Year: 1872

now stumping North Carolina will refrain
from any exciting appeals to the colored
voters as class in their efforts to induce
them to adhere to the republican party. The
negroes are simple-minded and condding
people, and they should be taught that their
interests are identical with those Of the whites
in securing an honest and efficient State gov
ernment. It is as impolitic and unchristian
as it is unnecessary to keep alive in their
breasts the old prejudices against their former
masters; it is as dangerous as it is false to tell
them that their white fellow citizens are pre-
pared, at any moment they may have the
power, to strip them Of the freedom and the
privileges conferred upon them by the war
and to reconign them to state of servitude
The attempt to set race against race is even
more reprehensible than those proscriptive
Know Nothing tenets of whose mischievous
tendency, it is to be hoped, Senator Wilson has
long since become convinced The appeals
Greeley and his friends are making to the
Irish as distinct nationality are bad enough,
but are less Objectionable than the effort
to control the negro vote Of the
South by exciting the fears and passions
Of the colored race, inasmuch as the Irish are
natural politicians and are shrewd enough to
follow their own Judgment while the Southern
blacks are ignorant, inexperienced and credu-
lous and their prejudices may be worked upon
to dangerous extent.


There is, besides, no real necessity for any
such questionable policy to aid Grant in the
South. The Southern blacks are well disposed
toward the administration and have q rever-
ence for the profession of which General Grant
is the acknowledged head in merit as well as in
rank. The probability is that they will
vote the administration republican ticket
without persuasion, and their united support
in North Carolina, joined with the strength of
the federal ofice-holders in that State, the
efforts of the stump orators, and, probably, an
open-handed liberality toward the voters, can
not fail to carry the election. The wisest pol
icy General Grant could pursue would be to
refrain from any extraordinary effort to infu-
ence the negroes, to prohibit any interference
of the civil or military authorities with the
canvass or the polls, and thus to fore
SHADOW by bis action in that State o
complete change of treatment for the entire
South The people of the Northern States
have made up their minds that whatever may
be the result Of the Presidential election the
next administration shall give peace and en-
tire freedom to the white citizens of the South,
and shall extend the protection of the consti-
tuition over the whole Union. They will no
longer suffer the Southern States to be para
lyzed and their white citizens to be degraded
to help any political party. If the Presi-
dent, recognizing this fact, would rid him
self of his present political advisers-stump
orators, carpet-baggers, oface-holders and
all-and adopt toward the South such gen.
erous and noble policy as he pursued toward
the vanquished soldiers of Lees army and
foreshadowed in his famous report to President
johnson, he would not only ensure the success
of the republican State ticket in North Caro-
lima next month, but would sweep the whole
Southern States in November. Such triumph
would be more valuable and more honorable
than any victory won by political trickery or
by the dangerous expedient of creating q
hostile feeling between the white men and the
negroes of the South.


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It will be learned with extreme regret by the
large class interested in sporting matters that