The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-01-12
tinue this syssom thoy arc but erecting monu-

tinue this syssom they arc but erecting monu-
ments to their own eternal @ dishGno1 ana 1qrnlsh
searches. They may employ the infamous HOLT,
with his Bureau Of Military Justice" to sacrifice
Provost Narshals aud agents of the ssFreedn,cn's
Bureau" may riot in all tho1 license Of petty tyran
DICT of impartial history than thoy can escape that
loom which awaits them at the final judgment.
During tho war slavery was used Us the catch
and to some cxtent the prejudices of the civilized
world wore excited against US; but the war was
mot made IA Sob on @Sp5 part ,n for s 6gh 6G sn
aud Puritans in Now England, had participated
10 the profits of . trade, BY which tho Ignorant
that country and sold into slavery in the American
Colonies. Tho generation in tho Southern States
which defended their country in the late war found
dition, 100000 of tho descendants Of those de-
graded AFRICANS The Almighty 3,I,a Creator OF she
foront color and an inferior mental and physical
organization. Ho had not done this from nero ca
price or whim, but for wise purposes: An amalga-
| signs. OF Ho would not have made them 80
different. The immense number Of people
%a rom oa wheb 1as their ANCESTORS taken or
if they could have boen, it would have resulted
in their relapse into barbarism: Reason. common
safety Of the white race required that the inferior
race should bo kept i'll a state CT subordinaton
The condition of domestic slavery as it existed III IN
provcment in the moral and physical condition OF
the negro race. but had furnished class of labor
ers as happy and contented as any IN the world IT
not more SO. Their labor had not only developed
the immense resources OF the immediate country
in which they werc located, but was the nam
Of the great prospcrityof the United States,
| md f;.rnished the means for the employment OF
millions OF the working classes IN other countries
Nevertheless, tho struggle made by the people OF
tho South was not for tho institution Of slavery,
but for the inestinable right Of sef-govcrnment,
against tho domination Of fanatical faction at the
| North; and slavery the mere occasion Of tho
! development Of the antagonism between the two
sections. That right Of sek-government has been
lions OF blacks have thus boon thrown their own
! RESOURCES, to starvo, to die, and to relapse into
| barbarisn; and inconceivablo miseries have been
| en:ailcd on tho white race.
The civilized world will fnd too late, that it's
philanthropy has been all false and its religion all
wrong this subject; and the people of the United
States will find that under the pretenco of Saving
they have surrendered their own liberties into tho
hands of that worst of all tyrants-a body OF sense
less fanatics.
When the passions and infatuations Of tho d,JyI
suits of tho late war shall have passed into ire
vocable history, the future chroncler of that his
tory will have most important duty to perform,
and posterity, while pouring over its pages, will be
lost in wonder at tho fOllies and committed
in this generation. .a90a
My narrative is now given to the public and the
sole merit claim for it is that of truthfulness. In
writing it have received material mid from an ac-
curate diary kept by Lieut.. William W. Old, Aid to
Major-General Edward johnson, who was with me
during tho campaign in Maryland and the Shenan-
the copious notes Of Captain J. HotchlSiss, who
acted as Typographical Engineer for the Second
Corps and the Army Of the Valley District, and re-
corded the events Of each dny from tho opening Of
| the campaign on the Rapidnn in May, 1864, until
the affair at Waynesboro, in March, 1856.
| November, 1856. ). A. EARLY.