Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1869-11-24

should DO iolh ana puuiirhVd lnlVush I
the nation, ~ we would save our ma.
tion from the doom Of Sodom and
Gomornh
A majority of the legislature Of
South Carolina are colorcd men, and
many of them can neither write nor
road. But several Of their very best !
friends assured me they should never
support such again for the sake Of the /
colorcd race itscll--not even TO save |
the State from tho Democratic party. |
Such burlcsQuc on the very name Of
government, they declared, was never
before seen. / have witnessed enough |
myself to easily understand that II
must be SO. At tho Opening OF the
session, colored votes were easily
bought at five dollars, though later
they rose on their price One shrcwd
Yankee from Massachusetts,, not n
member, but who had some schemes
TO lobby through the legislature, car
ried to the capitol some cases of now
hats; and with them as legal tender
drove quite a spirited and successful
business. Sad examples for white
northern Republicans TO set before a
people Just emerging for tho darkest
degradation and cruelest, bloodiest
bondage and oppression that ever
scourgod the human race With all
the frightiul realities of their past
history still crushing them down,
with the withcring prejudice against
their color still raging around them
on every hand, and with such exam
pies continually set before them by
those whom they not only regard as
the superior race, but have been told
u thousand times arc their best and
only friends-what wonder that they
arc not to-day many of them one de-
gree higher in the scale Of mortal
being than when their freedom was
first proclaimed To mo it seems
absolutely complimentary TO human
nature that they have done no worse.
1t is often said at the north, and in
the south as well, that what is most
needed here is capital. This is not
true. What the south needs most is
men and iromea. Not adventurers,
mere plundercrs, rs so many arc who
have gonc there since the war, seek
ing whom and what they may devour
--avcnous beasts, who only 60 forth
to seek their prey, intending to so
back TO their native northern dens TO
riot on and enjoy it aitcrward. The
south needs intelligent men and
wopen, Of industrious, virtuous and
thriving habits, who will go there and
identify themselves with the south, TO
share her fortunes for better or for
worse-men who shall regard the col
ored man for more than his vote, and
the colOred woman for more than her
virtue, aud both as important TO them
only rs they can in some way subserve
their own interest, convenience and
pleasure, with no thought whatever as
to what shall be the fate Of their vic.
Tins That the native southcrner
should still hold 20 his own idea aud
habit of idcncss is not strange. But
almost every northern man who comes
at once contracts the same. Very
few whites intend TO work here, any
more than did the shareholders fifty
years ago. Labor is about rs disrep-
utable as ever. And northern men
are to day all through the southern
Atlantic States deluding or driving the
colorcd people into working for them
at prices or on conditions that would
/ DO deemed a downrigt insult IL prof
Icrcu 70 any good working man la
New England.
The old Shareholders have dreams
and schemes in plenty Of Coolies, Chi
namen, japanese, aud even Germans,
who are to do their dirty drudgcry
and all their manual labor, as "houso
servants" aud "field hands (terms
still extant hero, at prices which
must border on actual and perpetual
starvation.
Almost the whole solicitudo and
talk among tho idle classes is of cheap
labor, cheap labor; as if the curse Of
the Eternal God had not been Blasting
such cheap labor from the days of
I Egypts Pharaohs to the Pharaohs and
would.bc Pharaohs OF America, forty
centuries afterward.
Carpet bagger is not wholly an in
viduous designation here, Most north.
ern men whom have seen arc here
but to I'LL their pockets as speedily as
possible by such means as offer
some as planters, but moro as polit-
clans, and Of a low order, many Of
them, too, The young western cmi.
grant who wrote back to his father,
disappointed oilicc.seeker Vermont,
to como to the west, and urged rs a
reason that "most almighty mean
men could get into office, would find
good ground for such argument all
through tho southern States With
such resources as the north is now
furnishing the south in a great meas
ure, her last state must inevitably be
worse than the first
There are two elements in action at
the south Of which have not yet spo-
ken-hcr churches aud her schools
OF the former ! have only to say that
for almost hundred years tb-a'
fendod and practicC.d, ~ uo'
\ with all itsr. Of s,.F ~ siaVeholulhg,
bestlo soth :. neathcnism, cruelty and
4EpAGSnty; seeking their argument in
Il the Old Testament, the New Testa-
mcnt, and the Apocrypha to boot /;
separating by sale, husband and wives,
who were also members of the same
church, and iustifying it on the same
ground, as they said and published,
"that such separation is ciUWy sep
aration by death, and we believe that
IN tho sight OF God it will be so
viewed (" All this, and more and
, worse, the churches did, and sanction
ed, aud sanctifcd. Aud, so far as !
can sec, they arc still just the same
churches in form, spirit and power,
, aud Just MS disastrous in their influence
as ever before; ard so nothing good
can beexpocted Of them.
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