New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-12-16


verted the Irish Alsace, divided IN race an'
sympathy thousand years ago, with the leu
tonic element predominating, still chooses Ger
man rule, though 45, 900 Gallo families sorrow
fully e their old homes in 1872, preIerrihg
migration to sub mission. Race asserts ltseil
after ten centuries, between white and white
is it silenced IN ten years between white anc
black ? Conquest leaves scars for fifteen genera
tons in Scotland. Do slavery and the lash ieaV'
no marks after fifteen years in CarOlinaf LIT
same great gulf of caste still divides the t"'
races; color still intensiiies the antagOnlSm
the negro Is still made to feel every hour tha'
he is despised as an inferior beng by the
white Democrat. lie is ignorant, passionate
has been a slave, and the keenest ieelng mt
ever knew WAS the sense that at last ne Nae
the upper hand, and could tax, vote doWt
and punish for any wrong the men whose
despOtisrn once was absolute Gan such
a people be converted" all at once, 10 the
willing aid of former masters, as no race OF
higher intelligence and weaker pTejudlces ever
vet was converted since time began Inc parry
and the flag which gave them freedom ana
ballot still treats them as men 10 ne pro-
tectcd and educated. The party which gave
them the lash and the bloodhound still treat
Them ms creatures to be ruled by force ana
terror. Yet we are tOlu they have forgotten
slavery, forgotten emancipation, forgot
ten the triumph of political superior
ity. and extinguished a natural antago-
nism of race. maamcd every day by soclai
and caste distinctions, and have voluntarily
bowed their necks again to the heel OF the
q, IatVr
superior race! 1t is an absolute lmpoSslbllity.
He who pretendS to believe it puts the laDel
"har" on his own forehead.
When Tweed needed respectable ap0l0Glsts'
to put on an independent and judicial ar, ne
found them. Ii is natural that some OF the
same men think Mr.. Blaine sectional aSl-
"tator,n because he holds that 10000
Southern ought not Ia outweigh l32OOo
Northern ballots, and declare that he goes
on "mere presumption" because he be-
ieves that Mr.. White tells the truth, and
that the colored race has not distIanchised
itself 1t Is not strange that men apollo
gize for Hampton who were hired 10y Tweed
The sneaking tools of TammanY. who could
see no proof that ballot-boXes ever vert
stuffed in New-YCTk, cannot now see that
South Carolina was carried by fraud. Inc
creatures who were judIciaIly bind and
independently dumb, when this city
was plastered over with fraudulent
naturalization papers, think it sectional
agitation to quest the night OF the Onion
skin senator to take seat beside the hero
of the Hamburg massacre, to make laws tor
the United States. Those who could find no
proof of robbcries by the Ring. who were
II..H, i, .,.f4. Il
III 1868, and that Tilden knew moth
ing ahout the sccrct circular to country
Democrats, and who have ever been indie
pendcntly anxious not to condemn without sui-
cicnt proof-unlcss the accused was Republic
can, when hearsay would of course, suffice
these aIe the men from whom come dcnlds and
apologies for the frauds and crimes of the
Solid South. II is very natural. Rich scoun-
dres rarely have difficulty in getting ere
"spectable" bail.