The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1890-10-23
Xa1 Ta47Rat.
CAMDEN, s. c., OCT. %, 1850.
THE SITUATION.

for our future. And when We contemplate
the attitude of certain of our felIow-c!llzens
we are struck with amazement ana lllleu
with sadness, for they are pursuing course
which must. if successful. inevitably lead
to The lfinal disruption Of the Democratic
party. and rehabilitation Of the infamous
Republican party.
There can be no third party i'll this State
and choice must be made between 'ne
Democratic or Rcr ublican parties. as
Senator Butler, in an interview puolishea
in the Ncws and Courier Of the lith instant,
has Justly remarked, There is no miouie
ground in this State-.no halfway house'
a man must be Democrat or ltepuoIlcan'
Mugwumpry may be tolerated in q commu-
nity OF Homogeneous population, where the
personnel Of either party has the quaIlic"-
tions TO administer the government honest
lya,d inlelligently, but it has no ground
10 stand on in this State" These are words
of WIS lcm, and would furnish theme lot
oil extended political essay.
Peculiarly situated because OF the race
question, no Southern State, with ths an
tsronism of races. can lave division
among her whites and maintain her CIVIL
zn,ion. The line has been drawn by a
higher power, and whenever white men
have crossed it and sought utilization win
the negro it has invariably ended IN his po-
Ntical degradation, aud finally drifting
swsy from his white bretheren and Dcconl-
ing the foe of his former political assoc',
ates, with O degree Of rancor ard personal
venom upfelt by the Northern Republican
Lim,elf.
Take Malone in Virginia, and Chalmers
in Mississippi. There are to-day no more
,naliorant. iutolerant men in the South TO
wards their former friends. They both
started out to play Mugwump, and TOOK
issue with the Democratic party IN the'r
States. They claimed.the right OF the ne
gro to vote and have his vote counted p"t
hi,tcrly denied they had any aililiatlon
with the Republican party. or intended 10
cut loose from the Democratic party. Ihey
were distinguished SONS CT their o'ae'
with brilliant war records. The whi'es
who followed them for while have turned
from them. They vaiuly sought to o"iid
nm an intermediate party, and are no"
loor. ond soul with the Republican party
State and National.
History will repeat itself in this Stale II
,bc Haskell ticket should be elected by ne
GRO votes and it certainly cannot be nS
white. 1t would lie Republican trlumph,
md the Democratic party would in lo9S
eird its loins for another desperate chort'
such as 1876, for his election will not break
M the party, but Only intensity the feeling
and arouse q determination to regain con-
troll. Mahone's triumph did not daunt or
destroysthe Democratic party OF Virginia:
Il DEVELOPED Il degree OF animosity anu
heart burning among the whites which IS
only lust now dying ont, and so Will IL pe
in South Carolina.
THE fact is, the fusion between whites and
blacks is un unnatural and false one an"
has never been developed except when
division among the whites takes place
i hen thes jubilancy of the negro breaks
f,r,b snd his leaders make use OF the ~hle
men who affiliate with them, anu claim po
litical equality and division OF Offices AND
then 10 use Ex-Governor Ilagood's strong
lanuuere in the World OF the 18th, 'lhe
ignorant negro voter of South Carolina
would be accepted as the arbiier OF her des-
tiny"
It is vain for the Il.skell men 10 suppose
the negro will vote their ticket out oil regard
for them or their position. They Will 90
S, because, politically, they hate the "bi'e
man, and in his division see chance 10
revive Tic Republican party und retalia'e
for their fancicd political wrongs. Letahy
white man read the proceedings CT the ne
gro Convention which assembled Ut Voiun-
b;a on the 10th instant, and their purpose
Is plain and their jubi!ancy over our dlvls-
i'm hilarious. 1t was Il body Of more intel
,;pepce and better personnel than any cve'
assembled Of their race, and yet the Key
note is white division" and their endorse
,,ert of Haskell was made to maintain this
division, as in it they say lies their future
no,itical welfare. They diSavowed any IN
tontion or expectation OF dominating ihc
State again. Let this movement. however
succeed. and how long could men Of Judge
usskeII's character control them? Onlyso
long as be pleased their leaders. These
xensl scamps would begin at once to trade
and under the advice and direction OF
Blaine, Mat Quay s. Co. the demand in %
,vould he made for the Electoral vote and
majority of Congressman as the plice of
their feal'y for the new aflllIatlon. This
would drive these gentlemen into the Re
publican party, or force them to obandon
their hold on their colored cohorts.
Tbe'white race of this State is bound TO
the National Democratic purity by every tie
and association of twenty-five years Of cop!-
mon battling fol the rights OF The South,
and our people can never forget the dark
deys of military rule. Frecdaan's bureau
deyitry, reconstruction monstTosity or
negro domination, to say nothing Of Re-
nublican National legislation, with lis cla's S
preferences and tariff and Lodge bill iii |