The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-10-05
MANHOOD SUFFRAGE DESTRUCTION TO
THE NEGRO.

sible that these should be changed. They are
immutable and have been ordained for wise
purpose He who would resist these laws, op-
poses himself to nature and merits the reward
of his folly, perfect failure.
One of the laws governing the world, one of
the necessary elements of our nature, is that
man should in the first place cling to his fami-
organized, and man, like tho brute would be
unable to rise above the condition in which he
was originally placed. This would be the case
even if parental affection should exist as it
does with beasts, long enough to enable the
child to provide for himself.
The next of the social laws is, that man must
cling to his home. This is the necessary con-
sequence of the love of family. mans home
is the centre of all of his associations. There
is to be found his family, there are his friends;
there are his interests. Whatever may be his
lot in life; wherever his destiny may be cast,
his thoughts, his sentiments, his affections will
always turn towards that spot of earth, how
ever humble it may be; however sterile its
soil however inhospitable its climate.
The third law is, that man will cling to his
race wherever that race may be found. This
has been true since the beginning, this must
be true until the end of time.
. Family, home, race, these are the three first
sympathies of man, and while the first two are
the bonds that unite man with society, the last
is the great moving cause of every different
civilization which has impressed itself upon
the world.
When two civilizations meet, they will either
clash as did the Mahommedan and Christian in
Europe, d they m,lB amalgamate- as did the
Greek, Roman and German. Where two races
meet on equal ground, there will be equal am
bition, equal desire for advancement, and equal
efforts to obtain the ascendanoy. From these
causes, there must arise q constant struggle
for supremacy. Both cannot and will not e1-
ist together. One OF the other must be des-
troyed or the two must amalgamate.
The Radical leaders in the United States
know that this is true, but what do they care
for truth if they can retain power. Those who
mould the opinions of that party, in spite Of all
of these high sounding phrases and hollow
philanthropy, know, that with equal suffrage,
one or the other race must be destroyed. They
also know that there are thirty-two millions of
white men in this country, and that there are
but four millions of negroes They also know
that there can be no amalgamation of races,
and that the hand of God has placed upon the
face of each widely separating and distinc-
tive mark They know too, that if ever con-
test comes, there will be eight white men on
the one side opposed to one negro on the other,
and that in such contest the negro would
necessarily perish. What care they, however
for this The destruction of q race cannot
take place in generation, and they are living
in the present and mean to retain power dur
ing their lives. Their motto is apres nous te
deluge after ms let the deluge come.
If the Radical party had contented itself
with setting the negros free, and securing to
him civil rights, we could have no cause to
complain The South readily accepted this as
a result of the war, and cheerfully yielded to
the demand.
stake is played for in every game, in the
game of war as well as in any other. The
North won and the South was ready to pay, and
did pay. While our fields had been devastated
our railroads destroyed our homes burned to
the ground, and our material prosperity
checked, we did not complain at tho result.
Labor was not then put in opposition to capi-
tai, nor was race placed in antagonism with
race. There could be no clashing of interests
between the negro and the white man. We
were not asked to sit in the same conveyances;
TO worship side by side in the same churches; {;
to mingle in the same schools, and to strive
with each other for position and power in the
same halls of legislation. The negro had
soil and climate where he would easily thrive
a country in which he was by law protected IN
the enjoyment of his life, liberty and proper
ty. The white man fearing no antagonism,
lreading no clash, conflict or amalgamation of
race wedld have found it to his interest to
protect the negro, if for no other reason, in
order to preserve the labor of the country.
When, however, the Radical party rejected
,hese measures and in shameless defiance OF
The Constitution placed military Governors
over the Southern States, and at the point of
the sword demanded equal suffrage, the whole |
question became changed. The negro will be
true to his race, as the white man will be true |
10 his. Each will strive for supremacy and
he lesser matter of preserving the present |
abor of the country will be merged in the |
greater one of preserving the integrity Of the |
race. If this contest should ever happen, it is |
not difficult to forsee the result. The South is |
,ot totally dependent on negro labor. If the |
armies of the United States preserved their |
health when in the South during the war, by |
observing certain hygienic rules, why may not
hese rules be applied for the purpose of intro
lucing white labor on our plantations? ,? There
ire very large portions of the country where
white labor Gun be used at the present time
With perfect safety. Factories will be built,
mining will be pursued, new industries will be
opened, and possibly old industries will be
changed The white man finding the negro
becoming his competitor in political life, may
be forced to abandon the culture of cotton and
rice, and seek for new fields of industry.
Should this happen, white labor in the South
will be thrown into direct conflict with negro
abor. When it becomes or it is conceived to
De matter of necessity, race will 60 with race,
Ind the white man will employ white labor,
while tic black man will be forced to seek for
work from those of his own color Now it is
veil known fact, that the average amount of
capacity of the white man is barely sufficient
% give him mere competency. Any one who
alls below this average, must become pau
Der. The average amount of capacity of the
negro is less than is that of the white man, and
f ever the competition between the races