The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1867-08-21
From the Now York Herald.

A Negro Political Balance Of Powcr--
The Counter Revolution Approach
ing.
From the developments Of tho reris-
trat.ons OF voters in tho five Southern
Military Districts wc SEQ that under tho
rebel restriction and negro suffrage con-
dtlons of Congress. tho blacks, in each
and all OF the ten Southern States con.
corned, hold the issues Of reconstruction
in their hands. From tho rcsrls oftho
late Tennessee election and other rove.
latlons on the subject, it is manirest that
these Southern blacks, from Virninia
to Texas, led and managed by Northern
Radicals, are ready. en- massc, banded
together under the flag OF the Republican
party. From all these facts, and from
tho general drift Of the reconstruction
movements of tho day, it is morally Ger.
tain That tho negroes, with tho restora-
ton OF those ten Southern States to
Congress, will hold tho political balance
OF power therein, which, before the late
rebellion, was held and exercised by
tneir white masters IN the control Of tho
6cncral government.
In Wow of this startling transfer of
our national balance Of power wc arc
called upon to pause and consider tho
probable consequences. After terri.
BILE civil war of four years, INVOLVING
the bloody sacrifice OF over half a mil.
lion of able bodiod mon, and putting
upon The country the heavy burden Of
'hrec thousand millions Of debt, wo were
released from tho political domination
OF thrco hundred thousand Southern
Shareholders. Hcnvy rs wcrc The costs
OF this liberation from tyrann,col md
lhSolcnt ohgarchy, tho end achieved
was still regarded with proud oxultation,
rs amply rowarding us for all our con-
trlo"''ons N men and money, but if the
power welded in their day by those
three hundred thousand white slave
holders is to be transferred to their four
mutton OF ignorant, dcbasod and crcdu-
loIs negro slaves, we.moy well enquire
what havo wc gained or whore aro to DO
our componsations for all these stupcn-
dons efforts and sacrifices required to
put down tho shareholders rebellion /?
are a. wo drifting from tho "cxccsses of
Liberty, equality and fraternity to a
French reign of terror, or to tho bloody
rreprisals OF St. Domingo, or to that
fusion and confusion of races which cul
minated IN Mexican anarchy?
we havo been making history Mt
RAPID rate since 1850 In that year 1t
was thought that we Ind composscd mn
enduring adjustment on slavery and the
negro question in tho great compromise
measures OF Henry Clay. But, unfor.
tunately, inflated with false notions of
power from the Presidential election Of
1882, poor Pierce, Marcy, Buchanan
md olhcr narrow sighted and lloxiblc
Democratic leaders Of tho North. bow.
ed to tho yoke prepared for them by
Jelf' Davis, Mason, Slidell and other
democratic pro.slavery potcntatos of
mo South, in the repeal Of tho ground
WORK OF Clay's adjustment, the Nilsson.
=, y Compromise Of 1920. Then camo
the, the border ru(lan war in Kasas, tho |
overture ofthe rebellion; thon tho in |
famous Drea. Scot decision, and noyt
snae s! tremendous Northern popular ro.
acton which elected Abraham Lincoln;
ana then tho bold revolt Of those threo
fItli hundred thousand audacious and des.
potic Southern SHAREHOLDERS, with all
IFS bloody and decisive consequences
Thatlnsolent and insulrorablo oliaarcbv
was demo!lshd, the debasing institution
OF negro slavery, upon which its master
assumed first 70 rule, and in the last
resort to rulntho country, was swept
\ rom IN existence, and, with tho rebel
Lees surrender, the reign OF the king