The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-07-01

~ S"hu Vi PToteCtlon instead OF
otppress'on--an object of love, and not Of
hate, sroliation and vengeance on the
part OF the Government, could pay two
hundred and fifty millions year, as the
public revenue.
Under the present murdcrous policy.
however, towards her, it cost two hun
dred and fifty millions year to govern,
cruch and destroy her---making a differ.
ence OF five hundred millions, an amount
almost equal to tho entrie expense of
the government. The Radical policy
has not only set fire to and consumed
one-half OF the granaries, the stacks and
harvest fields Of the United States, but
it likewise taxes what is left to keep
standing army over the ghastly and
smouldering ruins it has made.
But may be told that the destruc-
ton OF slavery is the cause of the de.
structlon ofso much wealth that the
figures which I have produced from the
census of 1860, was based upon slave
labor. at that time the South con.
tanned white population of 8, 604, 900.
Its black population numbered 1885,
600. There that population, trained
to labor, remains to day. The ravages
OF war and the results of emancipation
have been made up, or nearly so, by
the law of natural increase. The states.
manah'p of the country finds vast "a.
boring population in possession Of the
most fertile and productive region of the
earth. and by its policy turns that ro.
gion into barren desert and bowling
wilderness The rich lands arc there.
The brawny and stalwart labor is there,
and actua! want is there. But the
miserable and incendary politician of
the North is also there the infamous
Union League, With which to seduce
the negro to his ruin, is there; vast
and appalling military despotsm, ere.
ated and used by political party for
purposes of abomination, is there the
Frecdmon's Bureau, that guarantees
out of your pockets that the negro may
live without work, is there with its
mighty clan OF pernicious, poisonous
cmmssaries; and tho darkness, reptiles,
locusts and plaques were not more IA
tai to Egypt than arc these gigantic
evils to that ruined land. We hear the
dreadful cry Of actual starvation coming
up at this moment from country far
richer than tho Delta of the Nile. A
loan of thirty millions, to be paid by you
is in contemplation by officers of the
F'reedmen's Bnrea at Washington, with
which to maintain a people who will
not work or lot others work in the gar.
den spot of creation. Is this tho ban.
quot to which you were invited by the
abolition of slavery Is this the feast
of good things TO which you were bid
den by the abolition cmmissanes
RADICAL PURPOSES.
Thus Radical reconstruction proceeds,
and it is the open and avowed purpose
OF Congress to admit these States thus
in the hands and under the control OF
tho negroes before this season Closes
The grcat.crimo is pressed now each day
and hour with fierce desperation. And
who so blind as not to sec the odious pur.
poses? A Presidential election is at
hand, and tho first fruits of this accursed
conspiracy are to DO seventy electoral
votes deposited for tho Radical candi.
date by the hands oftho negroes. The
negroes of Georgia, in their dense bar.
barity, aro to outvote the frccmcn OF
Indiana in tho choice of Chief Magis.
lrate. The negro on the lcvoes of the
Mississippi is to drown the voice of the
Intelligent farmer OF the North. I speak
advisedly.
The Radical leaders, since tho late
elections, expect to carry but few Of
the Northern States. They despair of
controlling any longer tho white vote Of
the country. They seek no longer to
govern this great Republic by the white
mans influence. They yield all that to
the Democratic party, and denouncc n
white mans party as an intolerable
oifense. But with seventy negro elec.
toral votes, and to them added tho votes
OF Tennessee and Missouri, both bastard
offsprings of the bayonet, thoy are pre-.
parIng to rob the people Of their sacred
rights, and openly defy tho legally ex-
pressed public will The act Of recon.
struction is unconstitutional, if there is
Constitution in the land it is q fraud
on the purposes and objects of tho war,
that word has not lost its meaning; it is
upheld by perjury and duress if there
be such CRIME and,yet we are expect
cd to quietly yield to its claim, that
the negro shall make the next Presi-
dent.
a-o>e
The Petersburg ndeu contains this
appeal: Virginians, be firm as the ba.
ses OF your historic mountains, unbcnd-
ing as their snowy caps. Make no com.
promise: be deceived by no such traps
for gulls rs this Chase movement; you
have taken your stand, maintain il
against all assailants alike. Virginia