Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1871-04-06
That Proclamation.

1ldb SIitulCH OeIuoVlt t'lie PoPSAi oaS
Washington Patriot is out in a leader
.criticizing General Grants proclamation
in reference to the disorders in South
Carolina. Some very wholesome truths
are uttered, and We reprint the article
and commend it to the careful attention
of our readers. The Patriot says:
There NAV have been local disorders
in South Carolina, and it is only sur
.prising, with the untold outrages which
have been committed upon the white
population, that they have not been
more frequent and serious. The intel
ligence, Christianity, and substance OF
that State have been turned over to the
barbarism of besotted blacks, by whose
gross and inaamed passions they are
ruled, until civilization sickens and
revolts at the inhuman spectacle, and
is outraged by the restocking libel on free
government. The hideous revels in the
mockery of the last Legislature, worthy
of Dahomey, where taxes, and subsidies,
and plundel were voted by the heathen
demons in human form, directed by
white wretches without conscience or
pity, have no parallel in history. The
State has been robbed Of millions by a
corrupt conspiracy, at the head of which
VIGOROUSLY stands the Governor, and
taxed until desolation stares an unfor-
tunate people in the face, already aftlct-
ed by civil war and its ruinous results.
The blacks, who were used by this gang
of plundering adventures for their
nefarious schemes, came to know their
strength, and demanded the most ex,
trayagant recognitionof their numerical
ascendancy. The Governor organized a
black militia, put arms in their hands,
and then distributed these recent slaves
over the State, with their infunated
passions, to oppress and insult their
former masters, and to outrage their
wives and daughters.
Their cruel and revolving crimes
have, from time to time, provoked
retaliation. Human nature would some
times assert itself. Fathers and hus-
bands and brothers, who had iorborne
under almost every provocation, have
revenged their desolated fresides, when
law became only shelter for brutality,
and wicked instrument of injustice.
Rut what mnst he thonobt of a State.
with large majority Of black popula.-
ton, with black militia; with black
Legislature, with black Courts, black
sheritfs, black bailifs, black supremacy
every where and in every form, directed
by the fendish spirit of blacker hearts
under white faces, which is incapable OF
subduing an ordinary riot in sparsely
populated district, and cravenly invokes
Federal intervention to do its common
police duty? South Carolina is a sad
example of Radical reconstruction car
ried out to its extreme conclusion. Look
at her to day-she, one of the Old
Thirteen, banl1rupted, degraded, de-
spoiled, prescribed and trodden nnder
foot by fetish-worshipping Africans
There she stands monument OF the
humanity" and "moral ideas" of traf,
fcking hypocrites anil canting knaves,
who, in the desecrated name of Repuh-
licanism, have committed tha greatest
crimes, and have conspired to overthrow
our free institutions. Who is there,
with a generous heart in his breast, OF
an instinct of American character, that
does not regard this spectacle with hor-
ror and Indignation, and turn from ii
bowed with SORROW and with shame
Such is Radical reconstruction