The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1874-09-02

md We may, in an instant, go down
Fapon some hidden rock.
The miserable white and Black
4 advehturers Who have Some down here
have 'poisonsa the minds of the color.
ed people, and tyrannizsd over the
~hites'to a point which seems at
present the extreme limit. BY their
extb rtion and villainy they have an
! tagonised tho whites, and in order
to keep their islgotten positions, they
have told tho oolorod IN en- that Nenun.
oiation of ofisi ais means denuncia"
siou Of republioauism, and don5h.
oiation OF the colorod people. The
whites, seeing the blacks brIndly pur.
suing their false idols are beginning
to visit Tho bins of tho gdserhmsnt
upon the individuals who supported
it. On both sides bad feeling is
springing up.
This whole enmity ID caused by the
radical demagogues. These Beo that
their souroe of p undor will b Q gone,
and they will bo driven off, whenever
honest men combine. It is business
wiki them to Torment strife. by such
inoendiary speeches as arc said to
have been made by Patterson, Wallace
McDevett, Juno Mobloy aud Others,
the blacks are ihoited to ribt. Ana
When the whites oouibi nc for defences
tho ory Ku Klux is raised and G rant
is asked to send down troops to
crush I'm iudipiont rebellion. This is
| about the truth Of the whole matter
ofa wal Of racos.
There is natural antagonism of
race In 80 far as it extends to an in
dividual prefcring Quo of ehis own
species to oho Of another. But
this does not necessarily involve tho
idea of an oppression of our race by
the other. II applies not SO
much to tho bringing about Of col:
lson as to the conduct of individuals
afte,r.a collision has been brought onl
Wo believe that id The South, the
whites and blacE g cnn 1.-Two together
each in his appropriate sphere. They
i are harmonious, nbw, save in tho
single question of politics.
This exception is caused by the
fear instilled into tue black man that
the white man will abridge his rights
if permitted, and by the exper;biice
of the whites that the rule bf my
ignorant majority will bring fuin to
any State.
These causes must be removed.
The whites must be careful to exor-
oise forbearance and Practice kindness
and tho blacks must ovince some dis.
crotion and common sonse, in the
selection of officials,
The policy foroshadowod by Gen.
Kershaw's recent letter is the true ono
to bring about good govetnmeut. In
the South it is absurd to talk of
white mans party and black mans
party. So long as the whites refuse
to support black ri,an merely on ao-
count Of his COLOR, and so long as
black man will not support ah hhones
white man because be is white, just
so long will anarchy exist. Tue gene
raj government has put US all ogeth.
er on an equal footing hero; aid dc.
clares that wo will bs compelled to
i've together. The sooner we agreo
to do 80 the better for ds all.
Tho races faro so equally divided
that both must be represented; They
must therefore agree to run combro-
misc tickets composed of best mon Of
ench race. AS soon as tllis is done,
joalousies and distrusts Will DISAPPEAR
and the people will live united.
But every yoar that race prejudice
is allowed to exist, the State will be
plunged deeper and deeper iutd ruin.
Compromise is tile open sesame of
the political bytintA. Every ot' or
policy is disastrous to all parties.
Make tho question merely ono of
honesty and disboncsty, not of color
or party or race,
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