The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-10-17
TELEGRaPEEC P9LETEcAL NEWS.
Speech Of John Quincy Adams in Charles
ton-Eie Is Opposed To Universal Suffrage
Good Advice TO Whites and Blacks.

tOn-Eie Is Opposed TO Universal Suffrage
Good Advice TO Whites and Blacks.
CHARLESTON, Oct. 10, 1853.
large meeting was held this evening. at which
John Quincy Adams made q speech. Mr.. Adams
said he had come here by invitation, and therefore
felt at liberty to give that most unpleasant Of
modties good advice. He said he had been a free
soler, q republican, voted for Lincoln, was sup
porter OF the war and an enemy OF slavery. This
was his position at the close OF the war; but
then when the Southern people had laid down
their arms and were ready to come back he was
ready to take them by the hand and receive Them
the same view. Then came the thirteenth amend
ment abolishng slavery, which was ratified by Ill
the Southern States Then the fourteenth amend
ment, containing clause dislranchising the South
ern leaders. He thought the Southern people were
right in rejecting It They could do no less. He then
stated that the North had always considered the peo-
pie Of the South who engaged in the war as rebels,
and when conquered as prisoners Of war who had
1t was not their constitution, They fought
against. 1t. and the Reconstruction acts re-
gard the Southern States as foreign territory
The chief difficulty now between the Northern and
Southern people Is not difference of opinion. They
think nearly alike, but unfortunately they do not
seem to understand each other. The people in Mas
sachusets still had the traditional idea of the South
6rn man, dirk IN one pocket pistol in the other,
cigar on one side Of his mouth and quid Of to.
bacco IN the other, indolent and donneerlng and
coming down himself he found that Tie newspapers
spent several days in intimate conversation with
General Wade Hampton and had learned his views
OF the future, and he was now satisfied that Hamp-
ton was no more OF d rebel than himself lie
said that the people Of the South must not
expect much from any political party. II Grant is
elected 1t Will not be rs bad for the South as many
here appear to think. They should remember, above
all things that whether they like it not they could
do nothing; they could not go again to war.
Where would they get ammunition even banners
The policy Of the South Is peace. The North desires
assurances that slavery will not be re-estabshed,
neither in Its old form nor yet as punishment for
crime; and there must be perfect freedom or speech.
1hen but not until then, there be perfect
sruction. harmony and reunion. He spoke words
OF Kindness to the negroes, who were present
In large numbers, assuring them that It was
to their interest to stand by their friends whom they
had known the longest, and not be carried away by
the fair promises OF carpetbaggers, who only want
their votes. When the present questions settled
they soon must be, the whites would stand by the
whites, and the negro must go down unless he aban
dons his present course. He said he was opposed to
universal Suffrage but was satisfied that the people
Of the South were ready to concede impartial SUI
frage to white and black as Is the case III the radical
state OF Massachusetts,. With the extinction OF
slavery, he said all for bad feeling between
the North and the South had passed away, and he
hoped that soon Massachusetts and South Carolina
would again stand side by side, as brothers and
friends as they had done In the days Of the reyou
ton.