The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1868-07-01
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The New York Times and the
Dem mecraey in this State. ::
;sMR.E .EpfTeR: Our attention has
been drawn to the. following ex-
. tract, for The New York Times ::
!, The Democrats Of South Caro-
lima, i'm State Convention, some
months ago, declared: themselves
! IN favor ofrecegnizing't the negro
asan Integral element ofthe4 body
politics' This seemed a sensible
and timely recognition of a spoliti-
ear necessity butsit was:too ssensi:
!: bic 70 Be accepted by the whole
party # shocked the prejudices
Of the Democratic party be-
sides saNoring Of dangerous in,
noration. The negre never has
been tan integral element of the
body polite hitherto; ;mhy .shopld
he be ognized- as, sslfch snom2
So.they gathered together q new
GonTentione Of the Democrats of
sonth Carolina, at which this new
heresy vas solonnly discarded,
and dBhsold dogma, which acquired
root and SOME degree of strength
Whiles$he blocks were .slayes, that
thiisii IS sthe white mans goyera;
nens, was formally re-af1rnted, as,
the cardinal principle Of the Benz Dem
ocratie falth me tiass ana
specifies were alike 81 Z
emshatic on this subject The
leading resolution declared the
eonvictioa of the Convention; Eat
the Demo ocaatie party, whenever
It comes again into power, Will re-
store The Gorsrnment- to the
whites, and fnereforeit wopfd sup
port its candidates. Mr.. sparniek,
one OF The Secretaries, declared
that he would never consent that
when he approached the ballot
box,a som Africa shonld- stand
,>byhis.side as has eqaaLh General
Gary said the question was, not:
whether the negro held property:
oreonid read or not, bat whether
we were to disregard what he:
called sthe fundamental principles
laid dawn ia. the Constitution,
whiea exclude from the elective
franchise bota the Indian and the
negro, For his part, he said he
was smere ard moro convinced
that. God Almighty created the
negro at adiii1fferent time from the:
white man and for q d l8erent pur-
pose and dtat voting was iratea-
ded to: be done exclusively by the:
whites. The general tone of all
ths.speeches was, that the negro
was iptended by the Almighty te
occupy al: al inferior position, and
they weresso fearful Of thwarting
the almighty's purposes, that they
couidn' t think of letting the,negro
yote
Now T, for one, do not. accept
the yersien given by the, Times.
AS q member of the April Conven-
ton. and an advocate of the prin-
cipless and conservative policy pro
claimed there, I do not admit that
: the aheresy" Of said Convention
o.
has been discarded: :. Mr.: sparnick,
Gen. GarE and others have their
peculiar views, and1et them have
those views. But these utterances
do not affect that large and inAn-
entiaf portion of the people of the
State who advocate the programme
: oftbe April Convention, and re-
gard the expressions and views Of
the Picnic as representing the
people more correctly than the ex-
treme opinions of extreme men
and ultra Journals. I fear that
there is too much truth in what
tie. Times says when it remarks:
Hf the Democrats, directly or
indirectly, by words or by acts, by
doctrines they announce, or by
men they nominate, take their
stand upon this position, that this