The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-11-14

White people not only should but
will continue to rule. Racial superb
GRITTY cannot be overcome. Intelligence
Is impregnable and negroes In power
are mere creatures OF frighted imagi-
nations. Whenever the test comes this
paper and its editor, cost what 1t may,
will dOstheir part in maintaining the
government by white men. "Recon-
struction" as we knew it was an appen-
dix to the wal and a part Of that cruel
record. 1t was made possible and in
hicted upon us by the mistaken North.
1t cannot return. The a is over and
good government in the South has the
sympathy and commands the aid OF all
Yankeedom.
We are not ready to confess that the
white people OF the South are incapa-
BILE of disagreeing and voting against
each other without c~onsenting for
themselves to sink into a race of scala
wags. II we cannot take issue with
each other on questions of public eco
omy unless to end in anarchy we are
all slaves. II we can suppress the no.
gro and + yet helpless to restrain
our W greed and passions then we
are collectively a set of beastly, crazy
and irresponsible fools, and entitled to
no more respect than brute force in
spires. The ADVERTISER has not al
ways believed as it does now. Touch
ing these matters it has felt with the
Greenville News. Now it thinks diff
ferently hoping that its vision is clear
er and that it's perspective of our en-
barassing political condition is seen in
a stronger light.
Are we to have no political convic-
tions? Are those of us who are Demo-
Gratis by instinct and training to stand
ready to surrender u opinions and
become the nunkeys Of others who out
number us?. Must we wear this gar
ment of Democracy whose texture of
truth we honor and trust only at the
bidding and by the Indulgence of Popu-
lists? Submitting in meekness and tame
servility shall we tear it off while Mr..
Tillman cries: "Down, you dog, be
quiet while 1 protect you from the Mig
ger" What confidence shall we place
in Tillman who treated with negro
State Senators for their votes and
aided and abetted the disposal of Mr..
Noises congressional majority to Geo.
w. Murray! And in the meantime what
shall we say for ourselves when the pa
triotic democrats of other states de-
mand Of us the vote of South Carolina
in the struggle against Republican
fraud and robbery? Do circumstances
justify us now in becoming ingrates to
all our Northern friends and in cancel
ling every political obligation that we
owe to the country?
The Greenville News once drew a
painfully graphic picture of the times
that South C%arolinians saw before
Hampton came in '76 and it is not
pleasant to contemplate their recur-
renee. But the question now is one OF
free thought. The slavery of opinions
is infinitely worse than the servitude
which simply exacts labor. The lib
erty of thinking and speaking and vot-
ing as ones conscience tells him is not
to be idly flung away ven at the men
ace of q dark apparition which to some
is as real as to us it is disgusting. We
should not say that it is not worthy of
defence although we knew that it
would bring a time when "a white man
could not show his face on the streets
unless he was prepared to fight his way
through and shoot quick and straight"