, 1881-01-02

! are quite as well supplied with clubs as New
York or Boston in proportion to their size:
but, after all, it must be said that social and
| literary organizations depend upon time for
| their growth as we'll as upon enterprise, and
there is not yet one American city which can
compare its clubs, even when relative ropu-
1ations are taken into account, with those Of
the old City Of London.
! 4 REPLY TO "A REPLY" TO "THE
FOOLS ERRAND"
| Mr.. William, J.. Royal, q member Of the
I New York Bar at present, and formerly
| soldier in the Confederate army, and lawyer
and journalist in Richmond, Va, after the
War, has written a reply to the recent work
| Of Judge Tourgee, entitled "a Fools En-
rand" A telegraphic abstractof AIr. Royals
reply has already appeared in our columns.
There is a striking contrast between Judge
Tourgee's BOOK and 1fr. Royall's reply to it
! at the very outset Judge Tourgee wrote
calmly and in good temper, c1s'n gTa7,o satis,
and did not indulge in sweeping accusations
or wholesale charges in his pictures Of life
and manners In the Southern States from tha
political point of view. Alr. Royal starts of
hardly writes the first paragraph Of his
preface before he calls Judge Tourgee
"contemptiblef fellow.'' Starting with this cpl
thet, it is not at all remarkable that before he
reaches the close Of his book he calls him ian
impostor," a @designing scoundrel,' - "sknlE-
ing coward" a '.carpet-bagger, tswin-
dler,' sniyeling liar,'' ''braying fool"
a ~ thief and plunderer," and '*lunatic,"
and accuses him Of being ''false. as HE'LL" OF
s'groveling in maljce,f and ct "rolltne in
SANDER and Misrepresentation while, In the
true Southern vein, we find thata1l Southern
ers we're **nob1e, true, heroic, and setfsacrt-.
1icing' during the War, and that since the
War they have been "loyal to the core" It
is not a very happy method Of replying to an
adversary to commence in temper. and the
unhappy result il shown in this book, which
is in no sense a reply to Judge Tourgee's
work, but rehash Of the old arguments Of
the Southern press upon the virtues Of tho
dogma Of State-sovereigntg, q defense Of the
action OF the South in its efforts to carry ont
the ordinances Of secession, and declaration
Of its loyalty.
Afr. Royal deyotes the second chapter OF
his book to reply to Judge Tourgee's mar
rative Of the infamous and brutal operations
Of the hulldozety and Ku-Kfux Khan. and his
reply may be summed up in the single sen-
tence that all the Southern people were not
engaged in this bloody work. 1t was not
affirmed by Judge Tourgee, nor has it ever
been charged by any Northern writer, news.
paper, or speaker that the entire people Of
the South were riding about in disguise
terrifying, raiding, torturing, shooting, or
hanging helpless negroes. That portion OF
them were, he himself admits. ''That In what
is known as the period Of reconstruction, In
several Of the Southern States there were
violence, disorder, and possibly outrage, no,
candid Southeruer will deny" But this IS NOS
to the point It would have been better
answer to Judge Tourgee to have shown !.
that those who were not engaged in these :
cowardly assaults disapproved OF them; that
they came to the rescue OF these helpless =
victims; that the newspapers Of that section :
denounced these midnight scoundrels; that I
the officers Of the law arrested them; aud that
the Courts punished them as they would
have been punished in the North. Il gang .
Of Toughs and bulIfes shon1d attempt to at.
tack the negroes In Chicago. drive some Of Z
them out Of the city, shoot and hang others,
and burn down their houses, and the rest Of.
our citizens stood idly by and saw them do
it without lifting hand to help them, would
they not Justly be charged of being In SYM
pathy, if not in actual collusion, with them ::
The remainder Of Alr. Royals reply may
be summed up in these statements that hard
" need reply, as they have been answered
over and over again, especially during tbs
late political campaign: l. That the South
went into the struggle to establish the Con- Z
federacy, and had the right to do 50, but, .
having failed, now loyalty abldes by tbs :
issue. 2. That the negro is not fitted to 30
put in domination over the white race, and
that this was the object Of the Administa- i.
ton after the close Of the War. 8. That To r
whites of the South are aiding and encou1-.
aging the negroes in every way. 4. That the a#
liberties, and fortunes, and lives OF the South
ern people were placed under military rule.
5. That the Fourteenth Amendment Wonla
be gladly accepted by the South, provided
the fifth section, giving. Congress the power ::
to enforce Its provisions, were stricken from 1
1t. These FIVE declarations hardly need more
than passing reference. First, the action
OF the South since the War in pressing - of:*:
claims, in impeding the operations OF tda s#=
Government, in depriving large propoFtsoln3 /"
Of its citizens Of their constitutional rights,
and in solidifying itself by the most unblush-
ins corruption Of the balIot-oox and by s5s-;=
tenn ofearmed terrorism, does not gfve any,"
indication that 1t Is decided to abide bJ 10 ::
issue and obey the Constitution and the laWs.ts::
Second, there is nothing in the acton Of tne::: :
Republican party, nothing In its leg1sla1oa' II: /:
nothing iii the constitutional amendmea! " :::=
that even hints at subieciing the white race 4;
10 negro dominion Or subjugation. 1n toe;* MI: y
,haste language Of 3r. Royall, such charge y e:
IS false as he'll" Third, II the whites a's
aiding and encouraging the negroes In eeelI S.=
way, how does it happen thnt they have eeeu
that they have been driven uoM *1as Is:
their homes, that they are not allowed 80: 80:
vote unless they vote to suit the WINES -
they have been stripped of the r1gn1s gaa.s: SO:
anteed them in the Fourteenth Anen1men
hat thousands of them hare left the soa.ntz .34
sor Northern States; and that thoasana: *
more Of them are preparing to leave nsA e..:S: 4
IT, HefaY