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


throughout the State, we have selected
from our State exchanges such paragraphs
as tend to show the feeling and purposes
of the white people. We begin the COM
pilation with IN admirable address from
the Democratic Club of Newberry, copied
from the Herald:
The Central Executive Committee con-
gratulate the citizens,of this District on
The recent. elections We have utterly
failed to carry thom but we have proved
that the white men are united, and that
many of the colored men have recognized
and discharged their duty. Twcnty-eight
hundred and ffty-niae votes were cast.
Of these eight hundred and nineteen were
Democratic. One hundred OF these votes
wore cast by coorcd men. Only fifteen
white mon voted the Radical ticket! And
not one Of them of any social or political
position! Nearly halt of the white men
of the District did not vote at all. We
have not shown our strength. But we
will
The Central Executive Committee re-
commend, that every man who can at all
afford it shall introduce foreigners to cul-
tivate our soil, the disposition of the ma
.jority Of our laborors being such as to
warrant only ruin to the planting interest
ofthe country.
But the Committee especially commend
all those mcn-of whatever race or class
who have not voted the Radical ticket;
and they suggest that all good and true
men stand by them. and SEQ that they re-
ceiye the due rewards of justice and hon.
esty., All men of eighteen years of age
who have not voted the Radical ticket,
are considered Democrats, and will be re-
epccted accordingly.
All is notyet lost! Truth, justice and
liberty are not yet ecad Citizens stand
to your principles and aHamill be we'll!
Be calm; be moderate; bring the erring
into the fold,if possible. But be brave,
honest, self-reliant. We will do no in
justice to other men; but we are resolved
that justice shall be done us
The Fairfield Herald says:
Of the 24O votes cast at this box against
this Constitution, to their honor be it
spoken, one hundred were east>by colored
men. One. hundred coored,mcn, aroused
to the fatal measures that would involve
them in ruin, testified openly, their oppo-
stion to it, and manifested their trust and
confidence in the white people of the
country, and their appreciation of harmo-
ny and of the tyranny to be imposed up.
on the State TO these colored men we
say, that they will never regret their
course. They will be sustained by a con-
sciousness of recttude, ofiustice and even
humanity; and wo add this, this exhibi-
tion of friendliness will not be lost upon
the white men of the country.
We find upon comparing tho Registry
lists with the votes cast, that over one
hundred white men who registered ut this
box did not cast vote Why is this
How, in this death struggle of . people
with the powers of tyranny and igno-
rance, can one hundred men in a small
precinct, find it consistent with their du
ties rs men and citizens to stand supinely
aloof, and not raise o voice or make an
effort, at least, in protest against the
wrong? We wont charge open detection,
or even Indifference but we do say that
If these hundred men had come forward
antlsstriven with half the zeal their safety
demands, the disparity would have been
less-and even dofcat would have been
converted hopeful augury.
: The Greenville Enterprise has tho fol
lowing statement of affairs in that Dis
trict:
The total vote in this District was 23S1
For the constitution, 1,607-against, III;
majority for the constitution, S33. The
total registered vote Of the District was,
if we remember rightly, about 5000.
There were, therefore, l200 voters who
did not turn out; quite sufficient num-
Der to hare changed the result of the cleo
tion. It is presumed that these twelve
hundred were mostly white men. We
have, as yet, received no report of all the
boxes of 1.-The proportion of negro votes
and white votes, but we infer that most of
the 400 registered negroes voted. and,
with very few exceptions, with the Re-
publicans.
We do not consider the vote on the
constitution as determining the political
character Of the District. The people Of
Greenyille are of the same material, es-
sontially, as those of Spartanburg and
Pickons, and have always, when reused,
voted with the Democratic party, as both
these Districts have done.
In this District no organization was
attempted by the Democratic and Con-
servative party, till it was tou late to ac-
complish the result that was attained in
the surrounding Districts, by their earlier
and more active arrangements. We be-
Eevo the election was passed off with very
little party quarrels or bitterness, COM
parativcly speaking. We rejoice at this,
rs itleaves the minds Of the people in q
better condition, calmly to reflect upon