Year: 1866

EDS. NEWS In other days n
under the impulse of different aims
and hopes ! sometimes over one, and
then another and occasionally over
my own signature, appeared in your
columns. Though so long silent in
reference TO public affairs, my per-
ceptivo faculties have not slumber-
ed, and it gives me great pleasure to
commend the able, dignificd and
manly course of Your journal. In
good faith we accepted the situation
and stand ready to act up to the
Presidents policy. Thisis enough,
and he who would go farther; cats
dirt because he likes it.


Lam by no means dcspondcnt.-
We are for the time being, under
the lowering clouds of radicalism
but can but regard them us evan
cscent. As a party, this is the first
time that they have been fully in
power. The popular instincts have
always been chary of New England
politicians; and hence the control Of
the Government from its organiza-
ton until now, has been contided to
other hands. This is the first time
that New England has had to devel-
op her policy and exhibit her pecul-
lar individualism, and it is not too
much to expect that all wise men
will soon see, that from her one
sidedness and narrowness. she is
wholly unfit to control the destiries
of this continent. She was opposed
to the Constitution in the Conven-
tion that framed it, has remained
true to her antccedents, and unless
President Johnson boldly confronts
her policy she will destroy its dis
tinctive features, and convert the
Government into central irrespon-
sible despotism, and fix its control
in her own hands. IF he will do
this, and bring tho issues fairly be-
fore the people, for one, do not
doubt that the sense Of the people
will be emphatically pronounced in
his behalf and in favor Of return
to the old republican landmarks;
and that New England puritanism
would from that time fall as if by
lightning, into lasting and merited
obscurity-and that ever attor men
of broader views would be chosen
to administer the Government.


But Of all this we are but helpless
spectators. Let these things go as
they may, as citizens of the South
and especially of Texas, we have
upon us at this crisis, great duties
to perform.


The close relationship of master
and slave is destroyed. The Uis in
critic of the negro so powerfully ex-
erted through that connection is
gone. 1t is no longer needed to
adopt ourselves to the habitude Of
mind and body Of the negro. The
destruction Of this relation has re-
lieved their owners Of a huge incu-
BUS, and being relieved of this weight
they are stripped and ready to take
their place in the race set before
them. The chivalry of the South
showed themselves in the war the
equal of any race of men, and they
are equal to the present emergency.


The institution of slavery consti-
tuted wealth that relieved its own
ers of the necessity ofliving by their
personal efforts, and therefore of
bringing to bear their energies and
intelligence in pushing forward the
enterprise of the country. The old
system fostered Incidence, eXtrava
gance and luxury. These were its
evils, but with these there also grew
up heightened liberality, hospitali-
ty, refinement and a chivalry unsur-
passed. Under the new regime we
are to become more selfish, active,
energetic and enterprising. Our
wits are to be amazingly sharpened.
Things (now that societyis relieved
of the us inerte of the negro) are
to move up faster, and he who does
not catch the impetus is to be run
over and lost in the race.


Never before was the door of en-
terprise half so wide open, as it is
now in the South, and if our men Of
intelligence avail themselves of the
opportunity of manning their en-
terprises, they will continue as here
tofore, masters of the situation. If
not, the irrepressible Yankee will be
in every hole and corner ready to
fill every opening avenue, and will
become the magnates of the land
and we occupy placeso of humiliation
and subordination.


The first great desidcratum is to
neutralize the influence ofthe negro.
This is a matter of vital Importance.
Let this be done by inducing an i'm
mense foreign immigration Of white
people. have no fear of overriding
in this matter, if we can mainly in
troduce English, Scotch and Irish.-
There is this in favor of these they
speak our language and are more
easily on that account assimilated.
The Germans are Objectionable, be-
cause they are gregarious, and there
fore more slowly identify themselves
with our spirit. Letno one entertain
fears, because we have demonstrated
a vital individualism capable of re-
ducing to homogenity vast acces-
sion of population, to say nothing
of the influence exerted in that di-
rection by the unitizing power of
our soil, productions and climate. l
therefore sincerely hope that the ef-