The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-01-22
The Important Question Be-
fore the Country and
It's Solution.

public be. governed by a negro
balance of power? That is the
important question now before the
country: Shall s5,eOo,oo of the
Caucasian oraee-the highest typo
of mankind-be ruled, by a few
millions ofignorant negroes, who
tare the lowest in the order Of hu-
man beings, and who are scarcely
removed from barbarism? Such
! a proposition would seem ineredi-
! bic were it not supported by facts.
ESome may doubt even whether
| such monstrous idea would be
seriously entertained by any party
or: faction, and may think that We
Estate the case too broadly. There
is, however, no exaggeration; It is
the, we'll known purpese"of the
radicals to perpetuate their power,
( # possible, through the votes of
1.-THE Southern negroes. This has
been their policy all along: The
Reconstruction Acts Of Congress,
disfranehising a large numbertof
whites and enfranehising the
! blacks of the; South, were passed
for this purpose, The bitter feel
ing Of the President, the threats
I of fimpeaehing him, the scu:rriious
abuse OF him, and all the Iegisia!
ton to kumiliate him and his Of
| fce andto take away his power,
Fgrew out of his opposition to this
atrecious policy of the radicals.
The brutal and henigbted Africans,
tjast 'ema,ieipated from slavery,and
not knowing their right hands
! f2om their left, not knowing what
I a vote meant Or what they vote
I for, have been given power with a
tv,ew tosdgcide Prestdenris
election andthe destiny Of the 4 :
I publie. The intelligent white pco:
! pie of our own blood and race, in
! the South haye been placed under.
these barbarians,- and the tairest
and richest portion of the country
lis turned over to desolation, with
the prospect Of frightfulstarvafion,
| fdsmoralization and war of races.
land this is all done for no other
3metiEe or object than to keep the
radical party in control, OF the
! Government. 49, =. =
The spouting;of radical orators
land euissaries about equality, the
rights, of man, the poor. negro, and
all that, is sheer hypocrisy and
! eIap-trap. These radicals have re-
faseu to give the suffrage to the
flew negroes in those Northern
Estates where they had the power
TO do so, and where the negro vote
would be Of little consequence
comparatively, while they are
ldoing the utmost to make the. ig-
tnerant and degraded blacks of the
South a controlling political ele-
.ment in the Republic. Who ever
heard ofanything more inconsis-
tant or monstrous? Such conduct
seems like insanity. and could
hardly be credited were there not
Eexamples in history of similar
Echaraeter. TheJacobins in France
shed. rivers Of blood in the name
of humanity and equality, and the
| Puritan ancestors Of our Jacobins
Of the present time were not le0s
cruel and proscriptive in the name
of religion and truth. The radi'
cal revolutionists of France set up 4
strumpet as represent ng the God
dess Of Reason, and committed the
foulest deeds under the pretention
Of progress and : higher philoso
ply. 1t is the same in all coun'
tries and ages under revolutionary
radicalism, whatever form it may
tlke. It is so now with the mig
ger worshippers and radical revo
lutionists. Passion, fanaticism and
ambition have subverted reason
Everything must give way before
f their intolerant dogmas. Let the
: glorious institutions handed dowr
> t, US by the fathers, this white
mans government, so full Of glory
> and happiness in the past and the
future Of our grand Republic
perish for the sake Of an irrationa
e and impra:ticablc theory. Tha
. is the policy Of the radical RepEb