Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1865-11-01
" Vt. IT, II . " n :,
Sec: etary OF State, S. c.

the political atmo.phere of the North. MIR.
Wendell Pnlllips has quite recently made
epeech at Boston, which indicates the future
policy Of the Radicals. He Genouncrs the
r.con-tfuction policy of'the President, and
SAYS thst Mr.. johnson is "athree7fonr,hs
r-bel.,,. The Democrats ere not behind. III
New Ylrk, ut the Coop r l:isitu'e on tie
evening OF the 18Th, they had n tremendous
rat fication meeting, at winch Hon. Mon'Some
~ Blair, Johu Van Buren,, James i. Brady,
aad other prominent politicians spike. MIR.
Blair denounced negro suffrage, and recon
mended that the negroes be colonizsd in
hlexic,, and that war be declared against the
Empire and Macmillan expelled. Upon tho
first head he said:
"Tlere 10 at this moment q sectional ma'
i,rity ia Congress ready to expcl from, or
seep out OF that body the representatives OF
many Southern States, unless they yield to
the dictatiou of that nsjority, the power to
impose condition of suffrage which these
very States that made the Constitution of the
United States abjured from the beginning.
This daring attempt, which, if successful,
would in effect be an abrogation of the Con-
stitutiou by body which no being without it,
has an aim far beyond the establishment OF
negro suffrage in the States exhibiting. 1t.
Negro suffrage if 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
against the will Of tho owners of the soil,
the wealth and intelligence of the other sec
tion would be intolerable; but it would bring
in it's train other inGslculable evils, the worst
of which would be The creation Of mixed,
degraded caste Of lab0rerS, much more fatal
10 the peace of the Government than negro
slavery during the first two centuries OF its
existence"
On the subject Of colonization in Mexico,
and war on tue Empire, Mr. B. said:
"If the negroes are ever to be free, equal,
.uG ;udspendent, they must have a place OF
refuge Set off and secured to them by the
common consent OF ell the States Of the
Union, of all the republics on this continent.
Such land of promise is now held out to
them oy the Liberal Government OF Mexico.
It beckons them to the rich region stretching
round tho Gulf of Mexico from the Rio
Grsnde. 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, and
confirming 10 our freshmen population a
home in the new land-in Cline congenial
20 their physical constitutions and their hab.
its. and presenting in the productions of its
soil everything which their agricultural skill
ia accustom ed to rear in perfection, and will
st,once raise thera acoYe want to indepen-
depceY In the region to Ehieh they are in
v;ted thew would become : line Of .,emarca-
tion between the United States and Mexico,
and aloag its maritime frontier coast guard
apaiust, foreign inyasion-nnder the wing vt
the Republic Of Mexico On one side. under
thst of the United States on the other, and
the freedom Of its people guaranteed by both ;
nll its political institutions built onsthe mod
els Of its neighbors and fostered by them,
withou. intrps:ou from any, would certslnly
hold out promise Of q right Of suffrage, Sc.
curing an equality, and the opportunity OF
pursuing happiness in their own wayr which
thay can never obtain in the bosom of the
Southern States, filled with their old masters
and daring military race of white soldiers,
reduced to poverty by their presence, and
excited TO an increased hostility to q race by
war waged for their Geliverance, and the
shsest to make them rivals in the Govern
nent and Id the sovereign rights over the
country which the white man claims as; mis-
own exclusively, 4 =
,aBut it is said we cannot undertake new
war for the sake of the pegro. say We
must for our OWE sakes" ---''s.''
After Mr.. Blair had finished, the meeting
was sliressed by John Van Buren, and 3. s,
coz, - e -Ns -e ..o.~,