The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1873-02-13
Radicalism in the D Southern
states.

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Radicalism in the b Southern
states.
Bid t9'' ~ samA b,sn9ed hisii4aD
sI Speaking of the terrible condition
of affairs I'M the Southern States for
4 which it says, the present administra-
ton and Radical Congress are who'll
lily responsible, the New York Herald
proceeds: Eear al, tas, ,,ey,...,, .,.f
! r. The Radical party is not contented
with the emancipation of the negroes,
giving them the suffrage and securing
to them by amendments to the con-
stitution and through the law, all the
rights and privileges that white citi-
zens enjoy, but were resolved, for po-
! litical purposes, to virtually make the
blacks the ruling power in the South
ern States. 1t is this policy which
has produced this fearful s'ae of
things in Arkansas. which has led to
the unblushing5 on1clal robbery and
Generalization in South Carolina,
Georgia, Louisiana and other States,
and which threatens to bring on war
of races at no distant day, throughout
the South generally. No other civil
ized State, in modern times has exhib-
tied such a spectacle of official vilIalny
and degraded practices as have been
witnessed in South Carolina under
negroirule and that ofithe white car
pet baggers, who are the allies of the
negroes against the people of their
own race and blood. The orgies at
the State capital. Columbia, among
thenegro men and women and their
white allies. the trading in votes of
the Legislature through degraded col
-, ~ 1I.r.. h.. ~ khn
Treasury, and taxpayers, have not
been exceeded in the black Republic
of Hayti, and that is saying q great
deal. So in other Southern States
decentralization has grown rank in pro-
portion to the negro population and
itsinfIuence in the local alsgovefnments
And how coald it be otherwise The
most intelligent and capable people
have been ostracised, and the most ig-
norant have been made their political
masters, .Unscrupulous and needy
adventurers from the North, have,
under the fostering care of the Radi-
cal Government at Washington pan
dered to the passions and prejudices
OF, the ignorant blacks. and hayeith
sown broadcast tIie seeds of race ami
mostly and discord. While we are
not disposed to believe that the admin
istration or the majority, of the domi-
nant party in on out of Congress- wish
es TO see this deplorable state of things,
it is evident that their policy has
Ebroughtitabout.3aT To secure the negro
vote at all hazards, and if necessary
to do that. to ALLEVIATE the Southern
blacks from the whites, was the object.
The politicians only looked to the
present and left the future to- take care
of itself,i If ieyenI a war of races should
The irrepFessible conflict, thbeI then, has
taken another shape. It is now
lduestioniof siaveary qof equal politi-
cal rights. but which race ,shallrule in
the South. : Indeed, it has been and
still is o question of governing the
country through pandering to con
trolling the negro vote. No such is
sue loaght to have been made. The
material interest of the blacks and
whites of the South, and therefore
their political objects and affiliations
are or should be Identical. This issue
of race antsgonism, forced upon the
Southern States by the Radicals, is
full OF mischief and can, only end
disastrously. We begin to see the
in Arkansas. If we
look at the history of other countries
where the negroes have acquired self
or where they have been
Q predominating element. either by
being in majority or by some white
faction using them as allies, rum and
decentralization have inevitably fol-
lowed Such has been the case in
Hayti, in st. Domingo, in Venezuela,
in some of the Central American
States, and everywhere, in fact, where
the blacks have obtained, directly or
indirectly, the political power. One
of the most significant Indications of
the conflict of races in the South, and
of a.more bloody conflict that threat
ems in the future, is the numerous and
secret clubs aud other or
of the negroes, Mos: OF
them are political and all have some
character, or rather are
made so for. the pretext of dissolute
orgies, mixed with the widest fanat-
cism. In Richmond, Va, there are
not less, probably, than hundred of
oath-bound clubs or soci-
sties of both sexes. They are becom-
ing general throughout the South.
them and other, means the
negroes from one end of the South to
he other, ignorant as they may be,
Keep up sort of mystical and univer-
val communication. Though few may
,e able to read, there is no doubt that
he negroes keep themselves well
informed of such q movement as that
n Arkansas, through the mysterious
they have from one to
he other. If we would prevent the
conflict which is growing up between
he two races, and which, indeed, may
ioon become irrepressible, the policy
VI the Government must be changed
oward the South. Let us avoid the
lorrors of ST. Domingo, and let peace
and good feeling be enoour-
ged between the negroes and the
whites In the South, that garden and
section OF our common
ountrys0 But this can never be at
aimed it our politicians, continue to
make one race a separate political ele-
nent and array it against the other.
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