The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1875-04-21
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THE LOGIC OF EVENTS.

We trust that those of our contemporaries,
reinforced by a coteric of small and selfish
politicians, who have insisted that the
"color line" must be strictly drawn at the
south, will give pause. They have been
wont to divide the people of the south into
every citizen of African descent, former
slaves made freemen by the results of the
war, sustained and supported by handful
of office seekers, mistakenly called republi-
cans. They have maintained silence as to
the disreputable conduct of the majority of
these Office seekers, but have demanded
that the colored man should be protected
by coercive legislation, by force bills, by
federal interference, and by the strong arm
of the military. An oppressed and perse-
cuted people, exposed to ku-kluxism and
kindred terrorism, as they claimed, they
held that their only safety was in the con-
tinued military protection of the general
government The other class embraced
nearly the entire white population, with
shrinking, here and there, of the colored
element. The whites were. they said, ku-
klux, white leaguers, ruflians, "banditti,"
thirsting for the negroes blood, assassins
Of white republicans, and must be depressed
by the bayonet. The colorcd following was
meagre and only yielded to the arguments
of coercion, and gave in their adhesion
through the domination of cowardly fear.
All the evils under which the south suffer
ed were attributable to the terrorism ex-
ercised by the whites, TO the repression of
the blacks. Safety was attainable only by
the free use of the bayonet or by means of
drum-head court martials. The whites re-
pressed and the blacks .encouraged, in this
way, prosperity would surely follow.
The stern logic of events has proved them
wrong, but we do not hope to see them
confess their errors-they are of that class
who consider themselves too manly to ac-
knowledge mistakes. Time, very short
time too, and the events of few weeks
have demonstrated that Cancellation means
prosperity, restoration of confidence, a
revival of business They have proved
moreover, that repression, federal inter-
ference, the drawing of the "color line, -
means. disorder, turmoil, stagnation of
business, insecurity of life and property
Is not the contrast between the past and
present situation in Arkansas ahappy illus
tration of the benefits of the policy of con-
citation The white man and black man
enjoy equal rights, equal protection and
equal prosperity. We hear no more of
white leagues, of political murders, of out
RACES pcrpctrated for opinions sake, of
"color lines" But we do hear of business
prosperity, of political quiet, of good gov
eminent How is it in louisiana Will
liam A. Wheeler, a republican member of
the last congress, answers He has re-
turned from Louisiana, where he has been
to see that 'mob" of twelve citizens were
seated as members of helegislature, and to
see "banditti," which now control Its
lower house, condone the great wrong done
the state in the making of William Pitt
Kellogg governor. He says that there has
been no time since the war "when so much
good feeling existed" in New Orleans
that business men, bankers, merchants, In
surance men, ETC., "begin to assert them.
selves" that there have been more transac'
tions In real estate within few weeks thar