The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-09-30

spread its many sails upono our coasts; IN
ternal Improvements would have been
monuments TO their wisdom and stastes.
manship; and constitutional liberty would
have spread its protecting shield over all.
How different tho present condition OF
affairs The Southern States, one vast
wilderness; the rich staples which our
lands sent to the Northern mart almost
uncultivated our agricultural system an
initiated the rights of personal security,
personal liberty and private property dis
regarded; those great principles ior which
our ancestry fought and bled through SO
many years swept away military satraps
in direct violations of the provisions OF
the constitution of the United States, cX-
ercising the power of despots over our
people tho busy hum of factories ceased /;
commerce dropping; taxes eating up the
little we possess; our sacred dead lnstllted;
our citizens outraged and oppressed; these
are few of the results of the legislation
of the radical party.
90 sight
Ofterror, foul and ugly to behold
Horrid to think, how horrible TO feel! ]"
Let us regard for moment the effect
of Radicalism in the State of Georgia .
Have we statesman OF known ability to
administer the government? Answer
We have not! Has the Judicial ermine
been preserved spotless? Answer-Judges
have been appointed whose great recon-
mcndation was their popularity with the
negro! Who represent the Empire State
in the Congress of the United States !?
Answer-With one or two exceptions,
men unknown 10 the people, adventures
in our midst, whose only strength lay in
their popularity with the negro? Who
compose the State Legislature? Answer
-EXcluding those elected from counties
and districts where the whites are in tho
ascendancy, men whose craftsmanship
lay in their popularity with the negro!
And SO wo might ask question after qucs-
ton as to each Office of honor, profit and
trust, and the invariable answer would be
the ncumbent's popularity with the
negro gave to him his position a
stranger contemplating the scene would
at once inquire-Who is this negro form
ing the ruling element in this State? Is
he educated and cultivated? Is his in
tegrity spotcss Is he profoundly versed
in political economy? Is he large prop
erty holder? Can You conceive the conn-
tcllance of as;onishment which the reply
would bring Iorll,-tliat the negro fonr
wears since WIS slave; that to-day, he can
neither read nor write, and is entirely
dependent upon tie landed proprictors Of
tho South for support That, ignorant,
supess.lious, and avaricious, he may be
imposed upon and controlled as may suit
the ends Of that patty base enough to use
such tool. Yet, we, who since the for
nation of this goycrnmcnt to the year
eighteen hundred and sixty, have directed
its mcvcmcnts, are row ruled over hy
rc--rocs and negro agents. Sach is the
melancholy fact
The Ra3;c:! party has hcon arraigncd
upon Iii Of Indictment containcdin the
Democratic platform of eighteen hundred
and sixiy.cight. and is now upon trial.
The arguments against it arc being dis
cusscd by statesmen of ability and re-
search. Tile people are to deliver the
decision in November next. We have to
select between anarchy and constitutions
al liberty; between negro supremacy and
an intelligent government; between inins-
ticc and iustice;' p and lastly, between II
genuine peace and "connsion worse con-
founded Can we doubt the result =
atlanta (Geo) Lnteligencer.
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