Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1869-09-01

LOii viiO.,C tLtiS SCttlils :
here, and the deputies Of those remains
ing at home, would be chosen the Fed
eral officers for the, several States.
the Judges, Attorneys, Marshals
Clerks, Collectors of the Revenue, Post
masters, &c. A part of the scheme
would be to confer suffrage upon, the
negroes and then the Northern settlers
and negroes, combining. with the so.
called Union men of the South, woule
aspire to control the States in their in.
ternal domestic policy. In process o.
time, they would out vote the Southern
whites, fill the State Offices with Their
own men and make all the laws to sui,
themselves. Owning the soil, having
the labor CT the negroes, favored by a
sympathizing Government in every s-
spect, they would reap and enjoy all
the immense profits Of the cotton, To-
bacco, sugar, rice, corn and wheat crops.
In the meantime what would become Of
the Southern whites after parting with
their lands? In numerous instances
they would be cheated out Of the par
chase money. When honestly paid lit
would perhaps be invested in stock that
would become valueless-some fancy
stock gotten up for the occasion by
shrewd New Englandcrs. If well in
vested, in nine cases out CT ten the M
terest would be inadequate as support
rhe principal would have to be en-.
croached upon, until interest, principal
and all would be consumed. Then
would be presented the melancholy
spectacle of almost nation without lands
without money, without employment
Would they come down to manual la
Dor? If SO they would have to work
side by side with the negroes, and or
the soil they once owned, for the New
England proprietors and task-mastars
If they did not work, they and theil
families would have to starYe. Some
few might be able to emigrate 70 Mexi
co, Brazil, Venezuela, but nine out @
ten would not have the means to remove
their families. a people thus hemme(
in, thus pauperised, thus driven to des
perayion. would have but one resourc'
revolution. If successful, this nigh
enable them f.. rec9Yer their lands apt
their lost position An earthquake
the forked. lightning, an avalanche, are
not more to be dreaded than a BRAY
race thus driven to the extremity
despair. 1t matters not that they
WOULD be ultimately subdued; that con
sideration would not perhaps dete
them. Their first rush would be upol
the occupants Of the lands upon whicl
they and their children were born AM
reared, and it would be like the rush c
hungry tigers upon their prey.
In every aspect in which it can b
viewed, a stringent, cruel, repressiv
policy towards the Southern people
dreadful to contemplate. Although "
see no symptom Of relenting on th
part Of the Radicals, we cannot alto
eeether repress the hope that mercifr
! God will change the hearts OF thos
yhq pursue us with such inhupan me
Lightly. If. howeyer, they shall cor
tinup to harass and peraeoRte rs, LOT J
bear it as we'll as wc may-let us dra'
together among ourselves, hold alo'
from strangers, devote ourselves to sue
pursuits as may be still open to US. an
rlcsolrc uader no circumstances, to pa
| lgttb o,p 7aads to persons not hnoym
be friends. Lst us determine to III
any cross, submit to any lHconFeWg
incident 10 their present Guilty
and hold them until Death deprlY
-of them, and impose the same cOad