The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-10-07
[From the Macon Telegraph.
Negroes Sold 0ut bY the Radicals.

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Negroes; Sold Out by the Radicals.
The proceedings in the Atlanta Leg
lslature look very much like Sambo's
career, as aleglslator a III Georgia, is,
rapidly drawing to q close. HIS white
co-Radicals have turned him out. On
"Wednesday minority report was pre-
sentcd in tho House declaring him incli.
giblo under the constitution. A. point
of order was made that tho minority Of
the committee could not report in ad-
vance OF tho majority. The Speaker
overrulcd the point, and was sustained
by q vote Of lO2 log31. The Speaker
then held that the negro mcmbers could
not vote upon the question OF their
eligibility and was sustained a gam by Il
vote Of 90 to 80.
AS there are between 25 ana 30 ne.
groes in the House, n number of them
must have been absent or else have
voted for their own exclusion III sus.
tanning the decision of the Chair.
]t ls clear that all, or nearly all. The
white Radicals must have proved false
to their colorcd fellow Legislators, and
loned the Democrats il, project to ex-
pnrgdc The Legislature, which never
could have been accomplished but for
that active co-opcraticr.
Indeed, 1t has been whispered all o ,
he country. for weeks, that the white
Radicals in the Legislature would be
ready to kick out the negroes SO soon as
tic Offices were disposed Of. Ex Gov
ernor Brown, it's known, has always
held that The negroes had no business in
The Legislature, and he was ready to
turn them out 80 soon as they had pro
vided for him. -
Tho decision Of thc Speaker, that The
negroes should hold no vote in their
own cases, has also been gossipcd about
asa thing settled upon, IN some way OF
trade, from tho very beginning orlhc
session
Thus the negroes sec for themselves
tho truth OF what the Democrats have
always told them that these so callc
scalawags and carpct-baggcrs only used
them as the monkey used the cat to
poke tho hot c'lcsnuts out Of the ashes
and when they had done with them,
would give them lofty hoist and tum-
| bic.
The Democrats have dealt honestly
and truly by tho negroes They have not
stuffed the colorcd people with The idea
o! being legislators and Judges anl
governors, because they knew The ne
grocs were not fit for llcsc positions,
and would do mischief to themselves
and white people by attempting to fill
them.
But the Radicals for their own sci
fish purposes, dclndcd the negroes into
running for lrcsc Offices, and allowed
them to hold these positions until the
Judgeships and Scnatorsh,ps were dis.
posed ofby their votes, and then drove
them out.
No wonder such treatment as this
made Turner the coored man from
blbb thank God he was negro and not
white man. l( he estimates white
men by The crowd he has been acting
with and fooled by, it is no credit or
honor to be a white man.
But let him pnt on his thinking cap
and be wise. There are plenty Of
white men Of truth, honor and rcciilndc
among tho Democrats in Georgia. These
men scorn to deceive the negroes bv
filing their hands with impra ;ticablc
IDEAS OF political promotion; but they
are willing to order and settle affairs
upon the best possible foundations for
the black and white, They are willing
TO give tho blacks Il governments secure,
equal. inst and liberal under which
both races can thrive and prospcr-each
IN its appropriate sphere.