The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-02-17
CHI A R ES TON.
MONDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY II, 1868.
Rights and Privileges.

| The Club House convention maueh great
blunder in it's legislation on Friday. Fol-
lowing the lead of an ambitious, imported
mulatto by the name of Randolph, that body
sagely resolved that "distinction on account
of race or color, in any case whatsoever,
shall be prohibited; and all classes of citi-
zens shall enjoy equally all common, public,
legal and political privileges" The con-
yention has stultifed itself by this action;
it has gone quite beyond its sphere, which
embraces questions of rights only; it has
attempted impossibilities in incorporating
social distinctions and privileges into the
organic law. And, in claiming too much,
the members of that body are imperilling
those privileges which they now possess,
and those provisions which are essential to
their security and welfare under the new
order of things.
Those who are teaching the freedmen to
believe that liberty and social equality are
the same thing, and are instructing them
to insist upon both, are their worst enemies
They set their simple-minded disciples in
array against the public sentiment of the
whole country. They begin conflict which
will infict serious evils upon the African
race. There Is room for both races at the
South and work for both-room for the
Willie capitalist, if there is labor to be en-
ployed; and room for the black laborer, if
there is capital to be invested. Not so, if
the latter challenges the former to rivalry
in which one or the other race must give
way. In this event the doom Of the red
man betokens what that Of the black man
will be.
Liberty does not at all require the con-
founding of all race distinctions. There
are three things essential to liberty;-hrat,
the protection of society from the interfer-
ence and violence of foreign States; second
ly, the protection of the citizen from injus-
tice or oppression, by the maintenance CT
an exact administration of justice; thirdly,
the participation of the citizen in the ben
efits arising from public appropriations fer
relief and for education. None of these
conditions requires a monstrous umslgama-
ton of races and colors.
1t may be well enough for "carpet-b bag"
members of the convention to urge meas
ure, however hazardous, which secures
them temporary popularity. Whatever
evils may result from the agitation Of So
ciety and the war of races, they will not be
affected by the general ruin. They came
among us yesterday; they will be gone to-
morrow. They are the trumpeters to
battle where they expect to do aone of the
fighting. But the black man whom they
have seduced by their mad follies will reap
the consequences, when the worthless dem
agogues have gone back, with carpet-bags
well stuffed, to Massachusetts, and Ohio.
The white people of the South are not
unfavorable to the adoption of such meas
ures as will guarantee the rights of the COL
ored people. They feel it to be necessary
that both races should cooperate harmoni-
ously in the development of our resources.
7. we are ever to emerge from that state of
impoverishment to which we have been re-
duced by the war, and in which we have
been kept by hostile legislation since the
war, the united industries Of the whole
population must effect our deliverance. No
difficulties beset us now which diligence
and resolution cannot master. The only
danger which would paralyze enterprise is
social anarchy; French Revolution in
which all ranks and distinctions are levelled
down; general disorganization such as
that which the carpet-bag delegates have
already inaugurated and are striving to
maintain; law of disorder liberty of
license.