Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-10-21
Popular Disgust at the Results ofNegre
Suffrage. l. :A.t...-l


Popular Disgust at the Results of Negro
Suffrage. - '4,fzHsA
The New York correspondent Of the Az,
gusts Constitutionalist, :wriiing under date Of
October S, says: a-t
Whatever may be the;result Of reelection
in November-whether it be the success oi
Grant and Coliax, with Congress To- match,
or the choice Of Seymour and Blair, with "a
House to support theln-therc is one. thing
especially sure, and that is a very decided
| modification of Northern opinion in favor 0l
Southern whites is going On, and &io where
more plainly than in the Republican party
There.is growing npmuchuneasiness respect.
ing tha nature Of the monster to which me-
gro suffrage at the South has given birth
The negroes are, proving themselves 20 ag-
pressive and insoleht, so dead 20 al moderate
counsels, so ready to use their nuthericsl
strength for purposes which dc. not come with
5in the range Of political powers, that genuine
alarm begins to be-felt. a
1t begins to be more fully understood, too,
that Southern men, with habits and educa-
tion which have become component parts Of
their nature, cannot and will not. endure ne.
gro domination, nor their attempts to force
themselves into social equality and lh't the
only way in which sanguinary conflicts can
be avoided is'by assuring the negroes tba,
they have strained their tether, and must BIZ
content to recede little from the advanced
position which they have assumed in the I'D.
ministration of public affairs. Remember, !
am drawing the picture of the future, in its
worst aspect, "a indicated by the change Of
tone in the party whose prospects of success
are now considered the more promising. In
case Of Democratic success, how much bright
er the vistal
The changes in the tone-in dominant Re-
publican circles is foreshadowed by the At
-lantic Monthly. That is a very pronounced
Republican organ-nearly up to The Sumner
standard. It has been publishing for some
months series of articles entitled "The Man
and Brother" which deal largely in the
characteristics developed by the nanunittcd
slaves. These articles profess to be the re.
cord of the experience Of an. officer Of the
Freedmen's Bureau. The article in the DC
tober number details incidents said 10 have
occurred at Greenville, s. G. In this negro
L SUITAhc N Iduhlf ddthltiCo ~ uh'o oSSh :"
" choice of evils = that it Is" full of danger :
that the emancipation has, improved the con-
]ition of but few, of the negroes has benefit.
ted the mass of the whites much more; that
the negroes are not at all likely to be able to
compete with the whites for pre- eminence in
any walk oflife; and that they remain poor
and 4hriftless where even an European pea
sautry would be prosperous. This is-telling
the neerophilist, who are principal readers OF
The Atlantic, some plain truths, which are
likely to cool their ardpr.to have tho negro
made demigod.. The Atlantic seems a!s''
anxi us to have the people Of the North ullY
understand the true state Of feeling ut the
South to this end it publishes an article en-
titled {" Edmund Brook" being the autobio-
graphy OF a house serving negro man. 1t is
written, as l happen to know, by an accom-
plished lady of South Carolina. whose efforts
n n the walks of literature date since the clos.
ne of the war. Tlese two articls will do
Southern men good to read, although the
first CONTAINS much that is disagreeable in
detail. -. sggiSo''
1t may be noted, also, that. the Republican
orators have ceased to defend negro suffrage
as intrinscally right; it is merely excused
on the ground Of immediate necessity.