Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-02
Frank Blair on Negro Supremacy.

BLAIR, our next Vice-Presideut, gave vent tt
| his sentiments on national topics in long
and very interesting address. We have only
room for the annexed paragraphs, to which
the attention of fall true Democra.sis is specially
directed:
I call your attention to the aggressions
which baye been made>by the Radical party
calling themselves Republicans, .nson the
fundamental principles of our Government,
those great underlying principles onswhich
all civil liberty depends. They have sohght
by various measures, which. tire Consultation
has prohibited, to eutsench themselves IN
power in this Government. They, losing the
confidence of their own race-losing the con.
idcnce. of the white people-haye sought to
give the power ia "a portion of the States of
this Union to another elemens-tbe black
race-hopjng, after losing the confidence of
the white race, TO maintain ana perpetuate
their supremacy BY giving political power in
ten States oethis Onion TO TIE black race.
I Applause, and cries of "Shame! shame PIT
Now, my leAow-cisizeas / take the brad
ground that the white race is the only race
an the. world that has shown itself eapable-of
maintsining free, institutions and asfree gots
fernment-[appfausel j. that nowhere, in-aHy-
country or at any time, have the black people
shown themselves capable of establishing or
maintaining q constitutional government, or.
any other kind Of government, Prolonged
.applause. Yet the people Of the Southern
States have been disfranehised, and the igno-
| rant blacks-the same people that The Re-
publican party has declared d-were imfwated by
| slavery-whom we all know to.be Ignorant.
whom we all know to- be sclni-bal barous--s
whom we all know have never been capable
of creating, establishing or maintaining a
free government, are made to predominant in
I an those States. Not only are they made to
predominatcin the Southern States, but the
three or fourmiiliensofse=1i-b blacks
haze the entire control Of those States, and
send twenty Senators to the United States
Senate, while I. four millions Of white peo-
pie Of New York send but. two Senators, ;, It
would take New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio.
Indiana, Illinois, Missouri. and enough of the
other great States of the Union puttogether,
containing twenty millions of white people,
to eounterbalance. the three or four million
blacks iusthe South, so that tile negroes are
not oa,lyput ,a6ore fhes aclite people of The
SoWh, b1a aboue the whitcpeople, o},tse North
also, and three or four millions of.biacks are
made equal IN the Senate of the United
States to more than twenty millions OF tue
free white people of the North. Cheers,
and cries of Shame. Fellow citizens, we ali
very well know that this IS political trick to
keep what is known as the Radical party in
power. They don't believe in it themselves.
They voted it down in the State Of Kansas
Ly 10000 majority, Notwithstanding the
people bave voted down negro suffrage in this
State. your two Senators and Representatives
still insist upon sustaining the State govern
ments erected on Tire negro vote of the South |
You uonT understand me uarfGer III Which |
our institutions are from the ignorant blacks
and vagabond carpet-baggers of the South
Prolonged applause, and cries Of" Yes, we
do; and we'll save the country Jet.''l The
people have never asst nted to these so called
reconstruction acts. ~s~.--
81 say the Southern States were never out
of tie Union; that is the doctrine we heidi
to and fought for, for four years, bntnow the
Radical party has taken the. exact position
that jeff Davis and other leaders Of secession
took at the commencement of the war. APP
>plause. and cries of "tbat's So."] tell yeu
have no animosity toward the negroes, aDd
those who are pretending to be their friends
are their worst enemies. Every one knows,
from my history, that when the negroes were
in slavery, was an advocate for their cman-
cipation. I advocated it at the worst times
and in the worst places. 1 advocated it when,
the present palc-faced Radicals of Missouri
did not dare to lift up taeir heads. Pro-
longed cheers And now / say that unless
the negroes submit to the intelligent guidance
of the powerful white race, their fate will be
that of the Indians, they viii be extermf.
nated,, The negroes eanaonly be happy and
prosperous as long as they are guided by the
intelligence of the white race. [Cheers.
Whenever it is sought to disfranchise the, in
eiligence Of the country and make it subor-.
| ,diRate to the ignorance of the country.
Whenever it is sought to subordinate the
white race of the country to the black barba
.rism Of the negro, the prosperity of the coun.
Try is, at an end. [Applause and cries of
/" That's so."] But came back to the prop.
osi,ion with which started, that the Radical
! party has done these llin.s in defiance of
the will OF the people. Have the people
ever endorsed negro suffrage? [Neverl
Did you not condemn it in this State? Was
it not CONDEMNED in all the States OF the
Union at the last election? and shall the
Radical party persist in pressing it upon tie
people. that it shall be the rule? And when,
as have already stated, in New York, thar
if the Democratic party should carry these
elections; if the people should elect u Dem-
oeratic President, this pretended reconssruc-
ton ohould be undone; and if these misera-
l-ble carpet baggers in the Senate were in the
way of its being done, the people will find a
way to execute their wilk; those miserable
creatures who have undertaken to olestaH the
popular will, say that any one who undertakes
to execute tbe viii of the people is d revoln-
ZIONIST. Applause. Look att5e attitude of
these mes. Who are the rev9utionisls :
WHO has put at defiance the popular will !?
Who has taken away the powers of the Tx
ecutiye as granted to him by the Constitution?
Who has curtailed the jurisdiction Of the .Su-
prcme Court of the Unied States? Who
has done all this {? Why the Radical party.
[Checrs and cries of That's So" Who has
put ten States of this Union under martial
law iinrtime Of profound peace !? The Radi.
cal.pay,y ia Cengtess. Who has takenaway
fiom the PrGsident,the Constitutional powers
granted liin as sCommander in Chief Of the
army and conferred it on their candidate for
the Presidency {? TIE Radical patty. Who
hold eight millions Of white people Of the
South pinned to the earth with bayoneis :?
The Radical patty. General Grant was Sc
lectel as the candidate Of the. party because
they knew they were beaten on their princi
pies, and because he alone, with bis great
personal Popularity, was supposea.fo be able
to arrest the tide that was about TO. over
whelm them; because with The almost om-
nipotent power now given him in ten States