Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-05-25
NIB. CABLE AND THE POST"

1t is with surprise and regret that We
witness the assaults upon George W. Cable
in the New York Evening Post. That
journal in its intense conservatism is striv-
ing to stand so erect that it actually leans
backward Mr. Cable is an energetic
writer, a man it is impossible to be-
lieve is moved by vulgar prejudiceS,
or who would willfully misrepresent.
He is a Southron; all his life's
interests have been in the South. He
fought for her cause he gave of his bod
lily energy and brainy skill to aid her to
success. But at the clese of the war he
had the courage to look facts in the face
Being man of cultured powers of observa-
ton, 4 forcible reasoner and cool thinker,
he saw the mistake Of his people in at
tempting to COW the black man and hold
him in political bondage though bodily
freed from slavery. Mr.. Cable saw what
he believed to be two great opposing
elements in Southern society; one, the old
South, clinging to the things of the past,
treasuring old hatreds and prejudices, and
determined to keep the foot upon the neck
of the negro, narrow his political rights,
bar his social advancement and cripple his
educational development and self-helpful-
ness. The other, the new South recog-
MIXING the inevitable; accepting the re-
suits Of the war; resolved to give the
black man perfect freedom and all reason
able aid to achieve his own destiny, and
determined to replace the slavery senti-
ment by energy, new life and resolution to
make it what it can be, fully-developed
industrial and vigorous factor in the
American nation.
With the men Of the new South Mr.
Cable took his stand, and with the vigor
that has always characterized him, as a
writer and critic, he directed the best en-
ergies of his fine mind to advancing the
new sentiment and suppressing and elm
mating the old. In this work he has felt
1T to be his duty to tell the exact truth
as he conceiyes it to be-concerning the
freedmen in the South, the new genera
ton that has sprung from them, and the
condition of these two, socially and polit-
ically. His statements of the facts have
drawn the hottest fire of the chevaliers of
the old regime, and brought down upon
him the bitterest anathemas of the Demo-
cratic party, which from its inception has
been allied with the enemies of freedom.
has uniformly been the close friend of
every form Of oppression and political in
justice, and has never failed to be a part
ner in every influence exerted to COW the
negro OF the South and make him sub
servient to and practically still the slave
of the old masters.
The Post has seen fit to assail Mr.. Cable
and to denounce him as absurd, ro-
mancer and traducer of his own people.
1t does this on the strength of Southern
publications that join issue with Mr.. Ca
BILE as to what the real facts are. We do
not believe that any man can take up the
census of population, OF representation
and of voting in the South, and come to
any other conclusion than this, on
fair and cool comparison of the
figures, that some millions of the citizens
of the United States residing in the South
are wholly unrepresented, or are grossly
misrepresented in the Federal Legislature
the greatly larger number being, in fact,
utterly excluded from any voice in the
Government; that whoever makes this
examination must arrive at the conclusion
that the reason for this is to be found in
deprivation Of political rights, and that
this is accomplished by social terrorism,
political fraud, and smothering of the
expression of the citizen at the ballot-box
that these conclusions give color and prob
ability to Mr.. Cables essays, which, fcrti-
fed by his high character, and the fact
that they have made him the target for
bitter assaults, are therefore worthy of
acceptance as at least in the direction of
the truth. The Posts more recent express
sions Justify the conclusion that it is more
concerned for the reelection of Mr. Cleve-
land than for the exposition of the facts
concerning, and the correction of political
evils in the South.