The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-26

another race. We must assure the col
ored people also of our purpose to protect
them in the enjoyment of all their civil
rights, equally with the white men. And
whom they acquire property and intolli-
gence, we will give them the right to
vote. We will treat them just as we
troat our own children, whom we do not
allow to vote until they have acquired
that intelligence necessary to exercise
the right wisely and judiciously. Some
of these colored people arc now capable
of voting, and others may qualify them
selves. If they do not, it will show that
they do not care for suffrage, or are un-
worthy Of it.
This policy is right and proper, and it
is judicious 1t will prove a safcty-vNlve
for society in the Southern States, and
preserve the peace and good order of the
country. We must enlighten the col
ored people as to the extravaganza and
Ignorance of this pretended Legislature in
Columbia. In Convention they voted
themselves eleven dollars per day! No
white Convention everassembled in South
Carolina, which received more than five
dollars per day. These men in Columbia,
(the very worst men in the State, many
of them), are receiving six dollars per day,
when members of the Legislature used to
receive only three dollars per day We
must tell the colored people positively,
that they will have to-pay as renters or
laborers their proportion of the high
taxes necessary to meet these expendi,
.tures..
We must tell the colored people like
wise, that if they will not vote with us,
but continue to vote for bad men who are
enemies to us and their country, we can
not employ thom or befriend them. They
must 60 to their friends, the carpet-bag-
gors and scallawags, for their favors ard
employment.
1t is vitally important for US to romem-
Der that this Presidential election can
only be carried iu South Carolina by the
colorcd vote. This is the great field in
Which we must labor, and in which alone
can wo expect to reap harvest. By
talking to The colored people, and ex-
plaiDing everything to them kindly and
properly, we may carry the State 1or
Seymour and Blair.
Since the meeting of the Now York
Convention, the whole country has been
in blaze of enthusiasm, East, West,
North and South, for the nominees of the
Democratic party, whilst there has been
no enthusiasm at all manifested anywhere
for Grant and Colfnx. This shows that
the people are in earnest, and determined
on victory, whilst the Radical leaders are
awe.strickcn and begin to fear thcir mer-
tied doom.
The first gun fired since the adjourn
ment of the Democratic Convention was
in Kentucky. Thatnoble State has given
a Democratic majority for Governor up
wards of eighty thousand votes! In the
last election, twelve months ago, Ken
lucky only gave Democratic majority
of forty-throe thousand. This is gain in
one State, in one year., Of thirty-seven
thousand voters, almost double the former
large majority twelve months since.
l can assure the people Of Anderson
that the Northern States are more excited,
in this Presidential election, than South
Carolina is at this time. They feel and
know that the continuance of our repub-
ican institutions depend on their victory,
and they have resolved to win. We must
be equally determined, for we are more
deeply interested in the result than they
are. With them it is republication or
despotism, with crushing taxation! But
with us it is u struggle for life against
death, war of races, and the destruction
OF our country!
Whilst Congress refuses to reduce the
army in time of peace, or diminish the
expenses of the Government, they have
taken off eighty millions of dollars of
taxes from the Northern manufacturer,
but not one cent from the Southern plan
ter and aborer! Is this just to the negro
who works in the cotton field, or to the
merchant? Everywhere we meet the
Federal tax -gathercr, under Radical rule,
an officer whom we nevor saw or heard
of when the Democrats were in power.
The Southern man who will not do all
he can in this election for the Democratic