Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-12-05


fully says:
Persons aud properly are as aafe as at the
North In fact, crimes and suclal vices ale
less common here than there, while N"r;lrrn
settlers have suffered less from horse thieves
than their Southern neighbors. The "out-
RACES" upon The freedmen, Of which Ihe
Northern rap,.s are So full, depend, in he
,nain, llnu tue Imagination, the activity ~ d
fertility Of the Radical rep 'rLcrs. Judging
from INV own observation, they are, one ard
ALL untrue. IF true 20 any extent, there is
this 10 b. sail, that the oulragcs' Of tie
blacks. AMI their universal daily and nightly
habits Of stealing every thing they can lay
their hands op-egss, p'utry, pigs, corn,
clohing, borscs, mules. cotton and every
thing, with their habits Of idlenoss, and riding
horses and mues by night without leaYe-are
not reported: nor tie fact that the out e.
ses" upon the freedmen are oniy Z" lynch law, .
in the absence nr inu,i!;s of civil law. OF
what use to prosecute bctvre the courts, for
robbing henroos.s or ot...er crimes, men who
would feel proud to be in the company OF
Judges and lawyers on any charge, and would
prefer to go to Jail and be fed to working for
bread ?
Nowhere in the South do the blacks re-
gard the law Of marriage. Select million
of males, with as many females, all total
strangers to each other, and place them on
a plantati9n-in thirty days Or less they will
be "matei" to the last pair. Let them live
together and have children, at the end OF
which time separate them-place them on
other plantations with other strangers, and
they will again 50 mate" as before, and so on
to the end OF their lives. 1t is common for q
black man to live with q woman of his color
for week, or month, three months, three
years, and then quit her for another, and the
woman he left, with after Indifference, will
tell any one that jim, 10 or Jerry " had hcr''
for four month"; and now has took" another.
Yet these are the people about whose "eqnall-
ty' with the whites, Us soldiers and citizens,
we hear and read Of 80 much; and TO whom,
according to some, we owe the salvation oi
tue Union Aa insult to every white officer
and soldier of the Union army. The "loyal
black" of whom we also hear 40 much, were
myth. They were kept at work on thei.
plantations, and loyal to the South By the
women, and they were loyal to the North
| Uni} WU0U lICGN iCih AS"o'C Su'iu'eHS
By the Iva .cesDf our troops. Their vnlun-
t:ry enlistment into tic Union army is an
otler han bug. Every officer AID soldier
knows tina, the blacks were "gobblcd" and
enlisted noitns colens. They did not dare io
say no ; and tn re was no time during the
war that fifty white men would not whip a
full regiment Of them.
They arc poor unfortunatcs, who deserve
the kndest sympathy and the most truthful
treatment Heaven send them secular and
religious teachers Of noble and true hearts
The longer they arc strangers to politicians,
and the ballot and the bayonet,'" the better
for them, for all classes, and for the country.
B :echer, poor man, was right, when he said
they must make their marc1, in which they
may be assisted by good men, but The ballot
and the politician would be their curse.
The ideal negro Of the Northern mind has
no actual existence in the South, save in rare
exceptions. As we'll make voters at once Of
Indians, Chinese, greasers'' Of Mexico all
foreigners ON arrival, and children of ten
years aud upwarl. Such is the infatuation
Of the North 1t would seem the truth would
not be believed, though ono arose from the
dead. The Cry Of Coppcrhead" and trait
TT" is held 10 be conclusive against truth,
justice, honor and common sense.