The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-07-08

N'o"'P "ou Will our lutncrS anu Win us.
But now, his worship is turned to internal
nightly secret "Loyal League" meetings, in
which, instead of freedom, lie has, at the
point of the bayonet 10 trcmblc and swear
TO support his party right or wrong, and
this ls your Doasei freedom is it Away
with it, it is rotten, feeble, ruinor ), degrad-
ing and vile! You call this freedom only
In name 1t is the worst slavery on earth
what, to vote ut tho bidding Of another
mans will, at the point Of the bayonct and
be frccl " zoe to such freedom Base and
unkind, trcnchcrous and shortlivcd, il Sd
vors of perdition, and brings ruin, war; des.
truc,ion and hell. OH Radical freedmen,
would you he free in truth Burst tho fot-
tors Of "foyal Leagues come out for De-
mocracy, for the people, your country aud
your Cod, be on the side approved by Col,
and he will bless, protect and sustain you,
givo ease, prosperity, peace and happiness
to us ALL
The Democrats would give yon low taxes,
low prices for provisions and nccessarics,
high prices for cotton, with wages and low
rents Under tie RAIDS you have received
hard and unfair contracts, Imprisonment
and tinc, low wages, high rents, and high
priced corn, meat, &C., Loyal Leagues
oh, shame !! Such party, poor freedmen
Too blind TO see the truth. too deaf TO hear
reason, TOO ignorant and supcrsticious to
understand wisdom, and too cruel even to
your own race, to love mercy or to be chris
| y1,n
picious and cnyious, to love or trust your
only and real friends. All this is strictly
true; But would freedmen make the ac-
acknowledgement? Not apt. Then, arc all
of them as represented above? Not ALL
Thank God, the holy light of knowledge,
, political, civil ana christian, is beginning to
burst into their minds, and many of them
now see their delusion, and arc awakening
TO their duty, and arc now swearing eternal
cnmity to Radical rule and oppression, and
coming over by scores TO tho good old De-
mocrocy!
The Freedmen have been fooled, cheated,
bc!icd and betrayed by tho designing, ava
ricio"s, croaking, fawning, hypocrtical
dcmagogucs, and d.trickstcrs, who are attcnine
rampirc-likc, upon the spoils and plundor
OF oi!ic", until by dear bought experience,
many have learned that the fanatics arc
'hc'r cncmics, the Southcrncrs their only
friends. Now I ask, is it right, after the
whole South, by each State separately, in
lis acknowledged sovereignty, has freed you,
, voluntary given you your liberty, that
you should hate us and love the Radicals i?
1t is not right. What! Africans, love the
very men who stole some and bought some
ol their fathers, aud brought them over TO
the North i'll this country and put them into
slavery and afterwards sold them to South
crncrs and Put the money into their pockets
; and hot love the Souhcrncrs, who freed you
without pay Gave you your liberty with
out price! and for what? because, we
thought you might be able to take care of
| yournol~e,
But, even with the RAIDS TO help you,
5 have you been able TO do it? no, indeed
To-day, the freedmen in the South. arc less
! cared for, less fed, more meagcrly clad, and
moro dcbascd, and therefore more dispraccd
) than ever before in this country, and why :?
l. j
from managing and providing for you, by
the nvaricious Office and power hunters, tho
Radicals, who have taxed and oppressed
, you and us, without wisdom, mercy or rca,
son, the taxes for the expenses of the gov
crnmcnt, being ten times as much in the
last fiscal year, as they were in any one
I year before the war. And recolcct the
. freedmen South and The poor laboling white
men, everywhere pay them, without dis
elimination; and the rich land and bond
$ holders under Radical rule, scarcely INV
any taxes at all, comparatively, because the
laws discriminate in favor of the Northern
bondholIer And the shrcwd land holder,
can always pay his taxes, Indirectly.
, through his hired freedman, or his white
tenant.
And for nshamc this is the beautiful
Just, and kind government you Radicals
, love; is it F? SO pure, SO full ofequalty, SO
economical, so full Of wisdom it is n shame
ana n Disgrace ioa Republic, TO so tax n
l people, who arc o-day rs far as the South
. is concerned, without Representation.
; But do you ask, is Tho South not rcprc-
scnted in Cong: css? you all know better
But is she not represented in the State.
Convention or Legislatures? not al all IL
| the freed members do not, oannot, repre-.
sent oven !hcir own true intcrast-much
less, that of the whites, the noble Anglo
| Saxons Becausc, they arc led on by a
crowd-reckless, unprincipled, greedy for
| booty and plunder. and hungry and blood.
> thirsty for ofli,o and dominion, and who
care for nothing but self, to the exclusion.
} aiscnCranehiscment impoverishmcnl n n d
rum of all others. They are cmphatically,
low, base, vile, Southern rcnegades, scoun.
, dreis' traitors and towards, or, Northern
spcculators, vultures, sycophants, and plum
dcrcrs. The interests of mono CT them be-
ing identical with tho good and truc Sou,h-