PROSPECT OF ANOTHER AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

Southland Times, Issue 914, 11 March 1868, Page 3

PROSPECT OF ANOTHER AMERICAN REVOLUTION.

(From the " New York Herald.) But now, in its place, we are invited to the experiment of its four millions of liberated African slaves as a new Southern balance of power in our national politics on the basis of universal suffrage. This is the snm and substance of the reconstruction policy of this Badical Congress now in full operation in the ten unrecognised rebel States. The experiment has been developed sufficiently to produce already a popular reaction in the North, so powerful, indeed, as to suggest the necessity to the Badical party of hurrying up their work of Southern reconstruction on this basis of the negro vote, in order that these ten outside rebel states may be restored in season to turn the scale of the coming Presidential election against an apprehended anti-radical majority from the electoral colleges of the North. "We .expect to see this purpose carried out, and when carried out we expect a Northern reaction hardly less decisive than that wliich foreshadowed the speedy annihilation of the democratic white oligarchy of- the South in the hrst election of Abraham Lincoln to the White House. There is something so repulsive to the American mind, so antagonistic to the genius, the spirit and the manifest destiny of our political and social system, in this thing of a Southron negro balance of power, especially as it is established on whit 9 dis-franchisements, that it cannot last. It is a compound of Asiatic despotism and African barbarism so monstrous that its first submission to the general verdict of the country will result in a judgment decreeing the authority and the instruments for its overthrow. Put it to the test, and the majority of fifty thousand against negro suffrage in Ohio for example, will be maintained against this experiment of a Southern balance of power in Congress and our Presidential elections, resting upon universal negro suffrage and white disfranchisements. And so it will be in New York and throughout the North, excepting, perhaps, only Vermont and Massachusetts. It was supposed at the time that the suspension of Stanton and the removal of Sheridan and Sickles — three of the leading figures of the war — would operate to strengthen and solidify the republican party in our then impending fall elections. But the results have shown that the eyes of the people bave been drawn for the time being from our heroes and the achievements of the war to the unauthorised and unexpected reconstruction schemes of a Badical Congress and their dangerous tendencies, ln view of these facts and of the election of 1852, when General Scott was defeated by an obscure ISew Hampshire politician, on the bare suspicion that the leading men of the whig party were not safe on the great Compromise measures of 1850, it may well be doubted whether General Grant himself can be elected if placed on

this obnoxious platform of Southern negro supremacy, maintained by a coercive military despotism. We anticipate, then, from the present complexion and shaping of things, a political revolution iv 1868 against this substituted negro oligarchy of the South quite as remarkable and effective as that of 1860, which decreed the extinction of the old negro slii-veholding white oligarchy.