Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-07-01
For the Advertiser.
/. Number II.

For the Advertiser. -
Number II.
If the Southern people;be true to themselves it
is both unnatural and impossible that negro suf-
frage, either absolute or qualified can permanent
ly be established here, and asbold asitaay sound,
LIDO not hesitate to assert fhat, even the white
men Of tho South should unanimously and cheer
fully consent to absolute negro sufrag, Tho peO-
pIesof the North would not alloGSis. They would
SAVE US against our own mad lyfbecause they
themselvea:wouldb be involvelins our ruin. True
some of the Northern States appear to be so ultra
Radical and so revengeful toward tho South, it
seems that they would, If they could. impose the
bighting cause of universal negro suffrage upon
US, provided the seven hundred thousand negro
men of the South could be enfranchised so as to
vote only in State elections. But this cannot DO
DONE Every negro.who maybe PermittsdtoEote
for officers of estate. .Gorernwent mustlikswise,
according to the Constitution, bave tho privilege
Of voting for officers of the Federal Government
The Radicals first attempted to enfranchise
niggers n all the States, thinking that SO few mig.
gers inhabit many of the States North, whore ex-
treme radicalisn was lately tfiumphat, that litde
or no objection would be made; but wherever the
propouition has been submitted to apopulaf vote
in any State Mt the North since the war, it has
been Indignantly and overwhelmingly defeated.
The uniform verdict at the North, in ell late cleo
tions against negro suffrage in any form for the
handfal of darkies In that quarter, has caused tho
radical leaders to shift their ground. Their posi-
ton now is 10 Let each Northern State regulate
suffrage to suititself, f,--but, through the Federal
Government, to compel eyery Southern ststsnos
only to eufranchise all blacks but also TO dsran-
chiso enough whites to give the niggers control Of
the State Governments, and power to cast the
Of the South for Niger Presidential Electors,
and for nigger members Of Congress. This slight
change Of base will not save them from continued
defeat, because .is proposes to have orsoruis Of
suffrage for the North, and another rrle Of suf-
frago for the South, withoutIregard :. Tho censti-
tution;. because by. let.@.Ay niggers vote at the
South, in Federal elections, which cannot be pro-
vented if they are allowed to vote in State cleo
tiops, it will carry negro suffrage home to every
man, woman and child ut the North just as eaec.
tually as if the Southern negroes dwelt ut tho
North, and should vote there. For instance, il
the neyross at the South are 10 vote In Presi-
Dental election, it does not matter whele'they
re.ide as q niger voter here will Offset s.xhite
voter at the North. Just so it will be too in all
elections for Representatives and Senators In Con-
gress. Thus 1t Is that Tho black chickens hatched
by the Radical Leaders, that have been roosting
over Southern men for some time past u tho State
! Governments, are at last going home to perch
above The heads of their airty parents in tho filthy
Hen IEonss of the Redsyai Government. The
South has on ample guaranty against having no,
gro suffrage fixed upon her, in tho fsct thst
not exist here as 10 the State Governments with
out also existing as to the, Federal Government.
The people Of the United States are not yet quite
ready to revolutioniso their Government, and mon
grelse their society, as tho Spanish' Americanu
have done. - - 'e - =
AS the leaders of tho Radical party have no
patriotism, and are governed entirely by corrupt
policy, they propose to continue in power by at
tempting the hitherto unaccompaishsd feat Of
making white men ont of liggeu but the honest
thinking privates of the party, who ere governed
moro by principle in politics, can never follow
their lenders in such On infamous and quixo.ic
enterprise Humanity and the equal rights of
msn aro the Radical pleas for claiming the negro
| or Chinaman as o BROTHER Of tho Caucasian. But
this is very new doctrine. to which but few:vhito
men subscribe. In fact, no white man, unless he
bo designing kuave, or sentimental fool, can or
will admit that any colored MAJ, black, red, yel-
low, or tawny-is his equal. Let casalsts reason
as they may, but in the ways Of God to man,
whatever rs, is right: TIE big hsh eat up The M
tie ones of their kind. The hawk and eagle de-
vour the birds of the air. The lion aud tiger prey
upon the auadrupsds of the field, and why should
not the superior white depredate UPON the inferi-
ors of his kind? Whether right or wrong, natural
or unnatural, he is doing it by the Wholesale. It
is an old saying that whom two men have to ride
the same horse, the weaker must ride behind, and
that whom the horse can no longer carry both ri.
dcrs, the wsaker must dismount or, If preferred,
that when o small plank at SEQ willnot support
two mon, the weaker must support himself in the
water, G.
Since the discovery of America, and of the
South West passage to Indin, the Caucasian race
no longer remain penned up in the small copti-
mont of Europe, to prey on each other for elbow
room, as in former times. The Goths, Vandals
and Normaps, instead Of e1terminating the de-
caying amilies of their own race, are now engaged
Ia ground crusade against all the colored tribe
The Mariners. Compass, the Steam Engine, Ind
the Rifle, together with the Printipls; Press, and
some ether minor agencies, have made every white
man crusade against the colored man. Swarms
of Caucassans are daily, might say hourly,
leaving the busy hives Of Europe, to join In the
mighty crusade which the white man is waging
against the colored man all. over the WoTid. This
crusade is the key to all the tendencies the age.
It is the primary moving power ofsmodern socie-
ty. 1t has given the whole white race delrious
fever, which RACES much higher than that Of the
crusades in the middle ages. 1t has put every
thing into transition state. It is upsetting all
old ideas of Government, Law, Religion, Morals
and Trade. It is making every white man a con-.
queror, a lGnd owner and a governor, or e1termi-
natur of the colOred man. It is leyeing all aris-
tocraey in Government among white men, SO as;
to make each white man, Theoretically at least,
only an equal unit of power in the State. 1t is
making every white man only Democrat as to
every other white man, but an aristocrat as to
every colored man and this white sristocfat is
claiming the usual privilege Of parvcnue goyer-'
nor, which is to govern others, but net submit to
be governed himself. The late inventions and
discoveries of Art and Science have greatly in
psi6ed this gigantic crusade.