Year: 1867

macy in ten States, and the consequent division
Of the country on Q worse basis than tina,
which led 10 the rebellion. We fought to free
the nation from party domination guided by
shareholders, and we fall under party DONNA.
ton based on the votes Of the slaves we made
free. We have set them tree to make them our
masters. We exchange white tyranny for a
black tyranny. This was not what the people
meant when they gave lives without limit and
money without stint to prosecute the war.
Even those who desired to free the slaves would
not have made them masters Of the political
destinies of any part Of the nation; yet some
thing very near to this must be the result of the
policy of those radical leaders Of whom Mr..
Stanton is the type. Actual political domina-
tion in ten States Is given TO the nigger and
what did he do to deserve itf From fifty to a
hundred thousand enlisted on our side, out of
four millions, and the remainder stayed at
home and did what they could against us
and our cause in growing the corn that fed tue
rebel armies. Not single insurrection-not
one organized blow for ireedom-came from
these slaves and sons of slaves during four
years Of a war that taxed the utmost energies
of their masters. They were held in bonds by
men at war with the nation, and they never
added the weight of one little effort from their
own side to aid the cause whose success was to
make them free. They tamely ploughed and
sowed, and meanwhile half million white
men were manned in the struggle that was
theirs rs well as ours. And of suoh material
we make voters Into the hands Of creatures
who continued slaves while there was any one
left to hold whip over them we put such
power that they may become the arbiters OF
great political questions, AMI even balance
votes with Northern as well as Southern white
men. We degrade and adulterate the national
life by introducing into it half million servile,
semi-brutal vOters-all that the supremacy of
an arrogant and dangerous faction may be
secured and made permanent. And this,
indeed-this making of Niger voters and
driving the white men of the South from the
polls-is the whole result of the war as radical
leaders see it.


But the people are awakening to tho true
perception of this great matter, and it needs
no extreme provision to know that the nation
will eventually tramplc under its feet every
vestigs Of the party that holds such ideas
and has led it into this false position.
The plain question for Mr.. johnson Is
whether he has the courage to take the
current of this national tendency and make
a bold fight with Congress and the radicals,
now that they are in the wrong-to fight when
he may have the people on his side, with the
same spirit with which he assailed Congress
when its acts were in harmony with the
national will. If he has, the case is plain be-
the present personnel of reconstruction. He
must brush away all the commanders, and if
there are no generals to take their places,
make some. He must not stop with Stanton
even in his Cabinet. Taking thus new de-
parture, pursuing an honest policy Of recon-
struction, never losing sight Of the real objects
of the war, but breaking up utterly this mis-
chievous attempt to secure nigger supremacy,
he will merely go before the wishes OF the
people; and though ON attempt at impeach-
ment would come as sure as sunrise with the
assembling Of Congress, the attitude of the
nation would awe it into silence But the
indications are that Mr.. johnson has not the
metle for this business He limps far behind
it, the political driveller and show of our his
tory, who neither knows when to dare nor when
10 leave it alone; and the result will be that
the people must bear patiently until the next
Presidential election, when they can take the
case in their own hands, aud by the election of
Grant put the national safety on sure ground
against oil the factions.