New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-02-16

government OF lNe nllcu NIlleS anu cSl"DioHO"
the so-callel Confederate States of America
The only reason or excuse ever offered for this
action, resulting in four years of costly and
bloody warfare was that slavery was endangered
by the character and tendency of the Federal
Government. This conflict, considered with re-
gard to its cause, was nothing more nor less tlan
an overwhelming attestation Of the intense and
universal belief Of the Southern people in the
rghtfuluess and wisdom Of slavery How tenacious
the hold Of this theory is upon the mind once
indoctrinated with it, may be estimated from the
fact that despite the devastation and woe result
ing from that appeal from reason to the sword,
the present controversy results from re-as-
sertion Of the fundamental principle Of slavery
by the very people who 50 recently staked LIE
and fortune upon its sanctty with such disas-
trous results. Slavery was, in theory, only an
assertion of the right Of the individual white
man to hold, possess and control as many colored
men as he saw fit to buy, because OF the es-
sentia superiority of the white race; because
the colored man was "divncly doomed 10 SUD-
ordinate and inferior station and also because
" the country belongs to tie white race. The claim
which is made differs from that on Whlch
slavery was based and from which rebellion re-
suited only in one particular. Ii Is no longer
claimed that tie individual white man has
TIQht - dominate ana COutIOl IIt pcISOH anu
destiny Of the individual colorcd man, but that
the collective white race-the body Of the white
people in each Of the former slave States-has
the right 10 control and regulate the status con-
duct aud privileges of the whole body Of the
colorcd people IL each Of those States, not be-
cause Of any legal authority vested in them, but
in defiance Of the National will, simply because
the white race is inherently superior the negro
essentially inferior, and the right To rule lnhcfeS
in tie white people of each State.
The race question Of to-day, therefore, IKE
that Of yesterday Affects not merely the negro
right - q voice in the Government of the various
States but also the power of the National Gov
eminent 20 give him representation IN It's 60 mel
and a vcinc in tie National control slavery
claimed and was accorded the right To ada three
iihs of the number OF slaves in each state to the
representative power If her white frccmen i'm the
National Government; so that The white citizens
Of the Uaicd St1tcs living ma slave state were
equal in power in the National Government to a
| like number Of white citizens in free State,
plus thrcc-iifths Of the number OF slaves IN the
former The present claim of the dominant
party in the former slave States IS that the Whie
population has not only Hsht To deprive the
colorcd man of any voice in the CONTROL either
| Of the States or the general Government, but
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in the latter which the Nation attempted
10 confer on thc colorcd man. 80 that tie
power Of the white voters Of any Of these States
would, if this doctrine were accepted, be just as
much greater than that of an equal number Of
citizens in o former free State as there are
negroes in the former. In other words, they
claim the right 10 add the representative force Of
six millions OF non-voting colored people to the
National power Of the white population of the
South or 10 make each Southern white voter
equal In National power 10 one and a third
Northern voters
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