Year: 1865




70 There is some. good, sound con
servative sense in New England y~t:
in proof Of which We give .he zubjoined
article from the Boston Courier -r--


If tho whole North could BE- brought
to reflection. and TO lock at the present
condition Of things from sensible stand
point, it would be better for them, better
for the South and better for. the whole
country: tEaEc-a


aIf our commercial and industrial
classes allow New England to be placed
under the dictntion Of the radical faction.
and thus brought into direct antagonisn
with the Administration, the majority Of
the Middle States and the great West.
and the loyal men of the South about TO
engage in the duties of reconstruction
under Federal sanction and protection.
they will commit a serious, it may b
fatal error. The principles proclaim
ed at the Faneuii Hall meeting.fhy which
if WAS assumed that We had q right. and
ought to use it, to impose negro suffrage
upon the South, are not accepted by the
National Executive, are looked upon
with nlisgiving by the bulk Of the Re
publican party elsewhere, are repUdiated
by the entire Democracy, and can never
be forced upon the South without engen-
dering renewed and violent diSaffection
in that section. 1t is not the hostility Of
the aristocracy Of the South, but of the
loyal Union whites that We shall have 10
encounter, in Tie attempt to force negro
equality upon them against their will
They will not bear to be told that the
black dependents Of their late aristo-
cratic neighbors are their equals, and en-
titled TO the same privileges as them
selves in the government Of their States
Especially will they resent this interfsr-
ence when they can point to the fact that
most of the Northern States have with
held the franchise from the negro, al
though he forms comparatively as impor
tant an element in their population


If. then, we allow New England 70 BE-
committed without protest to this dan
gerous attempt at usurpation; if we per
nit agitation prejudicial to the pacitica-
ton Of the country te grow up and gath
er strength among Us, we shall find the
consequences in the prolonged preStra-
ton Of trade. in the inability Of oar
manufacturing population TO find a vent
for their pred oductions, in great addition
to the unpopularity Of New England,
evidences Of whicA are even now con-
tinually breaking ont in the central+and
western sections, and we shall surely de-
prive ourselves of the last chancc Of re-
ceiving our natural and fair share in the
reviving trade Of the South. The Sou
thern people will feel that nothing can
appease the hostility Of New England to
them and their interests.


And, finally, all this agitation is to no
purpose The President has already
shown that he regards negro suffrage.
imposed at this time upon the South by.
the Federal authority, as ininical to the
interests Of her white middle and labor
ing classes, upon whom we have always
relied for Southern restoration. Sprung
from that class himself, and justly devo-
ted to its well-being and elevation, Mr-
johnson would be less than man should
he permit himself TO be forced by the
New England radicals, whom he has al
ways disliked, into a course SO opposed
to his judgment He viii never do it


Is New England. then, to be stultified
by factional opposition to the policy Of
a President who received all her elector-
al votes2 And are our business n,en 50
blind as not to see what are the inevi,a-
bic consequencesl r ian .7 --+FH4