The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-04-08
ADVERTISEMENT.
To the Voters of Anderson District.

FaEGySS 5iIlsNc foluClahCll rlCCcIltCut luO
nomination. AS l am before you as q
candidate, 1 ask, you, as friends and fell
iow-citizens, to lay aside all passion and
prejudice, and let US reason togetherupon
our duty and true interest in this emcr-
gency.- That am member of the Re-
publican Party, is freely conceded nor
ami ashamed of the afliiation. With me
names are nothing--priacip'es. ererything.
That Party favors intennalinprovements;
encourages immigration gives the,public
lands to: the industrious settlers; builds the
Pacific Railroad; raises funds by national
ndindividual contributions. and donates
them to the South, for the encouragement
of education, the feeding of the famine
stricken, and the protection of the poor.
The Union Republican Party announces
through the platforms adopted BY con-.
ventions, What its desires and designs
are They.are declared to be-tho equal
ity Fof all men before the law-the, pro-
lection of the humblest citizen, black or
white, in the same rights as those whicha
attach 70 the highest. This does not
mean, social, bat political equality. Social
EQUALITY regulates itself by the wishes of
each individual, and not by the laws A
system >of equal taxation in the States,
SO that commerce and labor shall no Ion
ger. pay two-thirds of the burdens of
government. An equal system of com
mon schools, whereby all children in the
State may receive the adva ntagos of ed
ucatioh. To maintain these schools, there
will be just and liberal tax, levied on all
equally.
1.-THE Republican Party in every State
IS Sfayorable to internal Improvements !;
to protect and encourage immigration, it
will4assst to devclope the untoldmineral.
agricultural and commercial resources of
the Southern States; protect The home
steads- of families, and capital will be en-
couraged.by- the peace its success is sure
to bring
The Republican Party is inspired by
two grand sentiments-national unity aud
indiridual liberty. 1t holds that all men
arc born free and equal not in color,
stature, Intelligence, wealth or social po-
sition, 6ut wltk equal rights before the laacs
of State and country; as they are equal
before the bar of Him whois the common
father and sjudgc Of all.
These principles. involving the peace,
-safaty and prosperity of the Nation, of
the States, and Of individuals, command
my cordial assent ); and you will pardon
me in commanding them to your cordial
approval and calm consideration, for l
: honestly believe that your welfare and
sshatzof the State is bound up in their
Z maintenance for some years to come.
I would stir no bitter memories, in
dulge in no word Of rccrimination, but
let by-gones be by-gones, and turn all
eyes from the blackness of the past to a
hopeful future. With dismembered fami-
lies, desolated homes, and sorrowing
(. hearts about us, would play with no
figures of rhetoric, but talk to honest
men rs All honest man. Wise men do
not stand grieving over what cannot be
recovered, but calmly and so5ery look
ing the. facts in the face, strive to attain
all that is possible, and hope for better
things. 1t is to your interests to identity
yourselves in the future with the spirit
and party of Nationality, Liberty and
Progress and leave s:thc dead past to bu-
~ its dead" by accepting the terms,of-
fered you by Congress. Remember we
were offered an opportunity of returning
to. the Union with slavery again, we
were offered three hundred dollars each
for. onrE slaves, and thc1 the s'Howard
Amendment" We rejected all, and for
our stubborn pride received hasher meas
ures. We are now offered the Consttu-
tion.G By accepting it, and looking dis
passionately at your true interests, and
recognizing, after impartial examination,
the principles of the party which main
tains equal rights, aud protects and de-
tends free labor, free speech, and free
press. you can at once restore your State
to its former status in the Union, and
bring to yourselves an Immediate and
high degree Of prosperity and progress
The opportunity now offers. Congress,
in no spirit Of prescription, has, in the
Reconstruction Acts, made the way easy
and the method plain. Under those Acts a
Convention has been called, Consttu-
tion framed, which you are to approve or
disapprove on the 18th, 18th. and 10th
days of April. Let me adjure you, as
you desire to see peace and civil govern
ment restored to our furnished and dis.
tempered State-fraternal feeling to the
nation, and activity to all classes, and
prosperity to all callngs-as you would
see the Military withdrawn, and the civil
laws once again administered by tho civil
tribunais-to pause long before you cast
your vote against that Constitution.
Now is your supreme moment, when it
becomes people to start anew ntheir
career Of political existence. The future
of the State, rs you may make il. will in
decd be glorious and you cannot afford
to throw away the opportunity thus of.
fered to yoa. Some of Tho old class lead
ers and politicians, who haveoncc already
led you to ruin, and who now seek only
to maintain that control, appeal but to