New-York tribune., 1876-10-27
THE SOUTH.

&c pARrY WILL NOT ENFORCE TIE CONSI-
r,.r1ov.I. AMENDMENTS N GOOD FAllH
r. "a, EdttOr OF the Tr'0"he'
c. believe that the permanent good govern
- and tle prosperity of the South would be pro-
H'I' h., tbe continuance Of Republican admins
mo'.U =. :. washington. believe that the election
ocratie President this year would establish
oi a., Do,nocratic party of the South the domina-
M ;ts worst men, would give heart TO the law
ND discourage the industrious and the enter
-, would raise into ferceness sirlies that are
pi,;, ~, and would set back a current oi puOhc
HoA'''-- tIt IL advancing slowly indeed, but per
oca+pJv toward permanent iriehdSnlp D1'"''"
10. and Hack and between North ana 9'u'n'
1,obled "a the South has been since inc "'l' n'i
so,,1ition has vet been infinitely Del.ei WI" ~
'oi,i'-s .I, II would have been with Democratic
puolo' ,.I,,inistration With Democratic Adj
,t;or tbe evil dispositions which President
lta,d Republican Congress have kept some
49, bol c,ould have rioted without restraint;
""@. 1o,,, 90 flat untoward feeling which IN lsGl
ia tba South to secession, and III Ioof moN'"
a. ,,oiority of her white citizens against recon-
,,,ction is in any Of its notifications Iotce III
SUI. tLo mower of repression, which is in the
frorrroept Of the United States should be hanus
,;,sod In exert it on necessary occaSloh. AH','
-, - weaker now than it was IN lS'Z ana hiucn
ol,cr than il was in 1865, but 1t Is sun sione
ond il the controlling feeling OF the coh'IolnHs p"i'
az "9u .La democratic South. 1t demands the sub
s+ontial mastery Of the white man over 'No
~ II now gives up, indeed the IoIu's
s -, and does not ask that the negro
sbou be a chattel: but it insists thaV nc
Iii ho q suhordinate man. II looks upon his
oo,olitv rs n standing insult to the whites anu
batos him for ENJOYING it, and hates the Repu'ncau
,or+,, for giving it. In the more moderate men 1t
contents itself with a political opposition 70 INC
Rennblican party in the more violent II runs ~ "
nersonal persecuton of the members OF that party
and often breaks out in violations OF law against
liob tl,o State Governments raise no effective
hand. Sacaciously enough. its present m"nilesta-
top IL against the free ballot of the negro "hch Is
seen 70 be defense 10 oil his other rights II hi7
nroduced determination that coioTe4 iu,h i si"ll
{'o ,o real yo,ce in public affairs. From policy
there is an intention 10 let enough o tAem VOC au
TO let enough Of tier votes De oOuitFu' 20 f 60 .I
Nortb. buf THE is 10 be the limit OF tleI suiiaEo
nness tbev will vote their Democratic helshuois
direct. ..-.
If reminded that this statement of facts Is CONTRA
dieted by the acceptance of the Amendments OF the
Constitution in the st. Louis platform answer
dat nobody here regards that part of the platform
as anything but a cunning piece OF deception upon
si,nnletons at the North. When it is followed by
confoninp practice in any part of the South where
the Republicans are making serious contest 1t VIII
deserve some consideration but not till then. You
have read the returns of an election for Governor OF
Ceorria We have over 81 900 cOlOTed polls, be-
sides the men who are over go years old The Re
publican whites are much more numerous than the
negroes who voluntarily vote the DemocIalic llChet
See how far the Republican Vote at tla' ''eC'lOH
foIls sb6ri Of 81 600 and you Will have some cVl-
dcnce of tbe extent to which the Democratic party
has crushed out the negro vote IN Georgia
Practices so glaringly at variance with law ana
Justice cannot be approved by all of that party even
IrHff fHas
jnconsstently in III know that the political equality
of the negro is inevitable, and that TO resist 1t fur
tber is waste of labor and injury TO every puhlc
and private interest and they wish the unprohibic
effort 10 cease Though these men have not ac-
ouired the control of their party. they are gaming
on their rssher brethren, and have already eAer'ed
am0deTatlng influence. NOthiNE lhdi ul'l Id,
urged has had so much effect as that tho course of
tie hotspur, tends to provoke the heavy haud oi te
Government OF the United states and TO defeat the
Democratic party in the nation. Democratic sue
cess in a Presidential election would deprive these
considerations of all force
When you Of the North undertook TO eradicate
slavery you probably fOresaw that the work would
be only half done when slavery was abolished IN
law. The sentiments the habits, the modes OF
thought, and the constitutional theories which 1t
had bred would necessarily Outlast its legal exist
eRee and wdeld manifest themselves in the political
action Of Southern whites. Hence there would come
political struggle bcNucl Ol INC HiiIt'uS "b-
gle. and then would be ranged the one side those
who would wish to keep as close as possible to
slavery and its appurtenances, and on the other
those who would reject every part of that system
end the ideas which flowed from it. That struggle
is 1t is the old against the new the out
going against the incoming; prescription against
innovation prejudice against Gberalty; pTeroga-
tive against equal rights. Inc people ot The Norm
were victorious in the military conflict. Ihey
thought proper to establish civil pOhty Tor the
pmbOdXIDp pI1nclDipS
waTred and TO secure those principles more tr1nlY
they planted them in the Constitution OF the United
States. These principles are resisted, and largely
from the same motives which inspired resistance TO
the National authority fifteen years ago. And II re-
mains to be whether the people OF the North
equal TO this struggle as they were to that
In response TO their magnal imOus invitation, the
people Of the South repHticpate in the political af
fairs of the country; and think that we ought to
do so with the understanding that the ideas of the
party that prevailed III the shall hencefOrth be
accepted as the common ideas Of the American peo-
pie. Our Democratic citizens in the South have not
yet brought themselves to accept those ideas. Re
construction now eight years old, is still the staple
grievance of their orators and their presses. The
policy of advancing the negro 10 equal rights so
soon after emancipation bold and startling; but
believe that it was essentially wise. have heard
objections without number TO the policy; but have
heard no intelligent obiector propose policy which
he would pronounce both better and practicable. IL
has thrown upon this generation tral that III tue
nature of things was sure TO come, ana that
otherwise would have been protracted
through two or three generations, cmbtter-
ing society all the time. We may as well
meet IT now. Ii is intimately connected with the
readjustment Of our modes of business, required by
emancipation; and we Of the white race had better
learn at once than by installments the hard truth
that those who were once under us are under Us 40
more. Sooner later must learn II IN theory and
in practice. How long the disciplinary process must
last cannOtte further than this, that IL viii last
until the people Of the South are thoroughly con-
WINGED that it is the purpose of the North TO trust