The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-11-18

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chineiohe. has helped to construct. For
example-A. OWNS farm OF the value OF
l'ono Thousand dollars, the amount, OF the,
Homestead exemption, which, by the by,
cannot avail against taxes orpublic dues
During this year no paid certain laborers
I ten dollars per month wages, and to 9th,
'er.. he gave e-tbird of the crop produ-
cod; bysthem. Before the crop is pitched
another year.. he is required to pay one
hundred dollars Statetaxes on his farm,
This he, must necessarily provide tor, and
ican do so in no other way than by throw
Observation-Disclosures by giving to
those to whom he paid ten; dollars per
month heretofore, six dollars per month
hereafter, and to those to whom he gave
one-thifd sof the crop heretofore, one
fifth hereafter, to be fixed irrevocably in
his contract. This RESULTS bothjust and
natural, as every man white and colored
must perceive. .at,oIce, and it cannot fail
to convince chem that we are alike.inter-
ested in throwing oh the incubus of Rad
icak misrule.-3sr ~: - fss--.s =. ;.s.y
But. having satisfied, the colored man
by reason and argument that his inter
ests are identical with those of.tlle white
mani became necessary to expose to
his understanding the fraud and falsehood
by which his credulity and fears had been
excited, in; relation, to his emancipation
and his future status as freeman: He
had been taught to. believe, that he had
been freed by the Radical party, and that
Eif the Democracy were successful in the
Presidential election lie would be re-
maTided to slavery. 1t painful to know
that even men who drifted South as the
Ehangers on of a victorious army ,sandlre-
married here as part of its debris, tothlli
their carpet bags, with the scanty earn
ings of both the white and colored races,
and then decamp to- their own country,
should have uniredsin propagating such
|tunmitigated and NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
But the fact. was nevertheless, so, and it
had to bennett. As to the mode.by which
I the slave became free, it is admitted that
he was practically emancipated by the
results of the;war, buthe isreally more in.
debted to the Confederate than the United
States army--for thesfact. The former
began and Observation-Disclosures which
ended ,ins his freedom, in despite of the
offer held out by Dir. Lincoln, the head
of the Radical party, as also by the Radi.
call Congress of the United States, up, TO
the frstqof January, 1868, that an aban-,
donment of the contest on our part should
secure TO us the perpetuation of slayery.
This the South refused to do, preferring
rather TO give up slavery than abandon
the contest for selfgovernment in which,
after years of sectional strife, they had
been led to engage. Therefore, the Sonth,
on the first Of January, 1863, consented
to give up slavery, upon being defeated
in the contest of arms. But it we admit
that they were practically emancipated
by tho army of the United States alone,
then that was, not emancipation by the
Radical party. That army was composed
of both Radicals and Democrats, and,
generally as.wea were advised, much the
EIargest proportion OF the latter, andit was
IInot, therefore, the act of a party, but of
the American people.1But, howeyeE thsir
practical emancipation may have been
accomplished, they were neverle legally free
until the people Of the South in their,own
State Constitutions, and by tho ratifca-
tion of an amendment to the Constitution
ofthe United States. unanimously declared
them free, and that slavery should neper
aqain exist in the broad limits of the
American Union; and to sustain their
freedom, thus established and secured,
every Democrat in. the United States is
pledge by the ballot, by principle and
by honor, and every white native OF the
Southern States by his solemn oath in
writing, which is filed with the archives
of the country Not so. however, with
the Radicals as party. On the contrary,
whilst falsely and corruptly charging that
the success of the Democracy would re-
establish slavery, they have themselves
took a position that would enable thcm-t to
affirm, consistently, if their interest
prompted them to do SO, that the colored
people have never been emancipated, and
arc, today, legally the slaves of their
former owners. BY the Reconstruction
/ Acts they, in effect, affirm thatsthe terri
tories South, formerly known as States,
were not States at the close of the war,
but conquered provinces. If this position
be correct, then slavery has not been
abolished, for the people OF mere PROV
inces could neither have made constltu-
tions for themselves, or ratified the
amendment TO the Constitution OF the
United States abolishng slavery; and it
would remain to-day, as it stood when
the Northern merchant-man and specula-
tor forcibly brought the negro from his
native country and sold him to the South
ern planter thus establishing an institu-
tion that has recently become revolving
to most of the civilized world.
But,.'m fellow.citizens, | am sure you
will say, as Lsaid to the colored people
on all occasions, that it is absurd aid
ridiculous todiscuss this question, oven TO