Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1876-09-07

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them shelter and food. You can have
no idea OF the true condition Of
things here. Now, in the lace Of all
these facts, donot think the white
people Of the South very dangerous
rebels.
Just a word about some of oul
troubles. You have heard much talk
about Z" carpet -baggers. " You have
no idea the amount of trouble these
men have given us. Men who were
of the worst characters in the North
who were from the lowest haunts ol
New York and Boston, men as bad
as crime could make them, who were
negro haters in the North, have come
South and taken advantage of the
i. norance of the coloI people, and
have been elegatssa ices OF high
trust in our State governments, for
the sole purpose on their part to
plunder the public. Th.- same class
of men have arrayed the colored peo-
pie against the whites for political
purposes, and, when trouble comes,
desert them. All the mobs which
we have had in the South have been
gotten up by bad men. l know we
have some lawless white men here,
but the good people of the South
must not be blamed for their acts.
You have them at the North with
you. This wild and frultless con-
test has been going on for years, and
who are the sufferers The colored
men being the weaker party, always
lose ground, and must, at last, go to
the wall if the fight is kept up. l
know you, in New Hampshire, may
not see this matter as l do, but I tell
you that the negro of the South must
go under if the policy of the last few
years is to be continued. Now, il
the Home Missions Board discharges
me for these sentiments regret it,
but cannot yield my honest convic-
tions l am sorry l cannot make
them see the rightfulness Of my po-
sition.
You ask me what the persons who
have contributed from time to time
for my support would think. To
this l would say, if they understood
my true position they would, think,
make those contributions more readi-
ly than ever. Tie negro is now
passing through the most critical pc.
riod Of his history, and his destiny
for good or evil will be sealed by his
action. If he arrays himself against
she wlNte, peopE he'ssnst, sooner or
later, be ground to powder.
There is no natural antagonism be-
tween the two races in the South; the
whites and blacks were born and
brought up together and must live
and die together. The late trouble
at Hamburg, South Carolina, and
other troubles we have had in the
South since the war, has not been the
result of any i'll feeling on the part
of our home people, but is the result
of the action ,f bad men who have
come South end kept up from year
to year the most bitter political con-
test, and have used every effort to
keep the white and colOred people
from making friends. One of then
principal means is the wholesale use
of bad vhiskey-alsO appealing to
the very worst passions of tie igno
rant. No stone is left unturned on
their part to e1asperate and excite
the feelings of eur poor people, which
might at any time be kindled into
a flame which would result in blood
shed. l only Wonder we have not
had ten riots where we have one.
Now, I say thai every good man in
the South, Write and black, ought to
ioin hands aid I'D our fair section
from this terrible state of things. |
hope you viii not misunderstood
me these charges are not against
the good people Of the North. We
will give the most hearty welcome to
any good man Of the North who may
come among US for good purposes.
1 think that if you were to live here
a lew years, you would take the same
stand 1 have. We have some men
from the North who are highly re-
spected, buhdil,efJ J'7lse take the
same stand, the men OBJ
iected to. Y6s hen, if they
are to be citizens of this country,
must differ just as white men do on
all the great questions of the day,
such as finance, tariff, taxation, and
questions of law, trade, &C., &c. Un-
til we arrive al this point we will be
mere machines and not men in the
true sense Of, tie term.
In concluaol, would call your
attention to the report of the Hon.
B. B. Douglas, of Virginia, on the
Freedman's Bank fraud, and the
speech of Hfn. W. S. stinger, of
Pennsylvania, on the same subject.