Year: 1868




"a or tho South.


1t is doubtless true, as we have been IN
formed, that the reports of an impending revo-
luton in Tennessee were and are greatly ex-
aggerated. "A people so wholly in the power OF
their opponents and SO vigorously ruled -
those of that State, are not likely to bring about
an insurrection which from the very nature Of
the situation would be utterly hopeless. But
while we apprehend no violent manifestation
at the present time, it is impossible to ignore
the dangers which threaten the future. The
position of Tennessee by no means promises
peace and prosperity. Over one hundred
thousand of her white male citizens are disfran-
chised, although forced to pay the expenses q
the oligarchy governing them. In the middle
and western sections Of the State fifty thousand
half barbarous negroes rule as with rod &
iron, and a deaf ear is turned to the appeals
Of the unhappy whites from the shameful
expressions and indignities to which they are
daily subjected. Is it any wonder, then, that,
failing to obtain redress for their grievances,
these ill-treated and oppressed people should
organize secret societies for the purpose Of
eventually overthrowing the government which
has proven, and is daily proving, curse in
stead of blessing? We do not defend such
organizations; indeed, they are much to be
deplored because of their tendency to violence
and bloodshed But does not the fact Of their
existence point with unerring finger to what
the finale of radical reconstruction win be? II
not the present condition of Tennessee appN-
cable to the entire South?


Ever since the policy Of Congress became
fixed by the passage of the Reconstructic0
laws our large corps Of correspondents in the
South have kept US fully advised of the Pc
litical situation in that section, and at no time
has more deplorable state of affairs existed
there than exists at the present moment. Tho
white man has become either myth or an in
dividual so decidedly Insignificant that he is only
noticed to abuse; whereas the irrepressibls
negro is the Great Mogul of the Blue Bottle,
the creature to be petted, praised, fed and ex-
cused, If not encouraged, in his acts of dishon-
esty and violence. We are assured that the
insolence and domineering disposition mani
tested by the negroes are almost beyond
description. Outrages on and indignities prac-
tised towards the whites are Of frequent
occurrence, and are only submitted to because
of a fear that retaliation or resentment win
array political sentiment in the North against
the sufferers. Instances have come to our
knowledge where white men in Georgia, be-
cause Of their openly expressed hostility t.
universal suffrage, have been waylaid, seized
and whipped by negroes, who, when arrested,
have been saved from summary pun
ishment solely because of the desire
to conciliate the people Of the North.
From every part Of the South comes the tale Of
robberies perpetrated by the newly enfranchised
race larcenies, too, which are rarely or never
punished by those special guardians of the
negro, the agents of the Freedmen's Bureau.
Society, in fact, is wholly dsorganized in those
sections where the negro element is largely in
the majority; and SO general is the desire Of
the whites to leave their colored masters in un-
disturbed possession that the market has be-
come overstocked with lands offered for sale,
and plantations which sold readily for from
twelve to thirty dollars per acre before the
war 60 begging now for purchasers at from
one to three dollars per acre. To cap the
climax, and despite the general anarchy and
poverty, the South is crowded to repletion BY
adventurers from the North (and almost entirely
from New England), who have gone there for
the purpose of enabling the gullible negroes to
vote them into Office. So extensive is this
emigration of prospective oficeholders that Il
is called by the natives "the second Northerl
invasion, and is one Of the principal causes Of
irritation on the part Of the people. Not many
days have passed since two Northern radicals
were nominated for Congress in two districts
of Georgia, although neither of these aspiring
candidates has resided in the State for eigh-
teen months.


The present condition of the South is the
cause of the troubles in Tennessee and when
all of the States have been reconstructed by
the radicals in the same manner that Tennes-
see has been, we may expect secret organiza-
tions in every part Of that section Of the Union.
It is true that the radicals can apply that
panacea Of theirs for all political illsthe mili-
tary; but how long will the people consent to
support large standing army for the sole pur-
pose of keeping the negro up and the white
man down?


Impeachment Leads to Repudiation.


The impeachment of President Johnson, twill
be observed, is producing depression of our
government securities in Europe. They have
an idea over there that this thing means a revo-
luton outside the established order of things,
while here we feel comparatively easy because
we all know that the impeachment even Of