The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-04-29

with the whites was brave thing They
deserve TO be rewarded.
Meat and bread to the freedmen are IN
volvctI in these elections. White men are
not going 10 feed their enemies They
will not nurse vipers in their bosoms to
sting tt. I'm. The colored man Is now
choosing between carpet-bag SPECTATORS
unknown strangers, and their own south
ern white people. As they choose, there
will be peace and mutual support, or an,
tagonism and separation. The colored
men certainly know that an election is
not thing done in corner or In the Sc
crecv of u league meeting, but in open
day and before the eyes of all men. Eve
ry vote cast is known and noted down on
paper. Tho watchful eyes of the white
people have been upon the election as it
transpired; and every coIorcd voter has
made his mark by his ballot, whether he
| is n friend or an enomy of his white neigh
bors
Under the present circumstances, we
exhort the white people of the country,
the landholGers and the intelligent, not to
give way an inch to the unprincipled adj
venturers and mongrcl barbarians who
are striving to rise to the top OF affairs in
this day of new things Let us organize
still further and still more persistently
for passive yet undying resistance. And
we will thus be ready to take advantage
OF tho first opportunity for aggressive
movements, when such movements can
be counted en- as effective A great con-
test is going on, and the day may come,
ere the struggle is over, when the white
men of the South will turn the scale in
favor of right, justice and liberty.
The spartanburg Spartan says:
We take pleasure in announcing the
success of the Democratic ticket in Spar
tanburg District, by majority of 549-
Since the organization of our District
Clubs, the people of this portion of the
State have awakened to proper concep-
tions Of their present condition, and have
become alarmed at the progress OF Radl-
calism throughout the land, leading direct
ly 10 the everlasting ruin of the country.
The results of .therecent election here, is
proof direcS that a thorough organiza-
tion is the only hope of salvation for the
South. What little has been done is GER
\ tainly due to the organizations recently
formed in various parts Of the State, how
ever partial or inefficient those organiza-
tions may have been for the want Of time,
unity, diligence and vigorous action. Then
let us be admonishej-y men of Spar
tanburg, Of South Carolina-by all the
love we bear fer our country, our homes,
our families, our honor, and our freedom,
to rcdouble our labor and all our energies
in the continuance and enlargement of
existing Clubs, and the formation and
establishment Of others in every part Of
the State. Nay, if there be but ten right
eous in any neighborhood: let them unite
and form u Club, thus pcrpetuatins and
spreading far and wide, our principles of
free and constitutional government.
| Without this organization, we would have
been as chaff before the systematic and
crafty designs of our enemies We ought
to have organized sooner, but as we did
not, and having only a few days in which
to rally the true men OF the country, VIC
have done wonderfully well, having de-
tcatccl one Of the best systems Of partisan
policy that has ever been had in The South
or perhaps anywhere else.
The Abbevile Press, not discouraged
by an overwhelming defeat in that Dis
trict, thus forcibly nrges the people to or
ganize:
We are glad to sec that our citizens in
various parts of the District are fully alive
to The necessity Of forming local Demo
cratic clubs, and are exhibiting the same
spirit and activity which has been mani
tested in other parts of the State. What
though we have been defeated at the re-
cent election. this result has been brought
bout in measure by the want of this
very organization which we so earnestly
enjoin upon our fcllow.citizens. What
we want is unity of purpose and concert
of action. We arc tho advance guard Of
.sthe grand army" of tho Democracy
fighting indeed for the present us a for
lorn hope, but contributing our aid and
ready to share the triumphs which prom
ise to reward the struggles of the Demo
cratic party. That party is fighting
great battle in behalf of constitutional lib
crty, and is seeking to save the country
from tho lawless dospotism which threat
ems to overthrow the government. The
great issues which it presents to the coun-
try are lst, q restoration Of this broken
and distracted Union on the basis Of am
nesty tor the past and Justice for the
future, and I'd, tile supremacy of the
white man. The recent elections in the
North and West, in Ohio, Connecticut
and Michigan, show the widespread an
tipathy to negro rule. Opposition to me-
gro supremacy, and Radical usurpation,
and an early restoration Of the Union,
are the watchword OF the party, and upon
these paramount issues, they promise to
carry the next elections. Let us organize
and make our whole strength available;