Abstract

Socialism in South Carolina

The cancerous disease which has struck its roots into the heart of so many of the oldest and most civilized American communities, assumes in different States different aspects. South Carolina, perhaps from her impoverished condition, has not yet reached the point at which a single demagogue or thief, armed with some Federal judge's orders or backed by some Custom-house gang of hired voters, gets control of the local machinery and bids defiance to law and morality. The present condition of South Carolina can only be understood by a consideration of the character of the population and the changes which have taken place in it since the close of the war. There are now about three hundred thousand whites in the State to four hundred thousand Afro-Americans.