The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-11-25
;s learning who are not his friends.

Carolina are culored men, and many o
them can neither write nor read. Bu'
several Of their very best friends uSsur
ed me they should never support such
again for the sake OF the colorcd race
itself-nut even to save the State from
the Democrat ra-ty. Such bu Is a
on the very name Of government, they
declared, WA, never before seen, | have
witnessed enough myself to easily ur'
dcrstand that il must he 80. At the
opening of the session, culored votes
we're easily bought at five dolors, though
later they rose on their price. Ono
shrewd Yankee from Massachusetts,,
not a member, but who had some
schemes to lobby through the Leeisla'
turc, carried to the capital some cases
of new hats, and with them as legal
tender drove quite spirited and sue
ccssful business, Sad examples for
white Northern Republicans to set before
tt people just emerging from the d 'rkest
degradation and cruclcst, bloodicst bord.
age and oppression that ever scourgcd
the human race! With all the frigh,iul
realities of their past history still crush
Jog them duwn, with the wirhering pre-
judicc against their color still raging a
round them on every hand, aud with
such examples continually set before
them by those whom they not only re
gard as the superior race, but have been
told thousand times are their best an
only friends-what wonder that they
are not to-day, many of them, one de-
gree higher in the scale ofmortal being
than when their freedom was first pro-
claimed! TO me it seemed absolutely
complimentary to human nature that
they have done no worse.
is often said at the North, and in
the South as we'll, that what is most
needed here is the capital. That is not
true. What the South needs most is
men and Nomen. Not adventures,
mere pluoderers, as so many arc who
have gone there since the war, seeking
whom and what they may dcvour-
ravcnous beasts, who only 20 forth to
seek their prey intending to 60 back to
their native NJrtheru dens to riot on
and enjoy it afterward. The South
needs Intelligent men and women Of in
dus,rious, u tuous and thriving habits,
who will go there and identify them
selves with The South, TO share her
fortunes for better, for worse-men who
shall regard the colored man for more
than his vote, and the colored woman
for more than her virtue, and both as
Important to them only as they can in
some way subscrvc their own interest,
convenience md pleasure, With no
thought wha,cccr as to what shall be
the fate of their victims.
Carpet-baagcr is not wholly an in
vidious designation here. Most North.
crn men whom have seen arc here but
to all their pockets as speedily as posi-
be BY such means as offcr-some as
planters, but more a, politicians, and Of
low order, many Of thrnb too. The
young Western enisrant who wrote
back to his father, disappointed. Office
seeker in Vermont, TO come to the West
and urged as reason, that most al
mighty mcan illcn could get into Office"
would fl. d good ground for such argu
ment all through the Southern States.
With such resources as the Nor'h l.
now furnishing the South in great meas
ure, her last state must inevitably be
worst than the first.