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old fashioned process would give but a mere moiety of what the latest and most
improved method would obtain from the same amount of ore.
EDITORIAL NOTES AND CLIPPINGS.
WE commend most heartily to our which appeared in our double numreaders the very able article which ber for July and August, and disapappears as the leader in the present proves severely and entirely of the
number of the REVIEW, upon the, policy therein advocated. Wedo not
subject of the Republican Party, as propose to defend Mr. Boyce, but we
the agent of British policy in respect cannot refrain from remarking that
to American interests. This paper is at the time he wrote the paper in
from the pen of one of the most pow- question, thoughtful men in the
erful thinkers in the country, and our North, warm friends of the South,
pages in former years have been en- and acknowvledged leaders in the
riched with many of his productions. Democratic party, saw no hope for
The present article furnishes facts our people unless we could control a
and arguments which ought well to portion of the negro vote, large
be pondered by our countrymen; in- enough to give the whites the majordeed we may apply to it the apt lan- ity. It will be remembered that, af
guage of Lord Bacon, and pronounce ter the sweeping radical majorities of
it one of those papers "which deserve last fall, the condition of affairs for
not merely to be tasted, but to be the South seemed so desperate and so
swallowed and digested." It cannot gloomy, that the Hon. Reverdy Johnfail to rivet conviction in the minds son felt constrained to vote for the
of all its readers, that tihe party which abominable lmilitary reconstruction
now, unfortunately for the country, policy of the radicals, through a well
controls its policy, is but the blind founded apprehension that if rejected
agent of the far-casting statesman- the fanatical leaders in Congress
ship of England to break down the would concoct something worse.
industrial rivalry of America, and Even the New York World despaired
thus to grasp and weild supremely of farther opposition, and advised the
the sceptre of commerce over the people of the South to yield political
world. equality to the blacks, using pretty
We hope that the article will be much the same line of argument pre widely circulated, and that it may be sented by Mr. Boyce; yet neither the
used by our public speakers to awa- World nor Mr. Boyce meant social
ken the minds of the people to a pro- equality in the sense represented by
per conception of the momentous is- the 2dercury. No code or system of
sues which are involved in the great laws can confer social equality; that
contest now going on. We believe springs alone from merit, and there
that every reader will thank us for are inseparable ethnological difficul calling attention to this masterly ties which the black race never will
paper. surmount. The discussion of such a
The Charleston Mercury reviews proposition would be worse than idle,
Mr. Boyce's article, "The South," it is absurd.