Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1881-01-27

| South, l can nnQ 10 luitdIiou VI INC
exclusion Of a Curtis from public
hall by the Republican Mayor 4 Of
Philadelphia. These are unpleasant
contrasts to present. but between the
accusers of the North and the accus-
ed Of the Souyii there must one day
! be truth, and / shall not hinHer ITS
early coming.
TIE FUTURE PERIL OF TIRE SOUTH:
The one great peril 10 the South
for which I cat see no Immediate
remedy is the new inevitable divi-
sion Of the white vote Of the South
and the certain appeal Of contendlng
factions to the blacks as the arbiter
of disputing ambition, ! have until
recently shared th4-very general be-
lief Of the North that::the division Of
the white vote of the South must be
fortunate for the black voters, as it
would create rivalry in extending the
fullest protection to the blacks l
am now thoroughly convinced against
all my wishes, that the necessary and
now near division Of the whites will
be f.uitful Of great decentralization to
both races and th4t it will be the Sc
verest tria! OF the wisdom oil uriver-
sal suffrage. Pnere is now nothing
to 'lemoralize.the black man or to
divert him from hisindastry and the
education OF his children. He is rap
idly bacom!ng the owner or lessee Of
lands and is his own farmer, and is,
in many instancesaccumulating wealth
with habits OF Industry; but when
the white man locks horns with his
fellow in the battle Of ambition, she
noat artful demasogue will oest con-
troll the ignorant freedmen, and the
degradation Of both races must fol-
low. Malone teaches he lesson most
pointedly in Virginia, where he has
outstripped tine Bourbons in thu de-
vices OF the demagogue and has con-
solidated eighty thousand property
less voters to stamp the ineffaceab!e
stain of Reputation upon an honored
Common wealth, and repeal theS just
tax that opens the free school to the
colored iidrsr. +
THE DIVISION or THE WHITES
in Georgia under the Colqalt and
Norwood flags sentia hurricane OF
debauchery among the colored vote
of that State, and al the thriftless
cnpidity of ignorance has been whet-
ted for future contests. This severe
trial Of universal suffrage must now
come, and it will present the problem
in an unexpected phase to the nation;
The whites ca'. 40 nothing else than
.livi4e.i They cannot and they shsnld
not do otherwise. They are full Of
human nature; they have now no
common danger to make them forget
all differences Of opinion and all the
impulses OF ambition; tas .repressed
jsalousies and longinss Of this people
will hurst outin widespread and Bit
ter antagonisms, and the black msn
will be the umpire between them
/, The seductive appeal Of the agrarian
and tie cry Of the communist will be
heard by the courted black man, and
his preludicas, his passions, his appe'
titles and his Incidence will be ap'
pealed to rather than his reason ant
his interests. I now fear this surely
approaching trial of the black NAL
es the sorest that be has yet grapple'
with in all his many misfortunes sine
bis liberation, and l apprehend tha
it will, Ot no distant day, deman'
the searching consideration OF tn
whole nation, as did universal sui
frage ia Washington before it was el
lected, to cure it's intolerable evils. i
THE SOUTH NEEDS FACTORIES AN
SCHOOLS.
The factory and the school must b
the great vivilizsrs of the South, an
| am glad to see that Northern. ant
Southern Radicals agree il the On
ted States Senate in nationalislng ed
, ucation. 1t is needed in the Sout
an extent far beyond what is ger
r orally understood in the North, an
there will be no material eleyatio
of the black race until the ignorat
4 classes Of both whites and blacks ca
: be educated. There is cordial syn
e pathy, as rule, between the INTEL
e gent whites and the blacks much MOI
team there 10 between the whites an
y blacks in The North, but the ignoraI
l white In n never forgives the blac
!, mau lor being as intelligent as hin
t self. In nine cases outuf ter th
e black inau will prefer Intelligent viii
f to any sort'5of coloredi Jurors, to tt
If his case in court, and he prefers tt
: former owner OF slaves TO any other
n simply because that class is certain
: Judge the negro most generously. A
y of the reconstructed States have equ
Il educational facllities for both race
It but their povo' ~ has prevented
h ther the numbar OF schools or d
Y length Of terms which should be
O tanned IN afford nronep opuoYtuniti