New national era. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1870-1874, 1874-05-28

AIKEN, S. c., May 1874.
To the Editor ofthe NtD National Era:
Knowing that your columns are always
open to correspondents from distant parts,
take occasion to pen you few brief notes OF
people and things and of their dongs here.
Since the return Of the long-visaged and
disappointed memorialists, with their carpet
bags stuffed full of Pub. Does, and their
auricular appendages tingling with the indig-
nant and well deserved reprOofs of Presi-
dent Grant, things have resumed their wonted
tranquility, and the Bourbonistic element
lay almost dormant. Some of the leaders,
efete and fossilized politicians of the Cal
houn creed, are trying to organize the dis
membered forces and bring them into the
field at the coming campaign, but their efforts
thus far have proved decidedly abortive-
the poorer classes Of white people refusing
point blank to be led by the old aristocrat,
OF ante-belium days, the men who caused
secession, and after the war began industri-
ously bestirred themselves in filling their
pockets, and leaving the fighting to the
"poor buckra.'
The coming campaign will be hot one,
If present appearances do not deceive.
Moses, our present Governor, has deceived
the people, and broken his pledge to the
Republican party; and, in consequence of
his bad doings, a reformatory movement will
have to be inaugurated to preserve the dig
nifty and power of Republicanism here and,
IL mistake not, a cOlOred man will he the
standard-bearer of the new reform move
ment. IL is conceded fact that the robbery,
corruption, and venallty charged upon the
Republican party in this State have been
caused by white men. They have profted
by the robbery and corruption, and thrown
the odium upon the shoulders of the colored
people. Ask any Southern white man if he
does not think the colored people of South
Carolina are, with few exceptions, honest
and thrifty, and he will unhesitatingly an.
swer you eyes" 1 assert, without fear OF
contradiction, that it is so, aud by the colored
element alone that South Carolina will be
purified and made prosperous. The blatant
talk of the Democracy about the ignorance
Of the negro is all stuff and nonsense, and
done moieiy for political effect. l have seen
good many legislative bodies whose actions
were far worse than any have witnessed in
the Assembly Of this State, and the Bourbon
press take no heed of their ignorant display
but politely keep silent.
There is no fear of a Democratic victory in
this State, no matter how much gas the Cop
perhead gentry may let off; for, though we
might be very contiguous to the sem-barbarc
State Of Georgia, no fear need be entertained
of our following in her footsteps.
Our people are anxious for the passage of
the lamented Charles Summers lifelong work,
the Civil Rights Bill. 1t must become law
for it is only recognition of what God in
tended, and carrying out of the doctrine OF
the universal brotherhood of man.
Bright, CHEEKY weather, the sweet, balmy
days of blue-eyed spring are upon us now, and
the songs of birds, the odors of the flowers,
the gentle rushing of the south breeze, all
go to make the fact fixed one.
With very many wishes that the progress
of the ERA shall still continue onward and
upward until the great ''bust up"
am, JUsTINIAN.