The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-04-15
VOL. 8.
end eIoquence, worthy of the best days of
Roman and Grecan history.

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In the meantime. we must unite amongst
ourselves. as one man, in South Carolina, to
defeat this bogus Constitution, which is sub
mitted for ratification on the 18th of April
next; and which, If adopted. Will render
our condition most ignomlnlous, and to
manly spirits, CALLING in the extreme. 1t
provides, not only for our government by
the negroes, but that our sons and daugh-
tiers shall be educated with their children,
ON terms OF equality; and that they shall
have the right of taxing our property ad
.liJitum, and spend the money as they
please, whilst, at the same time, they con-
tribute comparatively nothing to the treas
ury.
1t is our sacred duty too, for all who
are permitted, to so to the polls and vote
for state officers, members OF the Leg
lslature and members of Congress We
should not only vote ourselves, but
persuade the negroes, and show them that
| it is their interest to vote with us. And
inzorder to concentrate our strengthinthe
election and haveunity of action, we would
earnestly impress upon our people the duty
of forming Democratic Clubs all over the
State, at once, and in every neighborhood-
Let action-political action-be the watch
word from the mountains to the seaboard,
and let the people of the State, white and
black, old and young, rally and work for
tile enduring interests of tins ancient com
mon wealth, threatened now with q poit-
ical invaSion worse than that OF Goth,
Eandal. or Hun.
NO. Ir.-oBJEcTIoNs TO THE RADICAL
CONSTITUTION ADOPTED By THE LATE
CONVENTION.
In the present condition ofthe country,
we do not presume to address you upon
general politics. That is a sealed book to
us. We haveno voice and are not counted
in the great struggles of the country
These struggles, at the present time are
chiefly about us.and our fate; but still We
must be, if not indifferent, yet silent spec
tators There is, however, one subject
upon which we-that is, those Of MS who
are not isfranchised-have been invited
to speak, and as it has been thought prop
er to ask our consent, it is not only our
right, but our duty, to speak. Even upon
that, if ii were.a mere question OF policy,
we would not break silence; but, rs We
conceive it to be question Of existence
| itself, we venture to address you.
The Convention lately assembled iii
| Charleston, by the orders OF Gen. CanbH,
commanding the Military Districts OF the
Carolinas, has adjourned and the Cons!i-
tuition proposed by it for the State South
! Carolina has been ordered TO be submitted
tc. the registered voters for approval or
disarproval on tie 18th, 10Th and 18th
days of April, inst; and as we under,
stand it, ut tl.e same time the vote i
10 be taken for or against the Coastl-
tuition, and upon tie same ticket
certain officers are to be voted for. viz:
| Governor, Lleutenant Governor, Adjutant-
aud Inspector General, Secretary OF State,
omptroIler-General, Treasurer, Attorney
General, Superintendent of Education,
members Of the House OF Representatives,
. and Senator i'll the State, and members OF.
! Congress. Many of the people are OPP
posed to the ratification OF tie Cons;itu-
tion, and we think the opposition shoi;ld
be organized. We do not, under the opera
ton OF the Asls of Congress and the Mill
tary orders, expect to obtain.a tair express
/ sion of the wishes and Judgment OF the
State. That we know is impossible.
/ Many good citizens arc disfranchiSed, and
a LARGE class enfranchised not only with
out authority, but in direct opposition to
the laws of the State But we regard the
danger of the couutry SO imminent, aud
the matter so vitally important to our
veIv existence, that we have resolved to
do our duty, and urge others to do it,
al
verse circumstances surrounding us. We
are in no way responsible for the condition
in which we have been placed, and we will
do what we believe to be our duty, lcav-
inc the result in the hands Of the Al
mighty,
/. We object to the Constitution pro-
posed, because, in the name Of liberty, it
is forced upon MS by the sword-under
pretence of our sclt-govermnent, 1t is pre-
pared and imposed by mere adventures
and strangers, ignorant and in many cases
not only Indifferent to our welfare, but ac-
tual!y lnimical to it.
2. We object to it, because the whole
machinery which produced it is illegal and
revolutionary The Acts OF Congress
which initiated, and the Convention which
produced it, are not only s'outsdc of the
Constitution, but oppressive, anti-Pepub-
lican and vcngeful. The whole proceed,
n., it is admitted, was adopted as q pun
shment. because the State refused TO pass
tho constitutional amendment, disf;lnch-
sinS many OF her best citizens. The Con
stitution is not the act Of the State, but
the decree Of her oppressors
8. We object to it, because the purpose
is not to reconstruct the State-for that
has already been done at the time and IN
the manner Indicated by Andrew Johnson,
President of the Unified Statcs-but TO
make South Carolina an ally and support
or nf' thu u, ,l;oo1 ,,or, r-,citb which thr