The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-04-22

CIVIL War-lS the UFSl Quty VI lHc iioui, j
and no man is excus;,ble who hestates to
do his part III this good ard necessary
work
The War of Races in the South.
Many months 60 we warned the Rad
,icafs that they wero sowing a. fearful hal.
vest in tho South. We told them that
the measures they were adopting would
Inevitably result in a conflict between the
two races Heedess OF the solemn les
sons which history teaches, and utterly
regardless. OF the laws Of nature, our
Radical rulers forced their policy upon
the South. and already are we beginning
10 see what the consequences will be-.
From all appearances, Il war OF races IN
that unhappy section oi the Union is rap
idly approaching. Tho first seeds Of dis
trust were sown by the Freedmen's Bu
reau, which, allhon4l nnderth the patronage
Of tile General Government, was most
shamefully used BY the Radical party to
poison the minds Of the ignorant blacks
against their former masters. At 81 later
day, the bureuu not beng as secreta con
cei1l as was desirable. Loyal League clubs
were formed from the Potomac To the Rio
Girande. These organizations were com.
posed almost entirely OF negroes they
becameso powerful in numbers and polit-
ical importance that eventually their
members assumed to be the rulers and
masters OF the whites. So loug as they
were permitted to display their arrogance
and assert their usurpcd power, 50 long
wa. tie danger ayerted. But the logical.
result of two years Of despotism lies now
before us in the tact OF Il counter action.
on, the part OF the whites From one end OF
the South TO the other Il new secret socle-
tv. known as the "ku kluX klan, has
been organized in opposition % universal
negro suffrage and negro rule. The aims
and purposes OF the association are not
concealed from the world. The Southern
whites have declared that lliey will no
longer tolerate policy which sinks them
into servitude, and makes Il sem-barba-
rous race their masters. Thus we now
have two intensely hostile elements Or
ranzed and organizing, aud facing each
other-the Ku klux Khan, or secret So
cety. of white men, OH the one hand, and
the 10y al League Association, or secret
society OF negroes, on the other, each
struggling for supremacy, and each OF q
race alien in civilization and ideas to the
other. How long will it be before such
untagonislic clements pass the bounds OF
political warfare, and engage in contest
of bloodshed and desolation?
We arc no alsrmists, but we cannot ig-
more the TACT that nothing can be done
nov to nreyent war Of races. And s. &;
!c ucI0n OF the Radicals must be ascribed
this terrible prospect for the South. They
aud their emissaries have lniiamed the
minds of the negroes with ideas which
cannot be obliteratcd except By the stern
and blpody experiences of the battle field.
They have goaded the Southern whites
into desperation; forced tlem ass means
of preserving their race, to initiate the
example of their black antagonists BY
organizing a powerful. secret society and
they nave planted the seeds of the mos
fearful conflict that this co.:i'm=itt evri'
witnessed. Unfortunately. the races are
nearly balanced, numbering, as they 30,
some six millions OF whites to over four
millions of blacks A war between them
will be much worse than any OF the IN
surrections in St. Domingo or Jamaca.
In the South the whites are numerous J;
they possess superior intellectual powers.
and havo won a worldwide reputation,
for valor. But they have to cont@h',
against a horde of semi -savages' oaenes g.
nn by tho entire power OF The Kadlcal
narly M y and halt crazoa BY the perilclous
teachings the, have received. An army
costing c(. three hundred millions pcrannnm
will not suffice 10 keep Secen the f'@::.e '',oiween
tho uwo races. The inflexibility of the
whites, and the dogged determination OF
tic Blacks never 10 S;;siii:.; II each others
rule, appear to render in advatce any at:
tempt at reconciliation or restoration of
kindly feeling utterly irnpotent.
The situation in the sontli is sad one;
the futnre offers nothing better than in
ternecino war Insthc ''blaclS belts" as
they were called, of the diifcrent South;
ern States. those whites who can ret away
are already leaving the horles. OF their
Eaf1r olccvC hare.