Year: 1867

exc they swear.


We are making progress towards whai


HORACE GREELEY deems political and
social perfection. There are negro AL
dermen in Mobile, and that filthy old


Satyr. HENRY w. BEECHER, who has
as stolen the livery of GoD to serve the


devil withal," proposes to catch negro


men by batting the hook with white
women. Verify, the South is TO be 8
Paradise, particularly for those ardent


Secessionists, who once proposed to hang


all submissionists, and now as readily
abuse all who will not unite with them


to reconstruct


The Louisville Courier says Of this


Mobile affair:


1t foreshadows the policy which the


radicals intend to execute upon the


south. II proves beyond all question


that the Acknowledgement of the blacks


was not merely to reward them for their


services in suppressing the rebellion, and


to enable them to protect themselves,


but that it was done as step toward


their elevation 10 a position above the


whites, and TO degrade and humiliate


men who had proved themselves the


siperiors of their conquerors, both in the


forum and the field, and upon whom


they desire to vent their spite.


At this time, in anticipation of the
triumph of the reconstruction scheme


and the admission of the negroes to the


right of suffrage, they are labOring to
commend themselves to that portion Of


the population in order to attach them to


the radical party which they are now


organizing throughout the south. They
do not consider the disastrous conse-
quences that must inevitably flow from
| these tactics, nor do they care what
those consequences may be. If they can
secure the negro vote for the recOnstruc-
tiou plan and thus be enabled TO frame


such constitutions as will heap up disa-
bilities upon the whites at the same


time that the ruling power will be
placed in the hands of the blacks, their
object will he accomplished. But to


do this they must make the negroes
believe that they are their peculiar and
| inveterate foes. Hence we see them
turning competent and educated white
men out of office and putting negroes in


their places. The pFetext that they can


not find white men to fill the offices
made vacant by their arbitrary re-


movals, and, that they are therefore


compelled to iill them with negroes, is no


excuse for the military tyrants. The


men they are removing are as eompe-


tent and unexeeptiOnable as any others
| tnat could be found, and should not be
removed. And it is but natural that


the white men of the south should be
| indignant at such a mOnstrOus abuse of
power as they consider these removals to
| be, and refuse to sanction or profit by
them by accepting the places thus made
vacant.


In the appointment of these negroes to
Office a precedent will be established
which the negroes will not be slow 10
profit by. In many districts in the
| southern states they are in an over
whelmiDg majority, and can elect who


ever they please to any Office TO be filled
! by popular elections. In South Carolina,
| Mississippi and Louisiana they can elect
one of their own color governor In
those states they can also elect almost
every state and federal officer, from con-
stables to members of congress. They
can carry q majority Of members Ofsthe
| legislature and elect the United States
senators, and If the HsGOnstrUetien act is
adopted it is not unlikely that they will
do it. In the other southern states we
shall see the same results, though to a
more limited extent, and the disgusting
spectacle will be exhibited to the world
Of a race of people, ignorant, stupid, in
solent aud semi-bsrbarOus, but one re-
move from apes and monkeys, governing
a people who, in point Of intelligence,
cultivation and gallantry, are the peers
of any under the canopy OF heaven.


1t is idle to say that such things cannot
- 10 vayfll mo ha tO1apa TOD 10,
if the reconstruction scheme is accepted
by the people of the south, or carried by
fraud andndigro votes, the state of things
we have Alggested will inevitably follow.
The appointment of nsENEN9to Offio


now going on, and ttlng some n ~
which they are beinf friAe I'd it, 4fss3
puffs up their selfcS., rrI In tbi at the
same time assure thAliamson, r right to
hold office and tli,s,ss ,ss.:;.:: .:;:;s;ilins there
for, and wherever Ihey find themselves
iystTPWajority they will use their power
hra MI own elevation and aggrandize.
hr-44t In such cases neither the specious
arguments OF radicals or conservatives
will be able to divert them from their
strength and how to use it. The Jaco-
bins are educating them up to this point
and IaboriBg with the wicked energy Of
fiends TO put the power in their hands.


In these preliminary steps toward the
establishment Of negro, mulatto, black
and tan government, the people of the
south should be able to see the prec-
ipice upon which they stand and the
destruction to which they are rapidly
hurrying. If they accept the recon
struction plan new pending, their doom
is sealed. Nothing more disgusting and
horrible than the consequences to flow
from that aaaapfaUaa apuld poucihlx- ba
conceived. Threats Of cOnfiseatioa snd Of
more rigorous and oppressive terms sink
into insignificance compared with the
hideous evils Of a piebald negro govern
ment founded in Ignorance and admin
istered 10 malice, with a view to ven
geance and PlUnder alone, as the one
would be which the reconstruction plan
seeks to establish over them Yet
strange as it may seem, there are thoUs-
ands of intelligent men in the south
whose judgments have been warped by
their fears, who are blindly and volun-
taFily walking into the chAsna prepared
by their vindictiye foes for their utter
ruin. They see in the measures be-
fore them negro suffrage alone, which
they regard as simply a division of
power with the inferior race at the polls,
and do not look beyond to the unavoidR-
BILE consequences OF -that DIVISION. But
they do see through the medium of their
timidity and their fears, the gaunt and
horrid specter of confiscation stalking
through the land with multitude of
other evils in its train, too terrible to be
encountered. They have deluded them
selves with the belief that the acceptance
of the plan of Reconstruction win put an
end to their difficulties; that it will
strike off their shaokles snd restore them
to the union. In word, that the plan
is finRlity. etthey have no assurance
of this, nor even a promise. Ii is a con-
fidence founded upon hope, in which the
wish is father to the thought, and which
we confidently believe will never be re-
allied. Wisdom, craftsmanship, self,
preservation, and honor, all appeal to
the men Of the south to turn their backs
upon these siren songs which are Turing
them to destruction, ami with calm dig
nifty, and a heart for every fate, in the
full consciousness that whatever may
betide they have not been wanting in
fidelity TO their own interests or those Of
the country, or been entrapBed by this
trananaraDt invention of their ananias