The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-07-10

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of honor and conscience in securing their
own safety by giving up to punishment
their chief: It is told, TO the eternal mia,
my of the Scotch nation, that they sold
to the English, for sum of money, their
native sovereign, against whom they were
wasihS a terrible war: But the people
of South Carolina are. ABOUT selling, to
the Black Republicans, all the public meh
whom they have heretof6re loved and
bnnored. for the humble boon of being
placed themselves on an equality with
their former slaves, and having those
freedmen to rule over them and their
wives and sons and daughters forever! |!
In recording and contrasting these two
public acts, history mtst regard the
Scotchman, in the reign Of Charles the
First, as a wise gentleman, compared to
the Caroinian of the present day.
| AT the beginning Of our secession move
ment, the political cry, everywhere, was
that "Southern men must govern the
South" Now, the cry is, that we must
have the Union restored BY DISTINGUISHING
our public men and enfranchising our
former slaves. In other words, the
South must be governed by negroes !"
! John Quincy Adams, in speaking OF the
punishment of impeachment, declared, in
Congress, that he preferred the punish
| ment of death to being declared by his
country incapable Of holding office. To
this infamy is now added, for the South
erin inah, Inability to, vote, and the disgust
of seeing the negro take his place in pol
itics. But this sacrifice, painful as it was
to Mr.. Adams, and must be to every hon
orable man, would be cheerfully made by
the public men of South Carolina, if it
was all that Was required Of the State.
The dishouor of negro suffrage might be
borne, too, il it were not for that social
equality which must ensue, and that dark
future which is presented to every intel
ligent mind. In that future, we shall see
legislation the mist niquitous-agrarian-
ism the most ahhorrent-and crimes the
most atrocous-with misery beyond en-
durancc to the women and children of the
South.
Is there gentleman in South Carroll
na; or even decent iilah; who wishes to-
see negro equality and hegroes holding
office? Is there one who thinks that the
leading men of the State should be dis
franchised and not allowed to hold office
under the Government2 Surely not, ev-
cry one will answer. How, then, can
they vote for. such selfdegradation, and
Injustice to others-!riends and honored
men? What reasond do they give for con-
duct so monstrous? The only reason |
have heard is, that something worse will
be imposed. What that something is
worse than negro equality and negro
Governments am at q loss to know.
But this is taking counsel of our fears,
which no honorable man should ever do.
No danger and no punishment should
ever induce him to degrade himself, or to
do dishonorable act. He should rather
meet the consequences, be those cutise-
Guences what they may-the dungeon or
death:
1t really seems that the Southern peo
pie have been so borne down with trou-
BILE, oppression, tyranny and starvation,
that their minds; as well as their princi-
Piles, are unsettled. A lady remarked to
me, the other day, that it seened to her
"the Spirit Of the men was crushed out. ;"
When | hear it gravey proposed to aban-
don ouf friends at the North and form
new associations, begin to think that
not oily ill spirit; but all principle and
all sense; have been crushed out of us.
The Democratic party North have always
been the allies OF the South, from the
origin of our Government. They have,
sinSs the war, as they did bef5re the war,
made sacrifices of their popularity and
their political honors in defending the
South. They have fought our battles, in
Congress and out of Congress, with
spirit and detotionsto principle worthy OF
a band of martyrs. A few thousand
votes will put this party in power all over
the North, and those votes they are daily
acquiring. Then the Southern States will
all be restored to the Union, with their
constitutional rights unimpaired: Just at
this time, when this death struggle is go
ing on Tor our rights and honor, and we
see our friends and allies about to gain
the victory, we are advised to withdraw
from them, with a parting stab under the
left rib, and seek new associations Dan
iel Webster once said to Mr.. Calhoun, in
debate, that his (Calhoun's) idea of check
ing an ally in battle would have been
something new in tactics to the Great
Frederick. think the idea of abandon
ing an ally in battle, and going over to
the enemy, IS something in strategy bold
er than the idea advanced by Mr.: Cal
houn. 1t belongs to the school OF bene'
dict Arnold
In short time, the registering of vo-
tcrs will commence. No one shouid oe-
cline to register. 1t matters not how
much he may be disgusted with politics.
or how much ne is opposed to negro sui
frage and o Convention. Let HIM regis
ter in sef.defence, whether he intends to
vote in this election or not; he may wish
to vote in some future election; this ne