Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1867-06-13
SOUTH CAROLINA.
/, nc. from Hon. ~. y. Psrv.

Il is now strange and wonderful, TO
soc ap educated, refined and gallant
people seeking repose and protection
from apprehended political evils under
the government and control Of their
former slaves--an inferior race, utter
lv ignorant and debased There is
nothing in the history Of all the ma
tons of the earth, for the last six
thousand yedrs, compared to it in
folly and madness. Future ages will
regard it as the most remarkable
faulty that ever possessed any peo-
pie.
What Il change has come over the
spirit and feelings of South Carolina
within the last seven years The
Federal Union was then benificent,
republican and constitutional. There
was not an act of Congress, for eight
previous years, which any one COM
pained of as unjust or oppressive.
We were as happy and prosperous as
people could be. Aud yet that
Union was hated and despised The
people rose up en- m0SSe and solemnly
determined to rid themselves Of it or
die in the attempt Now, that Union
has trampled the Constitution in the
dust, violated every republican prin-
ciple, and heaped on us tyranny and
oppression which, its Chief Magistrate
declares, no people, speaking the Eng
lish language, have ever borne for the
last FIVE hundred years And the
people of South Carolina have so
changed within seven short years
that they are now clamorous to get
back into the Union, and hug its
tyranny and oppression to their bo-
soms-to lick the rod that has smote
them TO the earth and desolated their
State In order to hasten their re-
turn, they are not only willing to give
sp all the rights OF their State-all
constitutional and republican prin-
ciples, and selfgovernment-bu to
transfer the government of their once
proud aud chivalric State into the
hands OF the negroes Intelligence,
virtue and refinement are to be ruled
by ignorance and baseness The
wealth of the State to be taxed and
plundered by race of paupers, who
will portion out the lands and vote
themselves homesteads, and whose
legislation will be such as TO bring,
eventually, sooner or later, war OF
races, in which one or the other must
be exterminated. Whilst writing, ]
have been told that confscation was
boldly avowed by the negro conven-
ton which assembled in Charleston
last week.
1t is a great mistake to suppose
that, by all this humiliation and deg
radiation, we shall get back into the
Union or be relieved Of military gov
ernment Congress has given nc
such guarantee, and leading Radicals
assert to the contrary. Tho Union
will not be restored until after the
next Presidential election-the votes
of the Southern States are not wanted
in that election. A military govern
ment, or a standing army, in South
Carolina, after the enfranchisement
of the negro, will be absolutely neces
sary to preserve the peace and keel
down the oppressed white race. Moth
ing else will do IT, Instead of being
relieved from the expressions of Con
gress and military rule, we shall hav'
called into existence, by our owl
votes, q third power, more odiou
and revolving, more CALLING and de
structive, than either of the othel
two.
No one who reflects can mistake
the purpose of the Radical party
the sole purpose which they have il
view-and to accomplish which the!
are attempting 10 move heaven am
earth. They have been influenced il
their recent atrocious, barbarous leg
islation much more by the hope 0
continuing and perpetuating thei
power in the government, and thei
existence as a party, than by an.
love for the negro or wrongs on South
ern people. II their purpose had beef
solely revenge, they could have insti
tuted, all over the country, prosecu
tions for treason, and by military
commissions or negro juries hav'
brought any prominent man to tn
gallows. For two or three years
they wagcd war against the Southern
States without attempting to interior
with slavery, or raising a finger L
relieve the poor African from hi
thraldom. 1t was only when the.
found that the "Great Rebellion
could not be otherwise suppressed
aud that they could successfully us
our slaves against us, that they dc
cared them free, and enlisted then
in their armies. This was a new Gle
ment, and most powerful one, whic
they brought into the contest. By il
they increased their forces 100000
and greatly weakened the resource
of the Southern States. They care
nothing for the negro, except to sc
him slaughtered in battle, instead {
their own soldiers. This was the eN
tent of their love and philanthrop.
for the African raoe--nothing more
nothing less. 1t is supposed tina
100000 of this unfortunate people
who were happy and contented slave
persisted during the war by diseas,
hunger, cold, exposure and neglect, Q
were killed in battle And no candi
or impartial man can say that tn
condition of the survivors, as who'll
has been benefited. Time will prov
that their destiny, as a free race
she Southern States, is extinction.
A new vision has now broke upo