Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-05-02


Some Of the Radicals In the South
ara cndcavoiiug not only TO win over
the negroes TO tho Republican party,
but TO excite their passions against
the white people of the South, by ap-
pealing to negro cupidiiy. Tho mode
Of address is TO tell the freedmen that
the lands Of their old masters belong
TO them, that these lands ought to be
confsoated by tho Government and
divided among them, and that the
condition Of the two races should be
altogether changed s'his monstrous
doctrine of confiscation and Of war
between the two races finds numerous
advocates among the extreme Radi-
calls North and South 1t is pushed
right and left, and its effect is both
injurious upon business, crops, people,
States, country cvory body and every
thing
Such missions as have been under
taken by Senator Wilson and arranged
by Kelley, of Pa, and other Radicals,
are calculated TO produce the worst
feeling and the greatest possible mis-
chief. The avowed object is partisan.
ship, not the good of the negro, NOR
ally, or socially, but simply to make
a Radical politician ont Of him. To
do this, the old planters and old mer,
chants and traders of the South, and
the people themselves, are to be paint
ed in all the deformities of oppressors
The negro is to be taught to hate the
white man, with whom he and his
ancestors have lived on good terms
for many generations. With all hi:
ignorance and unfitness for the use oi
the ballot, or for holding Office under
it, he is to be thrust into places of great
responsibility. What care such men
as Wilson, OF Mass, Nye, of Nevada
and Kelley, OF Pa, for good govern,
ment or the welfare of the people in
Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia, OF
any of the Southern Statesy They
have the purpose and power TO de.
stroy, but none TO build up. The
negro being the more numerous, anc
the more ignorant parties, they can
as they hope, appeal to them, witt
effect, and, il evil comes TO the Stat,
or to society, or to the negro-who, il
the end, will be made great dea
worse by this intcrmeddling-they
know they will not suffer, in their per
sons or property, by it.
1t is difficult TO perceive of NOR,
pernicious purpose, or one calculated
according to the measure of this infu
ence, 10 produce worse results. But
our hope is, that the negro will sec
his own interest and know his owl
friends. When the war closed, the
false expectations Of sectional mer
North made his condition a great dea
worse than it is to-day. lie expected
a division oflands, houses, everything
To him, freedom meant freedom from
labor. In this expectation, he refused
in a majority Of cases TO work. Tht
experience of lS65-66 satisfied him o
his error, and this Spring he is work
ing either for wages or a division o
profits, and just when his prospects
arc Frightening, when Reconstruction
is accepted as necessity, when schools
are opening, when all signs indicate
pleasanter and more prosperous rela
tions between the two races in th'
future, these political marplots ar,
setting forth upon their selfish anC
partisan missions We believe thai
in many of the States, certainly il
parts of many of the States, the ne
groes will be in sympathy with tn,
white people. We have seen abund
ant evidence Of this, and it is becaus,
Of this sympathy and good will thaf
these wretched interlopers are nov
seeking to break up these relations
No true friend of peace, public order
or the future good Of the country, will
countenance this designed mischief
". y. Express.
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