The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-01-10

tlons with the Southern white man
They involve his business, his tax rates
the development of his country, ant
the peace and safety of his family
They not only keep him away from
the Republican party; they keep hin
inside the Democratic organization a
| the power between his State and blacl
rule, and make him as much the ser
want of that organization, and a:
prompt and jealous in action with it
as utterly debarred from freedom O
thought and act, as if he was a soldier
of an army marching through hostile
country.
The white people and the Democrats
of the Sonth are as eager as any for the
relief of the situation and for freedom
from the strain of keeping the negro
vote down, and the fear of having il
regain control and force blight and
ruin on the country. Our condition is
not wholesome for the Republic or for
us as States and individuals. A large
Southern vote is represented in the
Electoral College and the House of
Representatives, but never cast; it is
here, repressed, gathering strength,
perhaps, from its repression, threaten
ing always. Suppose the white men
stay away from the Federal boxes and
allow the black half Of the population
to send the Representatives now sent
by the white half, will that improve
the position? No power can give as
suranee that the black vote would be
confined to the Federal boxes. If there
could be such assurance believe two
thirds Of the whites would be glad to
barter their rights of representation in
the Federal Government for undisputed
control of their States, counties and
cities, for the power other people have
to divide among themselves on ques-
tions of local policy.
The educational qualification is pre-
scribed for our troubles. Its first prac-
tical effect is to add to the mass of sui
len, resentful, disfranchised negroes a
smaller but more active and aggressive
mass Of sullen, resentful, disfranchised
white men, the two together making
of the men of each State, and
offering standing inducement to po-
liticians and parties to obtain perma-
nent power by bringing about the res,
toration of the manhood franchise.
that consideration would it
be wise or humane to establish by law
what would be practically race differ
ence, to leave the negro, at this late
lay, entirely powerless, at the mercy
If the white man, without his former
Talue asproperty orhis present strength
ls apolitical factor He would be as
'rey inviting aggression, and the ut
most efforts of the vast number of white
Southern Democrats who wish to see
lin have fair play could not secure it
or him when the interests or sentiment
II the time opposed it. He wonld re-
eive the same fair play the all-master-
ng, eager, white man, unrelenting in
has given the Indian and |
he Chinaman.
If what say is accepted as truth,
he failure of the plan for dealing with
be South indicated by Gen. Harrison
sure. The Southern white people do
ot ask to be either petted or driven,
ecause the two policies are equally
owerless in releasing them from the
ard political obligations to which they
re bound by necessity. They will not
wide on the tariff question. They are
lready divided on that and other is
les in sentiment, but they dare not
wide in action.
To leave the situation undisturbed
ill not be craftsmanship, good morals,
good politics. # every Democratic
tfice-holder in the South should be
1T unmolested during the coming
'ur years, the end Of that time would
nd the relations and membership of
he parties unchanged. Every negro
ould be 4 Republican, and not a
hite man would have become one.
he difference and lines between the
lrties in the South are deeper than s
~ questions of policy or principle or
'tronage. They are the difference s
I'd lines between Anglo-Saxon and (
thiopian, between former master and
rmer slave, between aggregated capi-
| and aggregated labor, between +
&c kept down by sentinant, custom,
heritance, and necessity, and race '
reed by sentiment, custom, inherit
ice and necessity to keep it down.
le evils will increase with time. AS '
e two races increase they will crowd -,
ch other within their territory, and
e struggle for place and foothold will
come stronger and harder; as the
heated class increases among the ne '
les, its pressure against the confning,
'ressive forces above will be more }
'1ons, and the friction will be more l
; Pting to both sides. L
7 y scheme which contemplates the
e gamation CT the race may be re- :
: instantly. Its an impossibility, Z
: Sc it is abhorrent to every nerve Z
ointment of white men. Those of 4
, Tho can bring themselves to cool .
IT upon that subject are convinced Il
Us practical result of amalgama-
iuld be the merging of both