The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-09-08

would regulate suffrage as best they thought
proper. Ibelieve system of qualified suffrage
on an educational basis would be generally
adopted in the South in such an event."
do you anticipate any trouble during the
Presidential election between the races IN the
newly States?"
mo; except when it is provoked by the un-
princlpled whites who have associated them
selves with the negroes to get office. The
whites will remain, as they have been, peace
able and quiet, relying mainly on the North for
deliverance from the frightful condition in
calls, Let ls have peace means let US have
war. They desire it, and to make political
capital inaugurate riot and bloodshed, If not
thwarted by the forbearance Of the whites.
They raise the cry that the South wants war.
They lie when they say it. The Southern peo-
pie have no means to make war; no disposition
to fight; no enemy to meet. Peace is all they
wish for, and the civil liberty which as citizens
Of this republic they are entltled to-"
"Would the negroes resort to arms in case
they were deprived OF suffrage?"
If thsy would and did, and fought for 1t,
they would then certainly be entitled to it; but
as body or people they would not do it.
An occasional instance there might be among
them of men who would, under the inspiration
and guidance of whites, jclamor for the right of
suffrage; but so rare as to be scarcely notlcea-
BILE. AS race, people, they do not appreci-
ate liberty It is not in their natures. They
are simply children OF the sun, with none OF
the genuine aspirations of the whites to be
free. But if an evidence of what / say were
wanted. can point to Tennessee, where eighty
Thousand whites Anglo-Sa1ons-have been
disfranchised, and they do not resort to arms.
In Georgia there are twenty-five thousand, and
but we hear OF no insurrecioh or rebellion on
this account. Therefore it is clear the negro
will scarcely fight under the same circum-
stances, Notwithstanding that it may be said,
And the coored troops fought bravely."
elbow do you regard the finances of the
country, and are the Southern people in favor
of paying the national debit" '
81 am precisely Of the same opinion as MIR.
Pendleton on the subject of the finances. His
views accord with mine fully. Deal frankly
with the bondholder without speculating on
him, and without allowing him to speculate on
the public. Keep good faith with public credi-
tors, and thus sustain it. But first restore
constitutional freedom, reduce taxation,
sboish the Freedmen's Bureau, and all other
o asen
will find public credit good and gold at par. AS
to the payment OF the debt, with q reduction OF
the annual expenditure from s400. 000, 600 to
SAC, ,OO0, 900, it would soon be paid, and no peo-
pie would be more anXions to sustain the ma
tlonal honor than would the Southern people.
A noted fact in our history has been that,
however lavish the Sout1erners were in their
personal expenditures, they were always stingy
and economical IN public pecuniary affairs, and
always jealously guarded their public honor.
Some might attempt to refute this by saying
that Mississippi refused to pay her bonds; but
they we're few who knew the character Of the
class OF bonds she repud:ated, and the circuni-
stances under which ii was DONE"
s'Have the Southern people any desire to pay
the Confederate debt 2"
"None that am aware Of. First, because
OF their inability; and next, because they have
already repudiated it. Two things that the
United States Government we're very foolish in
doing at the close OF the Mar, was the arrest OF
Davis and the demand that the Confederate
debt should be repudiated. While do not
anticipate that it will ever be paid, or any at
tempt be mad 10 pay it, still, if such be the
case. it will be altogether due to that forced
amendment requiring its reputation" .
At this juncture MIR. Stephens remembered
he had an engagement, and with his usual
punctuahty he left the cottage to keep it, after
wishing me very good evening.