The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-15

side vainly imagined would perpetasst, gsomseS c do & sa s Ess sse Ga soat sas Rss %ss rsueh < riot oS A pi he and rascality as had never been knoMn In the History of this country and hardly ever in the history M oI the world: It would seem incrsai9iel sa3nd t4 It for themselves. The States. were given over to. pjiiasc at the hands. of former slaves, led largely by adventurers whose or oniy ynsir ei cssissS ~sk iS The ss o their population and damage, as gauged by figures alone, staggers belief, un. happily. the creduiHy and ignorance 9I of the worst element among thf adven- turers whQ were wing to become their leaders. The man who vas bold enough finder the teaching and with the aid of these leaders. the negroes showed signs Of rendering considerable parts of the whites. Had the latter given the sllsht- est sign of being. cowed or of yteldinE. they Probably would have been lost for ever; but fortunately for the South. they
 All of pr. Pages article should be read by those who wish to get a clear, accu- rate and good-tsmpered description of the Gl wtb not with vindictiveness. should we renember these stifferings; but we should remember them, nevertheiess We should remember them in order that we may escape ever having to go through sucb an ordeal again. gp- til we have put about the ballot safe- guard which will protect it from those which suffragan should possess. we cannot forget thsse things without periL
 chamberlain and Amss.
 Two of the most famous and probably the twS shlsst reSSns.Snstaen GSyesnoss Carolina. an1 Adelbert Anes of Missis- sippi. stf
 were chosen to assist in S csrryias out and which they found to be based upon such false principles that its complete faluTs m bs Sas Htanc 9s sfWPGsSn WPosaSS few month. ago. ex-Governor Chamberlain set forth one of the most powerful arratgnmepts of the reconstruction Policy ever made. zaeSaraS S Swes Gsandsr dna Hssrs L ssysns Msan and other ofganisers and directors of the Reconstruction movement were animated neither by love of the unlon nor by. a' gro but by hatred of the white people of the South and a determination to humil- late them as much as pcssible.
 The chief aim of reconsideration was ito put the bottom raail on fop."
 Governor Chamberlain contends that the policy which was directed against the sss fro% a9r SsysrS sast ysasS ar ve after ss
 
 itable to the statesmanship of its Suthors as It was to their Ideas of fairness to a helpless people.
 Ex-Governor Apes, while not so severe upon Thad Stevens's coterfe as is ex-'] Governor ChamberIain, is quite as etn- phatic in his cehdenination of reconstruc- tion as a complete fafHTe. I
 He admits that he came to the South from New England with preconceived no- tions. which experience proved to be en- tirely false.
 He believed that legislation could ele- vats the negro to political equality with the whites
 After seeing that theory tested and helping to test 1t, he was convinced that It was absurd. In hts recent book on his administration IS Governor of Mississippi he records his that no political party in this country ever made greater blunder than lid the Republican party when It at- empted to place the negro on terms of political equality with the whites. It is pity that men like Chamberlain md Ames did not see the light earlier, ,ut it came to them finally in overwhelm- ng force, and their rennRciation of the I alse and vicious theories of reconstruc- ion Is creCiitable, even though late.