Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-09
10 trrraant.more rights 10 the colored.

wiling 10 grant more rights tosthe colored
people than any Northern State has shown a
disposition to grant by the recent elections; )"
that they are willing to grant suffrage to the
negro "under educational ana property quail.
fcations.n This Is not question as to intel
ligence or property; it is question Of
whether the negro and white man can enjoy
political privileges in common. And if they
could, is it desirable that they should? His
tory proves that they can not enjoy political
equality in peace; and political equality
would lead to social equality, and this to
miscegenatiou, and you would then have
mong;el population, which IS "an abomina-
ton in the sight of the Lord"
This question Sof uniting the whites aud
blacks upon the same political platform is
not new experiment. In the Islands Of
BayE, ST. Domingo and eMa1ritiuS, it has
b ZEN tried, and has resulted in the blacks not
onlysrefusiags to act with the Whites. but in
their driving the latter from the Island, and
forcing even the mulattoes to live in an allot.
ted part. And3the most intelligent blacks
were those who pressed the prejudice Of
race, with the greatest bitterness aud yio-
lence. The experiment now going on in this
State points 70 like Results. The extreme
negroes. IN the present Radical Legislature
are. thesmosts intelligent. and are therones
that.haye most aroused the prejudice Of race.
The line has been clearly drawn, and even
some Of the escalawags have declared their
determination to- e2standi by their race. As
we'll might yousexpect to mix and oil,
or the eagle and dove to mate together, or the
lion and lamb to lie down together in peace,
as the negro and white men to share the
privileges of the ballot boxiin common. -ss'
Some of the advocates OF. qualified suffrage
assert that the interests of the negro and the
white are the same, in regard to labor and
capital! In,the absence of white laborers,
this may bstrue but there is no political
interest liz common, nor can they have any
such interest; and the, history of the two
races has proven this to be true; and 1t is
political facct; that the wiscst statesmen of
our par ty' assert theyrwil be governed by.
I,askr whereis the policy of promising the
negro what. you know he is not Constitu-
tionally entitled to, and what the Democratic
party are not willing to give him? Some
assert that this isathe only way we can carry
the, State.,s4f we have to carry the State BY
getting of the Democratic Platform, and to
king half radical position, by ignoring our
pride Of race, by deceiving the negro with
politieai promises that wei never can fulfill,
why letlthe State vote Radical. Iadvise you
to stand upon. the, principles of the Constitu-
ton /; stand upon the Platform Of the Demo
cratic irarty Island by the white race, and
slick ~ truth and honesty; and wben' the
Radical. wave has. passed over our State, ak
will yet be. we'll with us, for our deliy,
era ce must come from those WHO were re-
Gently in arms against us. In attempting to
carry this, rStateiai this way, to secure SIX
electoral votes, You may lose the twenty-one
of Ohio, The thirly-threc O New York, the
sixiStn IF 7 linois, the thirteen Of fnaianA,
th.,-Sttsei,ty six -of .Penusylvania the six. of
Connecticut, and 80 on.thruush shout:t North,
Es.l,;.t.d W,.,t.x IhNwould be really drop.
pins the ubstauce, ;ns.asping at the shadow.
But sliaff dwell 10 logger upon this sub
iect; it .issto6 self evslens for argument.
Your instinaS.iniependentiysdf your reason,
viii. .teH you that theznegro must not become
part Of, the body polite Of this State. ]
have confidence in the intelligence and integ-
rity of-tae whitesrace of South Carolina; f
believe that theyewiltnot, forget the wisdom
Of those who formed this Government; that
they will prove true to our. friends at the
North; that they will abide BY the platform
of the Democratic party that they will not
blur, sby,an5 false action, the record of their
race; thattheyywill profit by the teachings
of history that they will. listen to the de-,
clafasions Of the wisest statesmen of our par
ty sand thatahey will -nos, attempt to. con-
trsyene those laws of race that the Creator
has made immdtable. ,,,a - s.s, .f5
shadows thefuture Of our our State, or that its
past or-present troubles, swillSevcr cause you:
to- abandon principle for. policy or to forget
the gentle courage, the courteous hostility,
the mild and mercifpl justice, the proud sub
mission to law, and respect for right, which
have ever characterized the gentlemen OF
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