Year: 1875




most obdurate heart. The people Of
the North do not fully comprehend
the situation, nor feel the burthens
under which the whites of the South
are now groaning.


1t is said that great emergencies
always produce the man who will be
capable Of directing the storm. 1t
is to be hoped that the Menes of the
African Race will soon appear to es-
tablish order and build up more har-
monious and prosperous institutions
than did his great predecessor about
six thousand years ago. We need
one wiser than Socrates, and cooler
than Pericles to bring harmony ard
establish confidence. The brand of
civil war is now only stayed by the
strong arm of the National Govern
meni, and this cannot always stand
as barrier to those who desire to
redress their imaginary or real wrongs
by such scenes as would disgrace the
age. The most turbulent in Louisi-
ana and Arkansas boldly proclaim
that all they ask is to be let alone
by the national troops and they will
settle the negro question. With this
feeling and clement at work, who is
to be the great Paci6cator: The
colored race can never be again en-
slaved-they may be exterminated,
but not probably. Their rights can
never be abridged, nor they driven
by force from the country their an
cestors were reluctantly compelled
to adopt. In principle the two races
will be reluctant to mingle. In
practice, steps 10 this end have far
advanced.


The most intelligent aud best dis
posed class in the South, and those
generally who pay the most taxes,
are reconciled to the situation, and
are peaceably bearing the terrible re-
suits of the war, invoked by their
own acts. This is the class who are
recognized as the best citizens in all
countries. But with their submis-
sion, there is too much resignation.
While they are willing to submit,
they are not active enough in direct
ing the worse portion of the elements
in. their respective neighborhoods.
Too many such have determined to
hare nothing more to do with the
regulation OF their county, State or
Nation. Whilst they have resolved
to submit, there is too much of de-
spair III their hearts. The talent and
influence of good men cannot be
safely dispensed with in this world.
And their neglect to exert their in
huence endangers their property,
their lives, and the liberty of their
posterity.


There is class of mal-contents,
especially in Louisiana, who are
chafng at the inevitable, and who
are determined to be satisfied with
nothing but the restoration Of the old
bourbons 10 power and property, and
the remanding of the blacks into
slavery or servitude. This is the
class that keeps up the trouble in
Louisiana, and other States, and who
want no compromise and will yield
to none. They say anything by
which they can keep the masses ex-
cited; they hope that in some rash
hour something will turn up, which,
they contend, can be no worse, and
may be much better. They are
organized to fan the flames Of dis
content, feed the public mind with
error aud discord. poison the litera-
ture Of the public press, magnify
their troubles, and attribute all their
misfortunes and financial embarrass-
ments to Grant and his administra
tion. The complaints and howlings
in Louisiana, which make the night
ana the day hideous, are no offshoot
of special troubles, but part of the
great plan to deceive the people, ex-
cite the sympathy Of the North, and
regain by stratagem what they have
lost on the field Of Mars. These Of
ganizations which are manufacturing
so much public Indignation, are. also
proposing and looking to the election
of the next President by such glaring
and monstrous frauds on the part Of
the malconten,s of the South, that
when inaugurated the North will
rebel and then they hope to see their
fancied wrongs righted, and the
blacks driven to the North TO assume
the same position they now hold in
the South. This is no fancy sketch,
or wild imagination on our part.
Within the past two months this
plan has been frequently foreshad-
owed to US by reliable citizens Of the
South. They have impaired some of
these ideas when we have sympa-
thized with them in their degrade
ton, aud have warmly expressed to
them our conviction that we would
never remain under government
ruled as are some OF the States of the
South at present.


But how is this problem to be
solved? 1t is no nearer so than it
was when Lee surrendered at Ap-
pomattox. The two races vii! mover
live in harmony together except by
the strong arm of the National Gov
ernment. This is not merely the
natural result, but it is the declared
intention. Wise men are needed in
the Executive and Legislative posi-
iions to bridge over this fearful
chasm. The Press has a higher
mission than in copying the false and
uncharitable remarks of one section
against another. The reckless edi-
tors in both sections Of the Union
are doing more than any other ele-
ment to foment and feed this gather.
ing storm. =. +. Y.


There is vast difference betweeh
an s.ipdanandanto nolitician who will