The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-04-15
Addresses to the People Of South
Carolina.

- - SiaTOllna.
5. ;. 80. I.-oUR CONDITION AND OUR DUTY.
!: 1t isluseless. to deny. that the country is
:. In a sad and most dep!orlble condition.
8 Poverty and want are broad cast over.the
= land Where formerly was the abode OF
refnement and a generous hosPi,
!. tality, there is now .wans, starvation ana
! :: @retchedness ss--iipdnstry hasgivenplace to
; *Fidleness and yicelwithInanyof our people
fEo a considerable extent peace, security
X: X and and projection have been superseded by
t:V,;iiolehce :,;i and crime. We have been :ob-
bed 5offsar civil, constitutonala and political
~ rights, and placed under auliitarydespot-
ism. as absolute and perfectsas as AsIatlc
.tyrannys .hav made it. The e,silb-
!. erty and property of every man, woman
J. ard child, in the Southern States, IS held
-9at the mercy uff uffiniiilary ysatraps: Military
ss.co,mniiissiops com and drnm-head courts martial
have been verywheressubstituted for the
! : sttfialsbY jury
s. = And worse than all tins, we are nienaced
= with negro rule and supremacy, at the
= eepoiintryffssthe Sword and bayolsst. Sixty
:ssodd negroes, Inatfy of them Ignorant and
yydepraved, together will fifty white men,
';e..outcasts of Northern society, andSoutherlr
: resne6ades, betray4rs of their race aud
:. = county, have assembled in Convention.
: and sfran u Constitution for the govern
:. f5ment Of South Caroliila This Constitution
81 .edfecl az aressa and procaims that every male
: snear6, oyer.the. age of twenty one, wheth
> er a pauper or ;lsconvict telon, shall exer.
). oise isie the right of suffrage, whilst every
J: white man, who has heretofore filed any
: Official station, and who .syinpatlilzed with.
his bleeding .ceuntrysin in her struggle TOR
slssessfsgoxeFnnierit, lis forever disflaechsed,
:: and. iiicapa bic. OF yoting, or holding office.
;. ;: Ti the language of the immortal Decla-
: : ration. american Independence, the
:. history of the present Congress rs a his
!, tory offrepeated injuries and usurpatlons,
;;aii having in direct object. the establish
:: :sSssinent :Ssnent Sof absolute tyranny over these
* States. .EEosproye this, let facts be submit
I, tedeto a candi55 world" 60.
- 4ssrTEgliey iiay refused Jaws the most
s: who, esosale aud necessary for the public
:. goodE;o 3s.stliey hayessdssolved representa-
: ,tipe houses repeatedly for opposing with
G5Ii.tn fr,Hness nyaslo'on thsfights
of. the people s'slhey have obstructed the
Observation-Disclosures of Justice and displac-
;. ,edsour .jpa ges'; .sstheys have erected null
= tltade of ssnew offices, and sent hither
IS warns :of officers to'harass our people and
]. e:sss. stleir sNbstancesD they have kept
among u.s. in times of peace, standing ar
< mics. without the econsentsof. our Leylsla-
:e0res 9, ss:rhey haze affected to render the
nf1iiiiifarysinds dspendent of and superior tothe
y OWL power, they have confined with
: soul. foin,ersslavcs = ossIbject rs too Juris-
;: ditJiai1. :f;jreigil, 80 or Constitution and
.iinacknole3@c,l b. our laws, giving thei.
.astGIti to- these Acts OF pretended legls!a::
tiol. = = ,ts:ior -lnaTtering large bodies of
EARNED troops among rs; fer protesting
S s; ;sSthen bv a mock trial from punishment for
=. any,mnrd ers which they should commit on
{ the inhabitants o4tiiese States; torinpos-
.. inc.staxes OH us without our consent. and
!. without representation; "tor dePrlvlng us
:. In -nianvrcascslof the benefits OF. trial by
Jury; for. aboiishins the free system OF
:. English lawssin all these Southern states
= establishing therein an arbitrary gov
( ,erfNnent, and charging its boundaries, 50
as to render, 1t at once, an example and lit
instrument for introducing the, same abso
* fute rule in the Northern States; s'tor
Iaklng away. cur ur-COhSlitutloiis, t"VhshtuS
our most valuable laws, and altering. fun
daneltally the forms of our governments;
: rsnspending our own Legislatures, and
declaring themselves invested with power
: to legiislate forus III all cases whatsoever. r."
:, s'They have abdicated government. in
:. the Southern States, '.by declaring ll> ont
-.-oftheir protection, and waging war against
: sa,s::" :" they viii SOON beorgapizins ''largc
:. armies of black ''merceiarles To complete
:. thee@ofks of death; h,;desulation and tyranny,
already bee,n With circumstances ofcrncl
!. ty and ssperfdys scarcely paraleled il the
.,;-iroSt barbarous ages, totally lyglnworthy the
: mead 2of..a civilized nation But more
.than.a these complaints ofour revolution
=. ary forefatliers against the King of Great
eBlitian7-the present Congress have
= ustrped all executive and judiciary powers
to themselves, dlsrcgarded the Federal
Constitution, which t!ev arc sworn to sop
3&port, destroyed the rights Of the States,
!, and overthrow. our republican form OF
Government, by establishing Il central CON
solidated .despotism under military rule.
=, in every stage OF these expressions we
have petitioned for redress in the most
humble terms, and demonstrated against
~ their injustice and cruelty. "Wc havele-
minded them of the sacred principles Of
:. our common Government-ef that love of
liberty which actuated onr common ances-
2 try in the revolution, "and we have ap-
E. peaIed to their native Justice and mag
nanimity, and coniured them, by.the ties
:. of our common kindred, to disavow these
unsurpations." sThev have been deaf to
$ the voice Of Justice and of consanguinity
we mast, therefore, ante c0rdiaity, Aear-
1 tily and actioety mtth the National Demo
- cratic party. North and Soath. in their. most