The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-26
Tho Happy Family.

The Happy Family.
The Radical brethren in South Carolina
find 1t difficult to dwell together in unity
and the latent enmity between the native
negro and the white and colored adventurers,
Mt this late day, makes itself family heard.
For two years the freedmen, who have the
voting majority In the State, have allowed
themselves to be used and abused by hand
full OF knaves who are far less worthy OF re-
gard than on honest and industrious negro.
The colored people have gained no new
right They have obtained no new privi-
lege. Nor land nor mule has come to them.
Not one promise made them by the chief
tains oil their party has been or will be kept.
And yet they have voted Mt all times, and
upon all occasions, with the precision and
regularity Of clock-work. All the barren
honor OF voting hos been theirs; but mol,
| Tor them, one atom of substantial profit.
They did as thsG were bid. Officials were
made by the bagful. Ex-bummers, worn
out New Englanders, and disreputable West
ern wire-pullers have been given the oppor-
tunity ofgrowing rapidly rich. Million after
million has been added to the load Of public
debt The property-holders OF the State ars
taxed to the tune Of two million dollars In
mine months or less. But the negro masses
nave no pickings, no plunder, no place.
And they have not had rs much true pro-
lection for themselves and their families or
as much encouragement in their industry
ms o respectable white government would
undoubtedly have given them. And WHY
The interests OF the resident white man and
the resident negro are, for the most.part,
one and the same. The white, men, the
property and mechanics, would hnye
striyen toincrease the prosperity of the State,
|,and4 by avoiding al. unnecessary expense.
would have decreased the rate of taxation.
Money now slowed away in the carpet-bag of
the political adventurer would have been
spent I'm cultiyating land, in building mills and
factories in completing railroads, and in the
erection OF storehohsea and dwellings. OF
every dollar that was spent the iaborer would
nave had his share. AS it is, the white
|:property-holder is taxed to death, and the
artisan and mechanic. find no sufficient en-
ployment But, oil the while, the curpet-
b1nnsSer feeds at the public crib, and grows
rich by the sweat OF the people.
The. colored people may find, in their tat
tered garments, their diiapidated homes
their ill+clad wives and children, and their
aching bones, arguments against curpet-bng
rule which cannot be overcome They are
probably as enamored ,as eyer OF Radicalism
m5the abstract; but they do not love Us dear
iy as ofold the scalawas and carpet-basger.n
This is-shown by their conduct in George
town and Kershaw, upon the occasion or
making nominations OF candidates for the
elections which take place tomorrow
In Georgetown, the negroes, who are about
five times as numerous ns tile whites, de-
manded that they be represented in the Lc.,-
lslaturo By q respectable man Of their own
color. This. did not suit the policy of Tho
carPetbaS politicians. By judicious ap-
,plication OF soft words. and what Mr.. Par
Eer PlllsBury calls ''rcd-hot whiskey.n the
convention WINS cozened into nominating a
New England negro OF doubtful antece..
dents, The freedmen felt that they had been
fooled once more, and resolved to put up a
decent man Of color, there being no dan
ger that even division OF the Radical vote
would enable the whites to elect nm Anti
Radical candidate. And what nextf The
whole carpet-bng fraternity begin to revile
and IN implore They call upon the; people OF
Georgetown to'do their duty. And what is
'lheir dutyi" To elect the carpet It. .bayger and
turn the native freedman adrift ;They are
told that II they do not they will be traitors
to the whole Radical league. Mark i'll
Theso Georgetown freedmen, WHO have voted
unmurmuringiy, at election after election, for
the pets OF the carpet-bag ana scnlawae
officials, are told that they must vote to or
der, as usual or be forever Infamous. OpI
course IL the Georgetown freedmen like to
play this game Of ''Black win, white you
s"lose, we have nothing to say.
In Kershaw, before the nomination, an at
tempt was made to do the same thing. A
batch OF officials from Columbia eyertetl
themselves to Secure the selection OF ono OF
their own ring-it would have been one
more vote for those railroad subsidies. But
the colored people seized the reins and put
up colored man., It would have heon
safer, perhaps, II the coblher candidate had
stuck to his last; but ho Is moro the repre.
sentative Of the. celofedp people than a
Sinking white bond-hunter and per-diem
seeker Is ever likely to be. nv aSaGia
The KershaW and 6 Georgetown straws
show {. 10, which way the wind . blowing. AS
general thing, It makes little differences to
thcc white people ,YhiS Of tho Radical wings i
is successful. q Bot when thsl contest g,is be.
tween q white Garpetrbagger on an importer
negro and ay,fsespectable native freedman,
we cannot ltSs help hoping that, the freedman