The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1869-11-18
Miscellany.

ONE of the most active business men,-one
whose name is familiar on three contihle eIds in
tod us lately that on plantation i III and
Texas, ohe negIo voting the hpnnratic tick
refusing to exchange it for = From anoth.
ct, was shot dead, as he stoGu' h;s ,ossesSion
er plantation in Loulslana, , ,n lopr,Js no re-
of 1hoo acres and two nunufeu hai;uo' ho
VI no9o az t,ro bales of cotton. The reason
~ the neiehbors shot two of his gang anu
Sra,e the rest off, Just when the crop was
rsadv A member of the South Carolina SEN
ore assured us that in five counties tnere, the
KIN. Klux shot all the leading hands on the
plantations, and so frightened the rest from
voting. A report to the Legislature, soon to
be printed by one OF its committees, will con-
firm these and like statements by abundant
evidence. Look at the report copied in an
other column, to a convention of colored men,
for the state of affairs in Georgia. lnese
facts are not exceptional-tbey are the RUE
end not the exception in many parts OF the
South.
leCa South Carolina is further advanced
than most other States, toward reconstruc-
ton. During the fifteen months preceding
June. 1868, the negioes bought and paid for
thirteen thousand acres in the single county
of Beaufort. Besides, the Legislature wisely
appointed land commission to buy up tracts
OF land and sell them in small lots to he ne
groes. This has forced or provoked the rebels
-of Tue Stale to lnaugurate system of cutting
theii own estates up and selling them to the
blacks. To be sure the object OF the rebels III
tnus suriendering their old policy, never to
sell an acre to black, and running race
with the Republicans i'm this respect, is to ca
jole the negro. hoping thus to secure his
vote and give the State to rebel supremacy.
We have credible information that in some
States The rebels have learned lesson. The
next election they will give up the system of
not paying the ulacks, dri ling them away and
murdeling their leaders. Their course will
be to pay faithfully, protect the negro and see
that lie enjoys is rights. Thus they hope to
win his confidence and control his vote.
South Carolina always the m ost far-seeing of
the Southern States, is foremost in this
maneuvte. OF course but few districts have
had sanity enough to conceive such a wise
plan Sucn- will lind however that they are
bui ding better than they know. They will
only help liberty. In tue long run and the
ave age we viii trust the negro to discover
WHO his friends are. Temporary mischief
will result. Several of the Southern States.
most OF them. will fall at first into reoel
hands. But in the end, loyalty will find room
aud protection.
An things help the right Only put the
negro Oh land and thus let him vote tree from
fear oil starvation, and loyalty has nothing to
lear. Ine varplsh OF few nne words and a
iitle forced kindness Will never hide The scars
oil two CENTURIES. This generation tremhled
too anxiousy, lopged too impatiently for
1868, aud have relolced too profoundly in that
great denverance to fol get it in their day.
The kindly African nature is the most foreiv-
ing OF AL races, and the most foroettul of in
Juries. Du 1t needs no bull dog and no fox
for this OCCASION. The gentl st hare knows
the hound when he sees him.-WendeH
Phillips in Standard. r....