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The Oldest and the Newest Empire:
Or, China and the United States.
[We take pleasure in presenting
some interesting extracts from
a work soon to bo published, bear- i
ing tho abovo titlo, with tho ad- i
vanced sheets, of which wo have I
been favored. It is by tho Rev. \
Dr. SrEER, formerly Missionary to <
China, new Corresponding Secretary
of the Presbyterian Roard of
Education. This week we give <
an extract presenting tho past and i
present relations between this I
country and China.. Very soon i
wo will give an instructive and in- <
lereeung BKeicn 01 ^innese JLabor. <
Eds. Enterprise]
In the heights of the Sierra No 1
vada Mountains, the Creator has i
set, in royal majesty, tho throne of i
the sovereigns of the vegetable t
world. And tho feelings with j
which one stands beneath tho I
mammoth trees resemble thoso j
which, thrill tho mind ot a man <
with awe, and wonder, and plea- 1
sure, when ho gazes on tho cataract ]
of Niagara. Thero before him, ]
tho grandest of living things on j
earth, is a plant which began to 1
grow with the beginning of that <
era, defined by tho incarnation of ]
the Son' of God, by which all t
Christian nations mark the events
of their history. Scores of gene ]
rations ot men and beasts liave I
lived and gone back to their dust 1
since it put forth its first leaves.? <
Empires liavo risen, swayed the <
affairs of continents, and fallen: j
but it ha6 contined to grow. And ]
now it stands taller than the tallest i
columns or spires that man has <
built in the New World, towering |
in a pyramid of living greon, its i
foundations fixed in the everlnst- <
ing rocks, its summit crowned by ]
tho glittering clouds of heaven. t
There is an empire with which <
wo associate naturally such an em- '
blcm, the oldest empire in the i
world. It was planted in tho ear- r
licet generations, after the renovation
of tho world and of human
history by tho Deluge. Assyria,
Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome,
have risen and gone; their pride,
their wealth, their dominion, all
are things of the past. But the
Chinese race is still tho same,
scarcely tinged by the admixture
of other#. The primeval religion,
customs and literature arc still I
vigorous and fresh. Virtuous examples
ot their own ancestors who
lived four thousand years ago enconrago
tho generation of to day.
School-books prepared by a con>
temporary of the Jewish prophet
Daniel are yet the manuals of the
teacher of children. The language
is the unchanged monosyllables
of the infancy of mankind.
Tho social usages ai e those which
have been made familiar to us iu
the - patriarchal pictures of the
book of Genesis, we con torn plate
amidst all the ruins Timo lias
wrought elsewhere, such an empire
with constant amazement and
curiosity. And when wo behold
at length a change in the wind of
time beginning to blow the seeds
of this stupendous ripe treo across
the waters, so that they are seen
taking root in onr new virgin soil,
the study of its whole character
becomes to us a subject of such
interest as has lew parallel to it.?
We are the newest, as China is
It. .11 _? *
me oiueer, empire 01 iue world.? j
Oar institutions are but the raw \
experiments of jeetorday. Wo I
are only beginning to realize that <
we have a national life, and that i
God has formed it for some groat ]
commission, the mere alphabet of <
which we are just learning to stam- <
mer. 1
The nations of the West boast I
of their greatness; but how naltry
they seem in the eyes of art inhab- <
itant of that venerable empire t? <
And is this pride without founds- I
tion I It alone, in Asia^-aml many a
Chinese know this?is equal to the i
whole of eithor of the other oon- i
tinente of the world in the number 1
of its people. Bewildering as it t
is to our ideas, there can be no \
just exception taken to the oompu- I
tation which makes its population c
to amount to the one-fourth of the r
entire family of roan. It stands a
first of all existing nations in ag- (
ncultnral productiveness, first in t
some important manufactures, first c
in tho sum of the wealth of its o
subjects. China, to one who can r
bring his mind to measure what a
these statements embrace, seems "
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Politics, 3ttJrUigi
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ries," and thus "open a passage
for conveying intelligence to Cbifm
and the English settlements in the
East Indies with greater expedition
than a tedious voyage by the
Cape of Good nope."
But all the interest of America
the in Chinese based upon these
matters of the past is small, very
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VILEY, PRO'RS.
almost a world of itself?a world
which, like those strange binary
stars which revolve about each
other and communicate mutual
powerful influences, but are each
a distinct sun, has moved in all
time, strangely connected with, yet
separate from, the world of our
ancestry and history.
Interesting as China may be to
the other lotions of the world, it
is related to ours and to our continent
by ties far closer than to any
others. The first and the last find
themselves most nearly allied.
There is, first, the bond of Interest
whic^ is suggested in that
most fascinating andromantio subject
of inquiry, the origin, history
and character of the aboriginal
races of the New World. That
they were Asiatic no honest and
unprejudiced mind, when thoroughly
informed upon the sub
jects which evince it, can doubt,
t'hysical geography, the literature
of China, the legends of the American
nations, and the records of
the Spaniards, all make it as manifest
as any great historic question
can bo which is not a matter of
direct testimony.
Then wo people of America may
bo said, in some sense, to owe to
China the discovery of our continent
by Europeans in the fifteenth
century. It is the mere use of a
general for a particular appellation
which prevented oar Indians
from being called by us "Chinese."
Columbus meruit Dhinsa/*
were called "Indians," because nil
Eastern Asia was then called in
Europe tlio " Indias," or " Indies,"
just as the Arabian and other Mo
lammedan writers stylo all the
sountries east of the Indian Archipelago,
the "Oliinas." The ambiion
of Columbus to cross the
Western ocean was kindled by
Marco Polo's wondrous talcs, written
two centuries before, of the
boundless riches and grandeur of
Datliay, Manga or Mangi, and
CJipango. The first of these wo-ds
s the Mongol name for China
Proper; the second is the same
with tho nativo name for tho Man
jliu Tartars, who descended from
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,no Buores 01 1110 ocean to the
101 th of China in tho seventeenth
jentnry, and yet liold the enviable
position of its supremo lords; tho
;hird is easily recognized by a
Dhineso scholar as Jih-pwan ko,
'the lan^l of sunriso," w> icli we
uloptin our abbreviation "Japan."
l'lio doctors of Florenco assured
Oolutnbus that a voyage of four I
.housnnd miles would bring him
o China. In the names and pro
lactions of tho tropical islands
which he discovered he endeavorHi
to trace those ho fonnd menioncd
in the glowing narrative ot
lie Polos. And ho died in tho beief
that he had only found a new
lath to tho empire of China, and
hat the islands he had visited
verc upon tho coasts of China.
Wo trace this samo high visioniry
hope in the jonrnals of the
.ucceoding Spanish, English, Por
ngnesc and French discoverers.?
I'lie grand prize at which they all
limed was China. Their long voyigee,
north and south, amidst
itrango archipelagoes, and up
rivers and deep arms of the sea,
tvcro efforts to pnsh their way
hrough to the Chinese waters.?
riiey set Chinese names on some
>f the divisions of land or sea, a
ew of which still remain. They
ixplored vast forests, and underwent
astonishing hardships and
mfferings, to discover the fountain
)f immortality, whose waters Hie
I'uuist priests of China have for
tges pretended to bo under their
control. There is 110 tnoro pathetic
picture in human history than that
>f the aged Pgpco do Leon, exhausted
oy wars, self-indulgence
ind disappointments, fitting out
hreo ships at his own expense,
;oing forth westward in search of
;he way to the fountain that was
to renew the vigor and enjoyment
)f youth, discovering our Florida,
ind, upon (he shore where he expected
to find a point of rest and
Jcparture, pierced by the arrows
>f the inhabitants of his farcied
paradise, and retreating to the isand
of Cnba to die.
To tell all that this continent
>wed in geographical explorations
>ver every portion of it, between
he Caribbean sea and the Arctic
son*, to the determined and oftenewed
efforts to penetrate bar-iora
which Nature nad mado vast
)eyond their supposition at that
ime, would itself afford a subject
worthy of a volnme. Even in the
ast century, the first acquaintance
>f one of our own race with the
lew and boautiful State of Mitme
ota was mad? in the journey of
3arver, one ot whose objects, he
ells us, in his account of his trar?
ils, was to " facilitate the discovery
if a north-west passage, or a comnunicalion
between Hudson's Bay
md the Pacific Ocean," and to
' promoto many useful disco ve
sinaii, compared witu tUnt which
arrises out of those which we
witness the be^inninvs in this
oar own generation. The discov
cry of gold on tbo Pacific coast of
North America was the commencement
of revolutions in the
commerce, the politics, the relif;ions
of the world, to which there
tave been no parallels in all the
history of the past.
The subject of Chinese immigration
to this continent is one of
an importance and interest which
language can hardly exaggerate.
The reader of history beholds in
this contact of the populations of
America and China, on the shores
ot the Pacific Ocean, the termination
of that westward course of
| empire which began in the first
I periods of the history of man;
and in it the completion of one
great cycle of the Divine government
on oarth, and the commencement
of another?the glorious and'
{golden age of mankind. The phiosophic
mind finds abundant ma
terial for the profonndest thought
in the numorons questions of a
political and social nature which
arise from the retnrn of the grand
current of civilization, transformed
by all the changes which so many
ages and influences have wronght,
and freighted with the spoils of so
many lands, to tlio regions whence
it originated; and in considering
I the results as they will affect the
j nations which hold that civilize-1
tion in its oldest and in its newest
forms, tho chief empire and the
chief republic of the world. The
patriot mnst speculate npon the
effects of tho introduction of a
new and boundless supply of productive
labor, of mechanical skill
and of commercial enterprise, as
they shall tend to settle tho national
embarrassments which have followed
our employment of the
African raco; as they may prove
useful in developing tho resources
of tho western portion of the continent,
and elevating it to a full
level with the eastern portion;
and as they may modify our insti
tntions and possibly even our f^rm
of government. The Christian
must watch with deepest concern
tho infusion of new, subtle and
powerful eloments of religious error
and forms of vice amidst the
moro bold and unregulated mind
of onr nation. And the man who
waits tor tho consolation of tlie
Israel of the latter days most
!>ratse God for the new form which
lis almighty power has given to
the immense work of regenerating
the continent of Asia, through the
multitudes of its people to be
brought hither, enlightened with
Christianity and returned to it
again. Takon in whatsoever aspect
we will, tho coining of the
Chinese to America is excelled in
importance by no other event since
tlie discovery of the New World.
It is one of tho impulses, beyond
all human conception or management,
by which God is moving the
history of mankind onward to its
great consummation.
To what this immigration may
come, and what its influence npon
the tutnre of this nation, npon
North America and upon Sonth
America, no finite mind can imagine.
There are two national
elements of tho problem. Sepa
rated by an ocean whose passage
every year becomes more expeditious
and cheap, which is hemmed
not many degrees distant by a continuous
shore-line, along which already
an electric telegrauh has
been partially const meted, "lie two
vast countries. Each resembles
the other in location, contour, climate,
and other physical conditions
and capacities, more than it
does any other of the ooontries of
the earth. Each is occupied by a
people natnrally thoughtful, earnest,
acquisitive and enterprising;
each by a pcoplo strangely conglomerate,
yet strangely homogeneous;
each by a peoplo among
whom intellect and education constitute
the only patent of nobility ;
each by a people the freest upon
ita own continent, and governed
mainly bv rulers of its own election
; and each country is now in
the travail of a change from old
bondage and feebleness to new
power, light and influenoe, which
will be felt to the very corners of
the earth. I?ut with so much that
Hv in these (WnntriiM it ia ana a I
to group together some respect*
Id which they differ to the farthest
extremes, the foundation of the
one oocurred within the memory
of men now Mring; the other, n
bee tout hotore remarked, ia one
| of the most ancient, and ia the
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. . 11.1,lil f I Ml1 II JHIIW, I-1 11.. *most
porman nf, of the empires
of (lie world; wbieh wm eaten sire
as Rome when Home was most extensive,
and built the vastest work
of human architecture?ha Great
Wall?for Its protection against
northern barbarians two thousand
one hundred years ago. The one
is a country where the utmost advances
of Scientific knowledge are
continually made practical for the
development of its wondrous agricultural
and mineral wealth : the
other exhibits the arts which are
ncse6sary to the increase and comfort
of man carried to tbo farthest
limit which it is possible for them
to reach until the principles of
true science, founded on the Chris
uan religion, shall have been infused
into them. In the one, labor is
scarce, more difficult to obtain and
dearer?in the other, it is more
abundant and cheaper?than in
any other part of the world. A
man in China receives but six
cents for a day's work, while one
in America gets from two to five
dollars; and many a good workman
in the former country keeps
his family for a month, or oven tor
a summer, npon what the family
of a workman here would spend
in a day. The one is settled only
| here and there, in the localities
.most favorable to agriculture, to
trade, to manufactures or to health
tho other is densely inhabited by a
normlalinn ?
, ... - iiumuvrB DOwilder
the mind ; a province of its
eighteen may contain as many people
as the United States, or Great
Britain, or Franco; and the whole
of them sustain one fourth of the
hmnan race. Into the immense
solitndes of the one, whose only
previous occnpants were a few
scanty, roving, barbarous Indian
tribes, immigrants have pressed
from all the nations of the world:
out of tho other are flowing, and
liavo for two centnries flowed,
multitudes, which, after they have
peopled and renovated, or rendered
great benefits to, many countries
of Northern and Central
Asia, and the numerous great and
rich islands within two or three
thousand inilcs of them, have re
cently begun to cross to the New
World, and already number in the
United Slates one-third as many
as tho total remains of the abirig
inal tribes. Tho knowledge of
modern ages fi? the West, and the
introduction of labor-saving machines,
will expel myriads from
China, as tho bees swarm and hive
in tho spring; and any reasonable
man who will consider no more
than tho statements of this paragraph
must conclude that attempts
to prevent their coming to tho New
World are as ridiculous and futile
as it would be to endeavoi' to change
the laws of Nature, which cause the
soil of tho mountains to descond
into the valleys, or the floods of
the rain to forco the channel to
the sea. Tho day is coming when
many millions of Chinese will be
dispersed over the Pacific coast,
lue Mississippi Valley, the wastes
in the northern portion of tlio continent,
the provinces of Mexico and
Central America, the whole continent
of South America, where already
thero are several thousands
of them, and over all the islands
croups or island continents of the
Pacific Ocean, whose indolent races
are departing, having accomplished
thetr mission to tnake room for
them. To find a place and use for
a handful of African slaves, who
were brought here Ih a condition
Tittle above the brutes, in the plan
of the great templo of civil and
religious freedom which the Supreme
Governor of the world is
rearing upon this continent to be
a blessing to all its nations, has oost
us an inoeecribableamount of discussion
and trouble, ending in a stupendous
and calamitous civil war.
An hundred-told more important
is it to understand fully, and to treat
with wisdom and jtratico from the
beginning, the race whom He is
now bringing to our shores?one so
incomparably greater than the negro
in numbers, in civilization, in
capacity to bestow Immense benefits
on onr land or to inflict npon it evils
which imv old l? ?*? fk
faith in that God and in his word
leads os to hope that their coming
shall l>e for good to ns and to them.
To present with satisfaction to the
reader the new world Of interests
opened up around the Pacific ocean,
it will be also necessary to look beyond
the two nations represented
in our title, "The Oldest and
Newest Empire," and to take some
notice of the changes taking place
also in Asiatic Russia, in the countries
bordering upon China on the
west aod south, in other countries
besides oar own In the New World,
and in the numerous fertile islands
of the Pacific Oeean, both in the
smaller central group and in those
which separate it from the Indian
Oeean, and which approach continents
in magnitude, and in the variety
and eitent of the product of
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their soil and mines. The deetin
of these parts of the world, and <
the races which inhabit them, is I
be decided by the iuflncrtces tbi
shall proceed from the Unite
States and China.
Address of the Executive CommitU
of the Ualon Reform Party to tl
voters or ooutn Carolina.
Fellow Citizens?It is made or
duty to set forth in this form tl
claims ot the Union Reform Pa
ty to yonr confidence and co op
ration, and we aak ot' yon, as or
countrymen, children of the Sta
?our common mother? having
common interest and common ae
tiny, a patient hearing and a d
liberate and dispassionate jndj
ment. The secession of the Stat<
and the sectional war which fo
lowed, wrought a revolution in t!
principles of the Government, an
in the rights, powers and relatiot
of the General and State Goven
ments, partly changing their cha
acter. The States were shorn <
their sovereign attributes, ti
Union rendered indissoluble, or
the powers of the General Go
eminent correspondingly enlarge
The people ot South Carolina, oi
those of her sister Southern Stat
as well, accepted amnesty and ci
il organization in 1865, thus coi
ditioned, and ratified their ndh
sion to the Government thr
changed in its character, by tt
solemnity of an amended oath <
allegiance administered to the v
tors at the polls, and to all offLei
upon meir quanncanon. In 180
the United States inaugurate
what is known as the policy of r
construction, which has resulted i
the restoration of South Carolii
to the National Union, with a Co
stitntion based "pon tho princip
of universal suffrage. In 186
tho Democratic party arrayed i
self against the whole policy of r
construction, and declared thelc;
islation of Congress u]>on that sul
ject as " usurpations and nncon6t
tutional, revolutionary and void
Mainly upon this issue the Fret
dential campaign was fought, ar
the people of tho United State
by overwhelming majorities, sn
tained the policy of reconstructs
Tho fifteenth amendment to tl
Constitution of the United Stutc
engrafting therein as fundament!
law, the principle of universal sn
frngc, has been proclaimed ratific
by tho rcqnisite number of State
and is receded and acquiesced i
as law, in the practice* of all tli
States of the Union. In tli
meantime, tho peoplo of Sont
Carolina find themselves in th
condition. With universal 6n
fragc prevailing, two races con
poso tho people entrusted with tl
franchise. Circumstances and tl
machinations of selfish and co:
rupt political adventurers, ha\
created an antagonism be twee
the races, and arrayed, practice
ly, tho whole of the or.c race i
political hostility to the wholo <
tho other race. Nearly the entii
lauded property and other capiti
of tho State aro in the hands <
tho whi o race, and the power <
the Government is controlled I
the colored, which furnishes tli
chief labor of tho country. Pro|
erty is the source of lifo to tL
State. From it the proprietor an
the laborer alike derive snst
nance. When property is ma<
Rroductive, wealth is iucrease
ibor enhanced, employments mi
tiplied, the conntry prospers, ai
the people are happy. To seen;
these results, co-operation bet wet
labor and capital is essential.Tbe
laborer and the capitalist an
in effect, copartners, who divid
among them, in proper propo
lions, the products of the kai
business. Legislation, after sen*
ing the mere personal rights 1
tho citizen, has no other legitime
office than to to foster and co
serve tho rights of property, thi
I ho wholo people may prosper.It
is evident, therefore, that th
antagonism of races is unnatnrs
unwise, and deplorably injnrioi
and rninoii8, in its consequence
to both. Under tho industrioi
manipulations of this unhappy ai
t agon ism by the adventurers wl
created it, the people are hurthei
ed and beggared, while they gro
fat upon the means wrung froi
tho liard-earned products of tli
/tftnifol an/) 1 nKrvu r\f tka aUimam
IVI/V/1 VI VllO \yl VIXAJI ?
Not eon lent, however, with the e
elusive enjoyment of multiplie
salaried offices, fixed at a rate <
comp4fftation unprecedented i
extravagance, these wicked rulei
have plnnfritt into the wildes
inost reckless, and most corraj
profligacy, pccelation and trau<
in their dealings with the people
money. Let the record speak :
Taxes, year onding Sept em I*
30, 1800, $591,799.58. Taxe
year ending October 81, 19&
$419,608.78?not including ints
est on delfir* Tines, year endii
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StaU avti Countvtj
7 October 31, 1868, $1,868,259.09,
rUnn?? T?. 1 1 ?nn 4*A< ?"
ji wniiy Aart ivr lOW)
.o Reflect that this rapid increase
it of taxation has been enforced upd
on a people straggling for the necessaries
of life?with two-thirds of
their projuerty destroyed by war?
M much of what was left producing
te nothing, and all of the acenmnlated
capita} of the State destroyed?
lr the income of the people probably
ie not attaining one-tnira the amount
r. of the year 1860.
0. Total payments, current ex,r
pensee, etc., year ending Septemt0
ber 30,1860, $540,251.09. tear
a ending October 81, 1866, $260,e.
248.04?exclusive of interest on
e_ debt not paid. Year ending October
81, 1869, $1,103,372.20.?
^ Comptroller's report, pp. 77.
Bear in mind in this connection,
ie that jurors, constables, and many
a other expenses paid by the State
in "I ft A A o??a ^ ? ^1? ?
jg ?UVV, MO I1VW ptviu UJf IUU VUUI1?
ties, and the public treasury thna
r relieved of a very heavy amount;
0f and that an examination of the
,e conduct of the County Commisl(j
sioners in many instances would
v. sliow the same profligacy in rais<j.
ing and expending money?where
1(j thousands have beeu extorted from
w the peoplo by false estimates and
v. assessments, and not one hour of
n. labor bestowed upon the public
q. highways, and scarce a dollar to
uj any county improvement.
IC Shall we Ioolc for a high mo^e
5f to justify such increase of taxdWn
j). upon a people so ground down by
re poverty as our's? Shall we find
7 the public debt greatly reduced,
^ or tno public assets greatly ine.
creased in the bands of these reckIn
less financiers ? Let us see:
m Public debt, September 30,
n. 1860, $1,046,540.16. November
!o 27. 1866. bv Govflrnnr Orr't mna.
g sage, principal and interest, exit!
eluding war debt, $5,205,227.74,
e. or by Comptroller's report, exclndU
ing war debt, $4,426,446.46. Ocl,.
tober 31, 1860, Comptroller's rei.
port, $6,183,349.17.
? For a people whose ability to
,i pay was so reduced, it would seem
,d that this was a sufficiently reckless
>8 incrcaso of debt to induce a call
,s for a strict accounting, but as usnn
ally is the case with defaulters, the
)e result is worse than their ex parte
showing. Items are excluded from
a| this account, properly belonging
f. to it, which present a fearful coni(]
dition, and demonstrate that un
9< less this wanton profligacy and
n waste be checked, the people of
IC this State, white and colored, are
t0 to be reduced to endless slavery,
j, or be released only by repudiation.
i9 Thus:
f. ltie Uotuptroller reports the
v debt, October 31, 1869, $6,183,ie
349.17. Add Bine Ridge Rail
ie road bonds, which the State is rer.
sponsible for, and from which,
re able, disinterested and honest man
n agemcnt wonld scarce extricate
J. her, $4,000,000.00. Bonds issued
n to Land Commission, $700,000 00 ;
bonds issned to redeem bills Bank
e of State, $1,250,000.00; bonds
nl pawned by the Fin&ncial State
Agent, $2,700,000.00. Total, $143f
833,34917.
iV Now what valne have the pco,'c
pie for all this expenditure f Shall
p. wo be pointed to the fruits of the
ie Land Commission? Where are
,d they ? IV ho knows of any benefit
?. to the poor and worthy in this
]e great 44 land to the landless"
d, scheme? Who does not know,
il. spite of their efforts at conceal
id ment, that the funds entrusted tc
re this Commission have been used,
>n only to swell the ill-gotten gains ot
_ the administration and its friends t
Within the observation of almost
|e every one, poor tracts of land have
r been bought at itnraenso prices,
itt and so far as this committee have
jaj been ablo to learn, with no eye to
j .the bonefit of those whom this
B scheme was professedly intended
to nroride with land and )inm?a
jt With the partial exposures al_
ready made, the administration
;g party, consisting largely of indi^
vidnals holding four or fivo payis
ing offices each, ackuowl jdgea that
reform is needed, bnt insists that
is they mnst carry on the reform;
[). that this wolf mnst be the nnrs10
ing mother of onr lamb. If their
n. repentance is sincere, they
w should pray to be delivered from
m temptation, not to be forced to hold
ie watch and ward over the tempting
? Treasury.
x- Let us see how the increased reid
ceipts of the Treasury have been,
of ana are to be expended : ?
n Salaries, 1867, $50,000; 1870,
n $167,800. Contingent funds, 1867,
V $25,000; 1870, $34,800. Legi*
?} lativo expenses, 1867, $43,000:
1870, $144,790. Educational and
to military, 1867, $36,000; 1870,
$125,000; extraordinary expenses,
ir $140,000.
0 These aro a few items from of
s> fioial sources, indicating the suffer
' ings of our people, the faithless
*" nesa of the unjust stewards, win
>g liavo gained control and disposi
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VOLUME IYIL-NO. 1
t\on of the affairs of the State.?"
But th is is not at!?In many of tho
Counties, tfie County offices and
County funds are held by ipdUid'
uals irresponsible and notoriously
corrupt, and disposed of for tho
same illegitimate purposes. Add
ro this, that large monopolies are
passed the Legislature through the
medium of opcr. and notorious
bribery; that franchisee are seldom
obtained bat by private purchase
or for corrupt and fraudulent
ends ; that the commonest acts
of justice, requiring legislation
must pay their passage; that voted
of members of the Legislature are
bought and sold as merchandise;
that public officers prostitute their
positions and even the legislation
of the State to the purposes of
stock-jobbing and speculation $
that so stupendous a fraud is perpetrated
as that whereby tbe Land
Commission, aided by the Advisory
Board, of which the Governed
of the State is the official head, acquired
$90,000 of the public money
in a single transaction; and,
above all, that the administration
of the State has not dragged to
light and to punishment even one
of their infamous band, and say
where, in all the catalogue of iniquity
which disgraces toe history
ot fallen humanity, can be found
a parallel to this picture, faintly
bnt faithfully delineated f This
t 1 -a * *
cur n iv HI OI Vice fttlCl WtWJjflW
flowing from thnt Pandemonium
of rnin and disgrace into which
the antagonism of race* has converted
the Government of Bontli
Carolina. The question for you to
decide is: Shall these things continue
so to be ? Is no effort to be
made to rescue from utter rnin the
vast materials of wealth and prosperity
yet remaining, which require
only good government to
make you a great aud happy people?
Will you contii.ue to be the
slaves, the hewers of wood and
drawers of water of this abominable
faction of plunderers, who are
sustained by your divisions t If
not, how then will yon achieve
your emancipation 9 It is evident
that one of two things must be
done. Either, first, universal suffrage
mn6t be abolished ; or, second,
the absolute and sharp antagonism
of the races must be so far
removed as to enable the good people
of both to combine for the purposes
of good government Let
us examine these alternatives in
tlieir order. First: Shall we undertake
to abolish universal suffrage?
"Where is the hope of success?
The piinciple of universal
suffrage constitutes the basis of
democratic republicanism throughout
the world. It is the cornerstone
ot all existing governments
in the Southern States. The
American Democracy in 1868
warred not against the principle,
hut contended only for the right of
the States to control it. The
strongest Democratic States of the
Union have incorporated it into
their practice ana thoir laws.?
The American people, In their last
Presidential election, by large mar
jorities, pledged themselves to
maintain it in the Sonth. The fifteenth
amendment, prohibiting its
abridgement by the United States
or any ot the States, has assumed
the form of law, and is sustained
and enforced by tbo General Government,
with all its power, by
the enactment of the strongest le.
gal sanctions. The Executive, the
> Judiciary, and the people of the
, country,'are well known to be in
T harmony with the measure. No
I party has raised the standard of
revolution or repeal. Where,
then, shall the crusade against a
principle thns tortified, begin I?
Let him who will, underU&e the
task, wo push the argument to his
own conclusion, and meet him
there.
Assume that the technical exceptions
to the fifteenth amendment
should be sustained; that
the Supreme Court of the United
Ot.t 1 1 * -
o>?ie? buouju aeciare the ReeoAi
struct ion Acts unconstitutional and
void ; that the next President end
the Congress to be elected with
him, representing any majority
possible of the American people,
would undertake to reorganise
these States and to wrest the suffrage
from the colored rsee; does
- any man doubt tbst the whole
country would then blste with the
fires of a civil war, fieroe, bitter,
bloody and protracted I What, in
1 that case, would be oar oondition f
Imagination shrinks from the oon1
ccption; reason recoils from its
> contemplation, and horrified ha'
msnity revolts from the spectacle
| ?a delngo of blood, succeeded by
an unbroken reign of rnin and dee
* olstion. We cannot tell what nuiy
* be the purposes of the Rnler of
the universe concerning this qnes'
tion, but as far ^ght of hu?tnan
reason it seems
, evident that tvE^plft is to pass
-I under the rule sf the people In