The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-04-15

0A Wv r oPNA y SsN
now wish to live in luxury and
turn off these orphans and widows
with nothing. A special provis-
ion is put in this constitution for
this very class.
| Was ever such a constitution
heard Of before in a civilized coun-
try? Who now can doubt 1t was
made by negroes, felons, carpet
baggers and renegades to deceive
and destroy all honest, decent and
respectable people, and to provide
plunder tor rogues, robbers, thieves
and New England vagabonds?
Pardon me my dear sir, if I
have made my brief letter a long
one. I could increase the damn
ing features and effects of this ne
gro constitution until not a book
could contain the true record. |
cannot close without again sum-
ming up the loss and gain pro-
posed to our people if they will
ratify this constitution, because
of this promise of relief:
Here is the bargain in few words:
If we establish the constitution
we get negro voters negro jurors;
negro legislators; negro judges; !;
negro magistrates; negro mayors
and municipal officers NEGRO sher-
| ifs, clerks, ordinaries, constables,
negro militia and militia officers,
and negroes in every other posi-
ton which renegade and New Eng
land whites will not appropriate
to themselves. Also we stall
have New England Governors;
New England Congressman, New
England judges; New England
superintendents Of our great rail-
roads, of the Asylums for our lu-
natic. deaf and -dasah.~ and hliadii
New England tax collectors ; New
England treasurers; New England
teachers, and New England ad-
venturers in every other position
not occupied by a negro; or not
given to some miserable Southern
renegade who has agreed, in con-
sideration of getting the Office, to
be dirtier than a corn-feld negro,
and meaner than New England
Radical, and to 60 further and lie
more unblushingly than both, in
the work of degrading and robbing
his own people. AS the direct eff
feet of this rule, we shall have our
property deprecated nearly half
Of our State rendered unfit for the
residence of white people our Or
phans robbed; our widows impov-
erished; our society demoralized
our credit at home and abroad de-
stroyed oar taxes doubled; our
laws incapable of protecting per-
son or property. Strangers will
be our rulers thieves our legisla-
tors, perjured and bribed crimi
mails our judges. We shall have
no peace save in the presence of a
perpetual military power, and no
hope Of recovery from our fallen
condition except through despot
ism accompanied with the EXTERN
ination, banishment, or re-enslave-
ment of the African race.
And what is the consideration
| we get for all this degradation and
ruin? This-only this: apromise
from rogues that we shall not be
required to pay our debts; and
which promise we know before
hand these rogues are neither
able nor willing to keep, which
they do not intend to keep, and
which they merely make to en-
trap usl Georgians, read this pic
ture! Turn back and read it
again! Think of your wives and
children; our buried dead; our
glorious past, and our once bright
future, and read again Then
you will be able to understand this
wild, mad, brigand promise of ere
| lief!" relief from honest debts by
putting your wives, your children,
your property, and your all into
the protection Of rogues and un-
der the domination of the negro |!
In the first place; revolutionary
leaders in other times and coun-
tries have been supported by the