The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-08-11

Presidential contest in November should hap
pen to give like indications OF popular hostility
to the Rad cal usurpations and corruptions,
who can tell but that the nominees Of the Chi
cago Convention may be overwhelmed by the
weight Of Radical mal-adminlstation since the
rebellion was wcundup by General Grant that
they have to carry on their sAoulders II we
people when they come to vote, We find
that taxes to the amount of three thous-
and millions of dollars have been imposed
upon us. We find that International debt has
tirely new body Of people, O msjority of whom
are destitute Of even the rud1ments Of educa-
tion, and are less 1T for the exercise of the
right of Suffrage than any corresponding popu-
lation in any country Of Christendom; il, in
deed. there is any other population Of dis
tinct race. situated in the midst Of the intelli-
gent and educated Caucasian races, and with
which the negroes Of our Southern States Gin
be compared. Governments that are thus based
Upon the most ignorant, and degraded class
made by the disfranchisement of great num-
bers of the superior race the actual holders OF
the political power, can possibly accomplish
nothing but mischief. The scheme could not
have originated in any other motive than q
design to obtain the political control OF those
States in the elections whlchrelate to the Offices
of the Federal Government. The idea that the
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heen honestly entertained by the masses Of
the people Of the North, whose erroneous con-
yicttons have thus furnished the politicians
with a pretext; whereas we should all have
seen and admitted that the best protectors Of
the blacks in their new condition of freedom
we're those who had always lived with them,
who were corn on the same soil, who best un-
tierstood them, and whose strongest interest it
was to raise their condition as fast as it could
be raised by prudent and honest legislation.
No good has yet been done il; 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 adyenturers from the North Of the
worst type of politicians, appropriately dubbed
in the political slang of the day as carpet
baggers," are assuming the most important
Offices Of those States and are swarming
into Congress as representatives Of the
Southern people; while the Legisa-
lures of the new negro governments
are composed OF the least intelligent,
the least capable, and the least honest Of
the white race, with an intermixture OF blacks,
most of whom cannot read or swrite. The new
goverpments too, are started with the funda-
mental condition, imposed By their constitu-
sion into the Union, that the universal suf-
frage shall never be changed. What future,
then, is before those States Bound for ever
II the scheme is capable ofglasting- an ir-
reversible and Interchangeable condition OF So
ciety, that condition being that gross igno
rance and absolute poverty shall hold more
political power than intelligence and property;
that laws shall not be made by thLee who are
best but shall be made by those Hho are least,
qualified to make them; and that no man shall
hold office or cast vote who does not first
take On oath that he believes in the political and
social equality, OF races on which the hand of
Heaven has stamped indeGble marks Of rela-
tive inferiority and superiority which have al
ways been developed and telWays operated
whenever they have been brought in contact.
The prospect iRsmelsnoholy! enough. One
thing, however, appears to as clear, whether
the one party or the other prevails in the ap-
Presidential election. It ;s, that
this condition Of things in the South cannot
continue. It is kind Of legislation that is
for any but q temporary and idc-
Etious purpose. It is scheme which may
possibly give the electoral votes.of the recon-
struoted States to the Republican candidates;
but as the basis Of the future polity aud condi-
hon of civilized States, it is too manifestly
violation Of the ordinances Of Providence to
once said-speaking of the impossibihty OF in
Producing African slavery int o-A-rsgiop whare
e was excl1dod by the Irresistible forces Of
,linate and soil-that it was useless to re-enact
the laws Of God. It is worse than useless to
eeislate against His Laws; and that it is one Of
His laws that educated intelligence, experience
md virtue shall govern the affairs OF this world
is certain. people who 30 shape their laws
% to reverse this condition Of our nature will
ind that there is q -law,-abov them stronger
than they can frame. -.isz-