Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1867-09-10

cent convention, is to have nothing taxed bu
property This will release the negroes from
all taxes, as they do not own property. Then
! the property of the State is to be taxed, to es
| tablish free schools and colleges all over the
| State, for the education of their children, with
out expense to the negroes! Again, they de-
clare in convention and have made it part o1
their platform, that the old negroes and infrm
negroes and paupers are to be supported by the
property of the white men, instead Of taking
care of their own aged parents and pauper kin
dred.
In the twelfth article adopted by this Radical
negro convention, they yavow openly their purpose
of disfranchising all who served in the Confeder-
ate army, or aided and abetted the war. They are
disposed to take step, and wide one, beyond
the Radicals in Congress. The white Radicals
have disfranchised only those who have filled
public Offices; but the black Radicals are
army, which included almost the entire white
population. This will be accomplished in that
convention which the white people are going to
vote fora convention to disfranchise them
selves, confscate their property, and place the
State absolutely under the control of the negroes.
Was there ever such folly and madness heard OF
before in the civilized world? In sack-cloth
and ashes they will have to repent of their
stupidity and dishonor
The negro Radical Convention further de-
mands revision of our laws and the reorganiza-
tion of our courts. They, set of paupers, ig-
norant and debased, are to govern the State,
are to pay the expenses of the State They
speak of building railroads. No doubt thou
sand schemes will be concocted for spending the
white man S money, for the benefit of the ne
gro, before they proceed to take it from him by
force or fraudulent legislation. Horrible, most
horrible, is the future of our poor State and de-
graded people. No one seems to realize our
true situation. 1t is now as it was in the days
Of secession. We are standing, like idiots, on
a magazine ofpowder, fourishing in our hands a
frebrand, and laughing at the beautiful ring of
ribbon it makes in the dark. The explosion
will come, must come, sooner or later, and bring
people and property Of the State.
In Liberia, where there is nation of negroes,
sent from the United States, and where they
have formed government, no white man is al
lowed to hold office, or vote at any election for
any Office This is wise and proper, and they
have thought it necessary to make this exclusion
for their own peace and prosperity. Have not
the white men the same right to exclude the
negro from the right of suffrage, when they
know that the negroes have majority in the
State and will seize the government of the State
if permitted to vote?
It is idle folly to tell the people ofSouth Car
DINA that capital and immigrants will flow into
the State when reconstructed on the Black Re-
publican platform. On the contrary, as soon
as this negro government is organized, every
dollar of foreign capital in South Carolina will
be Withdrawn, and not one cent will come here
seeking investment Nor will any foreigners
move here to settle, under negro rule, and tA<
confusion and disturbance which it will give rise
to in the State. Mr.. Calhoun predicted years
ago, that if the negro was set free, the North
ern people would insist on his right of suffrage,
and if allowed the negroes would seize the gov
ment, and the white people would have to leave
the State He further said that the former
owners would lose all influence over their freed
men, whose sympathies and partialities would
be for Northern men and vile emissaries sent
here to control them. | think it is pretty gen
orally acknowledged, even now, that all control
of the negro, in the coming election, is already
gone from their former masters. Gen. Hamp-
ton and his friends had just as well try to con-
troll herd of wild buffaloes in the vast prairies
of the West, as the negro vote of Columbia.
B. f. PERRY.
Greenville, S. c., July 27, 1867.