The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-05-13
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most minute details, and so bur.
densome will be the government
which it inaugurates, that you
will be crushed by it. You cannot
bear it. As we'll might the heavy
| harness of the mailed Warrior? be-
put upon the limbs Of an infant,
as for these burdens to be imposed =
upon the impoverished people uf .
! South Carolina. None bnt a peo. /:
pie rich and highly educated ean
live under that Constitution Try
it if you will, but tell yoa, gen.
tlemen, that antagonism viii be
, excited between the two races,
and conflict may be, the result.
Under it peace and harmony are,
utterly impossible in South Caro-
lima '.'-'',. ,.*s..s -. = -
We have thus suggested to jour
honorable body some Of the proaiii-
nent objections to Your 5adoptibh
of this Constitution. We. waive
all argument upon the subject Of
its validity. 1t is a. Constitution
de- tacto, and that is: the ground
upon which we approach yeur
honorable body in ths spirit of
earnest remonstrance. That Con
Isstitution was the work Of, North
,ern adgenturers, Southern fFsshe-
gades and ignorant negroes, sNottn
one per centum. of the white, pop
:ulation of the State approves IT,.
and not two perceutum of the ne
groes who voted; for.its adoption
know any more than dog horse;
or cat, what his act of voting in,
piled. That Constitution enfran-
chises every. male negro over the.
age of twentysone, and disfraI-
fchises many of. the puPest ada.
best white men zof the State
The negro being 10 large nJheSl.
Ecal majority; as. compared with
the: whites, the effect ise that the
new Constitution establishes In
this State negro supremacy With
all its train Of countless evils. AZ
superior race-a portion, Senator'S
and Representatives., Of the: same
proud race to. W hich it is Jour
pride. to belong-is put. under the
rule OF an Inferior race:-the, af5eet:
slaves of yesterday, the fashed !:
freedmen Of to-day: And think you
that there can be any jlst, lasting
reconstruction on This basisa The
Committee respectfully repsy,, 10 !.
behalf Of their white fellow-citi- :
zens, that this cannot be. We do
not mean, to threaten -resistanca=3
:by arms. But, the white people
- = . =
of our State viii never quietly sub
NIT to negro rule@ We may havs}
t. pass under the yoke YOU bare
authorized. but BY moral ageneies,
by political organization; by every
peaceful means left us, we will :
keep up this contest until we:have
rega:ned the heritage Of political
control handed down to W by an
honored ancestry. This is>a. duty
we owe to the land that is oars, to.
the graves that it contains and 70 :
the race Of which you and we; are
alike members-the proud cau-
casian race, whose sovereignty on
earth God has ordained, and they.
themselves have illustrated on the.
most brilliant pages ofthe worlds
history. -. *; - e. :
Nor. Senators and Representatives,
does the State of South Carolina merit, ;
at your hands, the, voliticaf ,rea,ment
that has been meted out to her without.
stint. -
1t is true. South Carolina tnok, the
held promptly, in the late war, hetween
The STATES. Her people embarked their
all in,lh struggle. hecauSe the soveI.
eighty of the State demaiidcd this oS
them. But when the war ended aud
tIle srhitiau-nt to-which they Eesorted;
vas adverse t. their cau>s, no people
ever yielded more gracefully y. the de,
cree of Prnvi'lenee. Qs,ie,sS they hid
down their asI,S. and, IA peace, they be.
came la" abiding, AZ, H war, they had
been faithful TO their hag. They accept
el the legitimate results Of the war.
They were ready t" a5and4'n the Claim Of
the right of their State praceaily to Sc:
cede from the Union, aud they assen,ed.
in Cow asseahled, to the esaanci.
patton of tn, ir slaves. And NOW, were
the State admitted into the Union, ons
just anu reas"aable basis. We hesitate
tot to declare that again enid our, peo-