The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1895-07-18

citizen is willing to deprive us OF them
and we shall fight the flesh, the devi
! and all his imps through every cour
and power in the nation before W.
shall be robbed OF our rights by an
archistic nullifers.
duces on the one hand u class of cring
ing suppliant towards glad even for the
poor privilege OF life for short time
and On the other q class of arrogant
cruel and heartless murderers because
conscious of wrongfully obta ned power
whose members fear nothing from
their creatures, the officers Of the law,
who construe and administer it rs suits
the will of their masters
Such government we have in this
State to-day, and the ruling faction is
in favor of handing it down in ali its
ckCdness as Il curse to generations
unborn, but we are unwilling to entail
such legacy to future generations.
Most OF our murders and all our
lyhchings are Immediately traceable
TO such Il government, and under it
our State will continue to sink from
bad to worse until it becomes such q
hell that no one can live in it..
Man, naturally given to error, is i'm
PEELED to right action from only two
courses, the hope of reward or fear of
punishment, and the law antedating
the Mosaic age, that he that tateth
mans life must forfeit his own as a
penalty, has been abrogated and the
rule in this State is that white man
taking the life of q colored man does
not pay the penalty with his own,
which has spread to others and is no
longer confined to thet oppressed class.
Upon the slightest provocation men,
bers OF the privileged class, without
| fear of punishment, murder or play
the part Of prowling savages or canni-
balls, and dignity it by calling it
lynching, as the conscience of the
State has been SO scared that it is re-
garded Rs Il virtue rather than q crime
to lynch fellow-being. Murders and
lynchings are nONious pla' IS flourish
ing only under a privileged class gov
ernmcnt, and will surely die when the
sheriff and court are made to depend
for future favorS upon the suffrage Of
every man.
We believe in universal suffrage, be-
cause we believe in that right Of all,
which, under our form of government,
cannot be secured without making the
political power Of each man equal in
the creation Of the administrators of
The law.
The most illitefatc and humblest
| citizen, possessing nothing but his life
and muscles, has as much right to the
means OF protecting his prOperty
though invisible, as the millionaire.
When deprived of our ballot, our in
| nuence with the administrators of the
law is gone and we are absolutely
| without protection.
While all members of the privileged
class do not take advantage of our
| helpless condition, many do, and it is
cruel and hope destroying to deprive
us of the power to aid humane and
| liberal mon in the election of such
honest men as will, in the dispensation
OF justice, hold the scales equally bal
anced, whether the subject weighed is
black or white. The rule adopted by
| the Democratic Executive Committee,
deharring all colored men, regard
less of past political affiliations, from
participation in the approaching pri-
maries of said party, and allowing all
white men, regardless Of past political
alliliation, to participate n the same,
with the declared purpose Of counting
| in the general election the ones named
in the primaries, is viOlative OF every
principle OF justice and honesty, re.
pugnant to the doctrines of civilized
government, and II practical repudia-
tion of the Federal constitution.
We view with alarm the action
Of Conservatives, whom we are in
clincd to regard us broad and liberal
men, when they, to our exclusion and
in reputation Of our rights, accept an
equal division with the administration
faction and submit that it is most UNI
reasonable to expect our support when
falling to secure such concessions
We submit that the only honorable
thing for them to do, if they mean
Justice, is to make q fair fight from
| principle in overy county in the State
for the rights OF ALL in which they
would get the support of every honest
man in the State, regardless Of race or
politics.
We further submit that we stand
ready to join with any number of the
liberal white mon Of the State, and to
aid them in making Constitution
broad enough to cover the rights of
cvory man, however rich or poor, and
Will only vote exclusively for delegates
OF our own race and party, when such
members fail or refuse to corporate.
10 the men OF our race, we announce
that no legal constitution can be- made
with our united opposition. We must
organize to continue to raise the means
to prosecute the light now pending in
the Federal courts for the preservation
of constitutional liberty to final ter
in the approaching election as will
enable us to move Congress to action
through petitions.
Before Il final determination of the
litigation the proposed convention may
be holden and all the wicked plans of
our enemies Incorporated into new
Constitution, but If We shall provo to
the satisfaction Of the Federal Su.
preme Court that in it's making all the
rights and franchises gra ted us by
the supreme Constitution have been
ignored and tramplcd under feet OF
which wo have no doubt, through
fraudulent and unconstitutional regis
, tration laws, the new Constitution will
amount to nothing, and our enemies
viii have their pains for their laDors
We congratulate all lovers OF honest
gOvei nment in this State for the pos.
session Of ut least one judge, in the
person Of Chief Justice Mclvcr, whose
judicial crminc remains unsullicd and
, gricvc to feel that the time will soon
come when car State will be deprived
OF tho last of such tribuncs.
ORGANIZING FOR a FIGHT.
r. .,.xs, al