The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1870-01-08
From Our Travelling Correspondent.
CHARLESTON, s. c., Jan. LIST. 1870

| oPiniois III ietler W your helghDor, as
well as yourself, feel it was chargeable to
yeur lack Of knowledge of this people and
their surroundings. You arc well aware
that was no apologist for the secession
lists of this or any other State, in the late
war, nor am now an apologist for those
dissraceful mobs, calling themselves the
hlu klux, &c. That there are such clans
here, doubt not that there are desperate.
wicked and vicious men here, ready to com
NIT eutrages deny not but what portion
OF the people, think you, do they repre-
sent (in feeling in their desperate doings :?
Not one fiftieth. That you and many of
your party are honest in denouncing these
people as fit subjects only for military rule.
l can readily understand as the outgrowth
Of education. Taught to regard them as
.rlstocratic, slave-holding tyrants, uninten-
tional bias leads you to do them injustice.
l am not surprised at it. The ink drop
pings Of Forney always fresh beforeIye,,
endorsed by corrupt men in high places,
who control this people Eyes, rule them as
with rod of from for their own agrandize-
ment, and the filling of their own purse,
leaving out of the question petty tyranny,
is sufficient apology for you. Believing,
as do, you to be an honest Republican in
principle, repeat, prejudice has led you to
wrong in writing of these people. That
theirs was high-handed attempt at what
you conceived (as we'll as y to overthrow
our popular government, is true, in the
strictest sense, in eur view; yet, in their
view, it was entirely the opposite,-hence
their self-justification in striking the first
blow. That first blow gave your Republi-
can party new life. They believed Mr..
Lincoln and his followers intended to do
jsst what he did do,-destroy the slave
interest. The hot-headed South Carroll
naians could not bide time, but must rush
to arms instead of appealing to reason
She struck the first blow. In that act is
couched the great wrong of the South
They now admit that emancipation will ul-
timately result in general good to them
financially; also, that they were wrong in
seeding under the circumstances. The
masses uever desired it ; yet, when their
States were seeded, and protection asked
at their hands, they gave it even to for
lern hspe. They fought earnestly and
faithfully, as you we'll know. They sur
rendered and laid down their arms in just
as good faith ; and had the Republican
party kept faith with them from that SUR
render-day, they and we all to-day would
have been united, happy and prosperous
people. Your party cry, punish, humiliatc
them-my God what more punishment
or humiliation is craveds They have been
plundered, robbed, burned, outraged, in
every shape; denied the rights of citizen
ship; taxed heavily without representa-
ton had placed in position their late slaves
to make laws for them. In the name Of
conscience, l ask, what more would you
inflict, unless it were exile or death? 1t
government to adhere to honor's CODE
that Of never striking OF kicking when
your opponent is powerless. Yea, Ger
tainly, government like ours could afferd
magnanimity. could relate instances of
wrong here that would make you shudder
for our safety in future, as a free country
but as intend to call on you, when get
to your town, prefer to let them pass for
the present, and would never have taxed
you with reading the facts and opinions
before recited, had it not been fer your note
tackled to the bottom Of one of my previous
letters. In closing, allow me to assure yeu
these people are no longer, as mass, frac-
tious. They desire new capital, labor and
citizens. They invite such by every word
and action. In some points they propose
to give every white man who shall settle
among them, a farm, free of cost, regard
less of his political complexion. Indeed, I
would like to have you take one trip with
me, not to Virginia alone, but from New
Orleans to Washington, in which would
take occasion to introduce you as Repub-
lican, double-dyed, editing Black Repub-
lican paper-then, and only then, you would
be convinced. The men are high-minded
honorable people, who contend that differ
ent sections may have honest differences of
opinion, and this is the one great reason
they desire the presence of men who advo-
cate Rspublicanism, coupled with which
they want among them capital, and men
who have taxable interest, landed or bust
ness interests not mere corrupt carpet-bag
politicians, who have not dollars interest
here, and whose only object is to fitch. In
ha IF 1r,Sp 1oo 81
ton, they ran ticket against the niger
ticket, the names Of all whom were regis
tered on the side of the Union during the
war. l relate these to show you the true
condition of affairs, though these may be
unwelcome facts to your party, they are
certainly healthy expositions to conscien-
tious man Of honor in error. Were l
public speaker, rest assured should give
my views without stint, not merely, as
some may say, to hear myself talk, but for
the purpose of inducing extreme men to
60 down, see this people, understand them,
see how patiently they bear the yoke of
tyranny. Called though they are yes,
goaded sometimes almost to frenzy by des-
wings over their heads, and they feel for
time they are to be citizens once more, as
they are honest and taxable men. Yea,
hope had settled in tho sunny State of
Georgia, where her citizens were basking
in the sunshine of warmth from her asso-
ciations until maddened Bullock plunged
into their midst and slew their sacred bird
Of angelic shape but enough, come down,
come down, beg you, and entreat your
readers through YOU, come down. Go
among these people and be convinced of
truth. Listen not to policy. Mono are 50
blind as those who will not see. Fear not
truth. Be ever ready to listen to reason,
and open to convictions. This hold to be
honor, mans duty to his brother, (e1ring
brother though he be- to himself. and to
his God. CONSERVATIVE.
ENLARGEMENT OF THE ANERICAN-Ths