The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-09-23
COLUMBIA, s. G.
Tuesday Morning, September %. 1873
Tne Government OF tho souln.

movements taking place. In Virginia.
an election is going on in which the
effort is openly proclaimed of establish
ing white mans government for Vir-
ginia; and in South Carolina-n black
mans government to be perpetuated.
II, after the war aud emancipation, the
white and black races had been left to
themselves to establish for themselves
mutual good will, with mutual interests
to commend it, a happier slate OF things
might have been produced than has ever
existed between these two races. There
was no bitterness in the white race to.
wards the black. During the whole war
the black raoo had displayed no hostility
towards the white, and their emancipR-
tion was not achieved by them; but was
exoluaively the work of the Government
of the United States. So it appeared
hardly possible that better condition
OF things could exist for the fair ex-
pertinent of these two races living to-.
gether on equal political terms under the
form Of free government. But the
demon Of ambition and hate stepped in
to use the negro for the Southern white
mans degradation and ruin. l. The
Freedmen's Bureau was established for
the double purpose of improssing upon
the negro the power OF the Government
of the United States and to separate
him from the white race. 2. Union
Leagues were established to organize
and influence the black men against the
white. and by secret pledges and secret
rites to influence the negro into on abso-
lutte submission to the rule of the carpet
baggers md Radicals generally. This
policy was completely successful, and q
separation and antagonism of races in
the South were created and established
by the Radical party. In all other
countries-free or despotio-the govern
ments have always used their power to
produce union and harmony amongst
different races inhebiting them. But
this would have been fatal to Radical
ascendancy in the rulo of the United
States. First, by creating and then by
separating and consolidating the votes
Of the blacks at elections in the South,
the Government of the United States
would remain in Radical hands. From
one end of the Southern States to the
other black mans party was thus
created to govern the whites. The com
paratively few white men attached to it,
to control and direct it in their personal
interests, gave it energy; but they are
not the party. After trying in vain for
the last seven years to dissolve this com
pact black mass Of political antagonism,
the whites are now seeing no other
alternative than to accept OF it as set
tied order of things, and to conduct
themselves accordingly. They must
meet separation with separation, organi-
zation with organization, black power
with white power. This is the inevita.
BILE result, forced upon them by the
Radical rule of the United States. II
is already instituted in Virginia and
South Carolina. Is not this the begin.
ming Of tho end Of an eternal conflict oi
races2
Our carpetbag masters have mani.
tested strikingly two characteristics in
their rule of the Southern States by the
black party-unscrupu venality and
ready tyranny. How many honest men
have come ont from the North to rule
the South? How many of them have
showed the least oompunction to use
military violence to support their fagi
tious rule2 Robbery and tyranny in
nearly every Case where they rulo walh
hand in hand. Are they not deadly
enemies to the people of the South
thriving on their ruin, if not rejoicing
in their mpovcrishment and degrnda.
tion? and whose chief care it is, by every
means Of organization, bribery and cor
ruption, to keep them down, and per.
petuatc black rulo over the South? The
remedy is very easy; disband the black
party; tell them of the Dangers which
must follow conflict OF races, of tile