The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1868-09-30
VOL UME EIGHT--NUMBER 26
A WAR OFRACES.

tits quite evident that if the emissau
ries of the Radicals shall be permitted to
continue their work in the South, war
Of races must ensue, which no friend OF
humanity can contemplate without
horror. The good temper which the
negroes exhibited when they came into
possession of their liberties, led many
to hope that the crisis so often predicted
could be safely passed, and that this
country would not experience repeti.
ton of the atrocities and crimes which
have marked the history OF the same
negro race in St. Domingo, Hayti and
Jamaica. But there have been recently,
and especially during the last year of re.
construction, abundant signs that the
poison instilled by the carpet baggers
into the negroes, has had its effect.
Radical adventures and fanatical
missionaries of hatred and revenge, have
at last succeeded in provoking among
them feeling of hostility to their form
er masters, which may show itself in
savage deeds at any moment. Secret
political societies, called Union Leagues,
have been organized among them by
Radical priests, who preached to them
the gospel according to st. Domingo,
and not according to st. John. Militia
ry companies have been formed among
them, and where arms have been placed
in their hands, aud their barberous love
of display has been gratiied by gaudy
uniforms, their insolence towards
the whites has known no bounds or
control.
The negro representatives in the Leg.
islature have already thrown out some
terrible hints. When the negro menu
bers of the Georgia Legislature were
rejected by the whites, black named
Turner,as savage as his celebrated name
sake, took his leave with the declaration
that the act of expulsion was but the
beginning of revolution which would
fill the State with blood. A short time
ago Pinchbeck. negro Senator of Lou
isiana, savagely declared on the floor of
the chamber that ten thousand torches
were ready to lay the proud city of New
Orleans in ashes, and that it needed but
signal for the flames to ascend. Very
few Grant and Colfax meetings are held
blythe negroes which are not signa!ized
by some outrage on the whites, and any
attempt to arrest the perpetrators is re-
sented as a violation of their rights as
American citizens as we'll as supporters
of Grant. Not infrequently quiet po-
litical meetings Of the whites are inter
fered with and broken up. The fadi-
Gals have taught the negroes to consid-
er themselves superior class, by
enfranchising them and disfranchi.
ing their former masters, they natural
ly regard all political assemb!ages
of the white people as an insult to them
selves
Under the protection Of the Radicals
the brutal instincts of the negro, which
had been hitherto restrained, are begin
ming to indicate themselves. The favor
ite, negro crime of violating white women
and children is increasing with.frightiu
rapidity. IN many instances they
prowl about in gangs the more securely
to accomplish their hellish purposes OIL
their unhappy victims. The variations
of these crimes, which daily come from
the South, are too revolving to present
in detail. The mind recoils in horror
from their narration.
1t is terrible to contemplate the effect
of the Radical efforts to elevate the ne
gro savage of the South into the politi
cal superiors of the whites. The ines
timable boon of liberty has led its pos
SCISSORS into the most frightful excesses
Even under the hateful system of slav
cry they were better in morals and IL
inclinatioe than they have shown them
selves since falling into the hands o.
Radical politicians. No genuine frienc
of negroes should rest until they are
rescued from the influences Of the car
pet baggers, who are preparing for then
and the whole people of the South,
terrible fate. The only way to rescu
them, and restore security and peace il
the South, is to elect Seymour and Blai
tear down the whole fabric of Radi
cal reconstruction, and bury it out
sight forever,