The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-08-14

word honor. 1t is urged that the extension
Of the right Of suffrage to the negro is an
insult and a wrong. Grant it-does he not
enjoy this franchise in the present condition
Of things. Nay more, does he not have the
right TO hold Office and to sit upon our
juries? By the military authorities he. has
been made the peer Of the white man in
the Courts, and see in the papers that in
North Carolina, the trial by jury, the great
bulwark of liberty, has been abolished, be-
cause the orders on that subject from Head
Quarters had not been carried out. Is it
dishonorable to submit to this condition of
things? | am no advocate Of universal suf
frage. 1t was an outrage and a-wrong 10
invest the negro race with this right. tt ey
have not the capacity to exercise it intell
gently. They will be liable to be made the
dupes of base and designing demagogues.
The effort is now being made to delude them
and lead them into a party organization
which is hostile to the white men of the
South, and the object of which is, to rob
them Of the last vestige Of their liberties
The ignorant negro may be mislead now,
but the time will come when he will rue the
day when he arrayed himself in hostile
political attitude towards his only true
friends-towards those whose interests are
his interests. EmmiSaries are being sent
here, not to ameliorate his condition, not
to elevate him in the scale Of being, nor to
devise measures tor the protection of his
rights, bL> :or the purpose of strengthening
q partY-tc secure its permanent ascendan.
cy in the country that few aspirants for
office may enjoy and have the disposal Of
t'the loavas and the fishes" 1t is not the
good Of 'ha>negro they eek, but political
power. hey wish to tie him now. for
party pr loses, as. be was used during the
war for military purposes. His freedom
was given to him not fc'. his good; that
was not the object.-Lincoln's emancipation
proclamation gives the lie plain and fat to
such fabrication.-He declared that it was
done purely as Il measure of military ne
cessity." y."-He:put the act upon that ground,
and upon that ground alone. The negro
was freed thai the South might be con-
euered. The right o. su:frage is now given
to him, that he may Fencer permanent the
rule of the radical party.-Hence the union
leagues and the mongrei radical conventions,
in. which the negro showed his stupidity, his
adaptness to be imposed upon BY the+arts
of denIagogues, and the wE!e man his base
apostacy 'tremt1e race, and blood of HIS
sires. f. is all for pariy-for the .spoils
claimed oy the yictors in the political strpg-
giles which have disgraced the country ever
since the days Of Washington: If regard
for the rights Of the negro induced his en-
franchisement,. why has not the right Of
universal suffrage been given to the race in
the North-in the aon!sl, holding States
of the Union? In not I single State, there
has, this right been granted. So far from
this being true, laws have been. passed in
some: OF them 10 exclude him from their
borders. In the State ofIlhneis,> the home
OF Lincoln, arfree negro was prohibited from
settling. No, he who comes amongst US to
deceive the negro, by telling him that. the
right of voting has been given to him be.
-causeshe was entitled to il upon principle,
and that his FRIENDS at the North have
freed him and conferred this right and
others npon him for his good, and from
feelings of justice. and humanity, tells an
unnitigated, base falsehood. Lincoln HIM
self as far as we are informed as. to his
opinion,-was opposed to this doctr;n ne Of
universal suffrage, Under the government
which, during his administration, was set
up in Louisiana, this privilege Was. not given; !;
and when some political zcalots of his party
complained that this was uotz7done,. he said
that he would have preferred, that it chad
been conferred on the very intelligent and
on those who served our cause as, soldiers =
This is as far as. he would CO.. 1t was
spoken in hislest public speech delivered
to the people Of Washington City v ben Il G
news reached there of the surrender Of the
-srmy Of Northern Virginia. .HeweH knew
that the negro-rac we're not fitted to- exer-
else this high franchise, and the negroes
themselves know It. :. -.
= : Butt have fallen into a digressien, from
the line Of my argument: If submitting to
this radical change in the basis ofour +goy.
ernment constitutes dishonor and degrade.
ton, we are already distouored and de-
graded: We cannot help Eourselves--eur
hands are tied-the ediet has gone forth
and must be obeyed.. -. - -. =.
.. In the hidden future-when time has
rolled away when the ,"sober,. second
thought Of the people" has resumed it sway,
and tits seen that these daring innevators
have, fer party purposes, sapped the. founda-
tions of OUT liberties When the colored race
themselves shall see that, they have been
made the. dupes and tools Of deuiagogues
for party ends ); when they find that. they
have been led astray by hypocRites and
hars, and induced to array themselves
against those whoare theirr.rue friends, and
adopt policy which will bring the two
races into conflict, and eventually entail
upon them the fate Of the red man whose
last lament for his hunting grounds is now
mingHng. with theroar Of Paci6c's waters;
when the false theories Of the present are
exploded, and the ways Of Providence
justified among men; when Nature and
Natures God shall have asserted the suPre-
macy ofthe white man, and the negro shall
have lapsed into. his proper place in the
social andpoliticat scale; whe.. these events
shall have dawned upon country cieansed
and purified BY the@ scourge of revolution,
then Truth will sing her song of triumph
amidst the acclamations of mankind; and
these workers Of iniquity, whose hands
have defiled and mutilated the Temple OF
Constitutional Liberty, will hide their faces
in shame and confusion.
ssTruth cruehed to earth will rise again,
The eternal years of God are hers;
But error wounded writhes in pain,
And dies amid her worshippers."
FAIR PLAY.