The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-10-19
A Radical Reviewing his Work.

canisnl, is writing letters from this city to
the Rerolution, the organ of woman's
rights, Cady Stanton md Mrs. DR.. Walker
AS the brother of Gilbert Pillsbury, the Rad-
cal Mayor OF Charleston, Mr.. Parker Pills
bury was doubtless shewn the brighter po-
litical side Of the colored man and brother
and his personal experience OF universal suf-
frage in South Carolina leads him to write TO
the petticoat politicians Of the Recolu-
ton these burning words: "Push woman
" suffrage at the North, against oil obsta-
"cles and oppositions; sparing nothing
sacred or profane, that lies in your way"
This is sufficiently energetic. The phrases
which quickened the cold heart OF New Eng
land in the cause of the benighted African
are made to docservice in the cause OF the
unprotected female. AS the fanatics of New
England did push negro suffrage "against
call obstacles and oppositions, sparing
nothing sacred or profane," so are they
urged to push forward the movement whose
success shall give women the ballot, latch
keys, cavalry boots and pantaloous at dis
cretion. Only the satisfaction with which the
Massachusetts pilgrim contemplated the
crowning mercy in poor Carolina could in
duce him to urge so boldly the further ex-
tension OF the un-right to vote. Mr. Pills
bury saw negro supremacy in its pleasant
est shape; in aState where there is large
negro majority, where colored men, and the
less reputable scalawag and carpet-bagger,
,monopolze every Office and score oil the
honors OF the game. And yet, while he
pushes woman's suffrage at the North, he says:
But meantime we may rest the suffrage
"-question here, lin South Carolina) for Pc
|, " riod at least, until some much more elemen-
90 ,tary culture and elevation is secured" The
North, where there are no negroes, may
stand negro suffrage and go further still;
but in the South the suffrage question may
rest for period. And why Mr.. Parker
Pillsbury makes answer in these signiGcan.
HE surely must have low estimate of
the solemn responsibilities Of a govern.
"ment involving the. liberty, tho person, the
property and life of every individual in that
government, tcho ieould force the ballot on
thousands and thousands to be seen all
ocer the South. And forced it was on
many men, wherever the slaves have
"voted; as much as were ever their tasks
in the cotton field. They k,,e,o no more
81. Sc and cared no more for sohat they did
"i" ~otf'a 1an yt tae.y 1eere as in,antae in
gears as they arc -, oittso',o1:., "..es pva.ys
Hcal erperfence.n .
That is to say, the political fanatics, OF
whom Mr. Parker Pillsbury is one, oyecleap-
ing oil obstacles and .sparlng nothing So
cred or profane that lay in their way, forced
this negro suffrage down the throats OF the
Southern people, 1and gave the control Of
This noble State to men who know and care
no more for what they do, in consuming our
substance and voting away our hard-won
wealth, than if they were "as infantile in
years as they are f,a citizenship and In nos
htical experience" We'll may we say that
the men who "forced the ballot" on "thou-
sands and thousands OF ignorant freed
men have "a low estimate OF the solemn
responsibilities of government involving
the liberty the person, the property and
" life OF every individual "in South Carolina.
And of these men Parker Pilsbury was one.
Had he seen and known less OF negro rule in
this State he could not hnve expressed our
feelings and our belief so :. tersely or 80
welE.9.''!@d .. iss.,,I a.i9t. ..aa ,3s,n. 2. 4
Not content with showing that the suf-
{rage question. must stop here, because o,
the ignorance and, infantlle condition Of
" thousands and thousands ., Of colored men,
iMr. Pllsbury tears. away, the curtain Of
charity which hid the vices aand frailties OF
the freedmen, and holds them .up ns dread
examples Of intemperransce, sq1ualor and de- ]
bndchery. . He says: ;" Tic whiskey here is !
:, /" "9,!dIab'olical, and yet they appear to love It
ds',more than anything else, women as we'll
LAS men. They. drink 1T red hot from the
"barrel, 6lcan'a 'and pure, and Iihare seen
=. mothers pour ii thus do,on tile hroass of
"their sic months olllGd6es:Ja n ~ Ii;
And, With ghastly Wit: tr The marriage tic 4
g is not even q 5eam Knot among them.
There is no tie about 1t as general fact.
"On the'plantatlons, very few children, very.
'"few, are born. Iydnticfde Is common,
go" is said, but marriage IS ,ure, unless
"torced upon the parties, and that is not
frequent In the towns it is somowhat
"better than In the country, but everywhere,
apparently, among these poor beings the
legal restraints Of marriage are bi little
regarded. Az to any idea OF comic, table
housekeeping in the rural districts, and
they comprise almost the whole South, 10
Is oil mystery yet to be revealed, oven to
8 Its frat principles
Again: ~ saaD Infants and oery young
children naked from morning to night;
and boys, ,of at least dozen years, with
"oniy single garment, and that but o
"scanty apology. Many women. young and
"old, had little on above the waist and
nothing below the knees, and were doing
"dny's work that not a white man IN Ne,v