Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-11-07
HOW WILL 1T END?

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was done.
HOW WILL 1T END?
Twoyears ago Wade Hampton asserted thai
he was amongst the first, if not the first man
in the United States to advocate negro suf
frage, giving as one reason therefor that il
would increase the numerical representation
in Congress from the Southern States, and
otherwise add to the political strength of the
South. He also predicted in the campaign
two years ago that the first opposition to ue
gro suffrage would emanate from the North
From the following mutterings of Mr.. Blaine
in speech at Philadel phia last Saturday
night, it would seem that the day is not dis
tant when Hampton's prophecy will be veri
| fed.
In the course of his remarks, Mr.. Blaine
said: Are matters in the South progressing as
patriotic, fair dealing men must desire? Let
us see. There is in the Southern States a col
Ored population amounting to well nigh five
million, all entitled to suffrage OH the same
terms as white. To these States are appor.
toned thirty-fve representatives in Congress,
thirty-five Presidential electors by reason OF
their negro population. The political strength
of the great State Of New York is offset by
the colored population in the South. And yet
this very population, by virtue of whose mem.
bers this great political strength is assigned to
the South, is rigidly excluded from all effect.
tire five million of colored people will proba-
bly, he unable this year to elect single repre-
sentative in Congress.
Even in the States of South Carolina and
Mississippi, where colOred men largely out
number the white, the result will probably
be unanimous Democratic delegation in Con-
gress. BY perversity OF construction and re-
tnement of cruelty, the colored men are
used only to give additional political power to
the very class, the very party, whose princi-
piles and whose practice they have the most
cause to dread. BY destroying the politi-
cal power of the negro, the white men in
these States vastly increase their own intlu-
ence, and in the two States 1 have named, the
Confederate soldier is to-day casting two votes
in control of our national policy, when the
Union soldier in Pennsylvania and New Eng
land casts but one. With this state Of things
the American people will not rest content. 1t
is remarkably unjust, not only to the colOred
man in the South, but to the white man in the
North, and we will be compelled in the end,
from self-intereSt and self-prOtectiOn, to re-
sort to that which at the outset we should
have resorted to from principle. In all great
financial and economic contests of the future,
the North cannot and will not permit the hos
tile Democratic power of the South to be
doubled by trampling under foot the rights of
colored citizens Suffrage was not given as a
mockery, and the people of the United States
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enjoyed, and if they fail to see that, they will,
in the end, find that the liberty of one class
of citizens cannot be trampled on without en-
dangering the liberties of all classes.
Secretary Sherman also spoke somewhat in
the same strain at Harrisburg, Pa, on the
same night, report Of which is given as
follows:
He declared that the Republican party had
always been in favor of equal rights before the
law, and that the tendency of the Democratic
party has been in favor of abridgng the liber.
ty of those who opposed them. The rebellion
had been crushed, but the spirit which ami
mated it had not been eradicated, and to-day,
millions of people in the South were denied
their rights a declaration which would be yer.
flied by the elections next Tuesday. He claim.
ed credit to the Republican party for the de-
velopment of the commercial, industrial and
educational interests of the country, and said
that the Democratic party had never been pro-
gressive in matters contributing to the pros.
perity of the people. The masses of the Dem
ocratic party are honest, but the leaders are
not. Slavery was maintained by the party,
and the South encouraged to rebel by North
ern Democrats. The Democratic party built
their pyramid of hopes for success in the fu.
4, o p1i Soutb and y,-itho1t If fhpV had
no show of victory. He referred to the Ku.
Klux Outrages but exonerated the Democrat
ic party of the North from them. That they
! had existed and did exist was not denied
marauders had raided over communities, driv'
ell negroes before them and committed many
murders for opinions sake. Now an effective
but mider sort of intimidation prevailed.
For three weeks in several States the Demo.
Gratis had been terrOrizing the negroes to pre-
vent them from voting according to thelI
opinions. There would be no safety to the
Republic until every man was guaranteed the
right to vote at least once. He claimed that
South Carolina, Louisiana and Florida were
| fairly carried for Hayes, and that the Demo
cratic congressional committee appointed to
investigate the alleged frauds utterly failed to
make out a case against the Republicans. The
action of the returning board in rejecting
votes of the bull-doZed districts was defended
as right, and Secretary Sherman added that
natural majorities of Republicans were wiped
out by murders and other modes of intimida'
ton. The Democrats had no reason to com.
plain because Hayes was seated, as they had
organized the electoral commission. Refer:
ence was made to the "Anderson-Sherman'
letter, which, he said, was a forgery, and that
it was known to prominent Democrats who
had suppressed the fact to his injury. In al:
fusion to the cipher dispatches, he said that
the Democrats had endeavored to buy the elec'
toral votes of three States, and the people
you'd never be satisfied until they got at the
bottom of the villainy. He hoped Congress
would push the matter and ferret out all the
guilty, and the result would no doubt show
more Democratic frauds. He then discussed