The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-11-15
FROM SOUTH CAROLINA. special
correspondent of the New York He
raid, writing from Sumter, says:

correspondent of the New York He
raid, writing from Sumter, says:
''This country is being rapidly
reduced to state If hopeless poverty
and wretchedness. The negroes are
three to one in numbers, and the
disparity is still greater in registered
voters. The Radical Union League
controls the entire mass of the black
population, and will vote them like
80 many automata in the coming
elections. The white population is
entirely outside the ring, and alto
gether passive and powerless. The
widest notions are instilled into the
blacks by travelling and local speak
ers, paid for the purpose.
San antagonism of races is thus
being created, which is more pain
fully visible every day. The tempest
Is being raised, but who will calm the
troubled waters? The white popu-
lation of the country is doomed and
must be destroyed This was the
utterance of one of the lenders not
long since, and unless the Govern
ment or the Northern people soon
interpose and over-awe these despe-
rate men, it must be so. The blacks
are promised farms and free distri-
button OF property, and they are
wild with politics and turn their
backs upon the fields. The labor of
the country is almost hopelessly de-
moralized. Good mechanics, who
could command work and high wages
have taken up politics and abandoned
the workshops. Equality is not suf-
ficient; the party insists on negro
supremacy and the entire exclusion
OF the Southern white man from the
government of the State. Farmers
lind it difficult to get the crop har-
vested. 1t is perilous to complain,
and folly to prosecute. The black
man can do with impunity what q
white man would not dare to risk.
Negroes are appointed to office, and,
If inefficient or detected in crime, are
not removed. No stock can be kept
IN the country; if turned out in the
morning, they are seen no more.
The blacks through all this country
are we'll armed, and there is no doubt
that serious trouble must result from
the present state of things. In the
lexicography of the party, Demo
crat is zone who aims to reduce the
negro again to slavery" and this is
the only definition of the word known
to the blacks, and this they have
been carefully Taught. Hence man
who Is even willing to accept the
harsh conditions imposed by Con
gress, unless he will adopt the ex
treme Union Republican platform,
and assist in degrading his white fell
low-citizens, is pronounced a Demo
crat and the negroes stirred ND against
him. The civil courts are almost
entirely superseded by provost courts,
and from their decisions there is vir,
tuaily no appeal. Their decisions are
arbitrary in the extreme, and thew
utterly disregard the established rules
OF practice. Men who have always
been Union men, even throughout
the secession war, say it would have
been more merciful in the Govern
ment to have bayonetted the entire
white population of the South when
the war was ended, and shot them all
10 aeatn With musketry, than to SUBJ
lect them to such doom as this-a
lingering death by slow torture In
line, the picture which the country
presents is enough to bring eternal
discredit on American statesman-
ship"