The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1882-05-06
THE RE.iPI.OR.TI0NMENT
Views Of the Hon. Armstead Burt. ,f sb1,o
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Vows OF the Hon. ArmStead Burt, Of Abbe.
vIfSe.A
The reporter OF the Abbeyjllc Press
and Banner interviewed tho Hon,
Armstead Burt on the question OF ap-
portionment. Mr.. Burt's reputation
as statesman and his entire disintcr~
estcdness entitio his views to especial
consideration. lie says:
The fury OF this contest will be COLI
ccntrated In the South. aud Dn,ttiauIn,.-
~ In South Carolina. The defeat, bv
the veto ofthc President, vi ,hc lny
prohibiting Chilrese importation into
the United States. !raa lost 10 the Re.
pnbiicans the Pacific States. and some
ol the Western Stmies, and ,hnt parry
cQht-ss2G!l luokstO the Southern Stutcs
To recruit It's broken r9lukS, and TO res
cue the impcriIcd sccp re of its sway,
II the State i>nUt arranged into seven
congressional districts, the election OF
TWO representatives. by general tickr,
will be prize tdf which the Rcpublj.
can party will CONTEND with ullits mis-
chleVons might aid all ut its D,riluus
power. All the vast mauuncrv of the
government Of the Cnitcd States, its
Sntterlng uniform and lis cleaning
oayonel. its array OF supervisors, lis
multitude Of marshnls, and u!l t!mt is
.pcStilcnt and malignant ia lis ins,ru-
lncllt''itlcs will be felt nj ever, boiling
pace FROM Oconce to Gcoryctuwm,
from The blue mountains to tie blue
sea. That contest would revive the
antaSoiii>us OF the two raues- the
white man and the black man would
bc arratGd as foes at the polls. The
10" hut omiuons mutlcrings of the
coming storm are audible in the poili.
c,'i Trials now being held in charleston,
ana II We arc hot dcludrd and doomed
lhGy will not be unbccdrd. Those
trinis are intcudrtt to break the spirit
~ COW an, to crush the white n,,,,. ard
u brace and TO bolster up Tie coIurrd
man. They arc the opening sccnas ia
u: terrible drama Of November. We
would deserve TIC most ignonininus
iatc that cam bctilll Il conquered people,
il we invited this unequal ami horrible
contest, to save the few collars that The
ezra session would adj to our taxes.
eli is matter Of ines;i;nablr i;u or
tancc that the Democrats should have
majority of the Congressional repre-
Scntation from this State, and 4 prone"
arrlnScmcn, OF the State into srvrn
Congressional districts would scc;Irc
that majority. but as The Radicals will
almost certainly elect their candidates
III two of tic present districts, and al
most certainly would elect tie two
From The State at large, if there he 10
bcIn,c tic next clc, ton,
is there amy good citizen who, to save
II few dollars, would *ur.rn,cr. or
even hazard, that majority. which is SO
lndispcn able to our peace, ou.. 50 .i.I
order, and our civiliZntion.''
"Thc>c reasons for al, extra ,scssi: u
are as obvious, as they are conclusive.
If the rc-ttistrict;mg the State shall be
postponed until the next regular lrwis-
laturc shall meet, anl the Radicals
shall carry the November election and
obtain majority in llat body. an event
quite within the possibilities of lhc
future, the " hole Congressional REPRE-
would br organized to crash
nS. and wr should have ma.ilv nunr
away all that VIC G'aifcsl in 1876"
"Thcsc dire evils may be diminished.
if not wholly avcrlcd, by tiinciv and
ludiciouS measures, and chiefly hv sub
dividing the State into MS many Com
,
scntativcs. The wlmle w,wyr of the
giG N5a afaGSsfiona sirici a. Is nss;njc
in The whole State. i,u: ESPECIALLY,
local and sectional naijri les can II 1t
bc overcome and crushed, as the,
would be by t!.e general election
throughout the State. Wclavc suffer
cd heretofore all the evils that arc in.
tictcd by the dtspotism of numbers,
and having Tie remedy in our own
hands it would be the more frenzy of
an ignoblc mrannGss to refrain from il
TO save Il few paftry dollars. when We
Should be plnndcrcd Of millions If we
suffered the foreigner, the negro. and
the scnlnWng to snatch it irrm cur own
unworthy hands. They mistake the
spirit aud the manhood Of Sn,. people,
who suppose tliAt they would ever con-
sent to bcEsi their nccks to the woke
and bare their backs to the lash of n
vulgar dcepo;isp, to save or to cuunt
the cost ofrcsis;ance."