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Brigadier-General Ellison Capers, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 5, South Carolina (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 5 1 Browse Search
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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 13: Black ascendancy. (search)
the Mulatto reign supreme. The last census gives ten Africans to seven Europeans in the State of South Carolina. In seven counties the Whites have a good majority; in three others they have a slight majority; while in the remaining twenty-two counties the Negro majorities are large. In Richland County and Charleston County they number two to one. Among the bayous and savannahs the dark people are almost separated from the fair. In Beaufort County they are nearly six to one; in Georgetown County they are nearly seven to one. Greenville, Anderson, and Spartanburg counties may return scholars, advocates, and planters to the Legislature; but the voice of a Trenholm or a Russell counts for no more in the assembly than that of a Negro from the swamp; and for every Trenholm or Russell in the assembly of South Carolina there are three Negroes from the swamp. Under a law of equality, enforced by a Federal army, what chance has the European settler in such a State? Dark as the pros
William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 14: Charleston. (search)
umbia, we have secured a White majority in the Senate, and a powerful White minority in the Lower House. In Charleston county, though the Negroes count two to one, we have conquered by our new tactics half the seats. How is the conquest made? By sense and science; by the White man's power of putting this and that together. In certain counties we are too weak to fight. What is the use of running seven men in Beaufort County, where the Negroes stand at six to one, or three in Georgetown County, where they stand at seven to one? Why try for eighteen seats in Charleston County, seeing that the Negro voters stand at three to one? Till we can seize Fort Sumter and the Citadel, we cannot change these voting lists. Then why not try a compromise? That is the question we asked each other. Yes; and the reply. Some said it was no use to try; others believed there was a chance. You see the Negroes have their leaders, and these leaders want to push their way. It is a great