The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1890-08-22
The New York Mail and Express

The New York Mail and Express
The latest advices from tho sim
Rf5lar and desperate political CAM
paign in South Carolina make It clear
that the time has arrived for the as
sertion of their constitutional rights
by the colored voters In that State,
whoare decidedly in the majority and
who have been SO long the victims of
the white supremacy doctrine.
They have shown sABaeity and
self control in remaining passive spec
tators of the Tillman and the anti
Tillman struggle, while the white
voters have displayed thG nftness
to govern by the violencS Md viru-
lcnce of q struggle that would bring
about an anarchist condition If it con.
tinued long enough. The followers
of Tillman believe that the govern
ment of the State by the white aristo-
cracy since 1875 has been getting
more and more corrupt. They con
stitute the middle class and the poor
white class of voters, and have been
gradually getting more and more
radical and revolutionary. If their
programme was fully carried out,
South Carolina would become a
bankrupt State, deserted by capital
and by men Of large business enter
prise. Yet their wrath against the
jncompetency and corrupt rule of the
aristocracy is absolutely justifable
and the very wildness of some of
their schemes shows the desperation
to which that rule has goaded them.
with all that has been published
about the crazy schemes of the Far
mers' Alliance that is in rebellion
against the white aristocracy, it is
needful, in this connection, to state.
ca1if what ftose schemes aye. Tbk
1eSRoY cucr,v ilIaIsP :, AZ ~. .VafsJr- 9FfTY
thrust in the face f every candidaA
for Congress inthat States~iaso coml
plete compendium of all the fiItn.
Icial hel estes and exploded theories of
the past century that, even if it had
been turned over to the most brilliant
representative of New York bar, he
could not have made it more COM
plete or more concise.
"Thus the South Carolina issues
between the white voters are between
o tyrannical and corrupt white aris-
tocracy, on the one hand, and finan-
cial lunacies of the widest sort on
the other. Has not white suprema-
cy' down there brought the State
near chaos and ruin? Could negro
rule be worse? Would it not be far
SIN South Carolina, the State of
Traitor John G. Calhoun, and where
rebellion first showed it's ugly front
under his malign leadership, the con
tinuing treason of the white suprem-
acy' doctrineshas had full sway for
many years, the negroes having been
kept under OF cheated out of their
uotes, and being the passive sufferers
from the violence, intimidation and
fraud of the superior race The
anarchic results are fully displayed
in the campaign that is now SO ex-
citing in every district and that
would be attended by great blood.
shed but for the fact that all the
white men in this struggle know
that if collisions begin the end
thereof would be appalling to con-
template
The loyal citizens of South Caro-
lima, the negroes, who constitute
three ffths of the population, have
SO far been passive spectators of the
anomalous struggle between their
.onpressors. They have been the
ll,I,.l sufferers by the white mems
,uaass nment that is at last rebelled
agaiIst by white men. They have
had dl.d are having the satisfaction
of seeing the natural result of the
peculiar sort Of rule that has dis
graced South Carolina in political
fight without precedent for its bitter
ness. Their patience and self-con-
troll have been admired by the whole
country.
Now is the time for them to as
scrt their rights and their manhood
by nominating candidates of their
own and by making well organized,
energetic and determined campaign.
Why not They are the majority.
They have been the special victims
alike of white rule, through the forms
of law, and of the violence, tyranny
-, and fraud of the dominant minority
>4s@s--- Constitution and the laws of the
United States give the majority in
South Carolina, as elsewhere, the
right to rule.
- They never had before anything
like the same opportunity to over
throw the minority that has held
ssway by the .foulest and wickedesi
y doeds and politics. They have able
: 1ooJnra and oroona Thew can oei