The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1870-01-06
Fastidious Radicals.

A French wit has defined equality rs that
condition OF things in which you become
equal to your si,periors, and superior to
your equals. Very similar to this, in its
aims and principles, is the school of polti-
cal philosophy of which the Radical carpet
baggers have, so fur, been the Jealous apos-
ties among the negroes of the South. When
the war closed, very few OF these disinter-
ested Jewellers, it must he said, hesltated to
illustrate in their own persons and lives the
doctrine which they found it so convenient
and so profitable to preach. But ere long
there became apparent a gradual but steady
divergence between the precepts and the
practice of these champions OF human rights;
aud so marked of late has the contrast be-
come, that it is now matter OF common
remark even among the least observant OF
the blacks.
The New Year emancipation celebration
which took place in our city the other day,
afforded a notable instance Of the inconsis-
tency.to which we refer. A solitary white
man-and he not carpet-bagger- appeared
in the struggling line Of freedmen, who, in
all the glory OF braided rorndabouts, flutter-
ing badges and real muskets, went march
ing up and down our streets.
Where, asked the edited spectators,
were the great lights of South Carolina
Radicalism-thc white men who have risen
to place and power on the shoulders OF me-
gro voters, and who now wax fat upon the
fruits Of negro legislation? Where was the
immaculate Bowen? Has his brief Congress
sional career so turned his head that he
dares to absent himself when his constitu-
ents were celebrating the day glory :"
Where were Scott and PillsUury! Does the
Governor fancy that he was adequately rep
resented by the State .bayoncts, which, in
defiance of the law lie has sworn TO execute,
he had furnished to the negro militia WHO
marched in the procession? Did the Mayor
imagine that he had done his whole duty to
his emancipated supporters, when, by his
order, the folds OF the national bunting were
flung to the breeze from the City Hall?
Where was Mr.. Attorney-Gcneral Chamber
lain? Has he, too, turned his back upon the
Loyal League, and forgotten the claims OF
the black men who have made him all
that he is? Is there aught more degrading
in association with negroes noac, than when
he was the willing ornament OF the dusky
society of New Liberia, and won the popu-
larity which sent him to the convention as
delegate from Wadmalaw? Can it be that
the carpet-baggers are at last getting asham-
ed of the rank and file of their party! or do
they suppose that, having served their turn,
CufTee may be cast aside, like squeezed
orange?
Wefear thatit isso. Wehear, from Colum-
bia, tidings that convince US that reconstruct
ed South Carolina is no exception to the
rule which proclaims the universal ingrati-
tude of Republics. The mixed receptions at
the Executive mansion are mixed no longer;
and though there are festive gatherings in
loyal quarters and sumptuous banquets, to
be paid for out of the State Golfers, the in
passport to these gatherings
and halqucts is-alas for the degeneracy Of
the times-the triiling accident of white
skin But let these gay officials have a care
In the boldly ligurativc language OF Daddy
Cain, "Thc Sirocco cometh!" Unless they
mend their ways, and that speedily, many
q black CassiuS, as lean and hungry for lack
of place as he of Rome, will rise up to ask
Upon what meat do these, our Caesars feel,
That they have grown 50 great?