The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1876-09-20
THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY.

despoileJ. II every white Southerner de-
served to be hoggrd once q week ard fed
on bread and water, the sentence should
be pronounced by an upright judge and
IL fiicted by a respectable jailer, and no
frauds on the part of the baker should be
allowed. That we should bave to recall
these thugs In every canvass in which the
Republican party nDds itself at all hard
pressed Is very sad; and although there are
many signs in this one that more en-
ligbtened and nobier temper with regard
To the South begins to prevail, yet wnen
one sses Mr.. Wheeler, the Republican
nominee tor the vice presidency, who wrote
the letter OF acceptance that we all thought
50 wise and moderate, going mp to Yer
mont and opening the canvass with
fierce and bitter denuDcistion OF the
sout herners, in which he described them
as conquered enemies, feeling towards US
as the Alsatian as feel towards the Prus slams,
anu needing TO be met st the polls In the
same spirit in which they were met on the
battle held, one feels that there must still
be q considerable change in the spirit of
the ruling party &C the North beiore We
can have psrmsnent pacihcstioD or reai
prosperity. The usual rep ply TO all pleas Of
this kind is that all the South has to do In
order to secure pesce and unity Is 10 adapt
itself to the situation; that the north Is
ready TO be good iriends ana forget the
PAST, IL bOO etutDoEn OhkJ
respect the rights OF the newly made COZ
ored voters But this answer Is always
made by these who, while acknowledging
tue magnitude sno difficulty OF the negro
| problem, have got rid Of IL as Tar as they
are Concerned Dy drafting and adopting
| two or three constitutional amendments,
| the operation OF when never touches them
| IN I'll @ least. We can recall nothing in his
| tory equal in completely and peril a So
cial anu political revolution TO the sudden
conversion of the Southern blacks into
voters. It touches every portion OF the
social fabric, from foundation TO apex.
No such experiment has ever been mace.
Is may have bsen well to make 1t,
bat il is not well for Northern
orators and pC liticisns, after having
ordered il, to throw the whole burden and
/ risk OF IL on the South, to refuse 10 contfi-
| Dute anything to It's solution but troops"
| and invectlve, and treat every mani esta-
| ZION OF impatleDcs and vexat1on or Jury on
the part OF toe unfortunate peop,e whose
liberty and properly have been stsked on
| the result, and whose social and moral and
mental preparation tor sucn al expert
ment WAS probably the worst in the world,
as simply msligniiy. We do not know or
q more devIlisn sigat than SOutern whites,
with twenty centuries of Christian CIVIL
] iZaLiOn behind them, tOrme ting, abusing
or killing the poor blacks of whom ta.e has
msde them IellUw- citlz ms; but tue one we
ST oald place next IL in point OF wicked At
surdlty Is that o. all orator up in Counectt
cuL or Vermont, waose property and lib
eIty, and the fu ure OF W cose children, and
| the peece snd order of whose home, are
protected by the votes Of men of his owe
race and creed and civil zttion, glibly tell
| ing SouSherners fifteen hundred miles
away how easy il is for them TO live and
pros per uu, or the rule OF the constituent
ces OF Moses and Whipper. When you
ask sucn man, what have yOu done TO
ssttle this great contention? wnerein have
you contributed to make the n. groes good
| citlZsns, good neignDors, Intelligent and
fsI-slghIed politlclsns?" All toe reply
you will get is that he voted
| for the Constitutional Amendments,
as long as his vote is not cast against pop
ulsr education, he can, under his employ
| er's advice, hardly, in the present con-
diti0n OF southern society, make bad use
of IL. Casting II against bis employer,
under The guidance OF rascally sdventur-
ers, may seem to some people sign OF
growing spirit OF iDdt psndence to US,
1 Is simply d sign OF social disoIg sniZ alton
and political corruption. The real indie
pendence OF the voter at the South will
come, as elsewhere, slo ly, through educs-
ton, the acquisition OF properly, and
the mutual respect which results from
loDg-continued order, prosperity, and gen.
eral intelligence. L. Is thus, aud in no
other way, through ceaturiss of trial and
ends avOI, 1t has been brought about in
New England, among the men of the race
which has taught the art oil government
| 50 the mooerD world. Why, in the name
of all that is reasonable, should we expect
it to come In any otGer way, or suddenly,
among the Southern neeroes? Have we
really % Put up w "a CoDkling and Morton
and Logan until pegIY emsDc pated slaves
show the spirit when charged at Mas by
and held the redUubt az Bunker HIlI?-
New York Nation.