Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-07-03

the patronage and political, influence
at Washington. We have organized
society at the South upside down.
Ignorance and crime override intelli-
geace and decency. The great edu-
cational, financial, commercial, char
table and political interests Of the
States are entrusted to our common
field hands. Of the South and unprin-,
cipled adventures from the North (!
Can you Oh wonder that these people de-.
size TO free themselves Of this tyran7.
n.y. and corruption?,. Such. a statetof
things is contrary to nature. Gods
laws, and all the teachings and the
wisdom Of mankind. Such. govern
ments are the most grotesque traves.
ties'j they command no respect from
black or white; they are scandal
and disgrace to them and to US. And
doesi help US OF the North in any
way, to have lot of men; the natur-
al product of this conditionot things,
sent into the halls of Congress to leg
islate for us, there to become the
tools Of bad men, and ready to COM
bine with vicious elements from the
North and West? It certainly is Of
some Consequence to us that the
twenty-four senators. and eighty -or
more representatives from the South
should be clean and intelligent men.
We can have them reasonably SO if
we desire; but not by sustaining the
present state of things.
1t may seem singular that the col
ored man should go; as he invariably
does, to the native whites for advice
in'the care of his family, his money,
and all his temporal concerns, except
his politics. He wont vote with the
white man because, likethe Indian,
hs'worships the great father at Wash
ington, and minds the orders of his
political league Gradually and sure
fy>tEese OPPRESSED people are finding
out, amidst Their weary search for
trtis friends, that the politicians who
have settled among. them ION the
make" are not the, wisest and best of
guides...ioThere. is no hostility-at
least the writer has newer seen any
between the former masters and their
former,slaves. The blacks so to these
men for advice they, even, in many
instances, support their sold'masters
or znistresses whoahave been stripped
Of their all by the war. i know that
the leading gentlemen Of Charleston,
old and young, arestudying thepred-
lens. of race and government with an
earnest desire for the welfare of its
blacks. They feel THAT their own
prosperity, for veal or woe, is indis-
sofubly bound up with that Of the
colored race. and the race. must be
educated and trained t.. ?. citizenship,
The general satisfaction with the col
ored police Of. Charleston, and the
favorable comments from old residents,
are a proof that the whites are will
ing and anxious to have the colored
people. do whatever they can do well.
To make Judges, :. adjutant and ma
jor:generals, State and congressional
legislators Of them the in tn their present sa t
ignorance. and in league with bed Be 1
whites from the. North, VI is, s simply Re,
.dlcipg society and government tso
chaos,l and creating g state of .thlngs
which augurs, no good fop the coloredd
fa?i 4 Distinguished Northsfbb Rspab}i, publ
can, tod .ms that he could not posi-
iblSl reconcile ,ths connaIer:ysattieop % :ls q q
pablia; as morsls and the ii public elfa5FESss
with, this deluge, Of. ignorance and
corruption let loose upon US by thlye
measures 9freeeonstru!etino|nI i P, He thought
essEy ss: 5}tte }stspS IN tbs process since 1856
had been 4 q terrible blupider, from
which there Sc seemed g Is , NJ sscsp : !! 4