Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-11-01
Sec: etary OF State, s. @

Ilere SeeInSto Oe nobsttaTS just Hon IN
the paltsicafatmosphere5ao aof the North. ,Mr.
Wendell Pnlllips has g,ri.v reccttly made 4 q
aussch at Boston, which indicates the future
policy Of the Radicals: He. denouncrs the
rsconstfuaction policy. efst the President, ara
ssys@thst Mr.. johnson is .sthree7fonr;hs
rabeit1,. The Detnocrats.are not behind. IL
New Ynrk, Mt the Cuop r Iasiitu'e on tie
evening ot the feih, thev had q tremendous
rat fication meeting, at wh:ch Hon. Mon'gome
~ Blair, Johu Van. Buren,, James T.rBrady;
aad other prominent politicians spike. MIR.
Blair denounced, negro suffrage and recon
mended that tho negroes be colonizsd in
Mexic,, and that war be declared against the
Empire and Macmillan expelled. sCpontho
first head, be said: .ss-,.,s So i..E -.
"There 10 at tbs moment sectional ma
jority ia Congress- ready to expel from, Or
keep out of that body, the representatives of
many Southern States, unless they yield to
the dictatiou of that Hsjority, the powerto
impose O condition of suffrage which these
very States that made the Constitution Of the
United States abjured from the beginning.
This daring attempt, which, if-saccessiul,
would in effect be an abrogation of the Con-
stitution By body which no being without it,.
has an aim far beyond the establishment of
negro suffrage in the States exhibiting it.
Negro suffrageif it bad no other effect than
that of altering the state of poll and act
ing as balance Of power in The hands OF
one section of the country to cast the election
seainst the will Of tho owners Of the soil,
the wealth and Intelligence of the other Sec
sion would be intolerable; but itwould bring
in it's train other incslculable evils, the worst
OF which. wonld be the creation of mixed,
degraded caste Of laborsss, much more fatal
10 the peace of the Government than negro
slavery during the first two centuries of.its
existence" 80 y-ss1-,.
On the subject Of colonization in Mexico.
and war on tue Empire, DIR. B. said:
aIf the negroes are ever. to be Tree, equal,
and independent, they must have place OF
refuge Set off and secured to them by the
common consent OF all the States of the
Union, of allthe republics ON this continent.
Such land of promise is now held out to
them By the Liberal Government Of Mexico.
It becEons them to the rich region stretching
round the Gulf Of Mexico from the Rio
Graaie. Have We not right to accept it for
them. and unite. with the struggling people
and President Of the Mexican Republic in
restoring it from foreign domination, aud
confirming 10 our freedmen population a.
home IN iAe new, land-in asclime scongenial
70 their physical constitutions and their hah.
It's, and presenting in the productions Of its
soil e7erything which their agricultural skill
Is acc;stoweG TO rear in perfection, snd will
et tonce raise thcIa .,aSoYe want to indepen-
dencea In the region to Ehieh they are in
.yited they would become q line of Gemarca-
ton betwesn the Uaited States and Mexieo,
andcs,,ng its. maritime frontier coast guard
asainskfureign ;nyasion--nnder the wing Of
the Republic Of Mexico on one side. under
that of the United States ON the other, and
the frssdoIn Of its people guaranteed by both )!
aHdtsapoliticat institutions ,btiit onSthe mod
els Of i.s neighborss and Sf5stered by them,
wi.hor: intrusion, from any, would certsi,ly
hold orit promise Of q right Of outrage, set
curing in quality, and the opportunity of
purshing happinessin, their own wayr which,
they ansneYer obtain IN the bosom OF the
Southern S.stes, filled with their old m1stess'
aud q daring military race Of white soldiers,
reduced to poverty by their presence, and,
excited to an increased hostility to o race by
q war ,waged for their Geliyerance, and the
rassst I'd make them rivals in the Govern
ment ard ia the sovereign rights over the
county which the swhiteS man claims as: hiss
owusxeausiyeiy, q ry5} T.35t t-1,-i .,,.,.
GBus il "a said we cannot undertake. new.
war for the sake Of tie pegro. l say We.
must for our own ssSes.'' -ssssf'Aa n .'eflla,!5
After Mr. Blair had finished, the meeting.
vas aaaiissaed BY John Van Bnren and 8, s.,