The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-06-05

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theirs valid and constitutional, it was ne
cessary that we should act. We called
together our Conventions, and without
hesitation, made you constituticnally free
forever. We also gave you the right to
testify in cases where you were interested,
and advocated in this State House your
right to testify in all cases.
You now enjoy many privileges here
not enjoyed by youl race in the Northern
States AS the gentleman has con pgratu-
lated you upon your improved condition
here, and created still greater expecta-
tions for your future political and social
relations in the South, let me tell you
what great blessings the North has con-
ferred upon your race even in his own
State.
First, until very recently, although
your race at the North are free, and have
the advantages of the free school system
of which be boasts, and few in numbers,
yet whilst your numbers rapidly increased
as slaves in the hands of cruel masters re-
ferred to by him, yet with him at the
North they have diminished, your race
have been and are still excluded from
Northern hotels, steamboat cabins, rail
road cars, and places of amusement. They
have been frequently expelled from such
places, and sometimes mobbed for claim
ing the rights of white people. And what
has been the result of every effort on their
part to obtain redress and establish their
rights by law. They have in every in
stance, (unless it be very rccently,) } sig
naly failed The courts Of the country
were against them. I saw in Northern
newspapers, and J. believe it to be true,
for have no where seen it contradicted.
that about the last of 1866, or the first OF
the present year, Frederick Douglass, a
mulatto of New York, who is said to be a
highly educated and polished man, who
conducts himself with great propriety
everywhere, travelled as far West as st.
Lcuis, and was there and everywhere on
his route refused admission into the first
class hotels of the North and West
Nearly every Northern State has dis
criminated against them as jurors, wit
nesscs, and heretofore at the ballot-box.
They no where at the North enjoy, in fact,
all the rights of white people, and in most
States North they are by local laws de-
MED political equality at the present time.
One or more States went so far as to deny
them settlement within their boundaries
altogether.
You have been reminded, by the gen
tleman, of pccuniary fivors conferred
the supplies voted you by his party, and
the Bureau under General Swayne in
Alabama, as another reason why you
should act with the Republicans. l be-
ieve Gen. Swaync to DC friend of yours.
| believe the gentleman who has address
cd you is also friend, for they have no
cause to be otherwise; butno better friend
than am and many other Southern men.
Many of us have been educated by your
labor, and I hope | shall live long enough
to pay you back with compound interest
in promoting education among you, which
l tell you is the only hope of your race.
1 requested that Gen. Swayne be con-
tinued over us; for althoug h wese things
from different stand-points. yet, l believe
he wants to do right, and l never think
less of any one for an honest difference Of
opinion merely.
But however worthy the motive of the
act on the part of the Government in as
ssting you through the Bureau, and for
which the Senator, amongst other reasons,
claims your votes for the Republican
party, it is an undeniuble fact that the
same party dscriminates against you in
the way of taxes on cotton, and in this
way wiring from the sweat of your brow
one hundred dollars to every one received
by you through the same Bureau.
With these facts staring you in the face,
which the honorable Senator will not
deny, what is the obvious object of bis
visit South 1t is this, my flends: His
party is in power, and he is here aiding to
keep them So He is here to form a po-
litlcal alliance with you and what few
whites can BIZ induced to join him. They
want office, they want spoils, and they
want to retain power 1t is quite pleas
ant and profitable to them. 1t is not be-
cause they love you better than other
people. / warn you against him and all
like him, at home or abroad.
1t occurs to me just at this moment,
that there is another portion of the hon
orable Senator's last or second speech, 10
which l will briefly alude. He says |
have mentioned some things he never
before heard In that he has mono the
advantage of me, for he has spoken of
many things that he did, that have not
heard OF before. He boasts Of what the
Northern army did, but l did not know
he was with them 1t is only very re-
Gently that he invaded the South. He
reminds me of the bold frontiersman, who.
when the bear entered the cabin door
quite unexpectedly, ran up into the loft.
The good wife, having no means of escape,
used the pitchfork very freely, killing the
bear, the husband in the loft crying out
all the while, at the top of his voice, Lay
on, Nancy lay on, NancyP When as
sured that the bear was quite dead, he de-
scended from his safe retreat, walked up