Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1876-08-10
From the Aatgusta ConStitutionalist.
The Negro Majority i'll South Car
OfiNa,..A Straigbt-Out Policy,

oiina.--A Straight-0ut Policy.
The Gresn4iIle5 .Neans-of the Both
ult., has an excellent article anent
the everlasting whine among some ol
Chamberlain's Democratic so-called)
organs, concerning the supposed 3d..
600 Radical-negro majority in South
Carolina. The Neaos very properly
calls attention to the fact that many
circumstances have conspired within
twelvemonth to seriously diminish
that hypothetical black host, arrayed
against the white minority.
The Neaos is entirely right in pro-
testing against the Chamberlain or
gans forever attempting to trighten
the true people of the State by flaunt-
ing in their faces the 10000 majority
against them, and thereby demoraliz-
ing every effort at a consentaneous
and united conflict with their barba-
rous foe. The people of Mississippi
had just as great odds against them
as the people Of South Carolina have I;
but the leading editors and orators Of
the former State, no wise daunted
themselves, sought to inspire the
masses with a courage equal to their
own. Their success was enormous as
it was most gratifying, and demon
strated the great fact that minority
of white men, when united in COM
mon purpose, never fail to drive from
power semi barbarous majority. So
would it be in South Carolina, if ele-
ments in and out of the press were
not actively at work to destroy the
spirit of the masses, instead Of S i'm
'ulating it to deeds of high emprise.
As a matter of course, the people Of
South Carolina will not beat down
the $4,000 Radical majority if they
make no positive and determined eff
fort to that end, the more especially
if they allow themselves to be utter
ly disheartened by the magnitude of
the attempt. Great souls expand as
the danger to be confronted grows in
Importance. A true leader like Ma
poleon irfames the ardor Of his fol-
lowers, by pointing out the immense
gain and glory of conquest over a
numerically superior foe. And such
should be the programme in South
Carolina, not the cra"en, cowardly
fear of a black horde of sneahing rob-
bers but an invincible determination
to redeem the State at all hazards.
The same plan that succeeded in Mis-
sissippi will succeed in South Carroll
ma. The only present and pressing
need is the apparition of some leader,
like Mr.. Lamar, who, without infring-
ing single right, legally or illegally
imposed, of black or white, injects an
enthusiasm into the canvass which
strikes terror into the enemies of civil
lization, and fires the heart of every
friend of society with zeal that
equals the power Of ten ordinary men,
whose blood runs lazily and sluggish
ly. Thrice welcome will be the Sir
Galahad who shall arise to. deliver
the people Of South Carolina. Before
his luminous presence the men Of
darkness shall flee abashed and dis
comfted, and by the fervor of his in
spired language thousands who have
hitherto refrained from voting, in dis
gust and despair, will emerge in thank
fulness and enthusiasm.
The GreenYille NeaOS concludes as
follows:
"But the 10000 organ has beaten
the idea into the heads of a great
many of our citizens that we can't
succeed, and they won't try. They
have voted mongrel tickets to no
purpose for many years, and hun
dreds of them have sworn that they
will never cast another ballot for
such men, and many will not vote
under any circumstances. They have
been demoralized by this 10000 or
gan, and are disheartened. At best
1t will require number of hotly con-
tested campaigns to bring our people
down to their work, to teach them
how to work, and if there were co.
900 against US now, we would demand
that square fight be made at every
ballot box in the State. Not skir-
mish, a regular cd time ballot boz,
fight, where every man is in the front
rank. The Democratic army of vo-
ters in South Carolina, it is true, a~
updrilIed, and may not fight ss
as drilled Democrats in States W
they have fought battle after ba
and it is because the thirty thous
organ has had them retreating,
Aanking, and backing, and never .
lowed them to meet the enemy fac
to face at the ballot box. If the.
meet reverse or two, it will only
stimulate them to greater exertion,
and better drilling and organization.
We propose to fight them this year
from one end Of the line to the other,
and all that we are waiting for now
is the word Of command from the ap.
preaching State Convention to "@p
and at them !" If the 10000 organ
will do its duty in Charleston, even
the ruined City by the Sea will roll