The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-08-31

witness an eruption Of fine frenzy, aud
heara great deal Of spiuttering deela-
nation about "treason to the Democrat.
10 party" "surrenderiug tho Democratic
principles" adopting Radical mea-
sures," endorsing Radical infamies, p
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But il IL among tho Northern people
that these unmeaning and otherwise in
consequential onslaughts upon the
amendments do mischief. Among them
tho 10th amendment i4yegarded as the
logical result, or ratheT aa. the Siamese
twin, Of the Thirteenth. They believe
that the two. must live and die together
and that successful blow aimed at the
former must destroy the latter. If ever
We vindicate the principles violated in
the passage Of those amendments, if
ever. We recall the Govsrnme ent from
the wrongful and dangerous tendencie.
to which they open tho way, it will be
only when we convince tho people of
the North that this can be done with
out depriving the negro OH freedom
and withou. stripping him Of that person.
al protection which they believe the
ballot alone can furnish in the absence
Of Government troops. If the negro
had been endowed by State action with
the right of suffrage and all peedful
ciVil rights the consolidationists would
have been deprived of the pretext
which they have used with such deplor.
able effecs as lever wherewith to
wrench our system from its ancient and
only safe foundation. Unless we do
accept the practical results as far as
they affect the status ofiudividuals, and
unless we can do something toward
checking the consolidationists, We shall
next be compelled to submit to Mr..
Summers laws invading the social
circle, controlling popular education,
and fusing all our local republics
into one imperial and despotic central
ism.
To all Democrats who really care
whether Cesar or Pompey triumphs we
address the question, is there any aban-
donmont of Democratic principle in
treating the Fifteenth Amendment pre-.
cisely as you treat the Thirteenth? II
your action under the latter and your
acceptance of it as an accomplished fact,
is ne treason to the Democratic party,
how can your concession of negro suf.
frage be any moro an act of treason and
reputation of Democratic principles ;
Why should we organize as a white
mans party, and engage in a hopeless
agita ion against the political status of
the negro, when so many dangers to
the system of our fathers demand that
We shall turn all oul artillery against
the weak points in the Radical works
Let US leave the negro where he is,
and permit no strategy of our adversa-
ries to lead us into discussions about
slavery, tho wickcdness Of the rebellion,
the equal rights of all mon to life, lih-
erty and the pursuit of happip ess, or
tho necessity of the habit as protec-
tion of the freedom Of the negro. Let
US hold them to the record they made
when mutilating the Constitution, con-
verting free States into military satra-
pis, DISTINGUISHING their own kindred,
trampling upon the writ of haJeas cor
pas, setting the military above the civil
authority, depriving civil courts of all
power to protect the citizen in his per
son or property, legislating in the inter.
est of predatory monopolies and robbing
the hard hand Of labor with needless
and unjust taxation. Under this banner
we shall conquer and save our country
from the Vaccinations of those who are
urging the government into that mael'
strom of Capitalization which has engulf-
ed all other Republics.