Designs of Radicalism [pp. 532-537]

DESIGNS OF RADICALISM.
hostile legislation, in order that all the slaves might be carried to
the extreme Southern States, where slavery was more profitable.
This collecting of all the slaves in the Gulf States, would, with
their natural increase, have given, in ten or fifteen years, a black
population in them of not less than six millions. In this way,
when emancipation should take place, it would leave the blacks
in a much greater preponderance than they even now are. The
New England radicals did not, at that time, either expect or desire the immediate abolition of slavery, but wished an accumulation of blacks in the Gulf States, before this should occur. The
war, however, came on and caused the immediate abolition of slavery, as a necessity in order to secure success. In this respect,
their well laid plans were disconcerted, but they did not falter
in their purposes. Their object ever since has been to place the
Southern States in such a condition that the white people, now
residing in them, would be compelled to leave their homes and
abandon the country to the blacks. A systematic persecution of
the white race of the South, constant and unceasing efforts to ruin
and degrade them —to deprive them of their property and their
political rights, and at the same time to place all the political
power in the country in the hands of their former slaves, without
any training or previous preparation for the proper exercise of
those privileges —all show a studied effort to drive the white people out of the Gulf States and to place those States under the control of the blacks. The whites are, to a great extent, disfranchised, and all the black males, over the age of twenty-one, enfranchised. The radicals know very well, with the examples of Hayti
and Jamaica before them, that the white people of the Northern
States and from Europe will not emigrate to any country while
it is under the control and management of ignorant blacks. In
the Northern States, where there are but few blacks, the whites
will not allow them political privileges, and if they will not do so
in their own States how can they be expected to immigrate to
States where the negroes not only vote but where they will have
the supremacy? The New England radicals know that under
their plan of reconstruction there will be no immigration of white
people to the South, and they do not intend there shall be any if
they can prevent it. Their object is to collect all the blacks in the
extreme Southern or Gulf States and at the same time to force all
the whites to move from the South and settle in'the North. This
will be the effect of their reconstruction policy, and they so intend. Mlen do not usually act without motives.
Let us now inquire what motives can induce such action on
their part. Other measures which they have adopted show what
motives are controlling them.
The N'ew England Radical politicians are the representatives
of wealthy capitalists and manufacturers, and adopt the policy
which they consider most conducive to their interests. These
men desire a dense population in the Northern States in order
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