Orangeburg times. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1872-1875, 1874-11-26

The Edgefeld Advertiser says:
a white mans homo in Edgefield
county is scarcely y safer than in pow
der magazine-and yet the parental
United States Government seems by
no means si.,ohsdi-lookks on oooiiiiy-
takes no affidayits- makes no arrests.
Are Negro Rights Put in Jeopardy by the
Democratic Victories?
The Democratic party is so evident
ly on the high road to national success
that the friends of the colored race
will feel some anxiety and misgivings
as to the security Of their newly acquir
edrights. Peril to the negroes will be
thechief topic of finfiammatory appeal
by the Republicans in their attemp to
stem the tide of Democratic victory
during the ensuing two years. This
topic may be urged with great plausi-
bility, but probably with no great sue
cess. Fears Of this kind will be simula
teddy politicians who do not feel them
The Republican leaders cannot SO
under estimate the shrewdness of their
Democratic opponents us to bclieye
they will attempt to deprive the ne,
groes of either their freedom, their
civil rights or the elective franchise.
1t would lie impossible to concca. such
a purpose if it were ent rtained, and
nothing would SO certainly arrest the
political revolution now i'll progress ms
a belief that the Southern negroes
would be remanded by the Democratic
party to their former condition.
We have no doubt that the rights
of the negroes will be more secure iii
Democratic than in Republican hands.
It's the tendency and effect of the
Republican policy to array the negroes
in hostility to the best classes oftha
Southern population, and thereby OBJ.
struct the ascendancy of intelligence,
character and property in Southern
politics. Negro suffrage has proved
to be great evil, chiefly on account
OF the divorce effected i'll the South,
between numbers and intelligence.
The Southern blacks have been formed
into q, political party under outside
guidance and control-a party which
had set of interests, or supposed i'll
terests, separate from the general inter
ests of the Southern community. In
healthy state of politics there is
solidarity" Of feeling between the
prosperous and the poorer classes, and
although there may be two parties
rs thele always are in free countries
they are composed on both sides Of the
rich and the poor, the intelligent and
the ignorant.
AS soon as Democratic ascendcncy
is established in Washington, Demo
cratic negroes will be rs common in
the South as Republican negroes, and
the negro will then cease to be an ele.
nlent of disturbance. The true interests
of the negroes are identical with the
true interests of the Southern whites.
The negroes cannot prosper when the
Community in which they live is i'm
poverished. They can find remunera.
tive employment only when the wheels
of business are in full activity. Ifcap
ital yields no profits, labor cannot ex-
pect constant employment or good
wages; and the most important lesson
the Southern negroes have yet to learn
is that they cannot thrive on tile de-
preston and ruin of the owners of
property. Their credulity has been
too long abused and their simplicity
deceived by interloping demagogues,
who have inculcated the idea that they
have separate interest from their
white fellow citizens. This state of
things is likely to continue 80 long rs
the negro mind is led by the Ropubli-
can party; but within q year or two
after tits left to local controls majority
of the negroes will be steady Demo
cratic voters, and the negro problem
will disappear from our politics.
New York Herald.