Year: 1872

the war and to obey the laws of their country.
They point to their paralyzed industries, to
their impoverished homes, to their broken
fortunes, and plead to be allowed to enter once
again the highway of prosperity and happi-
ness through the paths of loyalty and
peace. But the question occurs to the
minds of the scheming politicians
who hold power in Congress, Are the white
Southern citizens to be trusted politically?
Will they not use their recovered franchise
against the regular republican party2 If
these questions cannot be answered to the
satisfaction Of our present rulers the South
must continue to be oppressed and the effort
to force negro supremacy upon the Southern
States must proceed


General Grant can have no sympathy with
the course of the men who seek by such means
to renew their lease of political power. His
whole life and the free expression of his senti-
ments on every occasion show that he favors o
government of white men and that he despises
those who endeavor to renew or keep alive
sectional prejudice and hate between the North
and the South. When he suffers the politicians
who surround him to resort to such legisla-
ton and such policy in his behalf, he
risks the loss of the sentiment of pub
lie esteem and gratitude still clinging
to him and unwilling to acknowledge
itself misplaced The people of the North
demand that the Southern States shall no
longer be treated as rebels, but shall receive in
good faith, and without reservation, the par
don that has been extended to them. To give
over the beautiful and commercially important
States of the fairest section of the Union to
the ignorant and degraded rule of negroes
just released from bondage is ON insult
to the white citizens of the North as well as of
the South, and an outrage on the whole nation.
To subject them to the corrupt and reckless
schemes of the carpet-bag plunderers is but
little less infamous To hold them under
military subjection for political purposes is
not only cruel injustice, but is dangerous
assault upon the freedom of the republic. As
consistent and independent supporter of
General Grants administration, we now call
upon him to show his detestation of these politi-
Cal MachiavelisIns by openly proclaiming his
determination not to avail himself of the Ku
Klux law in the approaching elections, and to
withdraw from the Southern States every fed
eral soldier not required for the actual legiti-
mate purposes of the government. The
enforcement of this odious law is optional
with him, and he has the authority and the
power by proclamation to declare the South in
a condition to warrant the restoration of civil
law and Of the writ of habeas corpus in every
portion of her territory. This will
enable the President at once to free
himself from the responsibility and the unpop-
ularity of the measures of his unwise support
ers in Congress, and radical change in the
character of the federal ofice-holders through
out the South will further show his inclination
to do justice to the Southern people at last
For the future, whatever may be the result
of the pending Presidential election, the
HERALD will insist upon On entire change
of policy towards the Southern States under
the next administration, and will hold every
Congressman up to the contempt and scorn of
the American people who favors any measure
for the oppression of the white men of the
South. We shall demand from President
Grant or President Greeley, % the case may
be, an honest obedience to the will Of the
people, which is, unrestricted amnesty and
non-interference with the domestic affairs of
any of the Southern States. The HERALD will
diligently watch for and expose every future
attempt to control the Southern negro vote as
q unit for any party, and any injustice that
may be done either by legislation, by executive
action or through the influence Of federal
patronage, to the white electors of the South.
We recognize the courage, the manhood and
the loyalty of the Southern people now that
the rebellion and it's causes are alike dead and
buried, and we admit their equal title with
ourselves to all the privileges and rights
of the constitution. We shall hold any admin
istration in the future responsible for a consti-
tutional treatment of that section Of the coun-
try and shall regard an assault upon their
liberties and privileges as crime against the
republic.


John Bright and the British House


Of Lords.


Mr.. John Bright has just assured the men,
bers of a delegation from the Stafordshire
potteries workmen that the English "House of
Lords seems to be almost the last refuge of
political ignorance and fashion" Both quail
ties are exceedingly demoralizing, particularly
if they exist among the members of q branch
of the highest Legislative estate If Mr.. Bright
refers to fashion in dress his opinion must be