The Republican journal., 1876-08-24
The Lku KIux Reversed.
+ Midway Is. C.1 Cor. n. y. Sun. /

Midway Is. c. Cor. n Y Sun.
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
brutal negroes. taught by their leaders to
regard the white race with distrust and
hate. Our entire white population look
upon the State Government as 4 negro
despotism, and regard every otlice-holder
Of that Government, from the Governor
to the District Trial Justices, as the min
ion of the most loathsome tyranny to
which any white race has ever been sub
jected. For ten years the white youth Of
Carolina have had no hope or aspiration
beyond that of enjoying personal securi-
ty. and of being allowed the privilege OF
cultivating the few resources spared them
from the great losses of the war They
have cultivated a spirit as patient and sub
missive as that Of the OK and the mule
that they drive to their plows. They have
submissively paid during eight years, to
a Government of thieves and adventurers,
organized tor the express purpose of rob
berry and confiscation, 50 900, 900 annual
ly. when 100000 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 Governor, Moses, had
actually the audacity to advise the negro
Legislature to compel the white man to
abandon his land by excessive taxation
This he did in a public message. Hence
his wonderful popularity with the negro
They have pursued this policy inieXiby,
ana nothing can divert them from it.
Every negro in this State has bis farm
marked out, and is certain he will obtain
enough, The State is completely bank
rupt. The white people are in the same
condition. and the negroes are nearly
starving They are now impatient at the
slow process of taxing out the whites, and
are eager tor u race conflict. which they
think i.om their great numbers will GER
tainly enable them to succeed very easily
in their purposes Besides, they are firm
ly persuaded that it is only by act of great
grace that our lands were lot conliscated
Immediately after the war. and they be-
lievc that any race conflict will preclpi-
tate upon us the United States soldiery
which would result in our destruction and
secure for them the lands Hence the in
science Of their bearing and the incessant
challenges to the whites in order to pro-
woke conflict
will take the city of Charleston for
example, and will show how many times
the most outrageous agressons have been
sunbittcd to by the whites rather than in
cur the hostility Of the United States Gov
eminent
in Charleston. some years ago, base
ball club from Savannah was mobbed in
the streets, the whole city kept in 4 state
OF terrorism Tor Il night by 4 mob OF howl
ing and Infatuated black rioters, and moth
ing was done to punish them. In the Ste
yedore strike inolfensive laborers, white
and black, We're driven by band of black
sayages from their work on the wharves.
The police were too feeble and cowardlv
to protect them, and the arf-owners
and citizens, rather than assert their
rights and protect their workmen, yield
ed to the demands of the negro mob
Later the mill-owners of Charleston were
notified that they would not be allowed to
employ Workmen except at certain rates,
and were threatened with the destruction
OF their mills if they disobeyed. 70 the
credit of the workmcn employed in the
mills, they petitioned for arms to protect
themselves and the owners; but 50 great
was the terror inspired by the known fer
ocity Of the Charleston negroes that the
owners dismissed their employees and
closed their mills
During the election of Mayor WAGNER
the negroes openly avowed their purpose
Of winning The election, as they had done
before. by clubs and stones. The whites,
though thoroughly prepared, shrank from
the conflict to which they had been ivit-
ed by the, turbulent wretches, and called in
the United States soldiers to protect them
in the exercises Of their sutf'rages Even
the soldiers at the polls could not repress
the turbulence Of the aggressive negroes.
and it WAS not until several had been
Knocked down and one or two shot that
they were quelled. For ten years they
have had absolute control of this State
Almost every Office is filled by Il negro or
scalawag; every jury is made up for the
most part of negroes, drawn by negro
Jury Commissioners; yet the records
prove that out of every hundred criminals
tried and convicted for crime or outrages,
nine-tenths are negroes.