Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1873-08-21

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as it is another. We fear that some
fof our own citizens are putting these
ill-gotten gains in their own pockets.
! For shame Let the radicals do all
|. the,stealing What right have we
to upbraid the negro government for
stealing from us, and we turn right
around and encourage stealing from
negroes? Honesty should prevail in
the management of all our affairs,
public as well as private and this
thing of swindling the negroes, if we
encourage it, although their radical
friends are doing'it, will yet work us
untold evils. Already the ring at
Edgcfeld disowns the acts Of their
agents, and their dirty doings. In
that is hidden trick. They know
the negro has commenced to feel the
effects of their dishonest government,
and are already devising ways and
means to countcract its bad effects.
They want the negro's money as
well as the white mans, and are de-
-termined to get it. They intend to
organise the negro militia, for the
purpose, as their speakers tell them,
to keep the white man under their
thumb. This man, who !.
these tax executions, G. rs 6 u,
democrat. If a negro Z. aa.les s
ring at Edgefeld and
this mans ACT, they tell 49,
has no right to do it.
believe this to be true, Al.
white men encouraging this thing.
we will have 10 bear lie blame Of
all their dishonesty, They, although
responsible for these things, by or
ganizing the militia, and with all
their lying promises and disowning
the work OF their tools will still Sc
cure the negro's favor and another
term at the public crib.
Is there no relief, Mr.. Editor, for
these grievances ? The most grinding
thing about all of it, is the imperious
manner Of all the officers connected
with this tax business. The Czar's
agents cannot be more arrogant. The
people Of our country have always
| been accustomed to having their Office
filled with gentlemen, and not by
vulgar black guards as at present.
But we must have something to
say about the militia before we close.
They are organizing their companies
| with us, with one David Graham, !
believe, as their leader. They say
they have orders to shoot down any
ns4 who is known ever to have been
| csnAected with the Ku Klux. But
to what will this lead? Any white
man who may offend them, I suppose,
they cap shoot down, and then justi-
fy themselves by saying they thought
he was Ku Klux. The temper of
the people is such, that the first man
shot down, under any such order, the
retaliation will be fearful. With such
leaders as the negroes have there can
never be peace between the races in
this country. Every thing is peacea-
bic and quiet. The rights of no one
is infringed, and all would. remain
quiet and orderly were it not for
these demons who come or send emis-
saries among the negroes to stir up
strife, and all for political effect. We
would remind the authors of these
things, that when the people of this
State are once aroused in earnest, it
will not be as easily quelled as in
Louisiana. Our people have at length
came to the firm resolution that if
the negro population again commence
any of their extreme proceedings,
that we will not bear it in humble
submission as heretofore. The people
feel that death is preferable to any
more of this sh~ meless degradation /;
and they seem ready and willing to
rise as man and sweep the State at
once. We have come to the conclu-
sion, Mr. Editor, that if the negroes
permit themselves longer to be con-
trolled by such advice, and they
attempt again to lord it oyer US by
Zirlae. oi'4their numerical majority
and boasled militia, that this State
] is too small for both races. The final
end must come whether we wish it
or not, y
It seems en- that all ye T. can = tlp, after
what we have done, is first to send a
solemn protest to our masters at
Washington. Lay before them our
actual condition, and If then they