Abstract

Special Correspondence

The article focuses on issues related to politics from the world. Of many questions in the State of South Carolina, perhaps the most interesting, and certainly one of equal if not of paramount importance to any other, relates to the future of the Negroes and the effect upon them of the present period of transition. To say that they are badly demoralized hardly expresses their condition. At best they see through a glass darkly, and have not the slightest conception of political cause and effect; they have hitherto merely been living automatons, under absolute leadership, and with unbounded faith in the name and power of the Republican Party. But why a Republican president should have deserted Governor Daniel H. Chamberlain is utterly incomprehensible to them, and the realization of the stern fact that the gods in whom they trusted are now utterly powerless, brings great disquiet. The war is fairly begun in Turkey proper and in Asia Minor, and all the Powers are now meditating upon their future course of action. Those who have long hoped for peace now hope for a localized war. The Queen of England, as usual, has issued a proclamation of neutrality conceived in the dry style of such documents. Here one is more florid; one has had a lengthy declaration addressed by the Duc Decazes to the Chambers, in which the Minister of Foreign Affairs explains what everybody knows, that France intends to remain neutral.