The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1870-11-09
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q The struggle is over. Ayast amount
..pf unnscessary, because futile labor, has
been undergone, Scott and Ransier
have been elected, respectively, Govern
5or and Lieut.. Governor. An over
'whelming majority, Of Radicals have
been returned 10 the Legislature. Our
District officers are generally Radical.
The whole State is under Raaical rule.
wv hat next? The negro is impractioable
for goods The decent white men of the,
State cannot stoop low enough to reach
the negro aud gain his support. This
dirty work belouys appropriately to
dirty white men. The negro bas been
80 much courted aud fattered that he
has become more presumptuous than
ever. He struts and swaggcrs at an
amazing ratio. 1t will soon be too hard
even for dirty white Radicals to restrain
his ridiculous ambition. He has come
10 the conclusion, from tho great noise
ahat has been made about him, that he
is carth's most favored inhabitaut. lie
is preparing himself for most grioyous
fall from the heights to which he has
climcd Ills way under the lead Of vile
adventures from abroad, and more vile
wrctcbcs nurturcd upon our soil.
am pleased, for somo reasons, that
an effort has been made to open the
eyes Of the negro to the true and dread.
: full condition Of things existing in this,
State under the misrule OF dishonest
and ignorant men. I lam pleased that
they were invited to range themselves
by the side Of houcst white men, and to
unite themselves with them, in one
grand effort to throw of tho incubus
which is threatening ruin to the body
polite. am even pleased that they
were invited to hold office in common
with honest white men, that better or.
der Of affairs might be effected. The
effort has failcd-sigual!y failed. The
negro, almost universally, has refused
to be impressed by any ovcrturcs point
ing to an houcst ADMINISTRATION Of our
State affairs. He has turned his back
upon his best, his only friends. lie lis
tens to the honeycd words OF designing
white men and aspiring mulattocs. lie
has chosen his own destiny, and it is
ruin to himself. His existence depends
upon the prosperity Of the State; but
this prosperity has been crushed to the
earth. The honest white inhabitants Of
the State will come universally to the
conclusion that the negro, as race,
will never nuke good citizen. The
people of tho United States will not
long suffer the faircst potion of the
country to be impoverished aud ruined
by ignorance, vice and villany. 1t will
be an eternal disgrace to tho whole
country. The disgrace will attach more
to those who have the power to correct
tho evil, than to those who groan under
the evil, without the power to throw it
off. The people Of the United States
nre becoming restivc under the condi
tion Of things existing in tho South
The day Of rc,ribution is coming, when
All indignant and outraged people will
rise up in their strength and majesty
and wipe off this stain which a,lhcrcs to
the whole government. Passion will
not always obscure reason. Revenge
has had its day. The people of the
United States will not be willing to
transmit to posterity the history which
misrulc and oppression arc pow compos-
ing Returning reason is manifesting
itself in thousand different ways. ~
short time since, the death of Gen. Ice,
the great leader Of the Confederate ar
mics, would have called forth no pane.
gyric from Northern papers but now
they are tccmiug with praise Of his spot
less character aud his military rcpu;a-
tion. But a few years ago, aud almost
the whole North had but enc voice
against the South, and that wns IL dread.
full auathcma. But now the cry oi
"shamc--sl,anc," that she should be
ground to powder by ignorance aud
vilInny is beard from thousand quar-
tcrs and the cry is increasing in volume
The toi.e is becoming stern and angry
and ere long it will be irrcsis,iblc But
who will bc principal sufferer, when
tho voice of an indignant people shall
dcmana the overthrow Of misrulo ? The
negro. The negro, less guilty thon
sand times, tlan the mscrcants who
lead him. The negro is now proving
himself to be unworthy to be entrusted
with power He is.proying himself to
be the faci!c tool Of wicked and design
ing mcn. lie is proving himself to be
deaf to the voice Of reason, Of honesty,