The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1870-04-27
W.IMM BROFO.
Wednesday Morning, April 27, 1870.
Reflections on tho Georgia
lSills

Bill.
The country has come to sad pass,
indeed, when we arc obliged to hail
tho Go orgia bill that has just passed
the U. S. Senate as Conservative
triumph. 1t reconverts the State into
q military district, and incidentally
puts it into the power of lying gov
ernor, by collusion with the President,
to carry any election, in any Southern
State, by the employment of the SOL
diery Of the Union. Are the eyes Of
Southern mon opened yet : DO they
know that they are conquered, or do
they not7 Do they still propose to
instruct thoir conqnorors in tho prin-
ciplcs of political philosophy, lectur-
ing thcm most sagely upon the Con-
stitution and States Rights, or do they
propose to take a now departure, aud
leaving government to those who gov
ern, attend exclusively to their own
business, in the education Of their
children, in the creation Of wealth,
and in the increase of our white popu-
lation ?
We hold that the South, in order
more fully to command tho powers of
nature for her recuperation, should
adopt the policy of passive support of
the Federal Administration at the
time existing, for many years to come,
in order to cause the Federal power
to be at least neutral in its policy to-
wards US. TO run or elect opposition
candidates, in Federal politics, is ut.
terly vain, for under one protext or
another, their election is snre to be
disallowed. We should send men to
Congress. who have no ambition to
lead uu /. urpus.tion to Grant, but
who will follow Grant, when by pas
sive support, they gradually convince
him that popularity and reelection
lie in the hands Of the Conservatives,
aud persuade him to lead off in the
organization Of u National Copstitu-
tional Party. which is certain to spring
up and gain possession Of the Govern
mcnt, and the germs Of which come to
light with every debate on every i'm
portant measure in Congress.
But will Southern mon do this
No. There are thousands of incipient
Calhouns, vast breed unfedged po-
litical Solomons, who think the North
in very bad way for want of politi-
cal instruction upon the evils Of con-
solidation, the history of the oonfod.
era'ion, and the meaning of the decla-
tiop of independence whose absurd
couceit, in supposing that triumphant
power will not resent such unparallel-
cd imperiinenot, exceeds everything
upon the records of history, and whose
unmcaning glori6oation OF the emas-
oulatcd aud cowardly Northern De-
mocracy simply inccnses Congress
against us. There are, too, many of
the Confederate soldiers, who will
never vote for Grant, nor Grant
man, under any circumstances. And
lastly, there are many sober, honest
men, who believe, with ourselves, that
Grant is no statesman, but will 20
with the majority, so soon as he finds
where the majority are, but they will
not, like ourselves, support him, as the
bost we can do, in spite of this glar-
ing fact, because he is the choice of
those who have q choice, for we of the
South have none.
| Thore is littlo of the wire-pulliug
politician about these reflections.
But as tho Picnic has announced,
with admirable candor, that it admits
the black mans right to suffrage and
office, to get rid Of the discussion, and
be FREQ to attend to moro important
business with greater personal salts
faction, and not to get negroe votes,
for the negroes have sold themselves
into slavery to tho Radicals F; so, We
are willing to support tho malicious
government at Washington, Arst, be.
cause contention with prejudice and
jealousy, in q hopeless opposition, oan
only distract us from really important
4 business and secondly, because oon-
tact with a few Southern gentlemen,
ifsuoh should by chance be, eleetedto
j Congress-. would do nunh "a In, srsa..n