The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1869-12-01

paid and yirtuous employment open
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~ ~ The Message Again.
With the exception of it's puorile
dcnunciation Of the class Of employers,
which u Governor should have loft to
orators of the stump, tho message is
good one, and four Of, it's suggestions
have a decided tendency to under
mine the present. fabric Of recohstruc-
tion, and to usher in aGbetter day.
If Governor SCOTT had confined him
self to finance, those recomm ondations,
and more prudent handling Of tho
question Of higher wages for labor,
which We ourselves have, always advo-
Gated, his message would have clioited
from ourselves at least, If not from tho
entire State press, n hearty culogium.
llo is not sincere, however, in all that
trash about labor; in proof, just road
other portions of his message Jet,cee /,
tho lines. For example f." ""' e~l"d .
lie recommends an apprentice system
"a conservative idea; for the radical
ideais, that manhood rights should bo
restricted by no. law whatever, that a
man can and should vote and make
laws, watches, or clocks, orshouscs, or
engines, withoutany ducation or pre-
paration for it whatever. But the Doc
tor knew that his treason just here,
would not be exposed, except perhaps
in some country Journal liko our own
-.s'''., i" ,ho intoroat of 90 apital,
10 recommends that manufactorics
be exempted for five years from tax
alton, This means well, tho blacks
don't SEQ its meaning, and will vot o
for it. So would we. But it means.
Look at it, reader, and commence to
write Robert X. Scott on your ballot.
If, however, you doubt about doing
so, just look at tho i've hundred dollar
homestead exemption recommends
tion. That is on out and outwhite mans
measure. 1t is intended to DESTROY
the credit of the laboring man, and
especially of the laboring black man
completely, and to force him to pay
triple interest, when he does succeed
IN being trusted. It will baoken the
progress of the blacks, until tho whites
got way head Of them In tho race of
life. An appeal to tho all-powerful
stealing instinct, tho blacks will vote
for it. And so, (as war measure,
since the blacks will have wary 30, most
assurcdly, would We. Ten years
hence, we would think,it had done its
work sufficiently, and then VIC should
vote to repeal it. Is
Now, then, ye unrooonstructed
Democrats, if you have not written
Dr. Roberts name onyour tickets yet,
n rolloctlon or two upon tho land com
mission, on which Governor aScottgis
:sroal powerful, ,"will lenabla you con.
scionsiously to do So, 1t is sndirectly
tho best white immigration measure
that has yet beon started in the South,
and is destined to be used directly for
Mat purpose, if it succeeds. Nothing
can prevent this result. So far as it
is founded on tho small-farm fallaoy
so often exposed in the columns of this
paper, as if small farms per Sc can or
will bring intelligent, stoadyo aud
skillful culture, of course, tho whole
thing will provesa Gzzlo.. But,eit has
tendencies other than simply TO ang
ttagonize the races, and 10 separate
labor from capital, when both so
greatly necd a more Harmonious ln.
ion, and in the light Of those tcndcn-
oics, We will watch 1t with interest,
and since the black majority ory loud,
ly forit, why wo should bo happy, aif
in tho Legislature, to accommodate
our colofed citizens by Voting for
it. 3eassSsazgs ga
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