The Orangeburg news. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1867-1875, 1868-05-09
Ben Wade-Who and What is Hcs

Ben Wade-Who and What is IIc2
In the event of the disposition Of President
johnson, do the public realize what sort of'a
vile demagoguc the usurpers intend shall take
his place ? Bon Wade, We suppose, the reader
will answcr. Butts there one man in a thou
sand who knows the real character of that in
carnation of 'grcat moral idcas?" &
Wade is misccgcn and an anal agamatonist
in practice andprinciple, and ifhc cvcrgcts into
the White House we may be prepared for the
beautiful spectacle there of h mixture of the
races and a distribution of the spols of office,
with as much reference to the "cl;inls" Of the
negro as to the white man.
Possibly there are some who will read this,
to disbelicvc or to doubt it, 10 remove their
incredulity, then, we suppose to call old Bon
to the stand and let him speak for himself,
In one Of his speeches out in Ohio, last fall,
he does not hesitate to put tho negro ahead of
our foricgn-born citizens His exact language
was this:
. CAS- mass, in my Judgment, they (ncyrocs)
arc better qualified to discharge their duties
under this Government than the great mass,
equal to them i'll numbers, that We have always
permitted to votc
Again, a little further on in the same spccch
the old reprobatc had the cfTrontcry to say:
L know that of the great numbers that come
up to the polls, manY are very ignorant. They
come here from a foreign country and we give
them them the privilege to vote when they
know no more than the horse you ride
1Yis was not ALL His preference for tho
African cropped out even more disgustincly
when on tho same occasion, he expressed him
self in terms like these:
am glad to say that these people whom
your Legislature has referred it for you to say
whether they shall be voters or not, arc in
fnitcly above the class have alluded to (tor-
eien-born ctizcnsn all, that intelligence that
qualities men to vote right. ~
That is what old Wade himself says-the
same old Wade whom the tyrants and traitors
are seeking, by violent means, 60 make Presi-
dent OF tho United States ! Now, let us ste
what his personal and political friends arc say
ing-thc personal and political friends who cx-
pcct to be Cabinet Ministers under him, or
who have been promised foreign missions
abroad, or lucrative Offices at home, lust as
soon as Andrew johnson is out Of the way.
Let us take John IIisRman, of pcnnsylva-
mia, for an example. Hickman is member
of the Pennsylvania Legislature lii the course
ofa recent debate in that trooly loi" body upon
n proposition to eliminate the "white" from the
Constitution, this bosom friend of the to-bc
President of the United States said:
may possibly see the day that l may walk
with colored woman; Il have seen a great
many, colored women that I, wonlq rather walk
with than great many white women know
many negroes who | think are better entitled
to vote this moment than a great many white
men who do vote, and hive long exercised the
franchise.
Another personal friend of the ;:hcr appa
rent on the Same occasion, went n step or
two further and flung this bcastly insult in the
face of tho Irish and,ticrmans:
lfDcmocrats give the right of suffrage to
foreign panpcrs to whom a&pclling book is a
sealed mystery, and who still smell of bil~c
water, and from whose garments the Celtic
aroma or the Tcutonic fragrance of the father
land has not yet been removed by the pure air
of freedom, why should not the colfce-colorcd
descendants Of IT,, first families of the South
have voice in rcconstructing the States of
their forclathcrs
There, reader: that is Ben Made and these
are Ben Wade's friends
And, now, what docs it all mean? Briefly
this:
If PrcsidcntJobnsoneis ideposcd, tho White
House will become a rendezvous for ncurocs-
the Cabinet will have negroes at the Council
board-ncgrocs will swarm at the "Prcsident's
lcvces, while tho Irishman, the German. an,
every other in his veins will be comnelled to
stand hand in hand among the outsiders. That
is the 'ncw nation these miscroants have been
so long trying 10 establish on the ruins of tho
Rcpublic-thc Misccgnal iol-and that is tho
sort of Faustin Soulouquc which the tyrants and
traitors are after in determining that old Ben
Made, right or wrong, shall be the successor
of hndrew,,J ohnsnni