The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-05-22

TO do with the election and registration
laws. We regarded them as a legacy
from the Administration of 1882. We
have upheld them as the acts of the
people and as constitutional means of
self preservation. Some of these men
who are responsible ;or and who have
enjoved the BENEFITS and honors of Of
fcers under these laws have turned
upon their State since their retire
ment. By an appeal to one of the bit
crest enemies of Southern civilization, a
politician who djsgraces the Judicial
ermine of the United States Court and
masquerading as Judge, they have
succeeded in having declared the
registration law unconstitutional, null
and void isliil Tas Mas the defamation Of -four our
State, and insult, if insult could come
from such source, to your State Off
GERS. Under this decree the doors
have been thrown open and the ballot
again placed in the hands of every
man, white or black, of the age of 81
years. The abuse and SANDER heaped
upon the State by the counsel for the
plaintiffs was only surpassed by that
of the Judge in his document styled a
decree in equity.
But the pity Of it, the humiliation
and the shame of it is yet to be told.
Besides this Jetfries on the bench sat
an old man, whose head was gray,
who had fought on the field of battle
for States rights, who had been Speak
er of the House of Representatives of
South Carolina. and in whose hand
writing part of our registration laws
exist III our archives; there we sat,
wearing alike the judicial ermine,
hearing his State DETAINED, his com
rades in arms denounced as rebels, and
his own hapdiwork adjudged a crime.
If the law was crime. was he not the
criminal? Should his head have not
been bent and his eyes moist with
tears of humiliation!
Alas they were not With Me-
phistophelean grin on his wrinkled
face he nodded assent to the most in
famous document ever emanating
from Court in equity, while the
black audience exclaimed: "A Daniel
haScom to judgment; yea, a Daniel. >
The Ex-senator, who has been hold
ING caucusses in Columbia at private
houses. having the ear of the court
holding the foot Of the chancellor"
returned to his home, feeling that his
movements had not been detected, but
the responsibility shall rest where it
belongs. Let the people not blame the
poor. lean and hungry counsel, who
are barking merely for a bone, but
visit the sin upon the heads of the
arch conspirators.
A crisis confronts US, an issue has
been thrust upon us without our will
or consent at a time when peace was
lowering over the State. South Caro-
lima is enjoying an era of industrial
Improvements, factories are being
built in greater number than else
where in the South. The credit of the
State ranks higher than ever in its
history, our bonds not being purchase
able at a premium or less than 10 per
cent. The march of progress is about
to be stopped; the black pail of negro
domination hovers over us; we must
meet the issue like South Carolinians.
There are only two flags, the white
and the black. Under which will you
enlist? The one, the white peaceful
flag of Anglo-Saxon civilization and
progress. or the other, the black flag
of the deceased and ignorant African,
with the white traitors, who are seek
ing to marshal the NEGROES, in order
to regain political power.
It is fortunate that the issue comes
at this time, when a Constitution is to
be made guaranteeing white suprem-
acy once and forever. The Constitu-
tional Convention must be controlled
by white men, not with white men
with black hearts nor negroes. The
world must be shown that we are
capable of governing ourselves and
that Constitution or no Constitution
law or no law, Court or no Court, the
intelligent white men of South Caro-
lima intend to govern her. Let the
man who undertakes to lead the igno-
rant blacks against you suffer as he
did in 1876, and remember that eternal
vigilance is the price of liberty.
l will not call the Legislature to-
gether. They could do nothing. An
appeal will be taken to the Supreme
Court of the United States, but under
the red tape and technicalities sur.
rounding it a decision cannot be had
in time to affect the election of dele
gates. It must be free open fight. |
appeal to the sovereign people of
South Carolina, the wisest and safest
and purest tribunal, to protect their
homes and liberties. They have never
failed to respond to duty. The Gov.
ernnent of the people must and shall
be perpetuated and we are ready to
lead the fight under the white mans
flag. Your obedient servant,
JOHN GARY EVANS, Governor.