The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-08-03


(and to which I am greatly indebted for much
that I have said,) it is boldly asserted, on the
| authority of scientific mon, that the world does
not afford an instance OF mulatto in the fifth
generation. The hybrid race becomes extinct af
ter the fourth generation, unless they have inter-
mixed with one or the other of the original races.
So it is with all animals. The mule does not breed
at all The wolf and jackal, the dog and fox, have
produced hybrids, which always become extinct
in tho third generation. These animals, like the
negro and white man, were regarded, at one time,
| as only different varieties of tho samo spocies
But experiment shows them to have been different
creations, as it does the negro and white man.
| repeat what have said in O former article
| that have ever been tho friend and protector Of
the negro through life. This my former slaves
| will youch for me. My house servants. eight or
ten in number have never left mo- and are still
| living with me on the same terms they did while
slaves 1t is because l wish well TO the nc
gro that am unwilling to sec him placed in
false position. He is unfit to exercise the right of
suffrage, and will become the dupc AMI TOOL of
base and designing men, A war of races will en-
| sue and the negro. being The weaker and less in
| telligcnt, will bo cxtermnated i'll such war. EX-
tncton will bc the result of this great bool, be-
slowed on them for the sole purpose of strength
cning the Radical party. General BENJAMIN T.
Butler said to me, eighteen months ago, that all
| the Radical party wished was, to have .impartial
suffrage" He said that we might declare that no
ono should vote, unless hc was graduate of the
South Carolina College. All that tho Radicals
then thought of was equality between the races.
But now, they arc determined to have the negro
vote, in order to radicalize the South
In the negro convention which sat the other
day, in Columbia, it WAS claimed that in tho next
Presidential election, there should DO placed OIL
the Radical ticket negro, either for President or
Vice-President. 1t was contended, too, that the
lands should be divided into small farms so that
each head of family might gel homestead Ii
the landowners refused this division, then their
lands should bo taxed so heavily as to force them
to part with them. There is considerable ingenuity
in this scheme of confiscation. Tho whites who
vote for convention to avoid coniiscation on tho
part of Congress, will find themselves nicely
caught by the negroes in convention. AS I'havc
already said, they will find that, aftor sacrificing
heir honor, the rights of the State, and the prin-
ciples of selE-government and constitutional liber
ty they have lost their lands into tho bargain.
Another scheme Of the negroes, promulgated in
their recent convention, IS to have nothing taxed
but property This will release the negroes from all
taxes as they do not own property. Then, the
property of the State il to be taxed, to establish
free schools and colleges all over the State for tho
education OF their children, without exponsc to
the negroesl Again, they declare u convention,
and have made it part af their platform, that the
old negroes, ard infirm negroes and paupcrs, are
to be supported by the property Of the white men,
instead OF taking care OF tacir own aged parents
and pauper kindred.
In the twelfth article adopted by this Radical
negro cony ention, they avow openly their purpose
Of DISTINGUISHING all who have served in the Con-
federate army, or aided and allotted tho war. They
are disposed to take step and wide one, beyond
tho Radicals in Congress. The white Radicals
have dsfranchised ONLY those who have filled pub
lie offices; but the black Radicals arc determined
to extend it to all who were in the army which in
cludes almost the entire whito population. This
will be accomplished in that convention which the
white people are going to vote fora convention
to disfranchise Themselves confiscatc their pro-
porty and place tho State absolutely under the
rol 81 fho n,yar no,
and madness heard Of before in the civilized
world? In sack-cloth and ashes they will have to
repent Of their stupidity and dishonor
This negro Radical convention further demands
O revision of our laws and the reorganization of
our courts. They, set of paupers, ignorant and
debased, are to govern the State, and tho white
men, who own all the property, are to roy the ex-
penses of tho State. They speak of building rail-
roads, No doubt thousand schemes will be
concocted for spending the white mans money,
for the benefit OF the negro before they proceed to
take it from him by force or fraudulent legislation
Horrible most horrible, is tho future of orr poor
State and degraded people. No one seems to re-
alize our true situation. It s now as it was in the
days OF secession. We are standing, like idiots,
on magazine of powder, hourishing in our hands
q firebrand, and laughing ut the beautiful ring OF
ribbon it makes in the dark. The explosion will
come, must come, sooner or later, and bring with
it universal death and destruction to tho people
and property of the State.
In Liberia, where there is q nation OF negroes
sent from the United States, and where they have
formed q Government, no white man is allowed to
hold office, vote ut any election for any office.
This is wise and proper; and they have Thought it
necessary to make this exclusion for their owl
peace and prosperity. Havtt not the white men
the samo right to exclude the negro from the right
of suffrage, when they know that tho negroes have
majority in the State, and will seize the govern
ment of the State if permitted to voto2
1t is idle folly to tell the people of South CARROLL
ma that capital and immigrants. will flow into the
State when reconstructed on the Black Republican
platform. On tho 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 como here seeking investment.
Nor will any foreigners moyo here to settle, under
negro rule, and the confusion and disturbance
which it will give rise to in the State. Mr.. Cal
houn predicted, years ago, that ii the negro was
set free the Northern people would insist on his
right of suffrage, and if allowed, the negroes
would seize the government, and the white people
would have to leave tho State. He further said
that the former owners would Sc all influence
over their freedmen, whose sympathies and par
tialitius would be for Northern men and vic cmis-
sares sent here TO control them. l think ii Is
pretty generally acknowledged even now that all
control Of the negro III the coming election is al
ready gone from their former masters. General
Hampton and his friends had just as well try to
control herd of wild bufIaloes in the vast prai-
ries of tho West as the negro vote of Columbia.
=. L. PERRY.
GnEENv1LLE, s. c.. July 27, 1867.