The weekly North-Carolina standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 186?-1869, 1867-04-17
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General Wade Hampton and 'Blatant
DemagOgueS.S

Ntcu6Edl w duC A1oAhPsOAA
DemagOgues.'
Gen. Wade Hampton's speech, which we
publish elsewhere, is full of more sincere and
salutary regard for the interests and welfare
of the black race, than fills the bosoms OF
all these blatant dema2ogues comoned.-
We repeat that our colored friends Will fnd
this out in all good time and will act accor-
dinghy Sentinel. 2Sth uH
MEssRs. EDITORS 1T fills my soul with
sorrow to find teachers of the people (all ed
tors are teachers,) pressing such delusions
rs the foregoing on the faith of the public.
';'his teacher, presume, is honest and SIN
ferc; but L am afraid he is bourbon
never learns anything and never forgets
anything"
Like most of us too, he sometimes violates
plain, simple precept of the Great Teach,
err Judge not, that We be not Judged"
saith the Master. The writer of the quota
tion above had forgotten this rule when he
pcnncd the former sentence, else he would
have abstained from an unnecessary imputa-
ton that turks in it. and which is distinctly
CHARGED in other passages of the article from
which the extract is taken. No man should
utter, as truth, anything which he does not
know to be truth. l do not believe that
former sentence to be true; but dare not
saw it is false. Whether it be true or false is
known only to the searcher of hearts. Judge
not, fellow-mortal of the Sentinel, that you
be not Judged.
? By the words blatant demagogues" he
refers to the majority" OF the Republican
Convention, lately assembled in Raleigh
He thinks the colored people "will find out
in all good time" that they have better
friends outside the Republican party OF this
State and elsewhere among the whites, than
in that party. He predicts too, that they
(the coored people, after making the dis
coyery aforesaid, "will act accordingly.
BY which suppose he means that the col
ored people will vote against Republicans,
when they come to the ballotbox. j.,
The Republican party has nowhere, that L
know of, expressed any SPECIAL interest,
friendship or regard Cheap as such express
ions are) for the colored people or any other
people. But that party does think the col
orcd people, Qike other folks are entitled to
Justice; and it holds itself bound by an OBJ
legation that cannot be annulled to struggle
on for the equality of all men before the law.
Ten years ago Gen. Hampton, doubtless,
expressed and felt as lively an interest in the
welfare of the negro as he does now. Then
he honestly thought SLAVERY was better for
the negro than freedom, and he was willing
to fight Gas he afterwards did to keep him in
slacery. The Republicans processing no at-
fiction and shouing none for the negro,
thought, nevertheless, that his just claim to
freedom was too strong to be ignored; and
that party after getting control of the gov
lvemment took the first opportunity it believ-
ed to bc legal to make the negro free. Gen.
Hampton and others, full of more sincere
and sautary regard for the interests of the
black race" than filled the bosoms of all the
~blatant demagogues," who composed the
Republican party combined, said freedom
would ruin the negro and annihilate his race.
The Republican party said it could not help
it. If Justice to the negro would ruin him
hnsr1in must come. Better that the race be
amnitilatea than that injustice should live and
be protected in this Republic for the benefit
of the race But that party said as there
was truth in God it did believe Gen. Hamp-
ton was mistaken. 1t could not see how
freedom could ruin or annihilate the negro.
And Gen. Hampton also noao seems to think
he was mistaken He says the deed has
been DONE and for one do honestly declare
lido not aoish to see it revoked" Manly, no
Bile, glorious words, Gen. Hampton! Free
dom, even for the negro, is not so bad a thing
as you once thought. Slavery for him is not
SO good thing as you once supposed, else
you would be willing 10 nave it restored.
Whenever the telegraph announced
Southern victory the black man trembled;
but whenever the tidings came of North
ern victory we rejoiced because we knew
we were that much nearer freedom. =
To-day, thank God, We enjoy the results of
that freedom"
So spake Beverley Nash, colored man, in
., Columbia, in response to Gen. Hampton
Comment is unnecessary. My fellow-South-
erners, for the love OF our dear old mother,
the sunny South, l beg you to slumber no
more in fatal decisions. Oh, brothers!
"Awake, arise or be forever fallenn
Let us allow no man to deceive us hereaf-
ter, no matter whether he be himself the VIC
tim of a tlelusion, or whether for purpose.
he is pandering to our prejudices. God has
created no men such fools as to prefer injus-
'tice to themselves from friends, to justice
seven from strangers. If we want the votes
sof the colored people We must adopt the
just principles of the Republican party
Gen. Hampton tells the colored people
that'the new reconstruction measures naay
: proveaa failure. The Supreme Court may
pronounce them unconstitutional and leave
the State governments as they now stand
In that event, he tells them he would be will
: ling to allow. all of both races who can read
and who pay taxes to certain amount to
have the right of suffrage. That is some
what in the direction of the Republican
party; butnot exactly coincident with the
line of Justice. Besides Gen. Hampton, as
he forcibly suggests, only speaks for himself.
Those who control our State governments at
present have shown that they will do moth
ingof the kind except under compulsion.-
Gen. Hampton by declaring himself in favor
of doing it withOut compulsion, shows that
he is tending towards Republicanism.
The safety and stability ef the government
forbid the disfranchisement of any citizen
who has sense enough to commit crime.
When Gen. Hampton and the thousands of
the good and true men in the South, shall
have sincerely reached this conclusion, be-
lieve, the country will then have been re-
;constructedeon a foundation lasting as the
ages. SOUTHERNER.
Johnston County, April, 1857.
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