The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1868-09-18
The southerni ;statSs---IladIcsiS Rec
construction on tts Lnst Legs.

The souEhern ;statSs---IladIct.il re.
construction On tts I,nst Legs.
Our readers will have noticed that
IN most of the speeches of prominent
Southern leaders, recently delivered,
the colored voter has formed g theme
% % more than mere passing interest.
1o-day we iadd to the number, Eex-
tracts from {. speech delivered by
distinguished representative of
''Young South" General James B.
Gordon, of Georgia, and from letter
on the subject written upon the more
mature judgment of Mr.. James B.
Campbell, Of South Carolina. These
appeals and warnings cannot be
without their effect upon the colored
population of the South, and that
they are destined to produce revolu-
ton in the minds of the colored
voters, il favor of their former mas
ters, seems to be as clear as the fact
that the influence of the Northern
adventurers over the freedmen is fast
waning. There is nothing of all
extraordinary in this. The untutored
negroes have discovered that the
promises of their newly found North
ern friends are shams and delusions,
and their natural instinct leads them
to distrust all who have once deceived
them. In no instance have the
pledges of their radical allies been
carried out. At the outset they pro-
missed them forty acres of land and
pair of mules, if they would vote the
radical ticket. They obeyed instruc-
tions, but have never seen either land
or mules.
They were assured that they should
possess the contiscated houses and
lands Of the rebel leaders. This the
radicals failed to carry out from fear
of the indignation the atrocity of the
act would create throughout the
North. They we're told that they
should hold seats in Congress, in the
State Legislatures and in the City
Councils, and. in oil respects, enjoy
every civil right and prerogative pos
sessed by the white man. In all
these promises they have been de-
ceived and cheated. They have
neither lands nor mules; they possess
no confscated plantations; they hold
no seats in Congress, and only few
days ago o batch of their colored
brethren were expelled from South
ern Legislature by the vote of nearly
every white radical in it. The sensi-
BILE portion of the Southern colored
population begin to realize that those
Northern adventurers who have
located among them have no lands to
give; while, on the other hand, they
see that their late masters have, and
that those masters are disposed to
treat them with kindness and with q
proper consideration of their newly
enfranchised condition. Hence, it is
no wonder that the Southern colored
voter is in political position which,
with very little adroitness, can be
turned to the advantage of their old
masters, leaving the treacherous car
pet-baggers to their fate.
Now, then, comes the opportunity
Of the Southern leaders. With the
assistance of the votes of the colored
population. they can secure ascend
ancy in nearly every one of the
Southern States; and, that accom-
plished, down goes radical reconstruc-
tion, of its own volition. and up goes
the era of Southern restoration.
Therefore is it, that leaders like Wade
Hampton, Forrest, Toombs, Henry
A. Wise, A. 81. Stephens, General
Gordon, Judge Campbell and hum
dreds of others, distinguished for
their political influence in the South,
are palavering with the negro voter,
joining with him in barbecues, sit
ting on the same platform with him,
and showing him, as clear as noon
day, on which side his bread is but
tered. Ne,o York Herald.