New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1868-09-01
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sight of the whole State of South Carolina.
This Association cmits cdcts in the name Of
The Great Democratic Party" which il declares
is soon about to resume the administration
:" of the Government of the United States
and one of these manifcstoes, addressed
ITO the Colorcd Voters Of Charleston the
ScabOard, and the State Gcneaily.' Is
now before us. To say of it that It's style
is patcinal, in the ordinary sense OF
that word, would be to speak of 1t without
adequate reverence for it eNhOrts and advises
in the tone of a dcmi- god, and backs mp It's eX-
hortations by threats which SAVIOR of the da-
bolical. 1t reminds us of public schoolmaS-
ter who, having been Cut off by his commit
tee from hOgging his pupils, ayenRcs
himself by talking to them at length
with the most awful gravity, and
threatening them with the most drelul and
impossible crucltes. 1t seems to hold the pre-
obstinate election of the Democratic candidates
IA the end of all this trumpery and temporary
nonsense about emancipation, and ms n signal
for the full resumption of those old partriarchal
relations which for the present are in lament
able allegiance. If we had no other objection
TO this Address, we should still object Ia toto
to It's tOne--tO the perfume OF the most con
descending patronage of which from beginning
TO end it is redolent, and which sometimes
rises to the severity of insOlcnce, and some
times falls to the tenderness of q maudlin
affection. In this medley of coaxing and curs-
ing "The Democratic Central Club first says,
with infinite sOftness. TO the Blacks: 1--WE are
naturally your friends. and you are naturally
our friends. Any other relations be-
tween us arc unnatural and injurious
to both. We desire your labor because
"you know Ms and we know you Here the
tenderness deepens 10 pathos: I'VE were born
together here" says the Club and it might
have added, "SOmc of us of the same patcr-
"nal parentage.n ain infancy continue the
Democratic Centrals eve were nursed together,
in bOyhoOd we played together and
"we do not easily forget these things for
the sake Of strangers" But, unfortunately.
there arc other things which the Ccntrals can
not easily FORGET Although the cowhide and
the paddle haze been suspended from the will
lows, the patrimchs of the Club remember sadly
the time when those paternal implements were
constantly used to enforce the dictates Of
parental affection; and tins the excessive
amiabilry of the Address is suddenly inter
rupted 10y sentences like these: 1--WE kuOr we
"can DO without you. We think you will
find it very difficult to do without us. We
have the wealth. The houses in which
you live are ours; the lands upon which you
must labor or starve are ours. We have
education, advancement in the arts and
sciences, and in civilization generally" 1t
will certainly strike the attentive reader that
tlis is rather remarkable language to be used
officially, OF in any other way, by Demo
cratic Club What would be thought of the
madness or the imbecility of a Democratic
Committee here in New-YOrk which should
say in printed document to q certain class in
this community ave are rich, and you are
Door: we own the houses yOu live ill., and
can turn you ont without a moments warn
ing VIC give you the work which supports
you, and can to-day take it away from you ;
" we are learned, and you are ignorant, and,
" therefore, do you see TO it that You vote this
ticket, or you will bring beggary, and all
other bitter troubles, upon your own heads and
those of your familics-starvatiOn first, and
"extinctiOn presentlyp Fancy the feelings of
Five Points if Tanimany Hall should toss into
that delectable quarter such tremendous
threat as this! But in Charleston such an
evasion or abandonment of Democratic pTinci-
pies is n hundred times more cOntemptibly
disgraceful for these black voters who are TO
be intimidated were born" with the Whites,
" grew up" with the Whites; "in infancy they
" were nursed together, in boyhOod they played
" together;" and if, under such early influences,
the Blacks became all that is base, or even all
that is helpless, pray wh'' is the probable
character of their associates who have now ar
rived at manhood Why, this very Address pre-
suppOses that its objects are thoughtful, con-
scientious, capable of forming wise and
honest judgment; and why then should they
be threatened with the horrors of hOmelessness
and final disappearance rs n race
from off the face of the earth, simply because
they take the liberty of acting as their White
piaymates are acting; in matters TO them VI
vital Government insist upon judging for them
selves, and refuse to receive the law from the
Democratic Central Club of Charleston, or the
Democratic National Convention in New York,
or from any OTHER body engaged in promoting
the triumph of q P.arty which has been histoll-
cally hostile to them from the beginningf
1t is curious TO notice, while the general tone
Of this document, and il is not short one is
That of menace with spec OF arrogant
that the Democratic CentIai Clup
s particularly exercised at thd want OF
good manners exhibited by the Freshmen
'Out familes,' says the Address, haVe
been insulted by vulgar and profane Ian |
guage, and the night-quiet has been dis
tuTbed by unearthly whoOps and screams !