The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-09

The colored voters of South Carolina have
been as clay in the hands Of the political pot
ter. They have been moulded into such
shapes as were most profitable to scallawag
and scarpet-bsgger, and in return for their
large voting msjority,-their speech-mak-
ing and marching in procession,-
hungering and thirsting,-their renuncia-
ton of honesty and sfiliation with rascal
ity, have been graciously permitted to give
every profitable civil position in he State
TO an outat-elbows white man. They had
the power and exerted it for the good Of
others. They could -hsve elected q negro
Lieutenant Governor, negro members of
Congress, negro State Treasurer, but
they did not. They loved their Radical
brethren; they trusted to soft words. and
vague promises; they believed that "forty
acres and mule" were better than seat
in Congress, or summer session in o
crowded hall in Columbia. They were told,
and believed, that to make the negro prom
inent would ruin the party; but, when they
saw with their own eyes that the fat mule
and broad acres were as unsubstantial as
the honesty Of o lobbying Congressman;
that dollar in State bills went into the
pocket of the white man for every FIVE cents
that crossed their own greasy palms; that
there was not even the traditional honor
among thieves, they became dissatisfied
swearing by all the gods Of Africa that they
woul. have their full share of the. profits Of
reconstruction
This determination is now made public.
whipper, one of the ablest cOlored men in
the South, has announced in the State Sen
ate that his race must no longer be ignored.
aThey had filled Offices with ignorant, ire,
..sponsible white men, always yielding to
sthe cry of expediency, but they would be
"deceived no longer. If the party could
"not stand the weight Of tle black man in
ssdoing him justice, the party had better g
"to pieces" These are significant words,
and they show the working of that natural
law which, without any outside aid, will
destroy the Radical party in every South
ern State.
The negro feels that he has been cheated
and.swindled, and is resolved that in future
he will have the larger half of the sweets
of Office. Confident in the force of brute
numbers, he does not fear defeat, or il
aware that defeat for him is also death Il
the Radicals who. have lived by his votes
The white Radicals, on the other side, have
learned that want of responsibility is thu
great danger of their party, and that tt
attempt to hoist the African over the heat
of the Caucasian, is to drag down the white
man to the level of the negro, rather thar
to raise the negro to the plane Of the white
man. More than this, they know that tt
make the negro the ruler is to arouse tht
instincts of race, and to excite the white
men to fight desperately to save their people
| ITOW pUllllCd1 duQ udtlOu0i SAeAAS'ASH'
The Radical cannot overcome the laws OF
nature, even with the help of Congressional
legislation. If the issue is made squarelJ
in the South, between white man and black
man, the mass of the white Radicals will
fall away from their colored colleagues
They will desert the alien race to join theil
own. Radicalism will be forgotten when color
meets color in struggle for existence, and
of the present Radical party there will bt
nothing left but rump, consisting of few
degraded whites and rabble of ignorant
and fanatical negroes. The party has in II
no strength that can enable it to withstand
the shock of civil collision between the
two races. This the leaders know; and
because they have known it, they havt
sought to stave Of the coming Of the con