Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-02
Phases in the South--The Ne
gro Element.

Our newly elected fellow-citizens of African
descent appear to be turning the tables NICE
,ly on the Radicals and Radical carpet.bag-
gers. AT Raleigh, N. c., for example, a spe-
cial train Of cars irGm the southeastern part
OF the State brought up:to the State Demo
crutic Convention a club of Democratic ne
groes in company with number of delegates.
We hear OF Similar movements throughout
all IT, South; Of the cclored people 0ocllng
TO the Democratic Standard, and should not
tie Radicals and 10 the Dem6cFars ii III TIE
Presidential and Congressional elections. All
the signs Of The times point iosuch result.
II is just what we.haye anticipated and pre-
dictcl. The negroes begin to see that the
Radicals have cheated them. Instead Of get
ting the lands and property Of the whites by
Wholesale system Of ccnhscation and trans-
fer to. themselves, as PROMISED, The negroes
+sfndzthe Radical Northern sdyenlurers and
carpet haggers are only after their labor and
votes. These Radicals have shown the clo-
ven foot, have shown they care nothing about
the negroes aud that all they want is to use
the poor Africans to make money and get
the Offices. What more natural. then, than
that these negroes should turn TO their old
masters and listen 10 the friendly voice of
those a,uong whom they were born and with
whom fheir future interests and welfare are
Identified?
This growing and general detection Of the
nerr ,es from The Radicals.,is creating dvi.
sion aud q great deal Of excitement among
that people. At first, as we saidr they were
nearly all going with the Radicals.;s HOW eol
1 orcd Democratic clubs and organ zalons are
springing up all round. Oi course those, who
still adhere to the Radicals arc very bitter
and hostile AT Ratrish they male riotous
d, moaslrat;ons Tor the purpose of uoeblng
tue negro Democratic club; but their object
Aas defeated by the temperate and moderate
conduct of the white people and thr ugh Gov,
ernor Holden calling ou: the military. Ainid
all this excitement AMI rip.qus nduct OF the
Radical negroes the greatest. enthusiasm IN
favor OF the Convention aud the Democrats
4 prevailed. To show the wisdom and modera-
Itiun of the Democrats, both white aid black
! (who, of. course, were in large .hajority there
at the t:mr), we notice that when Radical
Senator and carpet bageer. named Estes tore
down lthograph picture of Seymour and
Blair which was posted in the Yarborouyh
House nobody chastised him for his conduct
though many Democrats witnessed it. This
shows the Democrats to be:as moderate us
they are earnest. They are bent on carrying
the election, and will not be provoked to yio'
lence by the outrages of the Radicals. They
are determined not to give the kad!cal press
a, chance of bowling at them and calling them
incnrable. rebels. We call the attention O.
the Radical organs to this admirable and for
bcaring conduct of the Southern white peo
| ple, in contrast with that Of the Radical car
ret,baggcrs and their deluded tools amons
the poor negroes. This is one OF tic recent
phases of tho political revolution that.is going
on in The South. From all appearances The
reaction that has set in will sweep over tht
Southern States, and the Radicals will lind
themselves uext November left out in the
cold.-N Y. Herald.