The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-03-08

1OuDQ, uuyl0iQlUS anu UNIVERSAL. HueT6 LUt
kindeBt personal relations prevail, where the
work the land on shares in contentment and
harmony with the proprietors, the testimony
Is that, go far as voting is concerned, the old
master Is utterly without influence. he can
not obtain vote or the promise Of vote. In
this matter tie black will listen only TO the
unprlncipled adventurer who rides through the
country claiming to be one OF those who gave
freedom, to the slaves. Conscious of their
present liberty, the freedman's dread of its
possible loss makes him the most suspicious
aud apprehensive of mortals. In poverty and
sickness, in trials and troubles, he resorts to
bis old master, and seeks bis aid 0nd counsel
with ehildllke confidence. But In voting he
Is sleeled to his advice. and will die before he
will take it.
average property holding citizen to do BE
sims faithfully to get upon bis legs and keep
upon his legs, but the grinding taxation
actually imposed, and still more that which Is
threatened, makes him despair Of escaping
virtual confiscation. He would get out OF the
State If he could, but there Is nobody to buy
his property. On visit to South Carolina a
few years ago, Senator Sprague. of Rhode Is.
land, attracted by the great natural advant-
ages of water.power at the capital OF the
State, purchased ii, and spent considerable
sum OF money preparatory to starting manu-
factories there: The development, soon after,
OF the corrnptions and measureless robberies
of the State Government. brought hls opera
lions to dead stand, and now he only awaits
the torlorn hope Of an opportunity to e4tricate
his venture from the clutches OF the thieves
and villains who have the State by The throat
and are sucking Ils lfe's blood.
"Why don't you rebel again :" asked Bos-
ton man who was lately travelling through the
State. This time you would have q reason. "
Alas, why! Subjected to oppressive condl-
tion, such as 1t may be safely said no State or
community In the civilized world is to-day
enduring, the white minority In South Caro-.
lima are quiet and dumb. They have no life.
Their spirit has gone out. Their inertia
licked up ell their available substance. The
grave covers generation of their fighting
men. Until time repairs the waste of blood
and sinew lost by war, there is no material 10
organize into resistance. At present there
seems to be no heart for II, and no thought OF
it. But do not the Wild crimes of the Ku. .Klux
youth of the State foreshad0w possible future
for that wretched people that demands the
earnest attention of thoughtful statesmen
we expect long to regulate the internal ad.
ministration Of law and justice In the State by
military rule And, after all, are the Ku-Klux
outrages but the expiring embers OF an old
contest, or are they in many cases the klndling
sparks Of Hew!
One thing seems plain to the most ordinary
apprehension. The condition Of things now
existing in South Carolina would not be borne
q month in any Northern State without tax.
payers league being organized 10 resist the
payment Of all taxes imposed for fraudulent
purposes, and without the ewift establishment
Of court OF lynch,la So much treason az
that exists In the blood Of every American citi-
zen worthy of bis birlhright.
Admit everything. and has not South Caro-
lima suffered enough! Admit that she was a
hotbed OF seditton. Admit that she was the
cauldron In which was conducted the venom
everything. Is there to be no expialion? Re-
collect that generation Is rapidly rising that
had no hand In these things-a generation al.
ready more than half way to lis maturity.
J. g. p.