The daily phoenix. [volume] (Columbia, S.C.) 1865-1878, 1874-11-10

South will be 40 safe as the immigrant
vote has always been in the North.
The Democratic party will have no
temptation to deprive the negroes OF
the right OF Suffrage. because ID will
have no difficulty IN, controlling the
negro mind whan the potent Fedora!
gence instead Of Frustrating aud do.
featin9 it.
"Even under the great disaa
OF having the Federal influence op
posed to them, the Southern Demo.
Gratis have made some headway in con.
trolling the negro vote. 1u tho recent
election in Louisiana, quite proper.
tion Uf the negro citizens acted with
the Democratic party. as soon as
Democratic ascendnncy is established
in Washington, Democratic negroes
will be as common in the South as
Republican negroes, and the negro
question will then cease to be 40 ele-
ment of disturbance. Tho true inte-
rests OF the negroes are identical with
the true interests of Southern whites.
The negroes cannot prosper when the
community in which they live is im-
poverished. They can find remune.
rative employment only when the
wheels Of business are in full Acti vity.
II cnpital yields no profit, labor cannot
expect constant employment or good
wages; and the most important lesson
the Southern negroes have yet to learu
ia, that they cannot thrive on the de.
preston aud ruin Of the owners of
property. Their credullty has been
too long abused, aud their simplicity
deceived. by interloping demagogues.
who have inouloated the idea that they
have u separate interest from their
white fellow-citizens. This stnte OF
thugs is likely to continue, SO long III
the negro mind is led by the Repnbll-
can party: but within u year or two
after it is left to local control, major
ity Of the negroes will be steady De.
mocratic voters, and the negro pro
blem will disappear from our politics.
THE Democratic politicians, both
OF the North and the South, have
always displayed remarkable capacity
for controlling ignorant voters. There
has always baen large class Of uned-
ucated whites in the Southern States.
but there was no section of the country
"A"So POAi'ioes PiCSlOuo " VIC Whi,
wee so completely controlled by its
Intelligent classes. It hos been in
former times the active party in tx
tending suffrage; it has always been
foremost in defending the political
rights of citizens of foreign oirth; it
has always felt the most undon5tins
confidence in its ability to array tue
most despised orders OF the commu.
nifty on its own side in politics and
make them its faithful allies The
Democratic party has genius for
managing such classes OF voters. and
it would belle ite antecedents and ten.
denotes if it should attempt to disfran-
chise the Southern negroes instead Of
attempting to manage them. Its past
opposition 10 negro suffrage ID tran
sient phase Of politics which has been
further prolonged than it would have
been If the Freedmen's Bureau and
the carpet.bag influence had not got
80 decided start in the control Of the
negro mind. Had the South been left
to itself after the elective anchiss
vas conferred! CT the t!scks, the South
ern State governments would have
fallen as completely under the influ-
encs OF the old governing classes as
they were when the same c!asses SO
successfully managed the unedncated
whites. Nothing la more certain than
that the mass of the negroes will never
act independently III politics. It is
their destiny to be led. They have
TINS far been led by tue Republican
party, and arrayed by it against the
enlightened public sentiment of the
Southern communities; bnt from the
moment the Democratic party gains
control Of the Federal Government tho
Republicans will have no advantages
for acting on tho negro mind, which
will then fall under the control Of
local opinion. A war Of races can in
no way ho so surely averted as by Civ
ing the intelligent classes Of the South
an opportunity to exert their natural
ascendency over the negro mind. and
subordinate it to the ideas aud public
sentiment of their section. A war Of
races would be, sooner or later, inevi
table, If distant outside influence
were kept perpetually acting on the
negro mind and moulding it into jea-
lous hostility 10 the white population. +"
Usually, election news has opened
we'll for the Democrats, and then
grown rapidly worse, as the official re-