The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-09-26

duu SIeeuy meECeuaIles were TeFellluS IL
the spoils and gloatlng over the ruin of q
people whose dearest rights they bad betrayed,
| and upon whose constitutional liberties they
had trampled; and bent only upon the per-
| pstuity of party power through the vile agency
Of those wretches, the Federal authorities as
sured criminal Southern carpet-bag Governors
of national sympathy and protection, and by
governors, from the steps Of the National Cap
ital, and from the capital Of his own State, to
brand his own people as assassins and
threaten them with Winchester rifles because
they had dared to complain. And these men
ever whom the shield OF Federal protection
has been thrown, and who have been ana
are now sustained by Federal bayonets 10
In the short space of four years, have plunged
the conquered States Of the South Into q aeot
| of over two hundred and twenty-five m1lllons
| of dollars, q debt larger than the entlre de0t
| of all the other States put togetner; Wnile
their State treasures are constantly empty,
| tunate aud their schools and public insltu-
| ttons are dependent upon private aid for their
maintenance, and while poverty stalks through
| the streets of their cities, and decay broods
| along their borders, theee men, l say, are the
very and only men in the South who In secret
and oalh-bound leagues are banded together
to ride the present Executive Into power
again. The annals of civilized countries
furnish no parallel to the inlquilies that have
been perpetrated in these States. Net even
Rome, Imperial Rome, when her despolism
extended from the rock of Jupiter Olympus 10
the far distant Enphrates, and her proconsuls
we're sent forth to dominate and plumber the
fairest and most fertile portions OF the globe,
that they might enrich with b ooty q naughty
arIstocrscy, or furnish bread to an idle popu-
lace, can furnish an example Of such infamy.
AS earnest and determined as I believe this
nation wa In it's efforts to secure before the
law the political equality OF all men, and vigil
liant and jealous as it has been in guarding and
guaranteeing the enjoyment Of this privilege,
/ am Just as confident That It Will iroWn down
auyattempt by any party to establish the su-
premacy OF any class or any caste In this coun-
try. All combinations for political or other
purposes, either as races or distinct natlonali-
ties, is much 10 be deprecated. n highly CEN
sured and condemned. It is repugnant to the
BILE with the instincts Of our people. The civil
and political equality Of the negro with all
other men the American people are pledged to
maintain, and will ever assure; but negro po-
.lltical supremacy, or negro domination 10 any
of these States, never can be and never Will
be tolerated. / say 1t In all Kindness, that the
sooner the colored men Of .he South under
stand this distinctly the better. Their vel
fare, and the welfare OF the States in' which
they dwell, are involved In the speedy recog-
milton of this truth. They cannot exist In hos
tile relations with the white man, nor can they
hope to prosper BY reversing the natu-
raj order Of society, and aoetting
those who would eXpel wisdom and Vir.
tue from the seats of authority, and enthrone
and strength and passion must submit. 1t has
been 30 since the creation of man, and will be
go until the end Of time. Let 1t be remem-
bered that the national arm which has been
successfully invoked to suppress consplracies
and redI oss wrongs perpelrated against the
colored man, will, / say, be as promptly and
as successfully employed TO put Gown me- eor fSip.
have been formed to rob the people and the
States of the South. There are periods In the
growth Ct every government Wnen extraor-
dinary remedies are necessary and called for
In cases Of extraordinary nts OF national
malady.. The American people cannot De 80
silence while law are being violated wita In
punlty by the bad, and trampled upon with
scorn BY those In power, and Legislators open.
" and shamelessly auction of to the highest
bidder the property and the rights OF
the citizen; while vampires are sucking
the very llfs-blood OF the South, and
eating it's substance, and mountebanks
with their vile arts Impose upon the ignorant.
and point them the paths Of wickedness and
crime, ana are drawing deeper and wider the
lines of separation between the blacks and
the whites. In all this ! see with the glooml-
est apprehensIons for the future OF the color
ed man, whe bllndly needing these false
counsels and alienatingthe sympathies OF their
brethren cfthe white race all over this conn-
try. a current OF feeling setting In which will
swell and spread with every repeated ag.
erosion and wrong and fresh indignity, until
at length the poor blinded and untutored'
wards OF the nation may at some future day
seek protection Of the very men OF the South
whom they now 30 much distrust and 30
much despise. ! am not drawing upon my
fancy, but uttering the prophetic warming
whlchc can be traced IN the history OF empires,
and the Else and tall OF peoples. II ID TO
check these alarming vices, aud to avert these
and other dire and threatened cslamilies, that
the masses of this great nation are now being
upheaved, and the pillows raised by multitude
nous voices tor union and reform, and for
Horace Greeley, are heard surgiDg from the
st. Croix to the Sabine, and are rolling from
either ocean over and across this Continent,
and the music OF Cancellation and harmony
evening drum from Mantauk Point 10 the
Falls OF ST. Anthony, and from our 10y fields
In the North down to the glltterlng crescent
OF the Gulf.
Aud if 1 should be asked in what way the
central administration are responsible for
these Irregularities, my answer Is that corrup-
| ton in the capitol at Washington has engen.
dered corruption 10 the States, and from the
| parts &d extremities of the republic into
| which the virus has been injected, 1t has been
| radiated back TO the centre, until the whole
national breath has been i~mpregnated with
the poison. 1t has been sagely recorded by q
| very distinguished writer that as the most per-
feet commonwealth Ia only public virtue em-
| bodied Ia the institutions OF q country, 30
every vice generates some abuse or corrup-
ton 10 the State-some pernicious disorder,
some lawless power, incompatible with ra-
| tional liberty, or as The same idea has been re-
Gently more tersely expressed by the dlstin-
| IuIshed Carl SchurZ, ''publlc morality is the
very life. blood Of free institutions"
Let us contrast for q the present con.
dition Of our country with what 1t was IN lis
halcyon days. In that interval, brief In the
life of q nation, between the surrender Of
CORVALLIS at Yorktown, and that fatal April
day in 1861, when the flag OF the Union was
lowered on Sumter, our country presents as
happy and interesting q spectacle as can De
found In the annals OF any %natlon--a glowing
record of splendid achieVements-a Union OF
civic and military renown united with the
stern morals Of q primitive and the gracee OIL
a polished age. When the fasces Of the Re
public we're upheld by men of stainless integ-
rlty, and our own, our immortal wash
iDgton, and his Immediate successors,
imbued with that sublime fortitude like
Cato thought, with more than q censors
severity, and loved with more than
q Romans virtue; when the brow of our ma.
tional temple blazed, not with the spells oil
Bu61uGated States, but with prOuder triumphe