The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-10-13

are unable % pay as LONG, as the ne
gro rule continues. We are without
capital to cultivate our lands, and
capital viii not come here for invest
ment whilst this negro. governments,
CON ntinues. There is no security for
life or property. The newspapers
are filed with houses and barns
burnt, property stolen and persons
murdered. -e-~ a.,
In time Of peace we see all over
the South Federal troops, kept up at
an enormous expense, to keep the
white race in subjugation to negro
governments government %hicli, *
ilcontinued, viii make the whole South
o Hayti or San Domingo. We have,
too, Freedman's Bureau throughout
the Southern States, whose sole pur-
pose is to prejudice the freedmen
against their former masters, and
unite them to the radical party.
This Bureau is paid for by the North,
and costs the Government ten or fif-
teen millions annually. Why should
the white people of the Northern
States pay enormous and crushing
taxes to establish negro governments
over their own race throughout the
South? Why should they keep up O
standing army, here, for the purpose
of maintaining those governments?
The only purpose which the radi-
cal party have in creating and con-
tinuing this unnatural despotism is to
perpetuate their own progress as
party. In order to maintain their ILL
gotten authority, and keep control of
the Government, they are willing to
make one-third of the Republic an
Ireland or Poland. Peace there
never can be, at the South, while
negro supremacy is maintained here
by Federal bayonets. It is impossi-
bic that O brave, intelligent, and
patriotic people can willingly submit
to such degradation and tyranny. It
is not human nature to do so.
AS an old Union man, can say,
with truth, that the Southern people
accepted in good faith the results of
the war, and would have been as loyal
to the Federal Government as New
York or Massachusetts, if they had
been restored to the Union under the
Constitution. Irhey abolished slave
ry, and were determined to give their
former slaves equal protection with
themselves in the enjoyment of all
their civil rights. When the freed
men showed themselves capable of
exercising political rights. they were
willing to confer them also. But at
present they know, and the negro
knows, that he is incapable of exer-
cising prudently and wisely the poll
tlcal rights Of citizen. Hence the
carpet-baggers, who have come here
from the North to take charge of the
negroes and assume the government
of the country. The freedmen are
now as much political slaves to these
carpet-baggers as they formerly were
domestic slaves of their former own
ers.
Instead of meeting fairly the issues
involved in this Presidential canvass,
and defending their usurpation,
tyranny and ptodigal extravaganza,
the radical party are trying to make
the election turn on the past issues
of the war. In order to do this they
appeal to the prejudices of the North
against the rebels OF the South. AT
the same time they are receiving into
full fellowship and hugging to their
bosom the meanest and vilest of
those rebels who have joined their
party. In recent Act of this radi-
cal Congress they removed the disa-
bilities of ten or fifteen hundred
''red-handed rebels" and declared
them worthy of holding office, be-
cause they had joined the radical
party. Such men as Gov. Holden,
of North Carolina, and Gov. Brown,
of Georgia, who were, at the begin
ming OF the war, the fercest and most
uncompromising secessionists, have
,een made loyal citizens, whilst Gov.
Worth, of North Carolina, Gov.
Jenkins, Of Georgia, and myself,
who were always Union men, are re-
pudiated because we will not give our
adhesion to the radical party. He
who betrays his race, his country,
his principles, and his God, is wor-
thy of Office in the radical party, and
no longer ga red-handed REBEL
L am happy to inform you that the
Democracy of the South, the old
Union men, and all the secessionists
of principle and honor, Republicans
by birth and education, and lovers of
the Federal Constitution, are up and
doing We shall corry f,,r 0ox-..,