The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1873-08-21
Future Progr.mme-No. 1.

speech ut tie emancipation celebration
in Hartford, Connecticut, (sse the
Union. Herald of the 9th instant, let the
cat out of the bag, and it proves to be
black one, indeed, for the future of
South Carolina. In speaking Of South
Carolina, hear him:
"Land is cheap. and we (tbe negroes)
like to put on the taxes, 80 as to make
it cheap. We shall try 10 put the negr o
in high Office, and make the white man
recognize his black face and know he
has met his equal. Cardozo has proved
an eminent fnancier, and bids fair to
leave far brighter record than his white
predecessor"
Mr.. Rainey, in these few sentences,
has fully made known to the white peo-
pie OF South Carolina the meaning Of all
these high taxes and the future pro-
grammc of the black man in South Caro-
lima, which may be summed up in the
following words: "We (tha ncgroes)
care not how high the taxes are; the
higher, better for us. We are deter
mined that the property uf the white
people Of South Carolina shall be ours,
and the best and easiest way to get it,
will be to increase the taxes, no matter
how much; make them higher and higher,
until the white people, being unable to
at oil pay them, their entire property
will be forfeited to the State for non
payment Of taxes. We tine nogroes)
have population of 415,814, while the
whites have only 299, 867, and we are 60
ing to fill all the Offices. White men, as
we'll as carpot-baggers, must stand aside !;
you have held Office long enough; the
government of South Carolina is ours,
and all the forfeited property for taxes
is ours, and we are going to divide it
among ourselves, reconstruct the State
Government, compromise and pay the
old debt that Was begotteE in fraud by
the money-eeeking carpet-baggers, and
then VIC shall have our own way, and a
happy time, indeed" There is no kind
Of doubt but the above is the true pro.
gramme. as is fully indicated in Rainey's
speech above referred to. Yet, in tho
face Of all this, the white people of South
Carolina are idle, and doing nothing to
save themselves from the ruin that is
slowly but surely coming upon them.
Let me say to all those who hope and
look for better time for the whites in
South Carolina while the disparity in
numbers remains as above stated, that
their hopes are vain in the extreme. It
is hope against reason, and no one is SO
foolish as to hope for that which reason
and common sense teaches will never be.
Hear the Union Herald on the land ques-
ton in South Carolina: "We are, and
always have been, the advocates of tho
system OF breaking up the large tracts of
land belonging to the white many into
small homesteads," (for the black man,
Of course.) Wonder how the Herald
proposes to break up these large tracts
of land, while held by free men, as the
white man, Of right, ought to be? Dy
heavy and heavier taxation, of course,
or else some other foul legislation.
White people Of South Carolina. heed
these admonitions. Let no white mau
think or hope that he will escape this
dire calamity that will befall his race in
South Carolina. The avaricious carpet
bagsers anu Office seekers, who came
down from the North for this express
purpose, as we'll as the white man, will
have 10 step aside to make room for his
black antagonist. The wEite people OF
South Carolina Iced not expect, or
even hope, for help from Washington.
The General Government will, when
necessary, let it be Radical or Demo,
cratic, sustain the majority in their
rights in any State, let their color be
what it may. There is no more de-
testable creature upon the face Of Gods
earth than the white man, who, for the
sake or hopo of some good fat Office al
the hands Of the black man. wo find
courting, belaboring and bobbine
around among the colored people, like Q
blind dog iu meat house, and even
STOPPING SO low as to kiss their shoes =