The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-08-19

of Congress (the solitary one who
represents that young State) was,
at the election of the first Monday
! in June, 1868, 1909. Here was a
gain of the anti-Radical party of
, over fifteen hundred votes in a
voting population Of about twen-
ty thousand. Taking these two
States as an example, we will find
that the people are not abandon
ing their hostility to the wanton
and dangerous policy of the ruling
faction, which during three years
of peace has increased the national
debt and kept up war prices and
war taxation. The Kentucky
election has taken place since the
Presidential nominations Of both
parties were made and yet so far
from the nomination Of the Radi-
cal convention strengthening the
backbone Of the faction, or the
nomination of Seymour and Blair
weakening the spinal column OF
the Democracy in that State, they
have turned events the other way.
These results are but the early in
dications (the skirmish fire as 1t
were) of the great revolutionary
battle which is about to open. If
the other State elections which
are to come off between this and
the Presidential contest in Novem-
Der should happen to give like in
dications of popular hostility to
the Radical usurpations and cor
ruptions, who can tell but that
the nominees of the Chicago Con-
vention may be overwhelmed by
the weight of Radical mal-admin-
istration since the rebellion was
wound up by General Grant that
they have to carry on their shout
ders? If we look at the facts
which confront the people when
they come to vote, we find that
taxes to the amount Of three thou
sand millions Of dollars have been
imposed upon us. We find that
the national debt has tirely new
body Of people, majority ofwhom
are destitute of even the rudiments
of education, and are less fit for
the exercise of the right of suf-
rage than any corresponding pop
ulation in any country of Christen-
dom ; if, indeed, there is any other
population of a distinct race, stu
ated in the midst of the intelligent
and educated Caucasian races, and
with which the negroes Of our
Southern States can be. compared.
Governments that are thus based
upon the most ignorant and de-
graded class, that class being an
Inferior race and being made by
the disfranchisement Of great num-
bers of the superior race the actu-
| al holders Of the political power,
can possibly accomplish nothing
but mischief. The scheme could
not have originated in any other
motive than a design to obtain the
political control of those States in
the elections which relate to the
Offices Of the Federal Government.
The idea that the blacks needed
protection against the whites has
been honestly entertained by the
masses of the people of the North,
whose erroneous convictions have
thus furnished the politicians with
a pretext; where we should all
have seen and admitted that the
best protectors Of the blacks in
their new condition Of freedom
were those who had always lived
with them, who were born on the
same soil, who best understood
them, and whose strongest inter-
est it was to raise their condition
as fast as it could be raised by
prudent and honest legislation.
No good has yet been done in the
relations of the two races by the
interference Of Congress. At the
same time the state Of things which
has been produced, politically, is
deplorable. A race of adventu-
rers from the North, of the worst
type of politicians, appropriately
dubbed in the political slang of
the day as "carpet-baggers," are