Birmingham state herald., 1895-12-12
WHITE SIrpREMAnY.


 Abiding to the South Carolina consti- tuition, Mr. Thomas Edmonston writes to the London Times: We ought to wish our kinsmen in South Carolina" says this intelligent writer apropos of the con- stitutional conventions work, "all good speed in their efforts, since these are di- rected toward true constitutionalism and not to it's reversal. Moreover" he adds with refreshing and quite unu- sual candor "the methods of which We have approved in dealing with the electo- ral privileges of the colored inhabitants of Cape Colony cannot from our own point of view be very far wrong when applied in far milder form to the negroes of South Carolina"
 South Carolina, in solving her race problem in the way that she knows to be the best way for her interests, and to be the only way for the preservation or | the state, has not only the indorsement of the sister states in the south. but the applause of intelligence everywhere.
 MT Edmonston says:
 ''It was my fortune to reside for some little time in South Carolina while that evillv-treated state was held in subjec- tion by colored legislature, controlled by a legion of northern carpetbaggers and supported by federal troops, contra " to the plainest terms or the OIiiIeu na States constitution. That was m Ioia' and the conditions of life for the Whlte nonulation were becoming so utterly un- endlIra ble that the alternative presented to civilized natives of the state was to regain possession of the executive anu legislative government or to quit tIe country in a body. There was illeraily no other course, since men who are or Anglo Saxon and Huguenot blood inner iting the traditions of freemen, could not submit to live and suffer under govern ment scarcely differing in any respect from that Hayti and San Domingo. Ihe from that of Hayti and San Domingo. The conflict was bitter, but victory was won-by what means and at what cost we must not too closely inquire Ihe SUI premacy regained in 1875 has been re tained for nineteen years, but only Dy the same methods as were then eHpioyeu. No South Carolinian dreams of disputing inc fact. It is known to all. and IS pat ent to the most casual observer. Ana, further every South Carolinian declares that, no matter how much he may III theory dlsapprove of the methods efn- Dloyed, the end sought-that is, the main tenance of white supremacy-must De attained at any cost and at every hazard. The state has had ten years eXperlence of negro rule and every Whlte man III IL will die rather than submit 10 the nor TOTS which would attenu d Ieci uue9"S"NS of the same.
 eve cannot afford to shut our eyes to facts as they exist It is degrading and demoralizing to a high-splrited race; accustomed from of old-time to talr ana constitutional methods of government; 10 compel them to resort to electoral tricks and mean devices because there happens to exist within their borders an alien and inferior race, possessing, in- deed. the right before the law to equal pc litical privileges with the white popula- tion, but utterly incapable of using the electoral franchise for any other than evil and corrupt purposes. We ought to wish our kinsmen in South Caroiina all good speed in their efforts since these are directed toward true constitutonal- ism. and not to it's reversal. Moreover; the methods of which we have approved in dealing with the electoral privileges of the colored inhabitants of Cape Colony cannot from our own point of view be very far wrong when applied in Tar mid CT forms to the negroes of South Caro- lima