The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1867-06-03
POLITICAL vrv1sECTIoN.

Tbe great social and political struggle at
present in progress throughout the Southern
States, involving the most vital interests that
can be brought to the attention Of civilized
community, to our friends at the North, Is but
a gigantic experiment, watched in every part
of that vast domain with the utmost anxiety
The interest manifested in our suffering, our
protests, our losses, our future fortunes WILL
be best understood if we compare it with the
degree of concern or sympathy elected by the
tortured and shrieking brutes under the knife
of the experimenting Psychologist, in the ab-
sorbed mind and callous heart Of the scientlnc
brute. The goose, the rabbit, OF the horse
as the case may be, the enthusiastic student OF
the science of life imagines were originally put
on this globe for the express purpose OF being
disseoted, and becoming beatifed as choice
preparations" in due time to be put under a
glass case in the Museum. Remonstrsnoe
from Mr.. BnRaH is treated with an uncourte-
GUS "bosh." The great end Of rabbit is to be
fayed alive-that is clear.
So with our political doctors. The South is
bound down on dissecting table. The knife,
not always very sharp, nor invariably welded
by skilful manipulation, is thrust into our
very vitals. How the victim Fares during these
experimental operations, who cares Our
doctors would not be guilty Of such "unpro-
fessional" conduct -as to heed groans and cries.
The result, always held steadily in view, is the
ncxt election. Will the Radicals carry the
Southern States This is the question. If
riots and bloodshed, stagnation Of business and
starvation, general prostration Of every
branch ofindustry, and Generalization Of nu-
merous laboring class is the proximate result
of such experiment, these are mere incidental
trifes, which must not deter the projectors
from the plan they have. .chalked out. That suf-
frage has been conferred upon the freedmen
for the express purpose Of recovering his vote
In the approaching Presidential election will
be disputed. In fact the great leaders
Of the party, in their papers and from the
stump, avow this in the most unblushing man
ner. The address. of the National Republican
Committee to the freedmen, referred to in our
editorial columns q few days ago, points out
what s.the nation has done forth negro, and
now calls on him to- do something for "the
ration in return, viz: Vote the Radical
ticket. Our Northern friends should conduct
their eleetioneeringa campaign with q little
more regard for 'aeeenoy and propriety, and
not take an unfair advantage Of the unlettered
freedmen, by addressing what purports to be
argument to him, which they would not ven-
lture to present to an audience. fairly emanci-
pated from the spelling book. Let us not have
divers weights and measures. Why address
one set of reasons to the black man and an
other to. the white man, as al .ithe Radical
itinerants are doing every, daysin their cru
sades through the South Z lf tie negro ip
equal with the white man, (aad, We: hope none
of our Radical brethren win act in oohtrasen-
ton of the Civil Rights Bill, and call this fact
in question:, then why make distinction? Is
the black mind different from the white re-
quiring species of ebony logic? We should
prefer, henceforth, all appeals and addresses
to be madeto s'the people" not to freedmen,
to negroes, or to any other class. Our inter-
ests are essentially the same, and what is OF
real advantage to the one cannot be to the de-
triment Of the other. i Saea3
Thars is great speculation and counting Of
noses going on at present in the great Northern
country. We daily see schemes, schedules and
programmes for the approaching battle. Who
will vote FOR whom, that is the great question.
As an "example" Of this new species Of polti-
cal arithmetic, We subjoin the following
statistics" from the New York Evening Post
for the benefit Of the curious in such matters:
AS political matters are just now ..mixed
up" and there are indications that several
States arein an oscillating condition, the sub
Joined table, giving list Of the States and
guess at their political complex On in the next
House of Representatives, and the electoral
college at the next Presidential lection, may
not be without interest The uorganized
States and Connecticut are conc ed to the
Democrats in the list enclose: