The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1895-03-06
TO REF0RMERS, !ALLIANCEMEN,
AND ALL SOUTH CAROLINIANS!
"Let the People Rule!"


Carolina. It was by their patriotism and
the shedding Of their precious blood that
the brightest pages of South Carolina his
tory are illumined.
I am an original Allianceman and Re-
former, and more an ''old veteran, native
here and to the manor born"
! This is our country. When I speak of
the people, I mean the white people of
South Carolina. 1t is not only best for
white men, it is best for colored men that
the whole policy of the State should be left
in the hands of the white people, Just as
in business and every day affairs it is best
that white people should lead and direct.
To appeal to the colored vote directly or
>, indirectly to settle differences between
white people is politically, and morally
wrong. 1t looks bad, therefore it is bad.
The colored vote will never be the throne,
nor the power behind the throne again in
South Carolina Hence the white mans
primary is the place to settle all our differ.
ences.
There is a sense Of justice and right in
the hearts of the great majority of the Re
formers, and we have no reason to say
there are not the same feelings in the
hearts of Conservatives.
The trouble is We have been at war over
political issues, and now that those issues
have been practically settled, let Us call a
truce, and look forward not backwards on
wrongs.
The meetings and purposes of the colored
ministers if carried out will bring only
ruin on the masses Of the colored people
now quiet and contented.
When over three millions Of slaves were
given the power to vote and rule over their
former masters, DR.. Richard Fuller, of
Beaufort, S. c., then of Baltimore, one of
the grandest pulpit orators of America,
was at Washington watching the final vote
by which universal suffrage WAS proclaimed.
This great and good man could find no
words in his large vocabulary to express
his grief. He telegraphed to The Religious
Herald" Richmond, Va: The die is
cast, and in the language of heart-broken
Byron, exclaimed: "My native land, good
night"
We passed through that dark night that
seemed almost perpetual. We were
plunged 20 millions in debt, and pi!laged
and robbed and burned northern man
seeing the negroes, carpet-baggers and
scallawags, black aud ring-streaked led by
others with whittier skins but blacker hearts,
all feeding together on the vitals of South
Carolina, who bound like "Poometeous"
could only endure: He to frighten the i'll
omened birds away lifted up his voice and
the grangers of the West and the Demo
Gratis of the North lifted up their voices in
behalf of 1.-The PROSTATE State until even
our enemies relented, and public opinion
that omnipotent law was so aroused in 1876,
that when Gen'l Grant at the bidding of
Chamberlain, lifted the military arm of the
nation to strike us down, the public opin-
ion Of the North responded: "Thou shalt
not smite them" "They are our brethren,
they are white men,"
When Genl Hampton and The Bald
Eagle of Edgeheld, Gen. Butler and the
Haskells led forth the crimsoned soldiers,
the beauty and chivalry Of South Carolina,
ali plaided and plumea in their tartan
array to canvass the State for white su-
premacy," at one of the campaign meetings
in response to threats he barred his bosom
to the federal soldiers and said, fire
but you are our soldiers, that is our flag !"
an electric thrill shook every heart in
South Carolina, and the national heart was
fired with admiration. 1t was this public
opinion that finally removed the soldiers
from our State house and gave peace to our
people.
When the news was flashed over the
wires, Hampton is elected" there was re.
joicing all over South Carolina The ne
groes rejoiced, for they had had enough of
negro rule. DR.. Reynolds, of the South
Carolina College announced the news to
the Baptist Association then being held in
the historic Welch Neck church at Society
Hill, in these sublime and beautiful words:
"Ge2. Hampton is elected governor of
South Carolina! Now is the winter of our
discomfort made glorious summer by this
sun of York, and all the clouds that lowered
upon our house in the deep bosom of the
ocean buried.
Let US 60 slow, however, in the constitu-
tional business, and not build "Haman's 8
gallows upon which to hang ourselves
Heat rot a furnace for your foe 80 hot
that it do SINCE yourself"
We owe little respect to the constitu-
ton of the United States Uncle Sam is
very quiet just now, possibly from inertia;
but when he gets move on him he &C
quires momentum very rapidly. In the
next Congress with the new engineers and
6remen, Messrs. Thos. Reid Mckinley,
ct al, any schedule We may make IN the
precedents will certainly be improved upon
to our disadvantage. We had better 90
slow, have the air and hand brakes in Or
der and steady hand at the throttle. We
are rounding curve, preclplce IS ahead |
and only q narrow margin between!
Of all fallacies that of confusion is the
most common and misleading. So says
the late DR.. McAsh, one of the most dis1in-
guished authorities on the science and |
theory of thought: 1--WE have truth when
our ideas are conformed to things" Let US
give attention to the realities, the facts, the
things.
The passions and prejudices Of the hu-
man heart should have no place in the con-
sideration of great foundation truths and
principles such as underlie the structure
OF our government. We have at such times
the greatest need of our best thought and
and the truest feelings and most patriotic
promptings of our hearts. The liberty, the
happiness, the prosperity, and even the
life Of our people demand it.
Prejudice and appeals to passion throw
it against constitution made by others
than white South Carolinians is so great,
that is likely to hurry the people to destroy
that which in times like these is their only
protection. "If you are sitting on rock,
aaid Mr.. Spurgeon in the parlance of John
Plowman, land you can feed yourself, you
had better be sure you can do better before
you get of.
Let US not give to party that which be-
longs to our country" when men are re-
tallieting upon others they are reckless of
the future. and do not hesitate to annul
those common laws of humanity to which
every Individual trusts for his own hope of
deliverance should he ever be overtrker bv
calamity. They forget that in their own
hour of need they will look for them in
vain" Thus wrote Thucidides four hun
dred and seyenty-one years before Christ.
1.-The tie of the party was stronger than the
tie of blood" What is it to-day after more +
than eighteen hundred years of Christian ]
ity? HENRY C. BURNS. II
Society Hill, March /, 1894. {
To be continued II