Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-10-18
Counecticut FHouts the Negro!

Yes, the Wooden i;utmeg State fouts the negro.
1t is excessively drol but it is nevertheless quite
true. Old JoHX BRowy's soul will certainly cease
to "march on" after this! The State. Of Con-
nectcut contains something avcr 4eO,lf' people,
Of all ages, sexes and conditions. OF this num-
Der S,627 belong to the African race, 30 beloved
by SUMNER, WILSON, and BUTLER the Beast. Out
of this S,GH7 negroes, 2,2Sl are meu of age to
vote. And SUMNER, WILSON, and the Beast say
that they are possessed OF quite much learning,
intelligence, and understanding as the Germans,
Frenchmen, and Irishmen in Connecticut, who
are entitled by reason Of their color to outrage
which is not given to elass Of people peculiarly
and emphatically American, because this latter
class is rather darker IL iesh-tint. But the peo-
pie Of Connecticut do not seem to think thus;
and in a worry recent election in that State they
have gonc scversl thousand votes against negro
suffrage. Therefore, they have not only faated
tho negro Init they hare aouted SUMNER, WILSON,
the Beast, Greedy, Phillips and the whole radical
wing of the Republican party. For this good
deed, we venerate the peopls Of Connecticut We
wish that each one of their s,627 negroes was
made of gold with diamond eyes, and toe nails
of pearl, and belonged to tho whites in fee simple.
Could we wish them anything better-whites or
blacks?
So New England is not o unit in its blind ado
ration ofAthe negro. We believe that nll the
other. Now England States allow, negroes to
vote but the enlightened, enterprising and pros
porous State of Connecticut will not have it 80.
Despite the dictun of the friends of freedom"
in her sister States she refuses to regard the me-
gro us the equal Of the-white man.
It scsms to us that the moral effect of the de-
feat of this measure in Connecticut will be i'm
menso-and that for COED. Already the so-call-
ed Coppcrhoads and Copperhead papers are
shouting triumphantly over this grand detection
10 New England. How can Sumner, Wilson, the
Beast, Greedy, Phillips, and Beecher, dare at
tempt to compel us of the South to do "justico"
10 the negro, when one of taeir own States re-
fases that same "justice7"
Connection. is profoundly right. A-negro has
no more to do with voting and making laws than
in framing the enactmonts of the Medes and Per-
slams.
There seems to bo no doubt that the whole
North ia growing tired and disgusted with tho
extreme and cxtravagant style in which the
claims of the. negro have beon pressed. BY u
very active and peremptory school Of political
and social reformers, the claims, interests, cour-
age and character of the whites have been made
wholly subordinate to those Of the blacks. There
must, in the nature of things, be Reaction to
all this; and the Connecticut election indicates
| that it ha, begun. How far it will go, or what
results it will accomplish, remains to be seen. 1t
will probably, at all events, somewhat dampen
the ardor of certain ambiSus and unscrupulOus
politicians, who have heretofore supposed blinf
and fanatical devotion to Che negro tho only win
ming card.