The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1867-09-14
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Under this caption, the New York
Times, of the 10th instant, has a
long editorial, from which we make
the following extract:
''There is much unnecessary gloom
and waiing in the South. It chiefly
proceeds from the politicians, who,
having always lived by Office or by
blockade-running, fastened to Wash
ingten to obtain q dispensation, and
thus labored to repair the broken
ligaments of party. These preda-
tory adventures, deprived of Office
and of the possibility of office, utter
loud howls of despairing rapacity,
and declare the South ruined because
they are no longer on the payroll.
1.-The South hns great power and
reserved resources, no less important
to themselves than to us. There are,
however, some errors so constantly
taught by the place-hunters, that the
whole. people begin to believe them
true. One of these errors is that
the South is to pass under the domi-
nation OF the freedmen. All sensible
men in the South have acquiesced in
legal and political emancipation. The
indications are undoubted that no
discrimination of these rights will be
embodied in the law or in the deal
lngs between white and black. The
ensuing election will terminate much
of the excitement, for the indiffer-
ence Of the politicians to the voter.
after the election is notorious. The
relations between employer and ope-
rative will then adjust themselves.
"But the apprehension of colorod
supremacy has entered into the popu-
lar mind here as we'll as ut the South,
and as it will impede emigration to
the South, it is rs we'll to disabuse
the public mind of the error. The
gross number of white males in the
Northern States is 2, 1873, ,369; that of
the freedmen is 1,297,041. It wilrbe
seen, therefore, that the white race
is. in excess of the colored in the
Southern States more than quarter
of n million of men. The local dis
tribution of these numbers shows
that there is majority of 2,370 freed
men in Mississippi, and of 6.429 in
South Carolina. AS the advocate of
harmony between the races on the
basis of equal legal rights, we desire
the freedmen to remember that the
Limitation of the franchise does not
affect the comparative numerical
ability of the two races; but that this
majority of quarter of million of
whites remains to work-that nature
will emancipate them in few years.
That while there can be no more
black immigration into tt South,
there will be large white 1nlmigra-
ton, with relatively large white
increase. The supremacy of the
colored race will be but temporary
and local. They should, therefore,
take their rights and be satisfied.
They should not lay the foundation
of any discomfort which may be re-
venged by retaliation at q future
period. Such is our advice. The
white race are in little danger OF
losing any right which they are not
willing to concede. The cclored
race should observe moderation at
the present, to prevent retaliation in
the future"
From which it is evident that the
Northern people are alarmed at the
prospect OF negro supremacy in the
South. Even the. Times, throughout
this article, cannot conceal-its appre-
tensions of the future in such an
event; hence its anxiety to convince
its readers of the improbability Of
the dreaded catastrophe. .''hi ~.
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