importance. We MAGISTRATES legislators
Senators, Presidcnts OF Houses OF representatives.
chosen guOrant class by equally or more
ignorant II the lrst principles OF political knowledge
many OF almost all snOWledSe. No nave st'h
q cOOred man who had been In chains IN jail
Chairman OF the House of Representatives OF great
State. No education test property test that can
learn has ever been applied suggested to modify Tue
consequences which nj ght easily have been predicted
from such . state OF things.
That great evil must result from such position was
logically certain and Inevitable That tue country could
suffer aud yet survive is only another proof OF the
magnificent OF tins great country. aud OF The
viz nd "a of IFS L. IL
say that such government would have been fatal o
any other civilized country. II the government or the
City OF Lon ION handed over 10 tho lowest ana
most ignorant class OF the population, the destrueon
of its prosperity would be only matter of very
short time. We all know what the result
OF handing the Gig " Paris for short time to
the French Communists. What woul be tie result IN
this great city ~ New-York II it were a5an toned to
the unbtided power of tne ignorant residents Ia Its
lowest casst The inhabitants nave had specimen OF
what mglt he Jectc IN the warn u3 RIOTS when nave
been instiEaed this eas-; ami the vigorous meas
ures taken TO suppress them show how httIe pTfna
ueut government OF that description would sut the ei
zsns OF N,w-Y1rk.
Bat the low classes OF London the Communists q
Paris or the lowest Of New York; residents are IN
hgh state OF political education compared 70 tue classes
10 the South tat emerged from "a state OF serviIuue
to assume The position OF governing majority.
And the Northern people, although resisting VIZ
OrOuslY any attempt % permit Autlr iONb~g ti"HSon
30 control their aGrs have yet been content 20 allow
the desinies sodth to fail Toto tue hands OF
class less brutal indeed Tar ignorant DOUBT
less tnc Northern people did not az3 the conseqlcn-
ce Of such &c lu Doubtless they did not pause fully -
reflect as TO what would certainty ensue how ignorance
and rapc ~ arc sisters ami how OF he two ilno-
rance the dangerous. For intelligent rapaclty
viii at least leave property streagn enough TO sustain
IT, II only to allow tho prIco-s or pu1der 10 be- con
N!U iIi ~
property than t can dcpoh and will thus DC tar more
dangerous to the punle weir arc.
The painful result Da7 been that the control OF
properly mas passed 10 those who had none, aud the
enactment OF laws cyYu2 taxation has been ntruSted
10 who could not pay their own tdIas Worse stIi
the governing his often supported IT, supporters
OF fraut and poculation aud magistrate have
couuved at the cscane from justice OF noC0rOus evaers
If tho law. Unscrupuous men whose rapacity has
been uurestaued by moral sense nave idcited sac
Ignorance OF recent, enfrauchisad majority aud
have Ieauei for thcmsevc ant their ouower' gains
whca are pa nc aud positions % trust winch
they he'd Ouy 10 betr37.
Tlc BJuh has erOIned or many years now under such
government, ami ths natural results have followed
which always follow on u0r mt aud dishonest al minis
tration ~ pIblc afu-, Property HIS dwlnded aud
sruuk the face of excessive taxation ana Injurious
enact ents Of al knis L,nds have gone out OF cult
yatiOn or have been abandoned 70" tax Tao uddo OF
whole country has been affected. JlsJ a. surely
as the sicknes. OF one member Of the human
Dody must affect the health OF the whole hOiY,
80 must such sickness member of tue body
pu;io affect the health aud vigor OF tho whole
And now the fllsc position has 80 complicated and
intensified Itself that tue Central Government mas
found ltseif forced into tho position OF supporting
,gLoranro ant misrule Ti0se WAC the Norst
enemes Of property VI the Of these great
states are enemies bat the sworn friends of the
Central Government, until IL has at last happened that
a government whose rst duty Is the protection Of lie
and property forced to bayOnets IN support 0l
ni-ruIe and usurpatIOn. Surely tAis Is indeed SAD
sight in republican America. It enough 10 make all
friend Of liberal and free institutions at home and
abroad bewan themselves Ia sackeloth and ashes
while these tremendous political experiments are brnE-
ing rum on the country aud Disgrace upon republican
institutions.
The remedy for such n state OF things Is not for an
E1glisInan however friendly, TO attempt 70 point out
Bat that it ought occupy the close ana earnest aten-
ton Of tnis great people clear and certain LOOK mar
rowy into IT, and II you nave you doubtless have
worthy OF your great historic names-your
Webscrs Clays, Calhoun men who Will not treat ths
question IN "A party spirit buC who are real statesmen
laboring ouly the geoi OF the COMMONWEALTH ie'
them come forward now while 1t k yet time.
Ee,o- York, Jan. g. 1873. NEhIAs
OCEAN TRAVEL DELAYED.
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