The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-07-31
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| / repeat what I have said in o for
mer article, that I have ever been the
| friend and protector of the. negro
through life. This my former slaves
will vouch for me. My house-ser.
wants, eight or ten in number, have
never left me, and are still living with
me on the same terms they did whilst
slaves. It is because I wish well tc
the negro, that am unwilling to see
him placed in a false position. He is
unfit to exercise the right of suffrage
and will become the dupe and tool ol
base and designing men. A war o!
races will ensue, and the negro, being
the weaker and less intelligent, viii
be exterminated in such war. Ex
tipction will be the result of this great
boon, bestowed On them for the solc
puEposeof STRENGTHENING the radical
( party Gener Benjamin F. Butle,
said to me, eighteen months ago, thai
lall the radical party wished was, tc
thave impartial suffrage" He SAID
that we might declare that no one
should vote, unless he was graduate
of the South Carolina College. AL
that the radicals then thought of was
equality between the races. But now
they are determined to have the negro
vote, in order to radicalize theSouth
In the negro convention which sal
the other day, in Columbia, it was
claimed that, In the next Presidential
election, there should be placed or
the radical ticket L negro, either fo,
President or Vice President. It was
contended, too, that the lands. should
be divided into small farms, so thai
each head Of family might get {
homestead. If the landowners re
fused this division, then their lands
should be taxed So heavily as to force
them to part with them. There il
considerable ingenuity in this scheme
of confscation. The whites who vote
for convention, to avoid confisca
stion on the part of Congress, will find
! themselves nicely caught by the ne
groes in convention. AS I have al
Itrendy said, they will find that, afte,
sacrificing their honor, the rights oi
:the. State, and the principles of self
| governmental constitutional liberty
lnthey have lost their lands into the
| bargain. Another scheme of the ne
! groes, promulgated in their recent
convention, is to have nothing taxed
Init property. This will release the
negroes from all taxes, as they do moi
own property. Then, the property
OF the State is to be taxed, to estab
lish ,frce schools and colleges all ovei
the State, for the education of theil
children. without expense to the he
groes! Again, they declare in con
vention, and have made it n part ot
their platform, that the old negroes
and intirm negroes and paupers, are
to be supported by the property o
the white men, instead of taking care
of their own aged parents and paupel
kindred. ..Il
In the twelfth article adopted by
this radical negro convention, They
avow openly their purpose Of disfrnn
chising ali who have served in the
Confederate army, or aided and abet
ted the war. They are disposed te
take step, and wide one, beyond
the radicals in Congress. The white
radicals have disfranchised only those
who have filed public offices; but the
black radicals are determined to ex.
tend it to all who were in the army,
/ which includes almost the entire white
population. This will be accomplished
in that convention which the white
people are. going to vote fora con
vention to disfranchise themselves,
confiscate their property, and place
the State absolutely under the contro
of the negroes. Was there ever such
folly and madness heard of before, il
T the civilized world? In sack-clotl
and ashes, they will have to repent ol
tl,oir cf,,rilif,r md .l;nh ana.