Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1888-11-24
Facts Worthy Of Consideration.

t!OH vi jlaiI y w tuiSts'S''N HH'H''s
worse than a change Of officers and
a change of politico economical
pollticS. They have no reason 10
fear that the peace Of their several
communities will be disturbed. or
that trials which it is hard for hu
man nature to endure will be their
portion. a party friend of any
particular man is liable to lose a
good office, and the duties upon
some articles Of commerce ara like
ly to be raised, There is nothing
worse to be feared, so far as we
| can see today. OF course, it is
possible that measures might be
i'adopted by the incoming Admins,
tration which would consolidate
snd conoentre all the powers Of
! government IN Es@hiagtSa. alss
convert our confcderacv OF equal
republics into a huge despotism-
!; \ great iron wheel crushing all
the life ont of the several States.
We say this is possible; but such a
disaster is not probable; and the
northern people do not fear it.
! But the southern people thin!;
they have at least some reason To-
dread hostile Legislation. with both
houses Of Congress Republican and
u Republican in he office Of Presi
dent. ApprehcnsionS have been
excited in their minds, as is evl
denced by the fact that so many
truo patriots are now engaged in
the attempt to quiet those'apprc
hensions. 1t is feared that the
Constitution will be set at naugbt
AS in reconstruction times, and the
several southern States haraSsed
by legislation for which there is no
warrant in the organic law. Whea
southern men recall the bloody
SHIRT harangueS of Boutelle, and
Foraker and John Sherman, ans!
Chandler, aud other milignants,
and the threat of General Sherman
that the dagger and the torch
might be reSorted to should tue
southern people continue to walls
in their own ways, southrons may
we'll be excused for fearing that the
election OF Mr.. Harrison will prove
to have been Il most disastrous
event for them.
In Virginia the people have still
stronger reason for entertaining
fears as TO their future. The Re
publican party lIeie consists largely
Of negroes led by an unscrupn.ouS
trickster who will not hesitate t,
wreall his vengeance upon tht
people who have so often expressed
by their votes their opinions thal
he is a dangerous character, and 81
often baked him in is ambitions
schemes.
In word, the presence Of !;
large negro population in the
southern States makes the conli
ron ct these States as different
from The condition of the nortlieyll
States, so faras the circumstances,
which, nnw surround The southerr
and northern people respectively
are concerned, as it is possible lcl
such conditions to diiIer under q
governments Ike ours.
The various churches are inter
ested as churches in the matter
which we are discussing in tliis
article. There is a northern Pres
byterian church or organizations,
and tlere is II southern. There il
northern Acknowledgement or Or
ganizatiOn, and there is SOUTH
ern. These sectional organizations
are not differing denominations III
the sense that they hold diflereni
doctrines. but organizations that
owe tleir separate existence to
well kiiuwn causes which We neesl
not leye Me!.tion. Naturally sonlt
! a. least of tha PresbyleTi:.us IL
both sections have osSa crnesaer-
ing tile dcSirahillty and the expc
diency OF uniting the northern anu
southern Presbyterian olganiza
tionS, their creed, as we hsve salG
being the same. Amongst the
thoughtful persons wli0 have turne.l
this subject over III their mindr
are the editors of The Central E'rcn
byterian of this city. And theJ
say:
The northern Presbyterian pa
pers continue to have paragraphs
about organic union, and some very
tender aud brotlerly expressions
of the yearning they have to ac-
complish this result continue to
appear. The real and vital trouble
as We have always contended, in
this business is the race conflict
which the action Of our northern
brethren bias eSta bliShed at the
South. The northern press will
fully shuts it's eyes to this, and al
ways talks about everything else
but the real issue. There is an
antagonism ofraces ut the South,
and it is folly 10 deal with this
question withouta full recognition
Of this fact. These arc TWO popu-
lations down here at the South
Just as distinct as the native Amer
lean and the Chinaman on the Pa
cific coast, and human nature hers
is to Il considerable extent the same
that it is in Oregon aud Callfo:
MIA. We do not remember an i'll
stance in history where two races
of unequal civilization (and espe
cially il they had different hair and
skim lved together on equal terms
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