The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-11
The Crisis.

ton meeting in New York, wrote an ablc
letter, from which we make the following
extracts. Speaking of the freedmen, he
says:
In regard to the freedmen, there is 6
disposition everywhere to protect them
in their persons and property, and oul
laws in South Carolina will soon be alter
ed SO as to give them the right to testify
in all cases, and be tried as white men
are. This has already been done in many
of the Southern States. 1t is impossible
for the General Government to continue
for any length of time its guardianship
of the negro. This must devolve on the
State Governments, and the people among
whom they live Moreover, the freed
men will soon find that the Southern peo'
pie are their best friends. They stand in
need of their labor, and must employ
them. The experience of the last twelve
months proves unquestionably that the
negro has done better, and have been bet
ter cared for, where there was no military
garrison or Freedmen's Bureau. The
only places where there has been any dis
turbance in South Carolina or the other
Southern States, have been where there
was an interference on the part OF the
military authorities
The attempt of the radical party to
force negro suffrage on the Southern
States is the height of folly, injustice and
Madness In all of the Northern States,
with perhaps one or two exceptions, the
negro is denied the right Of unqualified
suffrage. And yet in these Northern
States the negro has been free for q great
number of years, and has had an opportu-
nifty of being educated and learning the
duties Of a voter. With what justice or
propriety can the Northern people ask
the South to give the right of suffrage to
hundreds Of thousands of ignorant and
stupid negroes who have just escaped
from slavery, when they deny the same
privilege to the comparatively few of the
same race among themselves, who have
been taught the duties of a citizen?
He thus refers to the usurpations of the
radical Congress:
A long bill of Indictment might be pre-
tcrred against the Hrump Congress" by
their constituents when they come before
them this fall for reelection, and on
every count of the Indictment they would
be convicted, before an impartial jury,
of want of patriotism and reckless disre-
gard of the interests of the country. They
have perverted, disregarded and trampled
on the Constitution which they were
sworn to support. They have done
everything in their power to prevent
restoration of the Union. They have ex-
cluded the loyal representatives of ten
States from Congress, in violation Of the
Federal Constitution. They have passed
unconstitutional laws destructive of the
rights of the States, and tending to an abb
sorption of all power in the Central Gov
ernment. They have passed bills over
the Presidents veto, with less than two
thirds required by the Constitution. They
have proposed amendments to the Fed
eral Constitution affecting the vital inter-
ests of the Southern States, without let
ting those States vote on the proposition,
or be heard in their defence. They have
levied taxes on the people of the Southern
States without representation, and in vio-
lation of the great principle involved in
the American Revolution. They have
been guilty of the most wasteful and ex
travagant expenditures Of public money.
They have taxed the poor white man in
all the Northern States to support, feed,
and clothe the lazy, idle, vicious and va
grant negroes in the Southern States,
making the honest and Industrious white
man work to support the idle, roguish
black man. They have appropriated and
given away immense domains of the pub
lie lands to parcel of land,jobbers, who
have no claims on the Government. They
have taken, in violation of law and JUS
tice, the lands of the proprietors in South
Carolina and other States, and given
them to their former slaves, leaving the
proprietors and their families to beg their
food, or perish. And they have doubled
their own salaries, at the close of the ses-
sion, pocketed the money, and gone home
to electionecr with it, to secure their re-
elections-improperly taking the peoples
money to corrupt the people themselves.
Will the American people tolerate these
abuses any longer? Will they re-elect
them to inaugurate bloody civil war at
the North? Will men of capital in New
York jeopardize their fortunes and Gov
ernment securities, by electing such men
to Congress Will the poor laboring
man consent to be taxed any longer to
support the negro idleness? Will the
friends of constitutional liberty make no
effort to redeem their Government? Let
them all rise up in the majesty of their
strength, and clean out the Augean sta
BILE, at the fall elections, and then we
shall have q united, happy and prosper
GUS country once more, through the mer-
cies of God.
He correctly states the feelings of the
Southern people in the subjoined para
graphs: