The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1867-11-09
The White People Of the South.

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On our first page will be found an article,
entitled GA few common sense views Tor color
cd people" It is taken from the Norfolk.
journal, where it was published by the
7 Conservative Committee, few days before
the Virginia elections. It sets forth clearly
the position taken by the white people of that
State towards the blacks: and is idcntically
the. attitude assumed by the best citizens of
this District, at meeting held about six
months ago, when circular was issued, pro-
posing platform for Conservative party in
South Carolina.
At that time, there was an expectation Of
fair administration Of the Reconstruction Acts,
under which, harsh and unconstitutional as
they aro the intelligent portion of our people
would have had some little showing. 1t was
| also hoped, that number Of the colorcd pco-
pie would be sensible enough to appreciate the
good will of their former masters, who, in that
platform, rendered them full equality before
the law. .ca
But these hopes and expectations have been
disappoionted. The Reconstruction Acts have
been made more proscriptivc than their ipfa-
nous origmators ever intended. ny partisan
construction of every clause, sentence and word
therein. The carrying out of the COMPRESSION
| al programme has been made to subscrvc tho
vilcst political purposes. Tho negroes, too,
puffed up with new ideas Of "forty-acrc"i free
aom, have repudiatcd with contcmpt'th the friend
~ proffers Of the whites, and prefer to take
their own course, not satisfied with equality
before the Inv, ,"1but grasping. after NEuRo
.'na ',."t t't.4 iic!l I.s ~
This; being the case, new policy is the only
course left for tho intelligent people of our
State. Tho negroes have taken the tho initia.
tive for "war of races" and the only safety
for us to meet the issue fairly and squarcly,
Openly and dcGantly. The crises must come,
and the sooner it comes the better. Rcprcscn-
senting, as we do, the entire control of the
agricultural interests of the State, upon which
these deluded victims of Radicalism depend
for their subsistence; embracing all the intel
ligcncc of the country, we orc bound to main
tain triumphantly the supremacy Of the eau
cassian race.
Let Radicals say what they may, the white
pcople can be perfectly independent We can
give illustrations from our own District. A
farmer In the Fork, with his wife and four
children able to work, but all young. had 200
bushels of rice to SELL 4 large bales of Cotton,
and provisions to last for two years, without
any assistance of freedmen, and conscuucntlv
no division of crops. Another with his wife
and two children, made four bales of cotton
rice to sell, and plenty of provisions. This
gentleman rented part Of his land of the same
quality to family of negroes, the same size rs
his own and gave them the same use Of horse
power and implements as he himself enjoyed:
and the negroes managed it according to
their own ideas, without dictation from him
and they did not make more than cnoupb
to last them till Christmas. Another LIVING
below orangeburg, a mechanic, devoted him
self to his trade last year. and hired freedmen
Il The result was, that all the money he made at
the trade, went to make up his losses on the
farm This year he turned farmor himself:
and with two children, he hasso well succeeded
that he has fc. sale 200 bushels Rice, four
bales ' Cotton, has made So bushels Or Wheat,
and md plenty Of Corn, Potatoes and other pro-
visions tn. -
We could multiply instances like the above,
if space permitted but we submit these i,,