New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-04

that American idea OF our Northern sno cousnein
tho representative sell goveynment OF the whole people
nv thu free consent Of ill To the frequently 70
considered choice Of the majority.
Such scheme DO safe only when 10 includes IN.
herenuy tho continual and diligent elevation VI s."
lower mass which human society everywhere Is constantly
prccjptating But slave holding largo scale couu
not make even show Of public safety without tho eonn
ual and digcnt debasemcnt OF It's enslaved lower Millions
Wherever prevailed It bound by the naturai ne
ccsses OF Its existencs TO undermine ara cor'ooo
the National scheme. 1t misaught the new eenerauon'
Of the South that the sayehoidne fathers u the
Rspubc were approvcrs and Of that sad prac
tee which by their histories VS. know they woTd
gladly have destroyed 1t msaught US to construe the
right Of uniform government Of all by ALL not as COM
mon and inalienablc right OF but as privilege that
became right only By peoples merit and when our
forefahers bought with the blood Of the Revolution In
177ss3 and which slaves did not and should not DC
allowed to acquire. 1t misaught us TO seek prosperity
In tho concentration instead OF the diffusion OF wealth. 10
seek public safety In state Of siege rather than In
state of peaco gave subjects instead OF fellow citi'
.ens and falsely threatened with the utter shpweck
of public and private sociey II dared accord civil
power to the degraded millions whom we had forbidden
patriotism. Thus It couldsnot help but misteach us
also to subordinate Its preservation tho maintenance
Of National union with those Northern communities to
whose whole OF order slave holding as intoi
CRADLE as Il save-holdng and to rise at length
against tho will Of tho majority and dissolve the Union
when that majority refused 10 give saveholding tho
National sanction.
Tho other sysem taught the inherent right OF all hui
man society TO self 1t taught the lmpesonal
civil equality OF all 1t admitted that the private per-
sona inequality individuals is inevitable necessary
right and good condemned its misuse to set up arbi
trary public inequalities 1t declared public equality to
be- on the hand only ana adequate counter
polse against private inequalities and, on the other the
best protector and promoter Of Just private inequalities
against unjust 1t held that virtue, intelligence ana
wealth are their sufficient advantage, and need for
nnt.da
powers scfprOtcccn never inaicquae save when
by forgetting equity they and exasperate ignorance
vice and poverty against them II insisted nat there
no sae Gcb civil eoUmen for self protection "a
property needs that the Yht and liberty % acquire In
right and liberty maintain them and need quite Us
much self Rs' as ss's and Of Fight
lawfully to acquire as well as sa retain baE 6 er c Is Ss
al only through the consent Of al to the sn9 o
tho m'% %h9 as sGufe'y y yO aHh S"
founded these principles and holding them essential 70
Unity Of alien neghbors whose ideas OF right and order
not mplaeaby hostile but that II hsa no poMs TO
that choice Of the minority which was as 1t were' the
THe war was fought and the Union saved Fought as
It was of the Of all to the choice OF
Weui never end in peace until the liberty self
9a%s for h doctrine Of f pubic psG BY
now s even the non saw re i'Gs not
full measure Of the Nations rgmph5 9gt ShSei "ss9
fuller salvation st for the people Of the once seeded
States sincerity that generous MUD can cues
and T the great North from East to utmost west NJ Of
S5G0 ard feeling e T TnousS ana" anS S S mo- S
AN ENTITY SEAT. AN ENIGMA AND AN UNSET
TIED QUESTION
stands the matter to-day Oh foes are elaspine
hands they met in battle and touch
ing glasses the banquctlng board, pedgns long
life to the Union and prosperity the New South but at
every feast there is empty seat.
Why should ono be empty, and every guest
afraid to look that wayl Because the southern white
man cars upon his fathers that but ghost
shall slt there. And ghost is there the fhot oil
that old hcfesy public safety by the mass subuga
ton This what the Northern people cannot under
stand. This Il what Haks the Southern white man an
enigma world beside n not also to himself To-
day the pride with which boasts himself citizen OF
the United States and the sincerity with which he de-
clares government as the only safe government
cannot be doubted tomorrow comes an explosion FOL
lowed by such mi interpolation Of what free govern
mcnt requires and foills Is hard identify him
with the nineteenth century Emancipation destroyed
domestic bondaec enfanchiscment nearly as It's mere
decree can has abolished public servltude; how, them
doe. this old unAmerean, uniemo raiIc idea Of subu'
CATION which British mother country and Europe as
we'll are 50 fast rcpuilatng- does It remain Was
1t founded in these two forms Of slavery The mis-
take lies just lhey founded in It, and remoy-
ing them has not removed It,
1t alw. been hard tor the North TO understand
aacIy which the eX-slavehoder learned to con-
denim as moral economic that slavery In de-
fence he endured years Of desolane war
it genuine, and here is the explanations lie be'
leycd personal enslayeDent osscnual to subIugation
Emancipation at one stroke proved IL not Buv 1t
proved no more. Unfortunately for the whole Nation
there was already before emancipation came defined
status peculiar niche waiting for freed negroes Ihey
were nothing Nor Was 1t new 20 lose personal
ownership In ones slave. When under emancipation
no one els could quickly saw he was not
lost at all he stood bcggr 10 us for room Tor
the OF his foot the land and all It's appliances ours
ana he by Of his daily needs captive to the land
The fell work OF his own free will, We saw
that emancipation more ours than his public
order stood fast our h,ncs were safe Icsldes unin
yaicd he still served stll ruled all need OF holding
him private bondage disprovcd, and when the no
ton OF necessity varshed the Lotion OF right vanished
with IT, Emancipation lad destroyed pii,ate, but it had
hardly disturbed public subIugaon The eX-slaVe was
not free man; he only free negro.
Then the winners the that the great Issue
which had jcoparlzcd the Union not settled The
Governments foundation principle was not re-eStabnshe
and could not while millions Of the countys pcpula
ton were without voice az TO who should rue VINO
shoud Judge and what should be law. But, as we have
seem the absolute civil equality Of privately aud soe'aiJ
unequal men not the whole American idea 1t was
by enlarged application OF the same
prneipc absolute equality OF unequal States III the
Federal Union ono OF the greatest viking csnccssl ms
ever made BY political bots to weaker ones II
the history OF gcNcrnmcnt Now minifesty TINS erea
concession Of equality among the unequal States becomes
nodinatc unjust ami dangerous vhen millions OF th'
neopc I'm one geographical section, native to the soil
Of native paiontsge having ties Of Interest and sympathy
with no other trstratY denied that political
eoualty within he States which obtains elsewhere
| tac,urhout Tho Union This would make two coun
,rcs EJL we cannot Dc two merely federated countries
without changing whole plan OF gcvcrnmnt; aud VIZ
cannot be one without common foundation. Hence th'
freedman, enfranchscmcnt 1t given him, not onll
because enianehscment his only true emancipation
Inn, also because and Is impossible TO withhold
and carry on American government on American Roun
| principles Neither the Nations honor nor It's sheV
could allow restoration of rcvoited States TO er au
toncmy With their populations divided by hes oi sd'u
| oh,orrent 70 the whole National structure
| Northern often perpieNedy II the iIeedmah
not, To the South premature an
while Southern men as often cdl III the on
inaictye act conqueror foolish as was cruel
'. ~ cru,l Not By iutcItOn and maybe uhaVOidiby
v co,,ainy not It's haste bu. for It's ar1ness fa
s.,ueuL eject as emancipation dld
% ne sIoIe OF The wars last shot Sti III tho air
han force still ruled unqucstonei and civil nrtr an
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