The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1880-09-04
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Tie Radicals have learned the art O,
playing upon harp Of one string !o
perfection. Whenever they happen lo
DC at loss for some new device they
fall back upon The old hackneycd CRY
against South Carolina. This time Il
rs the refusal Of tho State to decrease
in population that angcrs them. with
amazing scI:complaccncy they had sat
down and built air castles for them
selves, in The belief that the census of
1850 would strip the South Of its DOW
CT, and especially degrade South Caro-
lima to the level OF Vermont and New
Hampshire. 70 their horror the re-
furns show that South Carolina in
stead f losing will gain Congress-
hran. Hence their tears. While thc
Acathen rage, the truly good roll up
the whites OF their eyes and call for Il
new census. They find iunumcrablc
marcs'-ncsts every day. a neat and
clcan return is to them prina tacic
evidence Of fraud because q "rcbcl''
never hathcs his face or washes his
h"ndS, and ii would he impossible for
hin not to bcsmcar The pages in writ
ing upon them. Again, we arc grave
~ told, "thc writing all has the same
anglc;' and IN honest Southerncr
cannot write at Il uniform angle.
Again, ono return they know is
fraudulent, because it contains the
famcs Of seven hundred natives and
only four foreigners. Yet they arc
willing at other times TO swear that no
Immigration ever comes down to this
bcnighlcd region. If foreigners never
come here how can they be cnumcrat-
ca III an honest census? st. Helena
parish, in Beaufort, with its eighty
scvcn whites and six thousand and
sixty-iivc blacks,i is not the immigrants
paradise, as is evidenced by the census
VI 1870, which includes only seven
daring foreigners in that entire sec
ton.
Again, South Carolina is poor:
therefore she should not increase.
Dear Radical friends, have ye never
heard "a fool for luck, poor man for
children and negro for dogs"? Nc.
s,rocs here have dogs, fools here are
lucky sometimes, and why should not
poor men have children? Law abid.
ing and God fearing South Carolinans
obey the preccpt, "Incrcasc and
multiply and rcplcnish tho earth"
Their crime is that they do not rccog-
Nizc the 'highcr law" of New England
that "childrcn arc q nuisance" The
census cnnmcrator Of Township Eight,
III This county, took the names Of four
pairs Of twins in ono day, and then
found another family in which there
were twins and triplcts both. This
was treason, rank treason, against the
government, and tho return is rcspect.
fully submitted to The Loyal howlcrs Of
the North, as giving material for half
Il dozen speeches and innumcyablc
editorials on the dcpravity Of human
nature. Let tho Duzfnzzcs of tbc
Census Bureau wiring their hands and
cxcIaim in anguish as they read
"Twins and triplcts. Great Heavens
members of Congress, twins and trip.
let's" One consolation. They canno,
aver, save in a Pickwnkian sense, that
these traitorous parents arc unelcniably
"slow coaches"
lfthc Census Bureau doubts the
honesty Of the South Carolina returns
lot them order q new enumeration
1rtth ecl'W pay. No ono objects tc
that. On tho contrary, the people o.
South Carolina desire to have their IN
crease Of population demonstrated be-
yond cavil They do not desire tt