The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-06

wanted to tell them that Their old commander
had not fors sotten them, ard that the ties of
battle we're as strong as any tie On earth; that
wanted them to be good soldiers in the in
erests as they lad been @ HS good soldiers
ranks, as they had often done, and, moving
shonJ ier to shoulder, press Oh TO an assured
victory. They will listen to me as they always
did, for they know that always recoSnized
merit, whether it was found under the bra1det!
collar Of the officer, or the tateered Jacket ol
treated them as brethrel-as men having the
same interests as myself-and that now ad-
wise them can6idly and in all sincerity.
[Cheers.] -
Fellow citizens, there are many topics on
which I have not touched / only wished to
have family talk with you, to thankmy peo-
pie for their kindness, and to adiure them to be
fr11e and f5rm.--=ans---ss-
I want you. now to consider the .reconstruc-
tion Of South Carolina, accomplished by three
wears of Radical rule. In Columbia you can
see what is called the Legislature Of South
Carolina. When I served in the Legislature,
we received three dollars per day, and we tried
to finish our work as soon as possible, Ihe
distinguished gentlemen who now I'LL our
places find their time so valuable that they can
not work for less than six dollars day, with
double mileage and taking four times as long
to do the work. That body, which was once
characterized by wisdom, honor. patriotism,
and all the high virtues, is now only kno"nSas
ignorance, guided by maliRnity.
I did not know the degradation, my imagina-
tion could not depict the humiliation to which
our State could be reduced, until / saw Sawyer
and the renegade Tom Robertson filing the
places once occupied BY Calhoun, McDufhe
people Of the State themselves would do this,
nor dc. now believe that they would II they
had been consulted.
Look now at the Bench, and see the seat
once dignifed by Chief Justice Dunkin now
occupied by man who now turns hls back
upon the State and the men who through
long series Of years have given him more hon
ors than he deserved. Look at your own fel.
low-citizen Judge Aldrich), who would not
| "crook the pregnant hinges Of the knee that
thrift might follow fawning," who retired into
private life rather than obey the orders OF
military satrap, whose place was filled BY Ie-
phaniah Plat; and it is one OF the few bright
spots in the operations OF reconstruction, that
it's completion has removed this creature
from Office. I can make excuses for the
Radicals who only take the votes of
the colored people that they may thereby OBJ
tain both money and place. In this they are
true to their natures and true to their instincts.
Like the birds Of prey they pounce down upon
the carcass that they may satiate their raven
oue greed. But when think Of any South
Carolinian, who should have the instincts of q
Carolinian, who has drawn his nourishment
from the breast Of Carolina mother, who has
received at the hands OF the State all that she
can give, when such man turns his back upon
his State, cannot find words in which to de-
nounce him.
Oh for tongue to damn the slave,
Whose treason, Like deadly blight,
CCr,e3 DER the counsels Of the brave
And blasts them in their hour Of might.
Bis country's curse, his children's shame,
Bereft Of virtue, peace and fame
May he at last, with lips OF fame,
On parched desert tmrshng die.
And when from earth his spirit flies,
Just prophet let the damned one dwell
Fun In the sight Of Paradise, IL
Beholding Heaven and feeling He'll
lCheersl
I now want to say few words to the color
ed people, Of whom am glad to see many
here. Ibelieve, and have told them that, Il
the interests Of the white. man are at stake,
theirs are even more in jeopardy. If the
worst comes to the worst, the white mancan
gather his household gods and carry his sor-
row and his suffering to another land. But,
before the black man can go away, he must
make money enough. Even then there is no
place in which he would be treated as well as
be is here. II he goes to the North or North
west he will be met as an enemy. assert,
and have before this expressed, my willing
ness 10 grant more rights to the colored peo-
ple than any Northern State has shown viii
| lingness to grant in the recent elections. feel
that the interests Of the black men and the
white men OF the South are bound up together.
feel that the black men are Southern men,
that we were born upon the same soil, and
that We have lived our past lives together. ]
know that as the white man prospers go will
the black man prosper. know that II the
white men become poor and broken down, the
black men will share the same fate. The
Radicals have made them many prom ises, but
when they had got what they wanted they al
lowed the colored people to whistle down the
wind and shift for themselves. tell you that
if you are 80 unfortunate as to draw the line
between the white people OF the South and
yourselves, you will soC1 find that you have no
friends at all. The white men will bring other
white men into the country who will work cheap
er than the colored man. In few years they
will have occupied every foot Of ground where
YOU now dwell. They will be hired to the
owners Of the land, and gradually, but peace
fully and surely, they will spread over the
country, and the colored man will be driven
out, and will disappear as the Indian has dis
appeared before the onward march OF the white
nan. 1t is the law OF God, and 1t Will be SO as
sure as there is God in Heaven. l believe
that the colored man can do great good In this
! country. We know him, and he knows us. We
recognize his freedom fully. 1t is to our in
| terest that b, should make good crops and re-
ceive good wages. Even if we were not ac-
tuated by old acquaintance and friendship, our
interests would compel US to look after his
welfare. And for their welfare, we advise them
to help us to drive away the Radicals and seal
awags who are in our midst. My colored
friends, do as was done in Mississippi. There
the colored majority was greater IN proportion
| than it is here, but the colored men came to
the support Of their only friends, swept over
the State, and voted down the reconstruction
constitution by majority OF 10000. That ls
what you will do Lere, although perhaps not
now. You will find that Radical promises OF
forty acres OF land and mule will come to
nothing. They will give you piece OF land
six feet by three feet enough to bury you In;
| but you will get no more except as other peo-
Die do, by buying and paying for it. tCheers.
desire once more, my friends and fellow
citizens, to say that am glad to be with you,
and desire to ask the fair women whom see
around me to help Us in the coming fight, as
thew did in the fight now passed, during which
they gave up all that they had to assist the sol
dlers Of their country. Maid, mother and wife
devoted oil their energies to sustaining the
cause in which their fathers or sons we're en-
gagged. But would prefer to speak Of your
women now in words which paint their deeds
more beautifully than could hope to do:
The maid who binds her warriors sash,
And smiling, all her rain dssembles,
The while beneath the dropping lash,
One pearly tear.drop hangs and trembles;
Though Heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story,