Year: 1877




determination. IL has sulked and been
savage. As class, the men have stood
back and grimly allowed themselves to
be ira. apled on by a small crowd of men
whom they could have overthrow in n
week, if they had gone about it in the
right way. Southern gentlemen have
used all their moral force on the wrong
side. Even now they still hold to all
their pitiful little aristOcratic notions
In their eyes the man who lived on the
product OF unpaid labor was a gentleman
The mer, hant or farmer who attends TO
his own affairs and who pays his hired
men is a low and contemplate object
Nothing but the pressure of the sternest
poverty will make them work. and then
it is with a feeling of degradation and
constraint.


Even now the state is more to them
than the nation. They have no breadth
OF mind TO take in a generous view Of a
great nation and its needs, and of the
duty they owe to a whole country, and
not merely a corner or section.


Again, nothing will induce them to
look with favor on a Northern man who
comes among them with avowed Repub
lican principles; and in this way they
have lost an immigration Of men who
would have bettered their system of az.
riculture and whose example-that OF
white people not afraid to work-would
have been OF untold benefit TO the Ne
groes and to themselves.


They will not work themselves. nor
teach the Negro better methods; and
they frown upon all attempts oil stran-
gers. Is it a wonder that their agricul-
ture, and so their commerce, has not
fourished2


To take up again what was said in
previous paragraph, that Southern men
have stood back and allowed themselves
to be overwhelmed by a small and base
crowd OF politicians This is eminently
true, and has been one of their greatest
mistakes. In America, IL the best men
will not rule, the worst ones will; and
the best men must be on the alert always
to keep out the bad Any lack of vigi-
lance in this respect is sure to bring mel
ancholy consequences. Brought up
among the blacks as the Southern whites
have been. none were better fitted to
take the lead among them than the
former masters, who knew the danger
Gus elements in their characters, and also
knew how to touch the good in them
aud make the most OF it, But the whites
would not take the trouble to win the
confidence of the blacks, and sulkily al
lowed them to be led by anybody who
would do it. We have seen the results
in what the Southern papers angrily call
governments supported by bayonets"
and military tyranny"


1t should not be forgotten by those
who are foremost in declaiming against
the Federal troops being called upon to
keep the peace and sustain 4 government
in Louisiana that there was always
strong feeling at the North in favor OF
the state governing itself-a feeling 20
strong that il took a long time to stir up
people and teach them that innocent
men were being mobbed and murdered.
and that il was cruelty to look on and do
nothing to stop it, Any one who will
look in the files Of Harper's Weekly. five
Or perhaps six years ago, will see there a
we'll drawn cartoon. of Nast's, in which
Gen Grant and bis cabinet and many
Of the Senate. dressed as Ro-
mans, sit in an amphitheater, while be.
low in the arena ragged the fights and
from which Louisiana soil was
then still red. The spectacle Of a nation |
md its government looking serenely on |
while these things existed was ably con |





elt and how il had TO be reused by the |
light Of state that would not govern it |
Ielf and whose Governor was Obliged 10 |
all on the United States for help. |
Every one supposed that the South could |
govern itself, until il showed that il |
.ould not or, rather, would not.


The City Of New York was badly over
idden by gang of thieves; its treasury /
,lundeTed until the cost OF governing |
hat one city was greater than that of the |
lation. For time the people allowed
T. The decent men made the same mis-
axe that Southern men have done
They stood back, instead Of making
themselves leaders. and allowed the ras-
.als to get the upper hand Finally il
became unendurable. and it was stopped;
rot by assassinations or riotings, but by
peaceful means, and the rngleaders were
through all lands And here.
~ the way, is illustrated a difference be-
ween Northern and Southern men truly
In the South, If a man
lisagrees with you in bis opinions. you !
kill him. In the North. you leave him
lone; or, if he makes himself very disa-
you bind him over to keep the
,eace, considering that it is better to
each his brain through his pocket than
through his skull.


The North has had great patience with
he South. The North has said: We
vant to be conciliated; we will be con.


liated, whether you do little or much;
We will be friends at all costs. This for
en- years. A less strong patience would
ave been discouraged before this, and
here are some now who would like to
Il L. l.
tie us Ii will be an easy thing, and an
xcellent opportunity is offered now.
Whether the present Governors Of Loui.
lana and South Carolina are lawfully
lected or not (thanks TO the frauds on
10Th sides, no living man could possibly
ell, } the higher class Of whites have
gain got the power Now, let them
axe hold of their difficulties with an
lonest determination TO meet them
Let them understand that the
way out is forward, toward higher civ
lization for themselves, for the blacks
10 from the higher plane Of aristocracy
o a still higher-that in which no man
ramples on his neighbor; inv hich every
nan sees that be belongs to a whole
country. and not a section or a faction
md remember that, while, doubtless.
iod could have made a better than an
louest man, doubtless, he never did


We Republicans, who stand by the Is
ues of the war, feel that President
Iayes's policy, if it works. is good; but.
{ il does not. that there are more evil
lays in store Tor the Republic than she
las vet known. The South will drcide
or itself, if il is to work well The peo-
lie there may rest assured that every
,erson at the North will be glad to see
hem, at last, comprehending their situ-
.tion, and advancing in prosperity Of
very sort by so doing; and. if the sc
,eded states should show a good humor
IL Laudl,. mint aFfnr IT,. un.ra a L.