The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1870-11-10
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4AS 1S5oSo VI ~ ~~~S
The ingeniously contrived frauds OF
the Radical party, which have defeated
candidates in counties where
a fair election would tell widely dill
fcrcnt tale, do not, it must be confessed
account satisfactorily for the re election on
of Governor Scott by majority OF 81
or So, 900 votes. Striking from the
Radical vote every ballot which IS be-
licved to be improperly or illegally
counted, the remainder is still sufficient
to elect the Radical ticket. This Who'll,
ly unexpected result can only be ek'
planned upon the hypothesis that the
Reform movement, while it held the.
whites together, utterly failed In Its
cndeayor. to obtain the political support
of the colorcd people Of the State; ihe
negroes were, assured of their Doaliy
freedom. Their every civil and Poll'l-.
cal right was; recognized and guaran-
tecd. They received practical esiden-
ces of the sincerity and candor OF the
whites. They have, nevertheless, spurn,
ed the olive branch that was extended
to them, and the chasm dividing the
two races is at least as broad and as
deep today as it was two years ago.
Nothing was left undone which could,
with pr,priety be DONE. Every source
Of argument and persuasion was ex-
hausred. Neither PATIENCE hor per<e'
verauce was wanting. Yetthc colorcd
peoplc-cajoled and abused as they
have bcen-elect to Office, for the Sc.
coad time, the unpriacipled :intrigucrs
who arc comprising the .rqin of. the
State. Only q ,rc8 months ago It was
believed that The blacks only, ,cluDg to
Radicalism because nothing better and
,purer was laid before them The Re-
formers accordingly organized their
party upon the broad platform Of &C.;
complished facts and civil and Peli:ical
equality. It Was evident that the ne
groes had nothing to fear. from the sue;
cess Of the Reformcrs unless, indeed,
it is their ilca, that corrupt ndis;
norant government orprcsses the rich
and fayors Tic poor alone! All the
conciliatory: measures walsh zeal and
disinterestedness could devise, were
faithfully tried. And, and at the end
of it, the colored race are, as hostile to
the white race as they were when abso-
lutely nothing was done to .yallay their
alarm, and to win their confidence and
trust. II lis evident that the whites can
60 no farther: :, They adhere to the
principles expressed in the Reform
platform because those principles are
Just, and true, and right. But they
! will not fawn upon and hatter the me-
gro; and while they recognize his po-
litical privileges, they will not allow
those privileges to be exercised for the
disorganization and destruction of
society. "a, -, -: .r5r.-
| The efforts Of the Radicals to con-
vince the freedmen that all white men
who arc not Radical politicians, are the
encmie, of their race, have done the
work thoroughly. 1t is hard to find a
negro who docs not regard tbs, whites
as the authors of all his troubles. and
who does not dream Of general shar-
ipe- of -hereee, -lHusIv, iAa1.ierHvu.----l
stael. Tho-eelorcd majority in the
legislature and out of it, hayo more
power than they ever had before. That
power they will use rcmorselessly, in
redressing their funcied wrongs; in
hcalings as they phf Sc it, the wounds
of slavery. Where they cried for po-
litical equality they now demand the
absolute supremacy of tho negro race.
They move quickly, and, nothing less
than thorough organization on tho part
of the whites give any hopes of saving
South Carolina from the fearful evils
that threaten hcr.-Daiy M~s.