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Show BAD POLICY- The course taken by the administration administra-tion stump .Pikers m the present eampaimi.aDd notably by Mr Bout-wcll Bout-wcll in his North Carolina fpcechea, is likely to produce serious results. The policy seems to bo to create in the winds of the colored population a settled set-tled antipathy against all of the white race that do not endorse in the most emphatic manner the citrcmest of radical rad-ical iJoas- The colored people but recently re-cently released from slavery, still very ignorant and degraded, arc suspicious of tho whites, cunning, and incapable of comprehending political plana and their certain result. They know that theySwcre released from slavery as a consequence of the war, but they do not know that forcible and sudden emancipation was a war measure adopted to break tho jiowcr of tho rebellious States far moro than from any love for tho colored people; although it was a step urged by the cstrcuuo abolitionists, of whom Abra h.ini Lincoln was not one. Postering political equality with other citizens of America, this appealing to their prejudices pre-judices of race as a means of securing their votes, is a baneful policy, that c-in but work evil to the negroes themselves. them-selves. This policy has already resulted in bloodshed in different places, and speeches in support of it foster an animosity between the two races which, if allowod to grow, will breed still bloodier work. Since slavery has been abolished, no ono raco rules in these United States; but tho people, peo-ple, white and black, aro supposed to aliko participate in tho government govern-ment according to their numbers. And tho growth of such feelings can only tend to array whito against black, and black against white, in which event tho consequences would bo serious to the weaker and moro ignorant ignor-ant race. Tho policy of the administration adminis-tration speakers, then, who urgo the keeping open of "tho bloody chasm," and who claim to be anxious to place tho colored man above the white man, for tho sako of securing a prolonged lease of power, is likely to work great evil in the end to the instruments used in accomplishing tho object in view. |