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Editorial
September 30, 1868
Edgefield Advertiser
Edgefield, Edgefield County, South Carolina
What is this article about?
A sarcastic editorial celebrates the adjournment of South Carolina's Reconstruction legislature, deriding Black members as corrupt 'negroes, renegades and adventurers' who will be discarded by the Republican Party after the upcoming presidential election.
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Exodus of Darkness from Columbia.
The bogus Legislature has adjourned, and Columbia is delivered for a time from a mass of filth and corruption. The negroes, renegades and adventurers have pocketed their six dollars per day, and decamped to their respective homes. Bah, the idea of their having homes! Absurd!
Well, no matter where they have gone; they are at all events no longer sitting and stealing in the capacity of a Legislature.
The poor, deluded, inflated negroes! The Republican party is on very intimate terms with the "man and brother" at present, from the fact that his services are wanted in the approaching Presidential election. But after that little job has been attended to—and let it turn out as it may—poor Cuffee will be plainly informed of his future doom. Bad times ahead for Cuffee, no matter how much he lord it and legislates it.
The bogus Legislature has adjourned, and Columbia is delivered for a time from a mass of filth and corruption. The negroes, renegades and adventurers have pocketed their six dollars per day, and decamped to their respective homes. Bah, the idea of their having homes! Absurd!
Well, no matter where they have gone; they are at all events no longer sitting and stealing in the capacity of a Legislature.
The poor, deluded, inflated negroes! The Republican party is on very intimate terms with the "man and brother" at present, from the fact that his services are wanted in the approaching Presidential election. But after that little job has been attended to—and let it turn out as it may—poor Cuffee will be plainly informed of his future doom. Bad times ahead for Cuffee, no matter how much he lord it and legislates it.
What sub-type of article is it?
Partisan Politics
Slavery Abolition
What keywords are associated?
Reconstruction Legislature
Black Politicians
Republican Party
Racial Politics
Presidential Election
What entities or persons were involved?
Republican Party
Negroes
Cuffee
Editorial Details
Primary Topic
Criticism Of Black Legislators And Republican Party
Stance / Tone
Racist Mockery And Anti Republican
Key Figures
Republican Party
Negroes
Cuffee
Key Arguments
Legislature Is Bogus, Filled With Filth And Corruption
Black Members Are Deluded And Will Be Abandoned Post Election
Republican Intimacy With Blacks Is Temporary For Electoral Gain