Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-08-07
COLUMBIA, S. c., July 10. Isl

and hopes OF the iulurc:"
ColuMslA, S. c., July 10. 1867.
r, lie Editors Of the Erening Post:
What we want in South Carolina and in
every other Southern State is party ard q
Ligh toned party leade-. Governor Orr las
SAID it, ard the sentiment is re,echoed 10y
r@ery intelligent individual. B. Il. Hill, o'
Georgia, Hcrschel V. JohuSon and Others
write and declaim against radica'ism and It's
various shades and yet to-day aie !vocatins
the doctrines Of conservative iepa5icanism.
True, they do not believe in the manner OF
reconstruction, they do not accept as conStltu'
:ional law what las been done by Congress
s;onal majority but the distinction between
t:em, their followers and the conservative
masses Of the North in honest, union.loyire
principles is as Slight as gossamer web
AawIllrE MANS PARTY" WANTED.
The condition Of the public mind may be
exhibited iu few sentences. Are we willing
to bestow the privilege of universal suffrage
upon the negro? Yes, because the law has
declared it to be measure precedent to re
unicn: but we do so under protest, because
the black race, as L mass, do not understand
the responsibilities of citizenship.
Are we wiling to make the negro an equal
in the eye of the Law? Yes, We have dore
so. and the records Of our courts prove that
we lave acted in good faith. Are we willirg
to provide for his education at the expense OF
the State, and to be taxed for the support OF
colored paupers? We are, provided the bur
den is legally and legitimately distributed
Are we willing to recognize that equahIy
which permits any chosen negro to SIT upoE'
iurics, 10 represent property in which he has
no interest, to vote away the funds Of the
State, to occupy places Of trust AMI bonor in
her legislature or in Congress? No! Ard
not until the race have made that progress IL
education and general intelligence which en-
titles them to confidence viii this opinion un
dergo slaGow of change.
Such IS tie present liberal sentiment pre-
vailing throughout the South. ard if party
existed in this section, properly organized AMI
led by our own white citzens-in other words,
4 white mans party-as distinguished from
.Se Union LeaguerS ct III 0mne geauS, eight
senths of our people would be found in the
ranks and working warmly in the cause OF
reconstruction.
at present you recognize GOODNESS end in
difference, Why? The South was distrusted.
The genius of the politician was expended in
manipulating the black man. The agents
sent here to speak, canvass and organize, gave
gent to revolutionary and inccndiary diatribeS
against shareholders. They excited the ne
goes to revenge, to demand social equality.
They held up the Union Ct contiscation, pro-
yoked idleness. crime and INSTRUMENTATION,
they created secret societies, and, IN bret,
they arrayed the black man against the white.
These things were published, and the results
of such pernicious practices were manites5 Oh
every side.
THE CoLoRED PATTY.
What Southern man could find affiliation
in suck ranks2 Nay, many colored mer
themselves lof whom Beverly Nash is fair
illustration, ] denounced these attempts to ere
ate an enmity between the races, until finally
conservative feeling took shape in that first
meeting in Columbia which was addressed
by General Wade Hampton. some months
:.go, and the tide thus started swept on its
healthy way. The benefits accruing to both |
races from this mutual good unders anding
have been great; but still there is the colored
party-the only party in the State-the sad |
Zeal party; and the white man is driven from
it because selfrespect and selt-preservaton
alike forbid him 10 stand upon the panks'o'
its crude, ill.digesed, uDgenerous platform.
am told that only the other day General
r. X. Scott, the Assistant Commissioner o'
the Freedmen's Bureau, in reply to gentle
man who suggested the probability OF his be
i ,g run for Congress from the Charleston DIS
trict. remarked: 81 would like to go to Con
gress as much as any other man. have am
b;tion ike other men, Or l would not have
been in my present place; but when 60 to
Congress, it must be as the representative O.
the people, not Of class. 1t may be my
s3r,une to live in South Carolina hereafter:
and cannot sacrifice my social status to
success gained merely from my influence among
the freedmen. krog that there is senti-
ment in Charleston favorable to the organlza-
tior of Republican party, which would De
;oined by many of its ablest citizens, and
should like to see that organization perfected
but until that event takes place, am not pre-
pared to be candidate"
General Scott does not stand alone III his
on;nion. But what are we to do? Our white
citizens generally will not join and meet with
the negroes. and either 10 one dares or no one
feels inclined 10 LEuFe ~ ZIG '"Nu0"
q party that shall unite ali upon common
ya,tace ground. To use pieblanism, the
naonle seem to be "lying low"-walting,p per-
hans. for leader, with no faith in the imme-
date power of the Democratic party, and no
love for the Radicals. Yet, here they are
anxious to be taken 10, and as true to the ear
Ic principles of government as are hall the
members OF Congress.
CANDIDATES
Although uramaturely, candidates fo- Con-
oress % are looming up in goOdly proportion.
sfSbe wires are being adroitly pulled by one or
two designing whites, and the negroes are al
ready giving "pledges." .,:oau
For Senators three persons are chieny
a,oken of: General Daniel E. Sick!es whose
oSo;rat;ons are understood to incline HIN
1;,!srs;se to the Presidency, Mr.. Sawyer,
tbo Collector of Internal Revenue IN Charles
.ao .no and Mr.. G. w. Dudley, native OF tine
S,ate In the lesser branch of Congress the
Soto bids fair TO be represented by person
named @ Whttemore, Massachusetts supeIin-
tandent ot colored schools in Darlington DIS
tr;ct In Charleston a cosored man will prob
ablv be run, although several officers OF the
Freedmen'e Bureau are known TO be on tne
anxious seat: rhile in Columbia ci'l|en
named Mr.. Tom Robertson he's consented TO
wear the honors when imposed upon hl'n'
.,ro+;on :, Louisiana is completed,