Year: 1877

The peace in South Carolina con
sists in this in the first place the Hamp
ton Legislature has refused to provide
for public schools, and the colored race
are to be thrust back into the long night
of darkness from which they are about
to emerge.


A labor system has been established
whose working is bad as the former
Russian serfdom which Russian has abol
ished; whose end in a few years will be
the practical reestablishment Of slavery.


Labor is to be performed under yearly
contract. There is no provision for the
punishment of the employer, because
that would be impugning the honor oi
the Southern gentleman, but If the EN-.
ploye violates his contract in any way, he
is guilty of misdemeanor; he is crimi
nal, and is punished by whipping and
the forfeiture Of wages. The evi.
dence Of one witness (the planter, of
course) is sufficient to prove a violation.
At the end of a season a planter can 90
into court and swear that half or all, his
negro laborers, failed 10 comply with the
provisions of their contracts That is
enough The negroes are whipped, and
the planter does not have to pay them
their wages Unemployed negroes are
pronounced vagrants, are sent to Jail,
and the State hires their labor to plant
ers


There is a Labor Reform League" in
South Carolina. Of which Hamburg Mfs-
sacre Butler, who will perhaps be admit
ted TO a seat in the Senate, is one of the
leaders Members OF this League, and
those who do not join it are ostracised,
are prohibited from selling or renting
land to negroes The League has power
to regulate wages in the State; and all
planters are prohibited from employing
negroes who do not carry working
card from their last employer.


Such is the. reconciliation for the sake
Of which Matthews and Foster sid out
the Republicans of the South Such al g
some Of the footprints of the boasted era
of goodwill" Such are the sunshine
and prosperity that were to come upon
the colored race by renting them to
the rule Of the natural leaders Of socie-
ty" Such is the success" which waits
upon the fatal policy Of cowardice and
surrender.


But il cannot last Politicians may
prove false to freedom and the rights Of
man but the great heart Of the Ameri
can people is sound to the core Paraly.
lied TO- little while with treachery aud
fraud, it will soon regain its elasticity
and throb as before with love for human.
ity aud with hatred Of what debases man
Revolutions never 90 backward. A single
year frequently exhibits an apparent
retrogradation; but the march Of de.
cades and of centuries shows steady pro
gress in favor OF justice and Of man.
The Republican organization is seem
/ ingly bound hand and foot by those who
entered it only to betray it, and time.
servers and place seekers pretend to like
/ the bonds But from Maine to Oregon
/ the giant feels the impulse of glorious
/ strength quivering in all his members
\ he will soon burst the cords that bind
\ him as Sampson did the withes OF the
\ Philistines; and those who betrayed him
/ as well as those who sanctioned the
\ treachery, will call in vain upon the
rocks and mountains to fall and hid,
them from his wrath


But even il this organization should
finally prove false to its record and IT,
trust, then from the bosom Of the Demo
cratic party itself will come deliverance
The spirit of Douglas, OF Hamlin. OF Too
and Brough is not dead but sleepeth


When it awakes against revived oppres
sion, a million Democratic hearts will re
spond to its trumpet call The people il
their might and majesty will rally rounC


the standard as of yore The New Slay


cry will not like the Old endure for thre