Editorial Notes and Clippings [pp. 365-383]

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son's treatise" with the greater pleas- We do not wish to be understood
ure that it came from the pen of a
New-England manufacturer who is also a member of the Republican Party.
As to the remark about ourself
(the Junior), we have only to say that
we are from the South, and have
never resided out of it until within
the past two years. WTe served our
State (South Carolina) as a private in
a cavalry battalion until honorably
discharged. The reputation of the
REVIEW will not suffer in our hands
in the manner indicated, whatever
may be our shortcomings in our
efforts to maintain its literary excellences.
The Daybook assails us with its
accustomed violence for publishing
Mr. Boyce's article on "The South,"
which it characterizes as "foolish and
vicious beyond expression." We have
looked in vain through the paper in
question for any expressions which
would justify the diatribe of the
Daybook. Mr. Boyce starts out by
declaring that between the two di verse races in the South "fusion is
impossible." He advises his fellow
citizens that "as practical men they
must make the best they can of the
situation," which he says "is most
anomalous and alarming." He ad vises harmony and conciliation as
the only possible means of escape
from the threatened evils of an at tempt to "govern from below up wvard." These opinions are not pe culiar to Mr. Boyce. Similar views
have been publicly enunciated by
Gen. Wade Hampton and by many
other of our best citizens, and have
been generally acquiesced in by the
people of the South. So far as the
South is concerned, she has no power
to avoid the evil, and hence it is the
province of a wise statesmanship to
endeavor to mitigate it.
as fully endorsing Mr. Boyce's views,
but, as a representative of a party
respectable in point of numbers and
intelligence, he was entitled to a
hearing. As a matter of humanity
we advocate now, as always, kindness to the blacks, and in view of
their changed relations the gradual
elevation of the race; but as a matter of policy, the day for voluntary
concessions has gone by, and it is
doubtful whether even had we taken
the wind out of the sails of the radicals by anticipating their action, in
regard to the right of suffrage, it
would have availed us anything.
The negroes are determined to submit to no dictation; and the scum
that rose to the surface of the political cauldron when society in the
South became disorganized, are, happily, disappointed in their expectation that through the votes of the
blacks they would "ride to glory
over the ruins of the country."
WjE have received a copy of an
address on the subject of Immigra tion, delivered by J. P. Killebrew,
Esq., to the citizens of Montgomery
County, Tennessee, at Clarksville, in
August last,- for which we shall
endeavor to find space in our next
number.
The Bureau of Immigration for
the State of Louisiana, through J.
C. Kathman, Esq., Chief of the Bu reau, supplies us with some valuable
information, which shall be incorpo rated in our "I)epartment of Labor
&c." in our issue for November.
"No TZEASON " No. 2 -" The Con stitution,"- by Lysander Spooner,
Esq., of Boston,-will appear in our
next number.
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