The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1873-07-17

and we can safely leave the rest to time.
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Beauregard Follows Longstreet
On our first page will be found a series
of resolutions adopted at recent meeting
in New Orleans The first report was that
the G. T. Beauregard whose name heads the
list was General Beauregard Of Confederate
fame. This was afterwards denied, and il
was said to be an insignificant ward
politician of that city 1t seems, however
that the first report was correct General
Beauregard has avowed himself as the au.
thor Of these resolutions. The Atlanta
Herald of Sunday last expresses what we
think and feel about him, much better than
We could do ourselves in tho following ex:
tract:
Not without the deepest possible regret,
do we find published in the Nashville pa
pcrs note from General Beauergard, in
which he avows himself the father Of the
amalgamation resolutions. He says that
they had become necessity that it was a
question of existence with them.
We cannot understand the necessity that
impels white Southern men to make such
startling concessions to an inferior race, as
those proposed by General Beauregard and
his adherents. Does the General mean to
tell us that the existence Of white Louisiana
depends upon what his. resolutions call the
."uni6cation of the races" Is their ex-
istence dependent upon the sweeping away
in one blow. of every barrier that four centu
ries of social customs have erected between
them? Is there not something puerile and
cowardly in this declaration?
We very readily admit that the political
situation in Louisiana is grave one, and
that, by the action of the Federal Govern
ment, the State is now in the hands of
most unprincipled set of scoundrels. But
if 3he rapacity Of thieving carpet -baggers
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SO severe, that the existence Of white men
was at stake, was there no nobler and more
manly method of meeting the danger than
by welcoming the doctrines Of the most
violent advocates of social equality !!
Twenty we'll armed, determined men could
certainly have been found in Louisiana to
strike one bold, daring blow and end the
danger. True enough, such course would
have put the State under martial law but
it would, at any rate, have taken Louisiana
out of the hands Of the scoundrels who had
placed the very existence of her white
population at peril. =.
Exactly what General Beauregard ex-
poets to gain by his present course we can
not imagine The negroes whose votes he
expects to obtain will not place credence in
the sincerity of his declarations J; and it will
be utterly impossible for him to unite the
whites on any platform of social equality
with negroes. All, then, that he can
possibly effect will be the division of the
whites in a crisis which demands their
complete unity.
Under the plea ofnecessity she South has,
for eight years past, made concession after
concession, and in return has obtained
nothing but oppression and 'contumely.
Is it likely that the movement inaugurated
by General Beauregard and his allies will
produce any more palatable results? If
political success depends upon concession to
to negro arrogance be well fixed, he will
find the adyenturer more than his match.
There is not single privilege he can offer
to the nogro that the pet-baggcr has not
already offered him; aud between the two,
the negro will trust the adventurer Stoop-
ing, then, will not even enable him to con-
quer Not negro will vote his ticket,
who would hot have voted it upon a promise
to respect his political rights and to protect
him in their exercise. On the other hand,
thousands of white men, ditgusted and in
dignant, and feeling that the concessions
offered are humiliation to their race, will
abandon the political field in disgust, and
thus leave Louisiana more hopclessly in the
hands of pet-baggers and other scounIrcls
than ever.
General Beauregard has not only cont
mitted gross blunder, he has committed u
crime against his race aud his people. Ills
resolutions cannot elevate the negro. but
they can drag white men down to the level
of negroes 1t would have been better to
have re-enacted the scenes Of the barrlcadeS
in the streets of New Orleans, than to have
given to despair of succor that cowardly
form which abandons pride Of race, pride OF
birth and devotion to principles, and by
basely surrendering everything-even man
hood-sought to retain two pititu gifts
pitiful when placed beside right and liberty
little money and few years OF life
Alas we fear that Louisiana perishcd when
lee surrendered.
Barrister, to avengc himself on an oppo
nent. wrote "rascal" in his hat. The owner