The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-07-17
Vol. i III.
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Letter from Hon. B. F. Perry.
There issstill heart and life in
4he republic. The recent opinion
of the Attorney General shows
.ahat- civil liberty is ret yet dead
-Tnthe American Government. He
has demolished the absolute despo
tism of the military commanders
in the Southern States. They are
no longer to make laws for US, and
remove at will, our public officers
The State Governments are to be-
recognized and continued as pro
Iyisionan governments, with all
their political machinery. This is
q bright CLEAN of sunshine break
ing through the black clouds OF
tEranny and absolutissn which
'6aYered over tho Southern States
during the past year. All may
vet be well, If we do not volun'
!sarily dishenor ourselves BY rivet;
ing the chains which have been
thrown over us in voting for a
Convention. We must have en.
.durances patience and long suffer
ING. under our oppression and ,ty-
ranny. Brave men, who eoolly
and deliberately undertook to con-
:quer foarto ore, and fought gallant
ly through a hundred bloody fields
9bastle, should not now 3 in the
hour Of peace, take counsel from
base fear, and be panic-stricken
With their own apprehensions:
There must be a, reaction at the
North, The Democratic party is
daily increasing in numbers and
strength. Their ;eauseis just be-
fore Heaven, They are: fighting
forconstitutio liberty and self
government, and their next cleo
tiens will sweep the Black Repub-
lican party outof existence.
1--WE must never forget that this
IS "a aokiite nsQn,s Gouernn.ent," It
was so in its origin and has SO con-
tinued mp to the present time.
White men settled the country,
achieEed their independence, and
framed the Government for white
men solely and exclusively. Ne
gro equality and negro suffrage
Were never thought of by our rev.
olutionary ancestors, North or
South Massachusetts and New
England were as positive in this
mater as South Carolina. 1t was
known and acknowledged that the
African was of an inferior race,
incapable ofany high intellectual
culture, and utterly unfit for re-
publican rule. They were held as
slayes, and recognized as ehattels
blythe puritans themselves. They
were bought and stolen in Africa
byg fhe New gEnglanders, and
brought, to America for sale as
slaves. This horrible traffic, has
been al great source of wealth and
prosperity to- New England For
four thousand years, the history
,oRthe negro, in Africa, shows no
sign Of Improvement. It is only
by.longsand continued association
with The white man that his iHi-
xation has enabled him to adopt a
low degree of civilization. Profes-
sor Agassiz has recently made
naanifest that the negro is of a
totally different race from that OF
che white man, greatly inferior,
and had a different origin.
IF the rump Congress had pur-
sued,6he ordinary course Of a half.
civilized and blood-thirsty people,
after the war was over; and hung
two, or three hundred ofus, or as
) many thousands, in each of the
Southern States, il would have
been an act Of. great. mercy and
wisdom 10, the Southern people,
instead Of the cunning and mali
cioas scheme Of humiliation, degra-
dstion and terrorism with which
they have punished the whole
South, men, women and children,
Unionistst and aseeessionists, inno-
cent and guilty, equally. The bar
barism OF, a negro government,
,eradaaily growing worse and more
cruel, entailed on ourselves and
posserity forever, is intolarable
and dia6olical. The radicals were
deferred, by the opinion of the
world, from their death victims, in
this civilized and Christian age.
But, by a refinement in cruelty Pc
culiarly their own, they have in
flicted q mental punishment of
conscious dishonor On all alike,
and, at the same time, have provi-
ded for Strengthening and perpet-
usting their political power as a
party. This punishment is not in
hicted for. q day Or a year, but to
continue till it is wiped cut, as it
1s:%,i, Will he in the blood nj