Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-04-16

ers, but the great lal,oriag mass OF them;
tho Suntutosea, hard working, honest
cofnfcld laborers. Ash them, and they
will, in nine cases out often, declare that
they have been most shaNefally betray-
ed in their condolences, end design ben
ding their every effort in the coming
struggle to better the condition of our
country, and to Tighten the burden Of tax
alton. Therefore say that it is unfor-
tunate, as we'll as unfair, to set all the
blacks down as "knaves," which means
nothing more nor less, than that they are.
Iogues and rascals. There is not work
ing colored man in this county who will
tell you that he would have voted for
Moses, Hoge, Cardoza. had he foreseen
the heavy weight Of taxation which their
administration has brought upon the peo-
pie. Indeed, that portion of our citizens
are not the only ones taken in by the
fair promises contained in the Noses plat
form. Many of the leading white Re-
publicans, if 1 am correctly informed,
haye been deceived, and. are heartily dis
gustel With the part they took in the, last,
election. 1t is unfair, then, to accuse, all
the coQiored people with iupholdinga q gov,
.ernmept that. Expresses them tas we'll as
the whites. In answer to "Clios'' opin-
ion that they countenance high taxation
because 81. will break up the white far
mer," ] have only to refer him to the
anathemas uttered by them against the
"powers that be-" during the recent col
lection of taxes. Who were louder with
curses of disappointments and censure
than the biacksf Who made the tax
gathcrer afraid to put his head out of
his Office window? The "knaves" or the
white taxpayers?
cello" says, "he", the black man "has
no thanks whatever to bestow upon the
thousands who have, of their own accord
divided up and sold their lands to him."
In reply to this must modestly insist
that my euphuistic opponent is either
misinformed on that score, or means to
be severely ironical, or, to make strong
point, abandons himself wholly up to his
prejudice.
AT this point, Mr.Editor, Clos "epis
tie" reminds me somewhat Of Tennyson's
Eagle" except that there is an idea of
grandeur and sublimitysinspired by the
former, while an unenviable sense of
awkwardness pervades or characterizes
the assent and descent of the latter.
But to return. "Clio" says the blacks
have M a5ei Rs toll for. day after day,
through the rays of a burning sun, if it is
not that he may make money, by the
"sweat ofhis brow" wherewith to pay
the land owners a fair price for his little
farm? Why does he forego the pleasure
OF purchasing himself horse. wherewith
to make his labors less? Because he has
notyet finished paying up the mortgage
which hovers over his homcss..?ad like 8
hawk over chicken roost. Why docs
he toll unrcmittingly during the day III
the corn and cotton fields. and spend half
OF the night in cutting and pceling pine
poles, out of which he hopes to construct
arude cabin for his family to live in Z?
Because he wants to save his money and
pay the last dollar he owes to the man
"who, of his own accord, DIVIDED up, and
sold him landp? c
This is the thanks" he renders, and
this should afford ample satisfaction to
all parties, especially these hard times.
Does cello" think that the blacks will
ever have any confidence in the whites,
or their professions of friendship, when
men. of his intelligence boldly declare
that lit is no longer question of party
in South Carolina. but one of race?
What is this but telling them Mt once
that they need not look for advice, assis.
tance, cooperation or friendship from the
white man; that one race, is. larrayed
againstt the other, and that each one must
look out for itself? I seriously tleprecate
any such doctrine as this. It's advocacy.
by any one, will produce no good, while
much OWL may result from it. Does
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