The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-04-29
Glimpses from another World; Or What the
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material for the short history, Hhich We
promised You, Of the people living in the
Star to which We alluded in our first des.
patch, one of us. our sister Alcyone, was
keeping watch upoH your quarter of the
earth and has interested as with report
as TO what is going on there, and has got
our consent 10 publish her observations
before We proceed with our undertaking
She reports that a strange spectacle is now
being exhibited there in The political world :;
that the principle which was made the
corner stone of your republican institutions,
when their foundations were laid, has lately
been repudiated, viz: that virtue and 10,
telligrnce should control in the adnIinistra-
tion Of Government. That those who now
direct affairs in. your couptry have so man
aged the government as to make coLoU q,
aud not qualification, the question in the
selection of lawmakers and that in the
late elections TO Office COLOUR has pre-
vailed, and that in the triumphs of COLOUR
knowledge and virtue have been put under
foot. This has struck US with great aston
ishment, for We have always known that
COLOUR with you, tho not crime, was the
badge which nature had affixed to Inferior
itv ; and We have always known loo that
those who wear this badge know an feel
this truth. We we'll remember the time
when, and the manner in which, these peo-
pie were brought to. this country from the
desert wilds of Africa. They were then
savases al d the slaves of savages. In the
country whence they came civi ization had
never shed ray oflight,-the people there
were then, and are row, buried in the dark
ness OF superstition and barbarism. Along
night Of four thousand years has rested
upon them. The only knowledge or inn
p,ovement that these people have everbeen
blessed with has been derived from the
white man., He taught them to clothe their
nakedness, and to worship the :ouly true
and living God. bow strange then to- sup.
pose, that it was possible in the ways Of
Providence, that in the short space Of Two
hundred years, the descendents Of these
sayages, would be made rulers of people
whose eivilizatioI. goes eack 10 a period an
terror to the aood?, This has not been of
their own seeking Some ofyour own pe"-
ple7have brought It about, to accomplish
their, selfish ends: These. people have beer
deceived, and are now being deceived and
deluded every hour. Yeu have amongst
youmen Of your own tace, men who have
"slole the livery Of heaven, to serve Z he
devil in" and who are now beguiling these
simple creatures to their ruin. You have a
great duty to perform in preventing this.
catastrophe. And the first duty you, have
10, perform is TO open tseir eyes to the fact
that they, ARE deceived. These persons,
whose skins are IS white as yours, tell the
people of colour, that they have rights, md
liberties to protec'> against the frauds and
expressions of the. white man. And they
believe this now, but the day will come, and
it is not far distant, when they will be seon.
vinced of their error Bear with them for
while; remember what a:dying Savior said
on the cross: Father, forgive them, for
they know not what they do" This is true
OF. the great mass of these people; but their
leaders, both white and black, know better;
They know that they ere perpetra,ing a
most monstrous wrong. Upon their heads
rests the. responsibility, and when the day
OF retributiou comes, when God in his Pro-
gideuee shah bare his arm, and assert the
supremacy Of his laws, in terror and dismay
rt,ey viii cali upon the hills to hide them,
They are seen; mark, this--they are seen
and known! The, will 6nd that the de-
crees of poor, weak, miserable worms Of the.
dust-of man in 1heEp:ide> of his iusts and
power, are vain and futile when they seek
10 arrest NArUEE's laws. These men who
have betrayed their own rae, and the. good
ofthe country, by placing political power
iuto the hands of the ignorant and degrd.
ded creatures who have been made their
dupeS. kno. and feel the, iniqaity they are
doing We know this here if you do not:
We see all their movements, which are gen.
orally made under cover of darkness; during
the day they are. hardly 10 be seen, but
when the shadows Of evening fall upon the
earth, like owls they. come forth to hold
their conclaves in dark and. secret places
Then it is, that by all sorts of Instrumental
ities, by oaths and pledges, hr threats and
appeals 10 passion and prrjudi. e, the blind,
the ignorant aud the vicious, are manipu-
lated % d, their worx: Oh, shame 'on
vou! Cease this folly, this worse than folly,
tor it is, pregnant Nth terrible misehe..
Reflect upon what you are doing, and save
yourselves and Your country while You NAV.
From our bright abodes we send you this
message. Break up your as>ocia tons;
disband them at once. You have begun a
work whica will yreeoil upon you with a
power that You will not he able to resist.
Keep in mind that you are the origiuarors
of secret meeting., secret pledges, and mid
night resolves. Are you 80 foolish rs to
imagine that eight millions of white people
will bow the knee to less than half that
nu, Der of ignorant negroes? That brave
and intelligent people, the descendants of
those who have governed the world since
its creation; of those who transplanted
into the soil of the American Continent the
great principles of Anglo Saxon liberty. will
quietly give up their rights, their liberties,
their civilization, their religion, aud live
under such rule as has lately teen es,ab-