The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-06-23
CHAR + LESION
TUESDAY MORNING. JUNE %. 1858.
The Ineondiary Torch.


= Il is not our custom to give notoriety to
the negro papers published in this city, and
as long as they confne themselves to abus-
ing white men and TEE DAILY NEWS, they
win receive, NO attention at our hands. But
one Of these papers-the Missionary Re
cord-under the guidance of R. H. Cain,
one Of the negro Aldermen of Charleston,
has gone out Of its usual path, and now
stands before this community and its mill
tary rulers, as directly responsible for all
that is not accidental in the fires of Saturday
and Sunday last.
In the Missionary Record, published on
Saturday morning last, is an editorial un-
der the caption, "The whirlwind cometh-
s"Beware." This article opens by deolar-
ing that the white opponents of Reconstruc-
tion are 50 intent on Furnishing the poor
man, white and black, for voting the Re-
publican ticket, that they forget that such a
course .smay cost them their future prospects
sin 6,uiness." Here is plain and direct
menace; an d the writer goes on to say that
the merchants have thrown all their weight
against the laboring man, and that the mer-
chants and business men generally have
brought TO the city country negroes who
will work for mere song so as "to make
ninty per cent. over the cost of citizen
labor, and put it into their own pockets. ="
The article then speaks Of the colored men
without work-the starving wives and child
ren-the business leeohes "who fatten on
their fat contracts the relentless land
lord, and says "they-the Radicals-have
abeen turned away from every employ
"ment, by those who are opposed to them
" in politics, as punishment for using their
"liberty. We appeal to that class of men
"to 6eware of two thousand men in state Of
+" desperation, ,maddened by the cries for bread
"coming from their children, frenzied by
"the sight of the huuger-smitten wife, goad-
aed by the meroiless landlord, and then
awhen he remembers that certain class
I" of men have contributed to all this misery,
asimply on political grounds, they 0il'
wrsak thar terrible uengenanee on their heads. "
Further on, itssys: "While we write the
..fearful scenes Of the French Revolution
"stand spectre-like before US, as we con-
"template the thousands of men, women
"snd children in this city who are thrown
"into state of want and suffering by the
&c actions of those who have it in their pow
Ger to oppress them, and as we pass the
"motley and sullen crowds that occupy the
"corners and walk the streets casting an
"syecf fire at these gent tlemen-merchsnts,
contractors, speculators in their bones
"and sinews-we exclaim, God saue us from
"the sight sOhieh crazsd France and Ut the fires
"of destruction which swept ouer that country.
I" If such q fire should be kindlcd in this city,
"who will suffer the most? Let the mer-
"chant, the property holder, the men who
"are in power, remember that the rich al
"vays suffer the most sohere the ra6bIe rule
This is no fancy sketch; the fire burns now,
Z" when the wild passions are
"once aroused, you cannot easily a'lay them. "
For us this is more than enough, but we
print the whole infamous hsrangue in full,
80 that It may tell its tale.
The Missionary Record was published on
Saturday morning, and on Saturday night
q fire broke out in house filled with paints
and oils, next door to building cram,
med with dry goods and clothing. The
next night q fire broke out in an unoccu-
pied store in the midst of shoe merchants
and dry goods merchants, and next to the
Telegraph and Express Offices. Were these