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

see no notice taken in the papers OF the
Southern Review, revived in Baltimore, under
the management and supervision of those dis
tinguIshed scholars, Professor Bledsoe and
Major Venable. 1 presume the cause Of this
omission is that there arc 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 mo. in the
absence Of the usual criticism, to bring to the
notice OF your readers the contents Of the July
number. i. Alexander Hamilton; q. Ameri-
can Dictionaries; 3. Anthropelogy; 4. Chlval-
rous Southrons; s. Theories of Reasoning; G.
Pocahontas; 2. The New Science; 8. The Solar
System. All of these subjects arc ably han.
died, and propose to make few observations
On ono Of them only. on account OF some very
gross errors.
The article on anthropoiogy is very interest
ing article, but it ls clear that no statesman
wrote it. 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 ERE the soil s forever tremb-
nng with political as with volcanic earthqu ,kes
Ihe white man no longer rules supreme here:
ne has been pushed ASIDE by the redskins aad
eAAS hOoIAAO duo tb0 tOudCty OF lower races
both IN physical and III psych,cal iite has
been exhibited hero in frightful mal.t,er.
The new world seems to be destined to evolve
ana TO prove new ideas ~ most painful experl-
wlsest OF European statesmen have been con-
founded here by recent events and all tho sys-
TENS ofthe most learned naturalists Of the old
t,s Worla seem TO 10 bs on the point Of being over
nome occurring periodically in the southern
naH ana becoming chronic in our own portion.
Inc - b9ody 10 tragedy Which has been recently
startling fact that Juarez, the murderer of
Maxlmlian. was negro Indis n of the State of
Oa1aca. And the heartIepdlng farce OF see-
ing untaught negroes eolemnly issuing DEGREES
and proclaimin2 laws for the better govern
ment of the descendants Of English Cavaliers
and French Hugtenots, seems to defy the
views OF American anthropologists who here
toioIe, held the negro incapable of higher
culture: and the pride OF the European who
believed in his own iosuperable prs-eminence" /"
Here. it is. asserted, that the inferiority at
tributed to the Indian and negro races is dis
proved (oI at least rendered doubtfuD by the
overthrow and murder OF Macmillan in Mexi-
co, and the subjection Of certain Southern
States to negro rule.
AS TO the overthrow Of Macmillan, it was
produced entirely by the withdrawal of tie
French troops. With only ten thousand French
troops Macmillan 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 and re-
monstrances, withdrew the French troops.
iaat Maximilien-a foreigner-put over Mex.
100 by foreign troops, could hold his throne
without them against the six millions of In
dians In Mexico, backed by the United States.
was next @ an impossibility. His fall
proves nothing in favor of Indian sff3ciencv
or the false estimate Of Europeans with re.
spect to them. With tenthousand troons Gene.
ral Scott conquered Mexico. With the sama
ppmbeg az tE0o1a Maxinas.;a ~ sr,a
wies the number Of pgah pNaat
troops it G IN be conquered again. Inc Indian
OF Mexico is as weak as he ever was. The only
chance tor power and prosperity which Mexico
has had since its mongreIism and it's fatal pre-
tension to political liberty under the forms of
free government, in imitation Of the Govern
ment Of the United States, was tho government
of Maximilian. The United States has deprived
her Of this, and now che reverts back to the
chronic revolution and bloody desp otism which
has been her fate since her release from the
authority cf Spain. The wealth and civiliza-
tion OF Mexico under the rule OF the white
race has long sincs left her, by their emf gra-
ton, under despotism with,the forms or 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 inhabitlng it-affseting 20.
litical liberty which was impossible with their
people, and now apparently impossible with
the United States themselves.
Tho other nrO0f ~ Tho fo1 40 f;,,,o 10 RM -
peans is of the negro in the South. There
ought to be a book written on ''The Curiosi-
ties OF Stupidity" and when written, foremost
On its pages should be placed the ssertions Of
this article. that negroes are solemuly issuing
DEGREES and procIaiming laws, Of their wisdom
and invention, for the better government of
the descendint Of Cavaliers and Huguenots." i"
LIS it possible that this writer does not know
that the negro, in the hands Of the Yankee. is
nothing but voting machine to give him
power? Does he not know that the greater
part of the has, passed in the Southern Le-
gislatures to uphold Yankee rule in the South.
were actually eoneocted in Washington And
even when this has not been the cass, who but
the white Southern traitor and Yankee carpet
Dagger In our State Legislatures have framed
the laws passed in these Legislatures? :? In
South Carolina, who bat Corbin and Scot., and
Moses, father and son. and Orr, and Mackey,
and Chamberlain. and the whole Grew OF rob-
-bers and tyrants, who now rale the State, have
originated the laws which oppress her And
one step farther back, who supports them
in their rule but the Government ct the
United States2 The truth is, they and the
negroes arc nothing but the Instruments of the
United States to rule and to crush the gouth.
This is the simple truth. The governments in
the South, under the Reconstruction laws OF
Congress. are not governments of the people
of the South, white or black. They are moth
ing but governments Of the United States,
resting on the bayonets Of the United States
ssldiery. under the command of President
Grant. The United States have got them up,
and IL they were to Withdraw 10 morrow their
military power, which alone sustains them,