The Policy Of Hate

[Washington Cor. New York World.] Tho mask is off at last, and through so roliablo a party rnoiith as Bontwoll the Kcpublican party Jias spoken what is in th(! hoart of its unscrupulous leaders, that tliey have one sole aim in view - to win - and ono prirno niethod - to make tho campaign a seetional fight. "They (the South) continually presonted them7 selves to the country aud to the world as the friends of the Union, and it wa3 alie f rom first to last." "I do not in my heact believe that any man educated under and obedient to the influence of slavery can be the friend of a Union that is designed to establish and pre-' servo equality." "The people of this I country aro alioady awake to the truth that tho spirit of the rebollion which they supposed had been snbdued by ■war is still po werf ui in ihe South." " ïf they fail to overthrow the Democratie party by a voto so overwhelming that there can be no excuse for bribery, for falsehood, for doublé returns, this country a year from this will bo involved in another civil war." 'So, even aeoording to the revised record, Raid tbe senior Senator from Massachusetts from bis place in the Senate Thttrsday, and so saying, he has unwisely bnt too well voiced the plan by wbioh every prominent Kepubliean oandidate is stronuously building hia Presideníial fabrie. It is, in a nut-shell. the determined policy of the llopublican party in this eainpaign, and evory day's developments emphasize that fact. 'I ccrtainly claim," said Senator Withers, " to be able to speak authoritativcly for my oto State, for my own people, for my own soction. I assert upon this íloor to-day, with all the knowledge of the obligations which such an asserlion carries with it, and also with a full consciousness that I niay bring mysfilf under the imputations whioh have been aiado to-day in reference to Senators making declarations of a soniewhat similar charaoter, that the people of the Southern States, certainly of my State, have accepted the issues of the war in good faith; that they have recognized, and do to-day -recognize, the equality of all men under tho law. I assert to-day that from tho moment the war caine to a close, indeed long antecedent to that period, the fat-e . of slavery was known to be doorucd in Virginia and no one antieipated, whether the struggle should result in success or disaster, that slave proper ty as euch would remaiu valftable in Virginia. But when disaster crowned the eöbrts whieh we had made, and we were forced to acoext such torms as were offered 113 by the victorious armies of Gen. Grant, not a voiee was raised, so far as I know, not an efïbrt, organized or othcrwise, was made to resist emancipation and its necessary consequenees. I assert here to-day that af ter the conclusión of the war and the emanoipation of the slaves, so far from beiug influenced by hate and animosity and a vindictive desire to crush those people out of existence, or drive them from the country, precisely the opposite sentiments wero feit by a very largo portion of the people of Virginia. I assert that the Southern people have never to this day forgotten, and never will they forget, the obligations they are under to thcir black population. -,[ hope that my right hand may be withóred and my tongue palsied if I ever forget my personal oblignüons to them. I3uring the war, when tho whole manhood 01 the South was carried to tho front to fight the battle of the South, our wives end our little ones were left alone under the charge and the guardianship of our slaves; and I am proud to say to-day that notwithstauding all the appeals and all the nefarious influences which wero brought to bear upon that population to induce them to bring the war to a speedy and bloody end, they were deaf to those appeals, they resisted these influences, they were true to the trust reposed in them ; and ï hope I shall never see tho day when I am afraid or ashained to acknowledge our obliga tion to them." Theso are the utierancesof a Southern nian, or a Southern Senator, of a man upon whose moral character there is no tint. But what of that ? Boutwell says that such inen have not accepted the issues of the war, and must lie when they say they havo. To be sure Boutwell was a skulker during the war. To be sure Boutwell is nnder a cloud for bis failuro to explaiu tho mysterious disappearance of upward of $200,000,000 of the people's money during his stewardship of the trensury. But Morton backs up Boutwell, and Conkling backs up Morton, and Blaine oes them all one better at their own vüe game, and so the order is being given along the whole line, and the great army of oflice-holders are cxpected to shout " slavery," " treason," so louclly that the clamor shall terrify the North andarray it at the polls in November ss a sectiou againstthe South. "The Senators from the South whö are on thisfloor," said Maxey, of Texas, "are n of as pure character, of as honorable purpose, as the Senator from Massachusetts, or anybody clse. When I took the oiith of olHeo I meant precisely what I eaid, and I give my testimony that the people of the South, the very people whom he has so maligued and so traduced, want uniog." Still the petty politieio.il from Massachusetts "clears bis heart of a good deal of black bile," as Bayard so well expressed it. Still Morton shouts " intimidations and frauds " until he is hoarse. Still Blaine rakes tho graveyards of Andersonvillo for seeds of hatred, n'jd still Oonkliug pats each in turn on t'ie shoulder, except Blaine, whom he can neyer forgive for calling him a turkey-gobbler. To these three last-nainod worthies the Republican Presidential race has narrowed dovn, and it is a struggle now to sce who can be most successful in stirring up sectional bitterness. To aceomplish this they are ignoring tho truth, falsifying f acts and shutting their ears against all teetimony. At oue timo or another, since Congress bestia its sessiou, nearly every prominent Southern man in Congres has solemnly averrcd that his section anti his State has accepted the issues of the war, that they favor Union aud desire peace. Gordon and Norwood in ; gin, Withers and Johnston in Virginia, i Lámar in Mississippi, Maxey in Texas, Kansom in North Carolina, Jones in Florida, andascoro bubides, all have posbvely declared the same tliing, and still' Blaine and Morton, and their thimbleriggers, liko Boutwell and Hale, ."hout at every opportunity, " You are traitors at heart; you niean to restore slavery. Wo ■will not trust you." Said a prominent Southern Senator to me after Boutwell's speech, "If they do not want us in the Union why did they bring us back?" There is food for thoughtin the relnark. The truth of Lbo matter is that Morton and the Ropublicans of his ney know that Maxey spoke the Uuth when he said, "Sir, the colored people of the South have no truer iriends ou iliii earth tban their formcr ownors, and they know it. " That is the secret of the Wbole niiiticr. The blacks are learning by painiul eiperienct; that as tbeir j tvrs ure röbbe'd by carpet-baggevs nul ! inipoverished, se they grow pODr, aml as thiir mnsiers prosper so thoy prosper. "Now," tiaid Maxey, "as a matter of comnion scuse, let us look at that. Whatever th tíeuator from Maasachussttsmay thuikuf the pairiotism oï Öjc peöp!'1 (aüd lle seems not tp puta very high esliraute ou itj, yet it . would uot do for even that Senator to say that they have not ovtm óommon sciish. When it is borne in mind that the only laboríng popnliition of tho South.that can bo i ;.iptííyed for farm woj-k js tho eolored Liborer, )ecauHo the white mou sooa ' gets land of hia oto - when it i ttmt ta whit aun Is tho l and ifche colored man is the i holder, and whon cach is necessary ; to the other, I ask you if common sense would not teach that white man to treat the black in such a way as to secure his friendslup and respect ? I can speak for niy oto State ; I know that better than auy other. I do know that of the first erop raised after the close of tho war we shipped only about 79,000 bales of cotton, and I do know that last year m shipped 500,000 bales. Could that labor have been employed if the colored man had been treated as it is attempted here to induca people to believe he was treated ? No, sir ; the white man and the black man in my State I know get along on terms of friendship and mtttnal kindness, and I believe tliis is tnie of the great mass of the people all over the South. That we have bad men there I do not deny, and you of the North have bad men ; but will any honest man hold a whole cominunifcy responsible for a few turbulent, disrcputablo cliaracters ?" It was a truthful statement of the real facts of the case, as I am told by many prominent Southern memfeers here, and the trouble with Morton, Blaine and tho rest is that they know it, and are disappointed at it. What vexés their soiüs is not that the Southerners woro rebels, but that they will not reconstruct into Republicans, and that even the blacks are learning lessous from the bitter results of carpet-bag reconstruction, and are beginning to see that their iuterests and the interests of their old mastors are identical. ' ' Why, ' ' said a prominent member from Mississipiii to me the other day, and he the owner of five or six large plantations, " I never could have been eleeted if my old slaves had not voluntarily and alinost unitedly voted the Democratie ticket, for' the blacks are a majority of the votors in my district, and a majority of the votes cast at the last election were by colored men. But we have no trouble in our región," he went on to say, "for the blacks have already discovered, of their own good sense, that when we prosper they have abundance of work and are well cared for, and when we are in trouble they have to ,g% without work and suñer." This is the tcsümony of one of the weallhiest land holders in the very State whose anarchcial condition has caused the fountains of Morton's virtuous indignation to slop over inetissiuitly for the past four years. To what extravagances simon-pure Kepubliean partisanship may lead a man in these days, when, to be a Deraocrat and unearth corruption is to be a rebel, Kuklux, murderer, thicf, and liar all combined, was well illustrated by Boutweü's wild assertion in the Sonate Thursday, that unless the Democrats were overwhelmingly deféated in November, " this country, a year from this, will bo involved in another civil war." The contemptible falsity of that statement was well shown up by Mr. Withers, who, in replying to it, sáid: "And that ram in ris me of another yery remarkablo .declaration which was made by the Senator from Massachusetts, which struck me as exceedingly startling and suggestive, and I could not help thinking what would have been the condition of affairshere and through the country if I, or any of the gentlemen who surround me on this side of the chamber, and give utterance to such a sentiment. The Senator from Massachusetts, as I have written down the words, made a declaration to this effect, that he warned us to beware of the coming November, and asserled that if the Mepublicans are not sustained by the ptpular vo-iee i: sueh overwhelming numbers as to render oppositionfutile, tve might look for another civil war. In ofcher words, what is to be nnderetood by his proposition ? That if the Democratie party triumph in the coming election in November civil war is imminent ? I would ask who proposes to resist this fiat of the people in case it should be given in favor of tho Democratie prty in the coming election ? Certainly not the Democratie party; certainly not their frieiids or allics. Therefore, the proposition to resist must come from the other party. If I had made such a declaration here, or if the senators around me had uttered such a sentiment, I have no doubt the hands of the gentleman would have gone up in holy horror, and he would have i waved the bloody shirt with three times as niuch empressement as he has done this morning, and called on all his clans to rally to tho rescue, to crush out these unrepentant rebels of the South." It was solid logic, but the several would-be Ecpublican presidents and president-makers care no more for logic than they do for facts. And they will go on from tbis to November iterating i and reiterating their bloody war cry, ! thougk every man, wornan and child in j I the South should swear alegiance and ■ loyalty to the Union in their very j presenco.