The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-07-28
The Facts and the Figures.

TIL; Northern Democracy in November
next will make their main fight upon the
plain and direct assertion that this is the
country of the white man, and that the
white race shall not be made subject to
people who are physically and mentally
their interiors. In 80 doing they will avoid
all local issues and purely party questions.
They will appeal to the white man to rescue
men of his own race and of his own blood
from q bondage worse than death. They
will show what is Congressional reconstruc-
tion-what are the leeches who are sucking
the blood of the South-whst are the crimes
and follies of those who have set themselves
up as the henohmsn of Congress and the
absolute rulers of ten States of the Union.
But they will be met by the mild statements
of weak-eyed philanthrepists who will tell
them that the negro may be made, by
schooling, scenting and sweet oil, more than
the equal of the white man. They will also
have.to encounter the frothy defamation Of
those who VOW and declare thatthe South is
still rebellious-still concocting schemes to
destroy this glorious Union.
+ The proper reply to statement and de-
clamation can only come from US. In the
North the white carpet-bagger and the col
ored demagogue are comparatively un-
known. We, therefore, must paint them
as they are, not merely by fine writing or
ingenious argument, but by facts and fg'
ures that will show the measure Of their vice
and incapacity, and the extent Of our op-
preston. From the Southern press the
Democratic journals now hope to obtain the
information which will enable them to expose
Radical fraud and wrong, and ne take from
an editorial article in the New York World
paragraph which shows the Importance
which is attached to the duty which circum-
stances have devolved upon US. The World
SAYS: "It would materially assist the expo
esure of Radical reconstruction were South
"ern journalists to be somewhat more precise
"and statistical in their accounts Of that
.svillany as now enacting under their very
"eyes. Generally speaking the country is
ssatis6ed that this thing is a party dodge
"of o very rufianly nature; but particular
"illustrations, with names, facts and figures,
"would tend greatly to better and more
"widely extended comprehension Of this
"truth. Facts tell, and tell peculiarly, on
SO people of the genius of the North; and
s'it is t. the Importance, therefore, of seek
Sing oAt and publishing facts that the best
ssattention of the Southern press is invited.
sLet those who are on the spot give the
ssnames and antecedents of the reconstruct
"ed rulers of the South, setting forth the
sstaxes they pay and the public funds they
s.6nger, the manner in which they legis-
"late, and the terms they have been in Jail.
"Nothing e1tenuate or set down aught in
"malice. Let the light in, and that is
"enough, for the truth about this thing is
"blacker than any fiction could be-"
What the World advises we have always
endeavored to do; but We are compelled to
depend largely on the courtesy of our
friends and correspondents, whom we again
request to inform US of every fact occurring
in their neighborhood which will let the
light in upon the darkness Of reconstructed
Carolina. Our columns are open to all
authenticated statements which will show
the North the character Of the men and
class who would make US their slaves; and
we hope that our readers will not fail, in
90 important matter, to give US their