The Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1865-1870, 1868-08-30
Negro Democracy.

| From the Chic go Tribune. Of august IA.
| In a report printed by the Charleston News
of grand rally Of the South Caro- lima De-
mocracy at Aiken, we md two speeches from
negro Democrats, Bill StnrrS and Pleasant
Goode. The burden of the former was that
the Yankees did not fight in the late war. but
| left that part of the war to fore gners. Mr.
| Goode had found himself "looked upon as a
| menagerie show. and wanted a wagon to go
about in for exhibition" people were SO
| amazed At the idea that he could be " a pure
Democrat" He thought the Radicals might
have elected him to the Legislature, since
they would not take respectable (rebeD white
men. Radical negroes, he said, were like
monkeys, ignorant brutes, to be- educated and
converted BY the whites, and have their tail,
cut off. The Yankees did not whip the South !;
| it took all the nations of the earth to do that.
These cnlored Democrats had the privilege
of listening to speech from Wade Hampton
and to a letter from J. ID. Campbell, setting
forth the inducements Offered to the negroes
to join the party of their late mesters. The
speech of Hampton was sufficiently sugge>-
tive of the POSITION in which negro Demo
Gratis will fad themselves If their party tri-
umphS, but Campbell carried off the palm for
frank insolence. Hampton attempted to
persuade the colored people that if tho inter-
ests of the Southern whites were sacrificed
-
The Radicals, he said, would bring in white
labor and crowd them off the soil. 1t is the
law of 6 d. and will be so as sure as there is
a God in Heaven" said the pious and phi
lanthropic Hampton. Negroes, it seems,
brought into competition, freemen, with
whites, cannot hold their own. Hence the
plain inference that the hope of the negro is
in restoration to virtual, If not actual bondage
Mr.. Campbell was much more explicit. He
proposed to tell the negro frankly that he
cannot expect to continue in possession of
political power. If the Radicals should be
able to keep him where he is now, the result
would be his progressive degradation and
gradual extinction. A qualified negro suf- |
rrage may be adopted under Democratic rule, !
but it will be only for the very few. and will |
not give even the shadow of power to the
poor and uneducated mass. This is the !
white mans country and government to be |
possessed and enjoyed by the white man
alone, not by negroes or the friends of ne
grneS.
The fact that men like Hampton stand
side by side with colored orators to address
men of African descent and to solicit their
votes, marks an epoch in the history of South
Carolina. Whatever the arguments used,
however serious the misrepresentation made
by either white or black speakers, the great
fact remains that the black is. at last, recog-
nized as a man and voter by those who have
been, are. and promise to be, his worst enc
mics. There may be cOlored men ignorant
enough to be deceived by them, or mean
enough to enter their service; but it is i'm
possible that the instincts OF the masses
should not lead them Alright. The cause of
liberty has nothing to fear from the firm of
" ade Hampton and Bill Storrs.