The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-22

Of the working masses. ,l..-,..---+- ,e.7 1.
THE INTERESTS OF LABOR SHOULD BE PRO
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: have thus far, fellow-citizens, dealt in very
plain and simple terms upon the great inter-
ests Of labor. Every financial system is based
upon your toll. He who discusses with you
the expenditures Of your government and lts
methods Of taxation Is talking to You about
each hour Of your daily labor about all the
Of your homes about every dollar that you
owe and, all your embarrassments for want OF
means to pay about all your cares for the
future, your hopes and anNeties for the pros
perity Of your children when you shall have
closed your eyes on, time and opened them on
eternity. It is the mighty, nom nentous ques.
ton Of the hour. NY interest in it is 2 part OF
who eat their bread in the sweat of their faces.
I know their ways, their wants, and their
cares, and should be chosen their; represen-
tative in Congress, the protection Of their in
terests would be to me as the protection OF my
own blood and kindred ~: r...e,-, !,
THE EVILS OF CONGRESSIONAL REcoNsTRUOT1oN
f.a GO -. CONSIDERED. Ga'Er. -. 81
There are other vast questions OF national.
import which will more fully discuss soon be-.
fore the people. i have arraigned Congress
and it's supporters today mainly upon single
ton are familiar to you all, and shall have
many occasions again to repeat and enforce
them. BY that policy it has surrendered to the
negro region Of your country more vast, more
productive and fertile than any Of the proudest
kingdoms Of Europe. 1t has blighted the fair
est fields OF wealth and national revenue the
dews and rains Of heaven ever descend I'd upon.
The Radical leaders are not content with negro
equality. They have established negro su-
premacy in ten Of. the States. Once Henry
Clay asked in accents Of despair, who shall
rebuild this glorious Union lit is once broken?"
The leaders Of RadicaGsm answer him as he
sleeps his <honored sleep at Ashland, Dy ex-
claiming, " The negrol the negroln He is to res.
urrect fallen States and by his wisdom and intel
foence restore their delicate relations to the.
Federal Government. In the hands OF 8 few
more negroes in the South than there are vot.
ers in Indiana has been placed the control OF
ten States. and virtually the election OF twenty
senators and fifty members Of Congress-. .Un-.
der Radical rule the political power OF one ne
gro, under the sway Of q standing army, and
Sustained and fed by the Freedmen's Bureau,
diana. The barbarism Of the African, which,
never since the dawn of time established
government, is made to outweigh and overawe
She civilization OF the white man, both North
and South. He is thrnst into, the arena OF
public affairs, clothed wi b ten times the power
that is given to you under kthe Constitution.
His votes are to. count ten times more than
ferest and under the leadership Of wicked
and yeyil.minded partisans, the unlettered,
densely ignorant negro OF the South
holds the balance Of power in this country,
and will be made to dictate it's future politics
and mark out it's destiny. By the State consti-
tutions recently framed in the South by the
blacks and their :vsgrant white allies, every
Northern man who does not endorse negro
equality in its widest bearings is excluded rom
settle In those inviting lands. In all the re-
cent negro constitutions you will find clause
like this, which read from the constitution OF
Arkansas: "AlI persons, before regist ering or
voting, must take and subscribe the following
oath: Il -, do solemnly swear Tor af1rm)
that accept the civil and political equality OF
all men, and agree not to attempt TO deprlye
any person or persons on account OF race,
color or previous condition, OF any political or
civil right, privilege or immunity enjoyed by
sny other class Of men Article 8, section B..
NEGRO SUFFRAGE. s94'., -,
II. then, 'Radiealism is. defeated in nrits at-
tempte, 80 often made to force negro suffrage
on the people Of the North, at their own homes,
vet it compels the Northern man to swear that
be will support it forever, and never attempt
to abolish il, before he can live as Citizen IN
any one OF the reconstructed States. Last year
the Radical leaders made negro suffrage an ls-
sue in Ohio, and were beaten fifty thousand;
vet citizen Of Ohio cannot be q citizen OF Ala
bama, unless he takes an oath to change his
principles. Again, the attempt was made to
establish negro suffrage last fall in Kansas. 1t
was defeated by eight thousand. Yet citi-
zen OF Kansas cannot move into the neighbor-
ing State OF Arkansas, and carry with him
the right to vote or hold office, unless, Id the
most solemn manner, be first repudiates the
public will Of his present home. But few
months ago Michigan drove negro suffrage from
her borders by forty thousand majority; yet,
in order to be clothed with citizenship In ten
other States, her people are: called upon to re-
verse this powerful record. Thus barrier is
raised against emigration from the North to
the fertile fields Of tho South. The doors are
open only to such as are willing to affiliate with
the negro, and to swear that they will. never
attempt to disturb his absolute equality WIN
the white race. Are you, who are living IN the
descending waters OF the Mississippi Valley
those channels which nature, made for your
communication, trade and social intercourse
with the South-are you willing to be halted on
the borders Of Tennessee Arkansas, Mississippi,
Alabama. or Louisiana, by negro sentinel,
and made to swear allegiance to the pohcy OF
negro suffrage? You would repudiate it
BY q hundred thousand majority. in
luuluh-y0b III OuO.IuAo VI p1AS booAS~N'SS
Of the republic no one OF you can be. q
citizen who does not embrace it, and seal his de-
gradation by on oath-an oath reaching to all
the future, and excluding in advance every
reason which might dictate change hereaf-
tor. The whole South is thus to be African.
lied, her civilization destroyed, her fields OF
cotton, sugar, rice, corn and tobacco, made
barren and unproductive; her capacity to as
sist you in paying the taxes Of the country
stricken down, and all her fruitful lands and
mighty rivers denied to you and your posteri-
ty. I am no foe to the black man. would
make the government o blessing and not
curse ID him. In the work Of his own hands
he ehould eat his bread and would protect
him in the fruits Of his industry. Nor would
tax him, save for the education Of his chill
dren. But from all participation in the AFFAIRS
OF government, would exclude him in oil the
States as you do here in Indiana. The exam
pies OF the Almighty, the teachings OF all his
tory, and the deep philosophy OF human ma
ture, all denounce the commingling OF
separate and distinct races. It ls On
unimaginable curse to both. Prosperi-
ty never blessed land that attempted It.
Every age and every cline in the annals Of the
human race proclaim this great fact. am
therefore for the supremacy Of the white race,
and the rule and government OF the white man.
He. alone, of all the tribes and kindred that
have peopled the earth since the stars trSt
held high jubilee in the sky together, has
shown himself capable OF self-gJve :n.1en:.
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