The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1869-11-25
MISCELLANY.
FROM the Chronicle & Sentinel.
Parker Pillsbury's Experience

shining lights of the Abolition parry u
giving his experience in South Carolina
Ia broken doses, through the New YorA
Kndrpendent. He has visited the ruins
ind desolatiou wrought through the IN
s,ruuen,ality of his Infamous party bu
In keeping with the nr'urc OF the f""at
t. he does not huld himself in any "a,
tes,ousible for the evils inalcted on out
people. ,
Parker Pillsbury tells the c"loreo
,.o,,e some wholesome truths, however
and we wan, the colorcd people to pr'h'
bv his advice. He tells them that the
Yankees did not free the negr.ees Of tho
South either from motives ct love OF
philanthropy, but simply and solely as
a .our measure Of self preserrat'0'' 10 'Hs
Ydnkees themselves.
lie tells them furthur that the car
pet-baggcr has no love for 'hen'-"a'
T.. =. nm odrcniurer-a ravenous beast
vho comes South TO steal and plumber
AID then return to his Northern den to
rio, and enjoy what he has robbed from
the blacks and whites Of tho South
Parker Pillsbury is, no doubt, sincere
IN his views and what he says to the
negroes only corrOboratcs what has been
told them repeatedly by the sou'hef"
PEOPLE snce their emancipation.
Pillsbury sends this ls'ter to the ed''
tor Of the Independent:
All who travel in tho Southern
States since the war can learn lessons
if they will, unknown to them before
Many have reported their impressions
to you already, but all is not yet told
! am afraid the worst is yet unknown.
Indeed I think the North knows less OF
the actual South to-day than Of almost
apy other portion of the globe Ke-
nublicanism bears rule there, and re-
ports itself to please itself. Counter
authorities, especially from Democratic
sourccs, are cast aside as unworthy OF
confidence, as no doubt they often are.
But i, is time one thing was told, and
believed, too, everywhere, ard that Is
,ast reconstruction, so far, is a failure
Il i.a bad fuilurc. From the sole OF
i,s foot to its head, if it have any head
there is no souudness in it=none what
ever. 1t began where it should have
left of, with political organisations
with suffrage and sovereignty, when
,be first lessons in civilization had not
been learned, had not been taught, and
have not yet been taught. But rar'y
supremacy required the measure and 1t
was adopted, against all the dictates OF
genuine craftsmanship, as we'll as the
demands Of Justice and humanity And
hence its failure, as could not but have
been expected.
Neither political party understood
the situation during the war 1T rebel
lion. Neither party understands 1t To-
day. Slavery was not abolished by the
Abolisiopis.s. Still less was it abolish
ed by the Republican party. lu spirit
and power, it survives even the war,
with all its woes. Like everything else
at the South, it is ruin; but it is there.
Both master and slave are there. And
more at war than ever before. And so
far the Northern element infused be-
tween them instead Of reeonciliug, has
only made matters worse. The North.
ern Republican hates the master, but
docs not love the slave. The North
never loved the negro race better than
did the South. 1t did not abolish the
slave system in form for the sake of the
victims. nor at all until driven to the
measure By the stern cxIsency OF mill
tary necessity for selfpre'e:vat'on. 30
far as any sense of justice and humanity
ever were intended, it was ma'.ifest
enough that the Republican party
would have continued slavery unto this
day, and unto the judgment day, had
not the preservation of the nationality
imperiously ordered and compelled 9TH
wise.
And now the Republican patty needs
the black mans ballot at the South
aud is using it for its own preservation
as his bayonet and bullet were nscd fo
the national salvation. And he is find
ing it out Even in bis low estate h