New-York tribune., 1879-01-17

who had exhibited such remarkable self
restraint would get "a monument apiece anu
be handed down to posterlty as the most VIZ
tuous of their kind. But these indictments,
with the two additional convictions yesterday
in the Warren County trials, where the amount
involved seems also absolutely small COM
parcd with metropolitan standards, give rise
to the reflection that III some rural regions
people never do know when they are wei on
There is no subject of more pressing III
Oortancc TO Americans than that OF the cIee-
ton method, of the Southern whites. Foui
ulay in the canvass or at the polling places
cam be tolerated anywhere, North on SOUTH
and il is most intocrablC at the South, WhcIc al
cpfrauchised race is to b. educated IN citlzeh-
Shin. We have thought 1t our duty to ihVeS-
,j0atc the phenomenal results OF the recent
nolitical.canvass in South Carolina, and have
established the fact that Republican malorltles
were wiDcd out by systematic Intimidation
of the negroes before the election and SyS-
tematic frauds at the ballotboXes. Ii Is Il
fact which the public ought not to lose sight
OF. and We hayc determined to repubiISh III
compact form the body of evidence which has
been collected. TRIBUNE EXTRA NO. ~,
which will he ready for delivery on our coun-
terS this morning. contains the remarkable
series of letters, from our chief Washington
correspondent. Mr.. White, the Iln&lnG speech
delivered in the Senate by Mr.. Bialne, ana
other information relating to the subjert Inc
price of the EXTRA is > cents, with the usual
discount to the trade.
hoe off. resolution
which cannot fail to remind the people OF the
south most disagrecably that ill-tleatment
of the blacks must react upon the we'll
being OF the whites. Mr.. WINDOWS PROPOSE
tion is for the ap, ointment of committee to
consider the eXpcdicncy OF encouraging
the coored people to migrate from sections
OF communities in which their rights are
abridged, either to such States as Will receive
them, Or-and here seems to be the plth OF
the resolution" into such Territory or Ierrl-
"toIicS of the United States as may be
provided for their use and occupat0n'
No doubt there are men in all par
lies and in all sections of the cOun-
try who would favor such an isolation OF
the black population from the whites as Mr..
Window, in effect, proposes, and there are
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theory that the whites would be better off
alone; but Ii must be remembered that the
negroes, slothful and degraded as some
OF tjpm are, form vast Wealth-prOducng class.
No country can afford to lose its labOrerS by
the mIlhon even though the process be grad
ual. Should this scheme ever be adopted,
which is very doubtful, and be ratified by the
blacks themselves. which is perhaps still more
unlikely, the South Will see that its lntOer-
aucc has dealt Il hard blow at its prosperity.
In our Washington dispatches viii be found
a letter from Il resident of Mississippi which
gives gloomy picture OF the condition OF
tl,at State. Ina the region where the writer
lives the white prOpcry-OwDcrs are hclple>>ly
poor and their once splendid estates are mere
wastes, while the negroes grow poorer and
mo!e indolcnt every yeaI. The wholo popu-
lation, white and black, seems to have reached
its lowest ebb, and the writer Of this letter
declares it as his opinion that if the blacks
were able to form distinct communities, they
would sink. III course of time, to the
level of the African tribes. The only
hope of rescue from this degradation Is, III
his view, the infusion of new blood into
the State, the announcement OF Immigration,
etc. II is in the presence of such revelations
as this that the common sense OF the South
must feel most bitterly the utter folly OF bull
doing. Sclf-rcspcctiuE labor will not seek
communities where labor. so far from being
allowed to indulge in the luxury of self
respect, j. hunted like the wild beast and
whipped like the slave. 1t was i'll this very
state that buldozinS was first perfected as a
system; it was the "Mis,i>sippi plan"
which Wade Hampton imported into south
Carolina 80 long as the great States of the
South are governed by the Mississippi plan"
thcv must expect Mississippi results.