The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-03
POLITICAL VIvIsEOTIoN.

The great social and political struggle at
present in progress throughout the Southern
States, involving the most vital interests that
can bo brought TO the attention of n civilized
community, to our friends at the North, is but
gigantic experiment, watched in every part
Of that vast domain with the utmost anxiety,
The interest manifested in our suffering, our
protests, our losses. or our future fortunes will
be best understood if we compare II with tho
degree Of concern or sympathy elioited by the
tortured and shrieking brutes under the knifo
of tho experimenting Physiologist, in the ab-
sorbed mind and callous heart of the scientific
brute. The goose, the rabbit, or the horse,
us the case may be, tho enthusiastic student of
the science of life imagines were originally put
on this globo for tho express purpose of being
dsseoted, and becoming bcatifed as choise
preparations" in duo time to be put under n
glass case in the Museum. Remonstranoe
from MFR. Bsndn ia trouted with an uncourtc-
ous "bosh." The great end of rabbit is TO be
Hayed alive-that is clear.
SO with our political doctors. Tho South is
bound down on dissecling table. Tho knife,
not always very shnrp, nor invariably welded
by o skilful mauipulalor, is thrust into our
very vltals. How the victim fares during these
experimental operations, who caresf Our
doctors would not be guilty of such .'unpro-
fessional" conduct as TO heed groans and cries.
Tho result, always hold stcndily in view; is the
next election. viii tho Radicals carry tho
Southern States ? This is tho question If
riots aud bloodshed, stagnatioa of business md
starvation, a general prostraton of cvery
branch of industry, md Decentralization of MI
inerous iaboring GLASS is the proIimate result
OF such experiment. these arc mere incidental
triaes, .whioh must not deter the projeotors
from the plan they have chalked out. That suf-
frags:has bocp.4 conferred upon the freedmen
for the express purpose of recovering his roto
Ia the approaching Presidential election will
scarcely bs disputed, IN fact the great leaders
of the. party. in their pspers. and from the
stump, avow this in;the most uublushine man
ner. ThS address, Of tho National Republican
COMMITTEES, to tho freedmen, referred 10 in our
editorial columns few duys ago, points out
what "the nation has 'dono for the negro, and
now cnlls on him to do ,something for sthe
nation" in return, viz: Yoio the Radical
ticket. ~ Our Northern friends should conduct
their electioneering campaign with little
more regard for dceency and propriety, and
not take On unfair advantage Of the unlettered
freedmen, by addressing what purports TO- be
argument to him. which they would not ven
tprc to present to IN audience. fairly emancl-
patsd from the spelling book, Let us mol have
divers weights and measIres. Why address
one set OF reasons to the black man and an
other TO fhe white man, us all tho Radical
itinerants are doing every day in their cru
sades through the southf II the negro Is
equal with the, white man, (aud we hope mono
Of our Radical brethren will act in contrsven-
tion of the Civil Rights Bill, and call this fact
in question:, then why mike distinction! Is
the black mind different from the white, re-
quiring species of ebony lcgicf We should
prefsr, rhenceforth, alE appeals and addresses
t9:Rs made 70 ''tho people," DOT 10 freedmen,
to negroes, OF to any other class. Our inter
esta are essentially the same, and what is Of
real advantage to Gle one cannot bo to the de-
triment Of The Other. ss&hg+
Thefc is great speculation andacounting of
noses going on at present in the great Northern
country. We dnily see schemes. schedules and
programmes for the approaching battle Who
Will vote for whom, that is the great question.
AS an example" Of this new species of politi-
cnl arithmetic, we subjoiu the following
statistics" from the New York Epeniny Post
for tho benefit or the curious in such matters:
AS political matters are just now .imi1ed
up" and there are indications thai neveral
p ARG in n non f1atSp
joined table; givihg list Of the Bfntesf and q
guess ut their political complexion in the next
House Of Representatives, and in the electoral
college at the next Presidential election, may
not be without interest The unorganired
States and Connecticut are conceded to the
Democrats in the list I enclose: .l.I
s,.,. Rep. Dem. Rep. Dem.