B WILMINGTON POST.
W. P. CANADA.
Editors.
J. J. CASSIDKY. I
WILMINGTON. N C.
raiDAT. TLB. tS. 1876.
THE HLHIfGTO.X STAR A1
THE 2BW TORK UKBALU.
The New York Herald of the 10th
instant, contains letter covering four
closely printed colonics written by Mr.
John Russell Young of the editorial
staff of thai paper, from Columbia,
South Carolina, concerning the unhap
py condition of that State, and hi
views tnereon; aJHiine i.biiski.
. ? I ? a a. , . I
- .v - a
a ,
ol
d
lit
f last fcuoday baa A few remaras a i- j a j .. informing them of their j re
lrescd to the Xew York ffrra'-r a cisc 4f)j n.j4livc Utu, aod advising
iU leading editorial on tbe subject.. -
long as Mr Charles Nordhoff wrote
letters to the Herald concerning affair
in the South as be saw mem wane 'rav-
rliog from one State to another for the
purpose of learniog somewhat of the
causes of the troubles under which tbey
were laboring, aod giving Li views
concerning them; and as long aa those
views were obtainable only through the
rlaes supplied to him by the high
toned aristocracy with whom be seemed
alone to acciate; and aa long aa bis
letters reflected not on bis entertainers,
but rather on their political opponents,
just so long was the Herald and Mr.
Nordhoff quoted by secession papers as
truthfully representing affairs in the
South. As the S?ar savs, Mbis masterly
letters were copied everywhere, and bis
statements were generally credited by
those who nought after truth."
But now another side of the picture
U presented to Ticw. Mr. Youn, in
carrying out the intention of the mana
gers of the Derail to keep its readers
xstcd on Southern affairs, baa explored
a f old that Mr. Nordhofflefi untouched,
and has investigated South Carolina.
The Star it loud in praise of Mr. Nord-
ho.T because he "minced no words in
iajiB5 urc wn c-.ms c.e g..e,-
ance; it speaks of Mr. Young a "able"
but "regrets to see that his letter is not at
all in the vein of those views of Mr.
Nordhoff which have justly gained
celebrity" lor the Hra!t: that "Mr.
,uuu ri- i'-' ' j
puqow ofarra.gn.ng the pcojdc of,
South Camhna, (and through then, the ,
ieoile cf the other southern States; lor ;
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not capturing tLc negro in polities
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Ac; cnurires Jlr. loung with having
.... ,
aid things ' hard to be bourn by fjuthern
. '
J. ' . . '
tizan, lecaue he sa:d that he wai
"profoundly convinced that if ins'.ead
. i
mc pa.si luej mic pi i o.usiei
about the Yankees and slaver', the
southern ple bad dealt wisely with
the uero and generously wilh the
northern immigrants, these States, auu
especially South Carolina, would be
free and powerful," and stigmatises bis
language as a "congeries of misstate
ments which are linked together by
the spint of iectional and KIiticaI pre-'
. .. .. ' '
judice."
The Star knows lhal ince April lk. i
there A.i been a great amount ol mourn
irg over Ihe confetlcrate cau-e,
usteoutioutly and io M-cret. It know
.k-. -.i i. i... i i
IU aiV4IOUll 1 1. J 'I U I II IMU iVWIUV :
ue!ea" the "weed of grief were n-rf
"laid avide for work too!," nor "the
cypres fur the pacific olive." All un
biased and fai; minded men in the
south who are as ftmiliar wilh the facts
a ihe Mr fdiould be, won- that Mr.
Young' tatemculs. ate not "unkind,
groM, unprovoked libels on the south."
They are.rr, and it is becauae they irr
facta, and tbe V.ir know ibem lo be
fact, that tbey hurt so.
Mr. Young has trsck the right Ley
when be tell why ihe negro race ia
the South dK not affiliate politically
wilh their late maUr, and the Star
tcoaiew nnusnally undignified in using
such epithet, as -liars," Ac, towards
thoae ho fought to instruct tbe negro
ia the dutiea devolving upon bint as a
free naa. I it any woudcr
that "Ihe black irU were Itsl mr
raiat the wuhea the mlllcT' What '
ha4 "white people," i. ' , the lale elave .
I , .
holders dooe to induce the negro to I
follow tkrn HaJ thee rwr.t.l lla I
luatio. good railh. a ad did they
take their late laves kicdly by the
. . j
band and iattnict then ia tke new ana
hih duties lhat had dtrolved oa tWta
as America a cttlxeaaX. No. They did
no saeh thiaf Ia the first place they
were not hcaett ia thetr prclVsaion of
allegiance to the Uaioa wheo they laid
dowa their arms and erased to march
to Ue baula &t!d to firtt afattwt it.
They iaU&rd their oaths o allefiaac.
TWy mtrrt intended U tvpport aod
uaiataia the coswtitatioa aad laws af
ihe L" sited Suea hea they ewore that
tey wo!d de eo. Tbey were none the
leas traitors at heart than when they
fired apoa tort Saaster wha thev
rhoe4 alike the cradle aad the grave
wr scaler tal of which ta saake sl
drs that they sslxht coatlaoe th var
"Ltd away slmu the wishes of the
whitaa!, It waaUe rimheXlU wkitca
Wfcre tho war lo keep thesa la slaTery.
Irwa th iah aad iatratioa eOhe whites
afUfftWM U rHar Una to alareey
If aoch a thlax caa tiosmhle. at aay
raiaU kee Uesa la a tUU of vasaal.
ajr, aad MX alWv Uesa eey aay
roikai rhts lhat it va vwihle to
arprirt uvraa .
to
rr-Jostv
W ao oora a4 tav thai asia rater iaU bwaesa Th- Uws
lh PnNO&Uc UfaUhny af I kit
Carolina in I SCO, passed lawn that Ttr
lua'.Iy returned the negroes to slavery?
Nor did thry at all regard the Jact that
to do m they bad alo to reduce toots
and of "roar white trash, as they
facetiously called them, t the aie
condition. .
As an instance of the boncMy of pur
pose, bo called, with which these white
would lead the blacks in thU ta'e im
mediately after the war aod before the
negroes bad lxx-n made fully aware of
the rcui'. of the war and of their
freedom, awl wben th it city and ectien
of the Fta'c wa under the military
command of tieucr.il Joseph IL I law Icy,
lhat'ollker bad printer! for information
and distribution, larjre numbers of cir-
vu jar, an u ri--vvi ai iu ic
! "
cular. addrcwd alike to late master
ihml ai lh,. M.aso!1 iiaj rAX advanced,
! anJ IC cfp4 fl4j a!rcatiy bcetl planted,
I UD jf r,UlHjng, hhuld at once be had
bclwecn the onncrs of the roil and the
laborer who were to work it, and con
tracts entered intj that would prevent
deputes a:id ill feeling- at the end f
the mumj:i. (icaer.-il llawley took a
number of these circulars with him on
a viit he made in the month cf May
I85 to Whitcville, in Columbus county,
lie sent messengers to all the leading
white men in the couaty inviting them
to meet Lici thereon a certain day, aod
a great many gentlemen attended.
There was no colored mau at that meet
ing. Tbey were all white men --men
ho represented the wealth and intelli
gencc of the county. lie read his cir
cular to llicui and supplied them with
copies enough so they might, as he
requested, bo distributed anions the
ncgrots, that -tej, too, might act advis
edly in making contracts for the year.
This request of General llawley
gave great offence to lhcc patriotic
southerners, r.:d they refu.-e 1 to act on
bis suggestion; and it is a fact that the
negroes on certain remote ulanUtions
i in that roti nl v were kenl in imior.mee
j q totn bv lhcir late masters.
f . , rnl iho f.rf
" " - - .
but it was imparted to them by their
friends
These jr ignorant pioplc had but
few friends ever among the dominant
race in the south. In !avcry they
wcrc protected because they were A-r,
njt bcCaUsC thov were mcn Aftcrthc
Uti.-uvnw altcmtcJ lo
. . . r .. .
again place them in ?!averv for tUcir
, . , , . ' .
good o thov naiil, and it way bce.itise
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tber did not want to be led into .uch a
, ," . ,. .i . ...i i !
.-tate lv uc!i Incnus, tliat the biack
h.opIc wcro led awav ;i"aiut the w i.-hes
H.opIc were led away
of the w hit(S."
It is reallv
amiiMiir' to ic id the
Un-
cuage of the -V-n- and t note the ttu-
dcrnets wilh which it speaks of the nc
cro. It says that "efforts were made to
arrest the tendency of the negroes to
abandon their old and natural friend-1,
but in vain." "As to cencrosity, we
who have lived among the negroes nil
our live, and knew their naturally
amiable disposition of character, can
. . - , , , ,
white opronen'.s of the colored pcre
nave treated them generously, kindly
I and .'i.t; fraternally." Certainly. As
ivoui-ti ioomos in ins auurves ionic
0
tal.
of how the rebels
it certain ot t.ieir
uumber into power, says, "p got them ;
ihere by carryiug iho b'uik vote lin
tiiuidatioii!" We carried I hem iith us
by intimidation'.' Or in Mi.-i.ippi,
where the gojl of cacc as proinuN
gated Irom the ir.uz.'.e- of hot guns
and revolver, and at the pcinl of the
stiletloby llne miniitrrs of peace lhat
nxlc iu di-guisc and in force t'rzi place
t place, killing, rhooling, cutting aud
driving away thre foolish negroes who
were "led away againt tlu-wishes of
while." These "guerou, kindly and
itft r r.att rnal" acta iho think
'"may not have be.M wie -it i mag
nanimous, and to a Muithrrn man mag
nanimity is wisdom.' And so a ystein
of Mtr(e and biutalily and mur
der whk-a tbe .St-ir calls almost "frater-
! nal" tnav t bac buen w:e. and
, ' " IV
rfuaiiiy ,'ir. juiin iurseit luUDg
and ll- New York ff-ra'd will Ut able
tu UnJ it awhile lender, toeing lhat
d ? U'f. " u f i ?
uitiiT 111 uu me auijivt juv,
Till. Cl'M'KDF.11 ATM HKrjtratN-
TATtVKSAM T1IK HaMKtU'l'T
It Is a remarkable fc. that this oa
lioa which has lived to number its
hundred jean of existeece should hive
had during all that time but fourteni
years of orperative bankrupt laws., Ia
1$CM a bankrupt a-t was paired which
was repealed ia IP&: Ia 1511 another
act was pas d whkh wa repealed is
ISil, aad th at aadar which uaArtu
aate debtors cw hod rlif and oa
which ihe dcstrocUve , democracy aad
Confederate IViadier ia tbe kiwer
llooe of Cngrei have rrceatly takea
incoaaid crate and nasi j action, was
psaaed ia 1 So..
This aclWa i vt the rrirvade order.
It has hrea the theM ssl
all f mmwi . . t .!.
t i
CUiat W be en uotd iU x rUBrd '
a
to enact laws Ux the relief all hoot
debtors, aad a post their saakin; a say
rradVr their assrt W ihe asa of
their credit ers, la rire then fall dia-
caarjee ia haakraptry aad a3ow thesa
ro free : thertby eaaVlar thesa L
a ilkata UwutirtsaiUs U be tiiJisit.
entirely stripped of CTerything they
possessed, but have generously and
properly allowed them to retain an ex
emption of certain articles or articles
and things valued at certain amounts,
so that the unfortunate should not be
left entirely naked, nor cast on the
cold charities of an unfeeling world for
the wherewithal to theltcr, clothe and
feed : they never intendei that the ruin
ed man should necessarily become a
pauper and bis family beggars.
This is an attempt of the democracy
to deprive the people of tde benificent
law enacted for their relief by a Repub
lican Congress, under a clear and un
doubted right and duty confered and
imposed upon it by the Constitution,
and leave the whole matter to tie ac.
lion of th? several Slates. This hj a re
trogressive move from'the supremacy of
the nation to disintegration and States'
Rights. It is their policy to weaken
the Uniou f:r the purpose of strength
ening the States. It is one of the en
tering wedge, with which they jntend
to tjundcr the Union. It is thef same
policy which prevailed when, under the
rule of such men as John C. Calhoun
and James Buchanan, the country
drifted into secession, war and disaster.
In 1811 the democracy under the lead
ership of Thomas II. Benton fought
againbt the passage i f the bankrupt law
wilh all their might, and it was the ar
gument of tho great Misourian that
"the whole relation of debtor and
creditor, touching insolvency or bank
ruptcy, shonld be left to (he insoccnl
lata of thr .Slate."
The democrats have two objects in
view in the repeal of the bankrupt
laws. In4he first place it is a step in
the direction i:i which tU their stejw
arc taken, to restore and enforce the
doctrine of Slates' Bights at the ex
pense of thcttabiiity and perpetuity of
the Union. In the second place it is
their desire and intention, should they
succeed in having the said laws repeal
ed by Congress, and in view of the fact
that they have the control of the'Legis
lalurcs of nearly every Southern State,
lo have passed by those legislatures
such insolvent and bankrupt laws as
will bt serve their ends in oppressing
the masses of the cop!o and pcrpetu-.
ating their power. How Ion;:, we ask,
would such a blessing to all poor peo
ple of North Carolina as the preseut
Homestead and Personal Projerty Ex
emption Laws; provided for in our
Coiislitulioii, made by Republicans,
and cnactid by a Legislature c M.lroled
ly Republican, stand, were uch men
as Judge Merrimon, who has already
denounced it as unconstitutional, conic
into power? How many poor n.en in
North Carolina to-day, who jocas
their little farms and who enjoy their
little eronal property exemption, con
sisting of the mule that drags the plow
through the field, the cow that sup
plies the nourishment lor the feeble wife
and the fretful baby, the bed on
which the weary limbs are stretched af
ter the toils of the daV, iod the few
other comforts aud necessaries that tney
may have about them, wou'd have
thc things were the democrats in
Coii 'rts allowed Jo repeal the bank-
t.l h,.v
of the J?late altered o that Ir. .Merri
mon and hi crowd might pouuee down
on them, like c:v
:!cn on
liiib', and
lcar froin them their all?
We thank'tJod that the Senate of the
1'iiited States will not allow the demo
cratic liui;? ti coninii this sin, and
that the icvpU: of N'oith ilaroljua will
not allow the democratic party lo de
prive them of their Homotcad. Thte
destructives would be glail to rc intale
the old Ilotuan law lhat allowed the
creditor to cut and carve to pieces the
body of the klCur and distribute it
anionic themselves. They ot.ld re-
that other and n human, J
euact
lioma
i .. r.. -,.t;..., -.ol. t!. u.i. i
uuuut inf w. in......, ...v t
and hard labor; and llic . i
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petual bondage of the innocent wife
and children of tke unforluqaLe man
who owed a debt that be could not pay.
The party of "reform" indeed !
ar ldrail Heat no Ion Hi Ktttf.
ran,,
The Luke of Wellington irrpvfcd
to have said, in one of the rarly rail
road debates in the House of Lord,
tbar iu dealing with tbe new system it
ras aboe O all n;TCary to bear in
mind the analogy, naUrail toyg
the railroaJ was first established. Tbe
proprietor of the rod-bcd nJ the
carrier over it were lo be different per
sons, rro vision a this rwpett was es
pojrially made in all early charters, and
it wa snpfod tharthe power or using
be rood, which waa reayed U 4.lltb
srorld oa certain n&etl terais would
a lake tmpaib!e any mooopoiy of tha
bai,rjn over it. Experience, of course,
owurkty fhozpl how utterly fallscioos
lata reajooia; fas. TLa "jskT ef
the highway was, huwever, not at one
abaadZsnL Ilccoor was had to a
system oi xed afijirpuaa charprs aod
the Old toll tMnanU cf Uia tsrntUke
were Isworporalrd at raersKurt Mnglh
into iho stew charters as they were
granted, ,lhe of tar, W iaataacv.
hich went throe jib i-ariiasaeat
rirht." ti.ita, i which, asaoo
a. a .
the carnal vf a "or, sae, oca " i
lie cuaipaar SBish. chare 1 J rata I
t axrerd lire reaoe a-er mil.
while a calf ar pi or "other ta.aH
aaisaal,' the Uasit was a (CBJ. Hil
uraUy. this allea.pt at rrgwUii ia
prarcd am boot eSkacsoos thaa th
uIxt, aad wilt) It the aaalogy a the
air way aaasaa i Mw -anrea.
Letter of Jlr. John Bossell-Yonn.ri
to the New York Herald" .
? COLUMBIA, a CVFeb. 4, 1876.
To t Editor of Out Herald
; Soutk Carolina is once more becom
ing a national question, said a brief
surrey ot the political situation here
may enable the people outside of the
State to comprehend the character and
extent of the issues at stake. The
difficulty io dealinfi with these South
ern questions is that the passions of
war are not dead that men look at
politics with anger and apprehensien.
On one side we have a race once pow
erful and still proud, whose ancestors
ruled this Commonwealth and the
Union behind it, and who, rather than
surrender this domination, forced the
country into civil war. On the other
side we bare a race, only yesterday in
slavery, and in that darkest form once
seen in the rice swamps, suddenly given
freedom and power arid called upon to
govern themselves and their masters.
Good friends told me when I came
to Columbia to hurry to the Capitol,
that I might see the Congo-Legislature,
and mourn or make merry, as the hu
mor swayed me, at what I saw. I went
to the Capitol. There were the .Senate
and House in full session. The Lieutenant-Governor
of the Stale presided
over one body, ex-Congressman Elliott
over the other. They are boih black.
They seemed to preside well enough
and were evidently men of as much
intelligence as many of our Congress
men from New York. I would much
rather they had been white men; but, as
God Almighty in lib infinite wisdom
made them, ihere they were, and such
work as came before them they did as
well as Mr. Kerr or Mr. Ferry would do
in Washington. To be sure, it is not
much that presiding officers have to do,
but the sooty statesmen did it withdi
nity and courtesy. The members were
generally blacfc, with a little section of
proud white meu clustered in a corner.
"There they sit," said a kindly ciccr-
1 1 AS
one, who naa aone ins snare in me
Confederacy, and who took a grim,
melancholy pleasure iu showing me
what the Union had brought to his
poor, prostrate State. "There they sit,
sir th Spartan band every one a
true Southerner and democrat, cluster
ing around all that remains of the hon
or of old Carolina, sir, and willing to
set side by side wilh darkies, s-ir, to
mal;D the last sacrifice in the hope of
doing something lo tjaye the old Stale, j
lliinK ot wnai iney musi ieei :
like true men, they stand up to it." I
asked my friend if they were paid, and
when he (old me that they were and
that there was no accessible evidence
showing that they had declined their
pay, my sympathies became more un
tlei control, I was admitted to, the
Moor, and at near tho Spartan band,
some ol woom were eating peanuts,
.
Ireshly rasted, with much resignation
and iudustry. But the main body of
tiie statesmen were black all shades of
black, from the shining ebony dark
aaK tliJ Slinj tf.f ltliVh 1 i tr t A
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. . . . . . UUlill. 1 U 'U ii llw 1. 1 1 t ii ill ill lit v ' 1 .' J "
! even a sadder tale than that oi slavery , t(J s,.iv (r,,Jtiit.j . ' w takc j the skill of the north. Here is room in
in his finer tempered, and more deli- i fr,,m ' tlu in the voice mirth and the j South Caroliua alone for all S'ew Eng
i cntclv framed oranizition. ! voi-.-e f j lad i.-s ti c h.uim! aud; itr uo State could the spirit
Well It ku'i IrinsloriiiHion -nuM
Wen. H W44 r-?isiorniaiion, .Wll I
have no doubt. I felt iy uore rise
within me as I thought of this sovereign
men of various colors some napping,
Unt a .nv'd ,tv uiiscry and crime of slavery and of thi, Camho. wbf , prostrate- Stfl cry
was to see what was to be seen, 'and to ' appalling iHnbu:, ,n. ! ng f.,r sympa by and help. Let iu
record it, I had no time for mere emo- i Whv is it that ihe -utherncr, the ! ruVbll1 S'AT V" wm? tof e
lions. I saw a Innly of well behaved j whites' ho ere ma-u r, In-fore the war, I'vop o, to help themscUe and in doing
some shuffling around the aisles, some uuii ing wilh l'i a'.i i were lutcl-wbisperiiig,-
onepejkiog( torn? trying ' lii;cnt. gained e.i itr .i i' the Stale o as
to speak, many eating peanuts,' freshly ! to secum it cihtciH ,,-.. t t;iii:ent Jt
roasted. There was a considerable j would semi ' tix- iiliu.iry political
ouantltv of tobacco iu various processes i
of use. I saw groups of lol.uyuU in
the rotunda plying their calling, and
the ever present apple and cake wo
men, who are, I am persuaded, the fo re
rnnru:., pf civilir-ation.,
I saw a gath- i
tetTij miuy of i
their Ih'liii bv 1
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inieuigent employment. 1 nave no
I I . ,. r ... ... n f .u I
UVIUU. A BilUUlU II. I IT IVUIUIVUIIU Ufmil i
a, v ilh (Joe emphasis aud indig-
nation, and nave cr.ea uut upuu.;: '.is
sacrilege if I bad' not remembered that
you can spc this, every phase of it but
ihe color, 1 a Albany aad Wsshingtou.
The House presided over by speaker
VI! hilt en alwut the uni aa that nrr.
sided over by Speaker Kerr, with thh
rrption. I have no doubt, for my
icfofinan koe his ?Mate. that prouder
blood Mowed fh thtf JTCus c soao of
these negro nienbers than flows fn'that
of many of the delegation from the
North at least from a Carolina point of
view, for remember I am looking at
aa vr w a. i j r
thii.gf rr7? in' apcct now. It was an j
ordinary, 7odlaerrs bov'r rn-.n but .
J nave never seen a Congress tnat was
UQty It was largely a corrupt body of
safes, hkd ihfi fJeialstpre that passed
the Tweed charter. JI -ueaiWs jome
tisaea broke Into violent tamper and
denounced one another Terr much aa a
Kentucky member once denounced a
fellow member, aad as Air. Cox, wben
h cailei ilr Blaine a hyena. I did
a c leara llat fir vofde ip-tcu iu de
bate one or the BmlersDat tl irson
ed soother, wounding bim to the death.
lo sl in one respect it uia not rr sa
ble a
aatwa! Lborr'ss. But the ruliar I
vs. But the ruling j o
jrt are ef 4 rr
I wal preseated to U
tact is that the tceeuLer ai a21r ef .
A fries a descett, and I wal preseated lo
5ae a fa'o sseober 5rnat
Colaaabts-rthe IZl R N
- u v-. . . . . t. i .
bXt from .
. li. a. or f
-Ber. aVaa be was caJcX t?y i-e ;
a v
these !
ot say iaLnaaaL I was talea ap s
lata a cosaaaitte roasa U are thw $
stairs
Seaa-1
awas-Cat
....
tos- V69 ia his persosiheJpcd lo dVxrada ;
South Caret!. "Jn," id say firiead 4
ia wairfcr as waUed b lit I
xisiisz stairs. "W" ased to UarJc Br
asMaa. d I tjj! aiaBer. -Mrwasaf
aid, aad. hy Gad. sir thiai c v;r!
he is a testator, aad hi U aaatfrr.
reyeral . rost caa ate aay day a
Wi " - -' yj-r.
iajctslifCMa a ho did BC the booor of
sad j a prrarautwa. ha J been a slar, j
or ! I w told, aad had biack! hoa q a '
the Main street, sir, old and gray, and
bis fortune swent awaT. UT. is a
Mik toll wH iIkmJ ami atA . black
man, his beard and hair lipped, with
gray, with a keen, inteliigen. tace,,wno
had like General Grant. little to say,
and was cordial but not abiecV J 'tne
owner of the boots he used to 'polish.
Well, as we came away, I asked my
companion of Bev. in hi3 other days
did srood wort with Ins dools. a es,
was the answer. "Bev. was a sharp, spry
nigger, and always gave satisfaction.
ana we an Knew mm ana niteu mm iu
the old days." "And I suppose always
took the quarter when you gave it; to
him?" "Yes. and did you ever sec a
nicirer tnat did not? But think of
what must be the" feelins of every Car
olinian what would be the feeling of
any 2ew lorker to tlnuk of a nigger
like Bev. JNash sitting in ihe fccnate I
I was about u express myself on this
point as became a New Yorker one
jealous of my State and proud of my
race but I happened to think, that I
had kuowu Senators who had never
done so honest a thing as black gentle
men's boots for a livelihood, Senators
who had blossomed from pugilism into
gambling, and my mind ran so rapidly
into a discussion as to which State was
worse served proud Carolina, with its
negro Senatorial bootblack, or proud
Xcw lork, with its white Senatorial
gamblerthat I am airaid I was not m
a condition to answer becomingly the
angry question of my good friend.
The burning question is that of race.
It i3 not sentiment, intelligence or cor
ruption, but race. ' If this Legislature
were composed of men as valiant as the
black Othello, or as eloquent as I rede
rick Douglass, or as devout as the
Moorish saint, Boniface, if I remember,
who was held up the other day t-i the
veneration of the negro by the Catholic
Bishop of Florkla as one of their race
who had been found worthy of a high
place in heaven, it would be all the
same in the mind ofSouth Carolina.
The slave sits in tiieseat of the master.
Tho degraded race is, dominant. Nor
do I censure such a teeling,nor reproach
my Saxon brothers who indulge it, nor
feel anything but sail over the prospect.
But how can it well be otherwise with
only 290,(KKJ white mn in the State
and 41(3.000 black nan all wilh a few
exception, luvfs until a few years
ago?
Here, then, is the practical fact that
you mift accept in South Carolina the
negry iu ihe majority and, under the
constitution, the political equal of his
master, with a lile and a vote that the
laws protect. I confers that I have only
a feeling of pity for the negro, even as
I s-aw him in the Carolina council halls
a puppet in the hands of base iad
men. I did not blame him, for I felt
that he had been a slave and that we
had made him ; that he was degraded
and we were the authors ol his degra
dation; that he was blind because we
had denied hhn light; that he was igno- '
rant because for generations we had ,
niaue education a crime: that he was !
1 dishunu
t beeaui.' We had made him
-so through .-luverv, the miui of all dis- , Ufco part in government, to unite witu
honeslv; that he" was almost a brute houest men in punishing crime. J5du
b.ost "that lacked reason, bt cause we I cation makes this more and more easy,1
would not allow him to ben man. When ! and amid all this sorrow and strife and
I suv him, thcici'oie the ma.Mcrof South' tumult) the work of education goes on.
Carolina, the d:if-k-iuinded, ignorant.
groveling .-lave, who nh- v'eslcrday
was cowerin-r in the rice swamps under
the lash of the master, now in verv
truth, ihe ruler of ihi, .-late, and silling
i 7
i m t he Neats ol . al ioiin and Mciniliie
and Hay uc, 1 cou'd no: but ireinble
and nsk if thi-: is reallv oae of the cen-
.,;,. i i . liu.i-i.. ;r
Carolina was to be osie oi' the
1 century pfauts wl:-so blooming in ihis
1 the envv and the admiration of the
: . . i ..... ! ;,;
uI hH't-"' til light (,i
.... ..... ... ' i..n .
have not divided ihe mvru vote, and
Ihinker lhat tvi-i luru mm nia.-, winter
i ....... I .... I ... l :
...l . . i ...i. . '-1 . .. .. I ; l. .1.. - .? .. ' l.afrlli:illtvtfkVrtli.nllit-Mtlt.. iii;i1iri'i..l
ii :ti.'.iiii..i..L:i v r it ui'Miiiin lit. i
p u Id eonlroi ;'..e f. ur -eye.iths blaiL". j ities. The House TumoiiUcc on Klec
Mygifu.d a.i.l !,o:u,nd r.olU-ague, Mr. ! t:uiJa j, JU,t noW j furui.hing a .Inking
the south, s.ivs i; i, Ueauae he has been I
corrupted bv t ie cari-et-i.;--' -or. With !
all dfllVrcnce to lhal distinguished au- 1
thorilv hi- rn" cr is an iiniHrfeet solu- '
.u .. . . ,
liyu, ;irenr n.o in .. xno s j.ows in ,
I oiu maier, i.o uai nvvu wun niin
during his life, w.V in most cacs looks j
'with te.ii u.mmi him and all who
I ).h'kii I..' 1.1. . .-e-.!r in f'i n a ... r-. ! . I
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Viva " ..... IIHV T. lltui
n the new reia-
lion Us will hck to the u, aster as a j
friend, and take his guidsncc ' in o
solemn a duty entering upon citi-
zcuh;. TLi. iu bauij s wc Irarn '
fmm si! author:(i, and frtjai none ;
. . . i
more clearly than Mr. NrHnr, that '
Hie master 'acct jU tin? new relation.
and
ba n purp.e of rentuing tbe ,
w
if. lj, li?1", badger ;
rcu able to ran-t a cArr.aionacaTth j
ke rWb (I-rolin. an-l. with the aid '
bet?
lik
fit tbe negro plunder hi out msui? f
Tbe only answer thai I ran ee is that
the whites have not Liken any paint to (
ccr.vata ,1., tla.t wb ould nalu-f
mijp wun iTe. or in ir.ieingent '
and hOne-it 'northern mrn who came
here, meaning in cv-l Ut;n to make 1
thesojth a Lome and lo row up with i
the wuthero people. Io Re.iJy ecry ;
ease, with irirrrlr in rinrti.n th'm
while hare drawn the liar feat a i
, i ,7 , ;
JesVrtoa Ii drew it when be eni- i
barked cpoo the oukderv v.
riilit ierf- Whoever op- ,
barrer or a airr. . wcaUwszL If a
outaern bvra tuaa be vote wi:c tk
retKibiicat.; a carrot Lrrcr if hecoakra
frosa ibe cuiUi z. hx he voU
Tk i I'.iw. ' r . An v-i .fr! t . . :
i - - -- -. " n i
wrta rarceiv sr, I enrtrston. f
-
i-'--' ; .. . oiu Kiane. cxrrw t
a6atie;ary cl t a , chrmhrd a 1
acrd. .Ul thr rai i a- iiiss!UUoa. j
J aa aaa rtiss the ae4iMi rrcaa. '
Juvrrir iej,vy. efr mm, ctenr
drd soa lirae ir s va b ft t.t I
tie scctfrrra ohns tvseo tmr i-f
creded ia di.idaf the. crtd set?-, i
T Vim irttara - -
. . . - . . , , . .
They Lavy drirra the arxro ay. Ia
GearrAa whta they fralaed pTr LLre
harr acticai:y Hnrr2chsrd hbat-
Bat iJ th uiwi&iM cf S ftderal
Oser-TrM they oci trrarWH Ida
arerxsce ia their UhUxtrrt I 4a
a t i!Lh& asy Smah i e-y Ua n& trr
lhat tht miil was laxfy e Wl-
timidaUon and force, t in m State with
545,142 negroes in 1870 to 633,926 whites
they have Tirtuallr stamped out a Re
publican Tarty. The negro is afraid toi
vote, is not allowed in 'many places on
the jury, is punished seyerely for trivial
crimes, ind Mr. Nordhoff hai told you
that at least 25.000 ot them hare lelt
the State in the last ' five or six years,
and yet in Georgia they pay taxes on a
large property, ihe negro in South
Carolina. sees what has been done across
the line, and he knows, or naturally
fears that, should the white man rule
here, the same results would follow.
He fears that his master will make mm
a slave, or reduce him to a condition
akin to slavery. The result is. therefore,
that not one of them will vote the
democratic ticket. I have heard of
democratic neerocs but have seen none.
I have spoken on this' subject with
southern men iriVlorida, Georgia,North
and South Carolina, and there is only
one story. "1 have negroes here," said
oue eminent gentleman, "who were my
slaves in old time. Tbey hang around
my horn. They will "tight for me,
work fbrmf and bring me their money
to keep." Uiey take my ad vice in all
things, and are trustworthy and devoted
They will not vote for me. Mv coach
man there will vote against mc and in
favor of the meanest republican in the
county. 1 be negro thus tar sees notu
ing in politics but .his own freedom.
i his is Ihe thought that has burned deep
into the negro mind. You cannot erase
iU You-can not take it from bim.- tie
has beard the slavers' horn, lie has
worn the yoke and carried the scar of
the hush mto furrow- and swamp. He
has seen father and mother, perhaps,
taken to the block and sold into slavery,
That memory ever lives, as it would
live with you and I, if such a career
darkened our lives,
I cannot resist the conclusion, and it
grows upon me every day in the south,
that lor much of the wrong that has
been done m tuesc old States the old
southerners are to blame. I ay this
iii sorrow and with no harshness of
feeling toward them, and not without
making allowance for a feeling which,
after all, is one ot human nature, a
feeling of hatred of the men who de
feated their hopes of empire anil of con
tempt for the negro, who is to-day a
Senator, but who yesterday could have
been sent to the whipping iost. It is
not easy for a planter who has hardly
enough to eat to rejoice over the lact
that the servant who once washed his
beard is now the ruler of the :State.
The old master has as yet made no sign
of sympathy or friendship. I am pro
foundly convinced that if, instead of
mourning over the lost cause, as iu the
past they were wout to bluster about the
lankees aud slavery, these people had
dealt wisely wilh the negro aud generous
ly with the northern immigrant, these
States, and South Carolina especially,
would be free and powerful.
Here the negroes are, and in a large
majority. They cannot be driven away,
they cannot be slain, thev cannot be
; disandns'. 1 bey must be asked to
disfranchise1. They must
1 ho negro pai.ls Jor the primer and the
speller as the hart lor the water brooks,
U 4o not suppose this education goes far,
hut it is something, ft is there J see
, day there, thcTcrand nowhere else.
-i l j? I 1 .a - rat
m ianug ;muv uic ouu uese
' motMi.riov tt tlirt tit i t ti itrti oikii f.wLie.i
must be put away with the family laces
if v fliv iv .7 va frv pvt4iuvM Vt'tutvivi ttVI
and irraiKlmother's kamoleni. Iailfru
! likc Toombs and illill must be mi perse -
j detJ- These land and orts, thcao riv-
' stretching and vast acrc, must respond
i to thr eanital and enrr-v the mann nH
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