The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1875-06-16

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The faturs 81 Tia 0olorod Race. sS
Elk Gov.*R. X. SCOTT has addressed
q letter to 1t. Gov. Gleaves, in an.
swer to request made BY the latter
for an expressiop ,ofsn opinion by the
ex Governor on the future Of tho
colored race. The letter is temper.
ate, faud contains q series of facts
pretty fairly stated, ana somo good
advice to the blacks, which they would,
be wise to heed. We. will give
synopsis of this letter.
The writer begins by, rogrettihg
that he cannot present a picture that
will altogeth " meet tie hopes of tile
colorcd man. He fsars that the col.
ored people have been too confident
in tho belief that there is in : tho
United Statos purity or q considera-
bic class of men who ale ready to
sustain them merely because of their
color or of their previous bondage.
He thus gives tho history of EN- OF.
patton: r. va .,l., 80 Is.
"You will remember that when
the war began, there was no organ.
lied party in favor of the unoouditioL.
al abolition of slavery. There were
a few of the old abolitiouists who
favored an emancipation policy, with.
out regard to it's result to1hc country.
But there was not a State convention,
nor County or Town meeting at tho
North, within my knowledge, that did
not adopt resolutions declaring to
tho South that, in their desire to
coorce the seeding Statos into sub.
mission to the National Government,
they had no desire to interfere with
the institution Of slavery. Many
leading abolitionists were ready t.
permit the perpetuation of slavery by
oonsonting to q dissolution of tho
Union, leaving tho South, entire
power over slavery, and only demand
ing that they themselves should not
DO held responsible for its continued
existence. AS the war progr ressed j,
was found that the slave. property Of
the South wns the most valuable of
any in supplying, tho Confederate
army with tho necessary means for
carrying on the war. Tho proela ma
ton of cmancipat.ion, and tho conse
qucnt encumbranoe Of i'm 10 onse NUN.
bers of emunioipated slaves, caused
their organic .tion into IN armed
force. That is tossay, tho immense
numbers of emahcipated slaves flee.
inc into tLe Union limos could not
we'll be provided for as private citi-
zens and, as it was q necessary to fur
nish them with some means of SUBJ
slstenco, they were onro He'd as
soldiers" =" '
't< lie regards the early reconStruc.
,ion acts as mistakes. Had the
general government :<been 'aetuatad
with q desire to practically bcaoit
the South, it would have organized
provisional governments, econ nomioal.
ly administered, and should have
established schools to educate the
ignorant, and especially the blacks,
until they were better prepared to
govern themselves. Instead Of doing
this, they laid most enorous tax
on cotton, which took from each State
vast sums of money from the agricul-
raj class, to which tho freedmen all
belonged. No means wore provided
for the education Of the freedmen,
although tho United States, by
having recognized slavery was as
clearly responsible for their igno
rance as wero the slave holders them.
solves. '.". ..". .......
He snys Of tho cLfranchiscmont of
the blaoks ... ......
"Not as a matter Of justics to tbe
negro, nor because ho wa. bel;evej tof
DO able and competent to organize
and maintain e.vcrn ments IN tRo Be.
ceoea otate.s, but as muclr, perhaps.
Tor the purpose Of fphnishing the white
men who bad refused to acoede to the
plan proposed, as f"r the purpose of
maintaining Republican supremacy
in the seood"d States, Congress passed
another law ofreoc nstructi enfran
chislng tho negro in tho scoeded
States, and comforting upon him the
power of organizing governments
under whlch all Glasses were to i've
the whole based upon tho assumption
that tho white men would quietly 40.
quiesce in having their recent slaves
placed oyor them as s'law:makers.
1t was then clear to my mind that
tho men who owned all tho property.
and possessed the largest Intelligence,
would never quietly submit to this
modo OF establishing governments
nor GOULD l I'oonooise Of any 'iutelli.
gont class Of mon who would not
have given to suoh mode of estab-
lisiiing governtnents amongst them