The southern enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1854-1870, 1867-07-11

despotism o. the
commanders In The Southern States.
1hsy are NO, longer to make lsws for us.
and remove, At win. .our public officers.--
The State Gevernments are 10 be recognized
and continued as provisional governments,
with alItheir political machinery. This Is q
bright CLEAN Of sunshins breaking through
the black clouds of tyranny aud absolutism
which lowered over the Southern States
during The past year. Ali may yet be wen.
IL we dosnot voluntarily dishonor ourselves
by rivsting the chains which have been
thrown over us in voting for con.
ventiono We must have endurance, pa.
thence and long suffering under our oppres.
sions and tyrapny. Brave men, who cooIly
and deliberately undertook to conquer four
10 o,ie, and fought gallantly through hun.
drod Bloody fields Of battle, should not
now in the hour Of peace. take counsel
from base fear and DO panic. stricken with
their own spprehensions. There must be
n reaction at the North. The Democratic
party il, daily increasing in numbers and
strength. Their cause is just, before Heav-
cn. They are fighting for constitutional
liberty and seifgovernment and their next
elections will sweep the Black Republican
party out Of existence. ...r---.. ~
We must never forget that this is ia
uOhits mana Government" II was SO in its
origiu, and has so continued up to the
present time. White men settled the coun.
try. achieved their independence, and
framed the Government for, white men
solely and exclusively. Negro equality and
negro suffrage were never thought Of by
ourrevolutionsry ancestors, North or South.
Massachusetts, and all New England were as
positive Ia this matter as South Carolina.-
IL was known and acknowledged that the
African was Of an inferior race, incapable OF
any high intellectual culture, and utterly
UNFIT for republican rule. They were held
as slaves. and recognized as chattels by the
Puritans themselves. They were bought
and stolen in Africa by, the New England
ers. and brought to America for sale as
slaves This horrible traffic has been
great source Of wealth and prosperity to
New England. For four thousand years,
the history Of the negro. in Africa. shows
no sign Of Improvement 1t is only by long
and continued association with the white
man that his limitations has enabled him to
adopt q low degree Of civilization. Profes.
cor Agassiz has recently made manifest that
the negro Is Of a totally different race from
that Of the white man, greatly inferi, r, aud
and had differen origin. ai stt
II the rump Congress had pursued The
ordinary course of half-civilized and
blood.thirsty people, after the war was over,
and hung two or three hundred Of us, or as
many thousands, in each one Of the South.
ern States &c would have been an act of
great mercy and wisdom to the Southern
people. instead Of the cunning and malicious
scheme Of humiliation, degradation aud ter.
rorism with which they have punished the
whole South, men, women aud children,
Unionists and secessionists, innocent and
guilty, equally, The barbarism of negro
government, gradually growing worse and
more cruel, .entailed on ourselves and pos
terity forever, Is intolerable and diabolical
The radicals were deferred, by the opin.
ion Of the world. from their death victims
In this civilized and Christian age. But, by
refinement In cruelty peculiarly their
own, they have inflicted mental punish
mene Of conscious dishonor on all alike. and,
atthssams time. have provided for strength
ening and perpetuatipg their political power
asa party. This punishment is not inflicted
for day or year, but 10 continue till II
iswipsd out rs II ultimately will be. In
the blood Of both races. The horrible
scenea of San Don,in0o ara dastinnd 40 n.