The tri-weekly news. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1865-1876, 1865-12-09
Negro Suffrage and the Teachings Of the
Jamaica InsurrectiOn.

Negro Suffrage and the Teachings Of the
Jamaica InsurrectiOn.
The teachings of the late diabolical
atrocities committed by the negro insur.
rectionists in Jamaica should not be lost
upon those Incorporate radicals in our
own country who are endeavoring to
elevate the negro beyond the sphere the
Creator intended him to occupy. They
should serve to them as terrible warn.
ing of&yhat may occur here, and what
bloody'scenes may be enacted in our
midst especially in the Southern portion
Of the country, if they persist in their
designs; and to what fearful account.
abilitay they will be held If they re.
fuse to listen to the counsels of reason
and learn nothing from present occur
rences. .t. t.r
In the case of the Jamaica butcheries
we perceive that the "brown man."
Gordon, possessed of an intelligence be-
yond the ordinary standard Of the black
man or negro, and entertaining degree
of ferocity and vindictiveness only found
in the latter race when in their most
savage state, was the leader ofthe assas
sins, and had been elevated to respon.
sible official position by the votes of the
inhabitants of Jamaica, where negro sui.
frage, or negro equality, is legally recog-
'nized. Restless and ambitious. he in.
famed the minds of his ignorant follow.
ers, just as Wendell Phillips, Cheever,
Garrison and other negro .agitators are
doing at this day in our country, and
awakened the revengeful passions of the
Ignorant blacks to an extent that knew
no bounds The blood curdles as the
record OF the barbarities committed is
read. We see here--what the history
ofSt Domingo and attempted slave insur-
rectionsin other portions ofthis Continent
have'already shown---another instance of
the utter incapacity Of the negro race for
seltgoyernment. Their normal and nat.
ural condition is that of dependents.
In the South tile great mass of Them are
more helpless and improvidene than the
merest children. AS race, it an effor.
is maaeto elevate them, TO bestow upon
them the rights and privileges of white
men, they return to their natural instincts
Of barbarisn or utter helplessness, and
become q burden and pest in whatever
community they may reside in any
number. 1t is true there are excep
tions to this rule but we refer to.
the present wretched condition of the
masses of the Southern negroes, to the
nowly gorged gibbets of Jamaica, to the
sanguinary massacres of both Jamaica
and ST Domingo, for evidence that our
assertion can. be substantiated What
mustbe the result to the entire race if
such brown men as Gordon and Fred
Douglass, and such "white men with,
black hearts" as we have named, shall
be permitted tocontinue the agitation of
the snbSect of negro equality2 In the
FIRST place. we shall see the whites in the.
West indies opening a war of extefmn.
ationsagainst the, blacks, ,andin ourlcoun.
try we shall see every Southern plant.
Alton and roadside. covered with the
graves Of negroes or their uncoffined
corpses. Theya are dying SO fast there
powof starvation and exposure that the
humane planters cannot care for them or
their dead bodies What folly tits to,
talk 70 hundreds Of thousands OF misera-
bic beings like these about freedom and
equality negro suffrage and alIthat i
On the other hand. fhere arsmanythons,
andsl of the 4 Sotither6 fblaale .w,ho 10 ,,.