The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-03-04
Rights and Privileges.

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lead of an ambitious, imported
mulatto by the name Of Randolph,
that body sagely resolved that
"distinction on account Of race or
color, in any case whatsoever shall
be prohibited; and all classes OF
citizens shall enjoy equally all
common, public, legal and political
privileges. The convention has
stultiAed itself by this action; it
has gone quite beyond its sphere,
! which embraces questions ofrights
only ; it has attempted impossi-
bilities in incorporating social dis.
tinctions and privileges into the
organic law. And, in claiming
too much, the members Of that
body are imperilling those privi-
leges which they now possess, and
those provisions which are essen
tial to their security and welfare
under the new order Of things.
Those who are teaching the
freedmen to believe that liberty
and social equality are the same
thing, and are instructing them to
insist upon both, are their worst
enemies. They set their simple
minded disciples in array against
the public sentiment of the whole
country. They begin q conflict
which will infict serious evils upon
the African race, There is room
for both races at the South and
work for both-room for the white
capitalist, if there is, labor to be
employed ; and room for the black
laborer, if there is capital to be
invested. Not so, if the latter
challenges the former to rivalry
in which one or the other race
must give Nax--In--vVoHo 1ne
doom of the red man betokens
what that of. the black man will
be.
Liberty does not at all require
the confounding of all race dis
tinctions. There are three things
essential to liberty.;;-frst the pro,
lection ofsoeiety from the interfer-
ence and violence of foreign States
secondly. the protection of the
citizen from injustice or oppres.
sion, by the maintenance Of an, ad'
ministration ofjustice thirdly, the
participation of the citizen in tie
benefits arising from public appro
priations for relief and for educa-
ton. None Of these conditions
require a monstrous amalgama-
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It may be we'll enough for Gear
pet-bag" members of the conven-
ton to urge a measure, however
hazardous, which secures them
a temporary popularity: What.
ever evils may result from the
agitation OF society and the war
of races, they will not be affected
by the general ruin. They came
among US yesterday; they will be
gone tomorrow. They are the
trumpeters to a battle where they
expect to do none of the fighting,
But the black man whom they
have sedueed by their mad follies
will reap the consequences, when
the worthless demagogues have
gone back, with carpet-bags well
stuffed, to Massachusetts and OHIO
The white people of the South
are not unfavorable to the adop'
ton of such measures as will guar
antee the rights Of the colored
people. They feel it to be neces
sary that both races should coop
crate harmoniously in the develop
ment of our resources. If we are
ever to emerge from that state ot
impoverishment to which we have
been reduced by the wal, and in
which we have been kept up by
hostile Legislation since the war
the united industries Of the whole
population must effect our deliv
erance. No difficulties beset Us
now which diligence and resolu
ton cannot master. The only
danger which would paralyze enter
prise is social anarchy; a French
Revolution in which all ranks ano
distinctions are le1elled down; 6