The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1890-08-27
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The Ncw York Herald's Advice to Prcsi-
dent Harrison.

Our Washington correspondent tele.
graphs, as was published in Our edition
Of yesterday, that President Harrison
has resolved to make the force bill an
administration measure. 1t is hard to
realize such a purpose on the part of
the President. AS a party man we can
understand how he might be willing to
try the experiment of any measure COM
mended by his friends in Congress, and
! that. if the force bill We're to pass, he
would see that it was honestly and
rlgldly enforced. But to make it a
government policy, to drive it through
! Congress-and By implication ii not
F.! directly secure its passage by the use Of
| patronage, as President Buchanan did
I With the LecomptGn constitution
would be disastrous to his aGminlStra-
ton anI his fame.
The force bill is not even accer table
to the Republican party. A"diUle muir
nIurS OF dissent come from Republican
sections. Mr.. llalStead, Il representa-
tive Republican, named by Mr.. Earri-
son as Minister to Germany, is opposed
to it. Republicans are tired of war
issues. They see that the last force bill
was repealed at !Appomattox by a
mighty Senate. representative in its
character. presided over by Ulysses S.
Grant and Robert E. Lee. and that no
power, legislative or executive, has
been able since to revive it. They feel
that II after twenty-five years Of peace
it is necessary to resort to war measures
more severe than those imposed by the
war itself, then Republican statesman
ship has been a failure. Nor can they
believe that a force bill which even the
overmastering influence of Grant could |
not attain will be of practical value in
the modest and not overstrengthened |
hands Of Mr.. Harrison.
II the President Identifies his admin
istration with this measure it will be as
much of blunder as it was in Presi-
dent Adams to accept the alien and
sedition bill. \ President must think
of the country as above the party, re-
that the judgments of his
tory are pitiless. If the force bill were
to pass tomorrow by the unanimous
vote of the Republicans in the Senate
the administration could never carry it
out. There are things which even gov
ernmentS cannot achieve, and this sim
ster experiment is one of them. We
cannot change Southern conditions and
must accept them. The first condition
S that no community of white men will
ever consent to be governed by an alien
'ace-by the Indian, the Chinaman or
he African. Mr.. Harrison himself {
would be the first to resent it were the
alternative before him.
What we expect from the white man !
n the South is the utmost tenderness, {
and help for the negro. Y
While there are spasmodic outbreaks of Y
utfianism toward the negro. disherten- '
Dg in their character, we believe that t
he sentiment as well as the interest of )
he Southern men inclines them to ab- a
olute justice and kindness in dealing c
;ith their colored neighbors and i
riendS. There let the matter rest
Let the President keep his hands off !
let our Northern people look well to I
heir own homes and mind their own S
uSineSs. They fad at their thresholds q
roblems more appalling than in any e
outhern communitv-poyerty, want, a
,norance, crime and shame, largely re-
llting from the manner in which we
overn ourselves and our people. An d
bserver will see more to grieve him in c
weeks tour through the mining dis b
lets of Pennsylvania than in a jour
ey to the uttermost limits OF the
outhern commonwealthS. So, Mr..
resident, Senators and gentlemen, let r
leSouth alone. Dismiss the force bill P
, the limbo of secession. abolitionism, v
now nothingism, nulliicationism and s
le other dead and damned 'isms" \
hich for so long a time cursed the ma {
on.-New York Herald. q