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

ole loF Hiui W mdlhthiu q 1sepuoiieeLi
administrative majority in either SEN
ate or House after his important pat.
ronage snail have been dispensed, but
by reputable civil service in the
South ho can defy the assaults OF
faction without in any degree I'M
pairing bis position as a positive Re
publican. Is this not the wise course
for the Republican President and
party Of the North ? and is it not an
imperious duty?
THE SOUTH WANTS To. BE LET ALONE.
The South has one Supreme desire,
and that is for peace-to be let alone.
And it is not merely the desire OF the
whites; it is as much the desire OF
the blacks. I:have met scores of the
laost intelligent colored men in syiry
State, anu al. OF them ont cI Office
expressed the same wish--to be let
alone. The problem OF race is. solv-
e,l in The South and 40 T deral pow
sr or political device can change it.
Tue white man will dominate VITA
ont regard to he occasional numerl-
cal proponderance Of the blacks. sim
ply because superior intelligence and
a Domination that the memory OF man
runneth no; to the contrary, cannot
! Ls reversed wi.hoat chaos The black
man his tried i, ani he is.consoinus
of his failure to protect himself. lie
cannot lead, and those who most snc.
cgssfuliy lead him appeal to his baser
passions and tempt him to his own
degradation ana sorrow. He Ia not
tie victim Of violence now, but he
has waded through violence to escape
from his own incompetert self-ru!e,
aad he has given up the unequal con-
test, not fora day or for year, but
for The present and for after genera
tions. This is the PLAN truth in re-
gard 10 race domination in the South,
as it is the plain truth Of the race in
the North. Here every channel Of
industry is oper to him,
TIE WHITE AND THE BLACK Me-
cHANIc
are on equal footing; the preludices
OF race have no exi tence, save when
there is struggle for tie dcmlnation
OF the spoiler over property, aad be
Icgislates and fills positions for which
he is fitted not only with the SYM
pathy, hut often by the votes Of the
whites. saw score Of colored po-
licemen on the streets OF New Or
leans, serving under q Democratic
'$1anffasyor7 but;it would cost Mayor stOk,
\ ley hislast hope of elect on if he
were to put the sable policemen or
SS!,,l5est5llt -gtseal:. I-aaw black mel
Ssiltsag on iEZ.aDozaocfatic side o
Sonthfrn Legislatures, butno Repub
I]lican district .ir Philadelphia or Penn
ksylvania has ventured to nominate
one Of the seventy-fve hundred col
\ cred voters Of the city, or one OF th'
tnricA tnat number in the State, for
ally legislative position, either State
Or Municipal. saw the colored nal
m:ngle with Democratic organlza
4 tions in the Sonth, but not one nou!t
Isit in the councils Of the League o
Hthe Union Club or march in mixet
franks with the Invincibles or Younl
Republicans in Philadelphia. saw
him have free access to every chan
mel OF mechanical! industry in the
South, bus he is relentlessly excluded
from the organized mechanical pur
suits Of Republican Philadelphia
Ills admission into the printing offic
of the Times or the Press or tn
NoIih american would vacate ever.
white mans case, where most of ther
; vote the Republican ticket to bel,
!, the black man; and the colored labo
OF the South, as class, is TODD
better paid, more steadily employee
and more uniformly free from want
than the farm labor Of the North Q
Of any country OF the world. Indeed
50 great is The demand for labor i
the now rapidly progressing Soutl
l. that all colored aborers are employ
/ Ell from January 10 January; thei
. wives and children double or qnad
70 ruple their income in the cotton rlcl
h ing season, that last three months !
g the year. and there is nov a yeorl
I'd winter influx of white labor from tt
st North to aid in the sugar and ri
IS harvests. This is the -
rs PEACE TO TIE BLACK AID WHITE MA
st that he's followed the now accepte
in domination of the whites in the Sout
ce and the black man does not wish
Id changed fos renewal OF strugg
ch to which lie is utterly unequal.
is the North must assume the task
p elevating the black man to equal po'
Ia, er regardless of fitness, let it beg
fill by giving him i'll Philadelphia Pen
asylvania, New York and other K
sg: publican States the same industrl
ho equality and political promotion tn
Id the less educated blacks of the Sou
re. nov enjoy with the cordial sympatl
Ali. u..li os. M. ,taa c,n 4 r