The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-07-31
THE AMERICAN DAH0MEY.
TIE ONLY SOUTHERN STATE CLAIM
ED ASSURE FOR HAYES.
A Commonwealth In which white Men Exist
Only by Suf1erance-Some Cogent Reasons
why the Blacks Desire n Race Conflict.

A Commonwealth In which White Men Exist
Only by suferancc-some CoRent Rens sous
why the Blacks Desire n Race Conflict.
MIDWAY, s. c., July 2j.--The white people
OF South Carolina are the only people on record
who have been the political slaves OF their own
former slaves. and those slaves ignorant and bru-
tai negroes, taught by their leaders to regard the
white race with dlstrust and hate. Our entire
white population look upon the State Govern
ment as a negro despotlsm, and regard every
ONCE holder OF that government, from the Gov
ernor to tho district trial justices, as the mnion
OF the most loatbsomo tyranny to which any
white race has ever been subjected For ten years
the white youth OF Carolina have bad no hope
or aspiration beyond that OF enjoying personal
security, and OF being allowed the privilege OF
cultivating the few resources spared them from
the great losses of the war. They have cutiva-
ted a spirit az patient and submissive as that OF
the OF and the mule that they drive to their
plouehs. They have submissivoly paid during
eight years, to government OF thieves and adj
venturers, oreanzed for the express purpose Of
robbery and connscation. three millions of dol
lars annually, when four hundred thousand dol
lars would have been ample for all purposes OF
government
The whites have no control whatever over the
negro. We could only offer him an equal chance
with ourselves to work out his destiny. The
carpet-bagger and the scalawag can bride him
with our own lands. Their ideal Gov. Moses
had actually the audacity to advise the negro
Legislature to compel the white man to aban-
don his land by excessive taxation. This he did
In a public message Hence his wonderful popu-
larlty with the negro. They have pursued this
policy in1exibly, aud nothing can divert them
from IT, Every negro i'm this state has his farm
marked out, and Is certain he Will obtain II n he
can only pile up the taxes high enough. The
State Is completely bankrupt. The white people
I'm fNsan uTAf hal nag nQa ara
nearly starving. They are now impatient AT the
slow process Of taxing out the whites, and are
eager for a race conflict, which they think from
their great numbers will certainly enable them
TO succeed very easily In their purposes. Be-
sides, they are firmly persuaded that IT Is only
by an act Of great grace that our lands were not
conhscated Immediately after the war. ana they
pssVs snat any raes eTh' m
would result in our destruction and secure for
them the lands: Hence the insolence of their
bearing and tho incessant challenges TO the
wbites In order to provoke a conflict.
Iwill take the city Of Charleston, for example,
and will show how many times the most outra
geous aggressions have been submitted to by the
whites, rather than incur the hostility OF the
United States Government. In Charleston,
some years ago, y basel ball club from savannah
was mobbed In the streets, the whole city kept
In state Of terrorism for a night by a mob Of
bowling and Infatuated black rioters, and moth.
Ing was done to punish them. In tue stevedore
strike inofensive laborers, white and black,
were driven by a band OF black savages from
their work on the wharyes. This police were too
feeble and cowardly to protect them, and the
their rights and protect their woikmen. Welded
TO the demands q the negro mob. Later. the
mill owners OF Charleston were notified that
they would not be allowed to employ wOrkmen
exceDt at certain rates, and were threatened
with the destruction OF their mills II they dis
obeyed. 10 the credit OF the workmen EN-
ployed in the mills, they petitiOned Tor arms tC
protect themselves and the owners, but so grea
was the terror inspired 10y the known ferocitl
OF the Charleston negroes that the owners dis
missed their employees and closed their mills.
During the election OF Mayor WAGNER IN,
negroes openly avOwed their purpose Of win
ming the election, as they had done before, By
clubs and stones. The whites, though thor
oughly prepared. shrank from the conflict I,
which they had been invited by the turbulent
wretches, and called in the United states sol
diers to protect them In the exercise Of lhe
SURFACES. Even the soldiers at the polls cOulC
not repress the turbulence Of ths aggressive ne.
groes, and II was not unit several had beer
lat' hooked down and one or two shot that they
:, ere quslled. For ten wears they nave had 40
IT. )lute control OF this State. Almost every ohic
enc allied by negro or scalawag: every jury L
- Iade up for the most part Of negroes. draw
ny negro Jury commissioners vet tine record
e, prove that out Of every hundred criminals tre
", and convicted for crime or outrages nlne-teutn
are negroes.