The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1869-08-11
THE SOUTHERN RETIEW
TO THE EDITOR OF TIE NEWS

Southern Review, revived in Baltimore, under
the management and supervision OF those dis
tingulshed scholars, Professor Bledsoe and
Major venable. l presume the cause Of this
omission is that there are too few subscribers
to this Review in our city or State to authorize
an agency to be established in Charleston.
This is sad state OF things. Allow me, IN the
absence Of the usual criticism, to bring to the
notice OF your readers the contents OF the July
number. 1. Alexander Hamilton; g. Ameri-
can Dictionaries; 8. Anthropology; 4. Chival-
rous Southrons; S. Theories Of Reasoning; g..
Pocahontas; z. The New Science; 8. The Solar
System. All Of these subjects are ably han
died, and propose to make few observations
On one OF them only. on account of some very
gross errors.
The article on anthropology is g very interest
ing article, but it is clear that no statesman
wrote ir. 1t is written by some professor
some mere man OF science, who does not un-
derstand the affairs OF State, even of his own
times. Speaking Of this continent, he says:
"Here, however, our Investigations cease
to be precise, for here the soil ia forever tremb-
hing with political as with volcanic earthqu tkes
The white man no longer rules supreme here;
he has been pushed aside bI the redskins aRd
the mestizo and the tenaclty OF lower races.
both IN physical and in psychlcal lille, has
been exhibited here in triahtiui manner.
The new world seems to be destined to evolve
and to prove new ideas Dy most painful expert
ments and trials. All the calculations OF the
wiaest OF European statesmen have been con-
founded here by recent events. and all the sys-
TENS ofthe most learned natuIahsts OF the old
world seem TO be on the point OF being over
thrown IN this world, where revolutions are at
half and becoming chronic 10 our own portion.
The bloody tragedy which has been recently
enacted on Meucan soil, brought to light the
startling fact that Juarez, the murderer OF
Macmillan, was negro Indlsn OF The State OF
Osjaca. And the heartIeDdlng farce OF see
ing untaught negroes eolemnly issuing DEGREES
and proclaiming laws for the better govern
ment of the descendants of English Cavaliers
and French Auguenots, seems to defy the
views of American anthropologists, who, here
tofore, held the negro incapable OF higher
culture and the pride OF the European who
believed in bis own insuperable pre-eminence." 7"
Here, it is asserted, that the interiority at
tributed to the Indian and negro races is dis
proved (o1 at least rendered doubtful) by the
overthrow and murder of Maximilian in Me1i-
co, and the subjscton Of certain Southern
States to negro rule.
AS 70 the overthrow Of Maximilian, it was
produced entirely by the withdrawal Of tie
French troops. With only ten thousand French
troops Maximilian easily conquered the six
millions Of Indians in Mexico and established
his throne. The United States Government
intervened, and Napoleon. to avoid war with
the United States, under their threats"a "and re-
monstrances, withdrew the French troops.
That Maximilian-a foreigner-put over Mex
lco by foreign troops, could hold his throne
without them against the six millions OF In
diaus in Mexico, backed by the United States,
was next to an impossibility. His fall
proves nothing in favor Of Indian efficiency,
or the false estimate Of Europeans with re-
spect to them. With ten thousand troops Gene
raj Scott conquered Mexico. With the same
number OF troops Maximllisn conquered it, and
with the same number Of American or European
troopsit IN be conquered again. The Indian
CT Mexico is as weak as he ever was. The only
chance tor power and prosperity which Mexico
has had since it's mongrelism and its fatal pre-
tension to political liberty under the forms OF
free government, in imitation OF the Govern
ment OF the United States. was the government
OF Macmillan. The United States has deprived
her Of this, and now che reverts back to the
chronic revolution and bloody despotism which
has been her fate since her release from the
authority CT Spain. The wealth and civiliza-
ton Of Mexico under the rule OF the white
race has long since LETT her, by their emigra-
ton; under despotism with the forms OF free
government, which her people can neither
appreciate nor administer. The greatest curse
on this continent has been the United States
to the other States inhabitmg lt-affscting o po'
itical liberty which was impossible with their
people, and now apparently impossible with
the United States themselves.
The other proof OF the false estimate OF Euro
peans is of the negro in the South. There
ought to be book written on THE Curiosi-
ties Of Stupidity" !" and when written, foremost
on it's pages should be placed the assertions OF
this article, thas negroes are solemnly issuing
DEGREES and proclaiming lava, Of their wisdom
and invention, for the better government OF
the descendants Of Cavaliers and Huguenots." !"
Is it possible that this writer does not know
that the Negro, in the hands Of the Yankee, is
nothing bu. voting machiue to give him
power2 Does he not know that the greater
part of the laws, passed in the Southern Le-
gislatures to uphold Yankee rule in the South,
were actually ooncocted insWashington And
even when this has not been the case, who but
the white Southern traitor and Yankee carpet
Dagger in our State Legislatures have framed
the laws passed in these Legislaturesr Ia
South Carolina, who bat Corbin and Scot:, and
Moses, father and son, and Orr, and uackey,
and Chamberlain. and the whole crew OF rob-
bers and tyrants, who now rule the State, have
originated the laws which oppress herr And
one step farther back, who supports them
in their rule but the Government Of the
United States The truth is, they and the
negroes are nothing but the instruments OF tue
United States to rule and to crush the South.
This is the simple truth. The governments in
the South, under the Reconstruction laws OF
Congress, are not governments of tho people
of the South, white or black. They arc moth
ing but governments of the United States,
resting on the bsyonets Of the United States
soldiery, under the command of President
Grant. The United States have set them up,
and if they were to withdraw to morrow their
military power, which alone sustains them,
they would cola pse forthwith, like toul bis