Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1868-01-30
RADICAL DESIGNS.

1t is generally supposed that the main object OF
the Radical party is to remain in power and enjoy
its emouments, and that at any cost to the coun-
try. Doubtless this is an object to the hangerson
and ofice-hunters of the party, who would prefer
anarchy and civil war to giving up the loaves and
fishes. But this is far from being the sole object
of those who control the party. Power is indeed
dear to these socaed statesmen, and so also is the
qualification of their malice towards the white peo
pie of the South. These leaders, however, have a
far more deeply laid plan in view, which is ably
exposed in a late number of DeBo,o Reuae,o. As
the article is rather long, we will endeavor to give
| its substance.
The object of the ruling spirits Of .Radicalism,
who are mostly representatives Of New England
capitalists and manufacturers, is nothing less than
to Africanize the South and make it uninhabitable
for white men, This has been openly proclaimed
by some of their writer's and it is to be accomplish
ed-not for the benefit Of the negro race, but fol
sole advantage Of Northern capital If the whites
now in the South can be driven out of it and i'm,
migration prevented, the South would be lost to
civilization for the negro race, unassisted by su'
perior ability, has never yet been able to maintain
the position Of a civilized people The productions
of the South would rapidly decline in quantity and
in value also, when in competition with those Of
the North Our cotton factories would 60 to ru,
ins, and the small supply of cotton would not more
than furnish material for the factories OF New
England, which result would enable the latter to
control the prices of the raw material and the goods
manufactured from it. By this means, they could
for and
charge as high as they pleased for cotton goods
This suggestion affords plausible reason for the
otherwise inexplicabe efforts of Congress to break
down the cultivation of cotton, which, on any Other
suppostion, seem to be merely an insane display oi
hatred to our people.
Another proposed advantage of this plan, is the
transfer of some eight millions of whites to the
North and Northwest. 1t is believed they woulc
add greatly to the annual production Of grain anc
meat, whereby the price of these necessaies woulc
be reduced and that the number of mechanic
and factory operatives would be so increased tina
the price of labor would fall to almost nothing
With these conditions all fulfilled, the capitalist
of the East would become the lords of the whole
country, paying nothing for labor, food and mate
ria and reaping rich harvest from manufactures
There is reason to believe that this scheme o
'spossessing the land for the saints" is actually en-
tertained by some of the Radical leaders, who ar
laboring for the desolation of the South, and tn
|impoverishment of the West and the great major
ty of their own fellow-citizens in the East. Tha
the mass of the Radical party entertain such de
signs is by no means true but partizans never d
see the designs of their leaders their duty is sim
ply to vote and hurrah. Yet the deluded follow
ers of Sumner, Stevens and Phillips, are at thi
very hour working, to the best Of their ability East
} West and South, to produce this result, which
even if accomplished, can end in nothing less tha
war, anarchy, and the ruin of the country.