The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-09-09
Address to the Colored People.

colored people is put forth by the Central
Democratic Club of Charleston, of which
Gen. JAMES CONNER is the President. 1t
should bo read to every colored voter IN
the State, as embodying "all that we ex-
pect or intend" and containing "no state
ment that we do not believe to be true
no promise that we do not intend honest
ly to fulfill" Every employer can read
and explain this address to his colored
employees, and all should feel it solemn
and imperative duty to instruct that un-
fortunate race, warning them of the deu-
siyo hopes held out by the Radical party
THE ADDRESS OF. THE DEMOCRATIC WHITE
: VOTERS oE CHARLESTON TO TIE coLoRED
VOTERS OF CHARLESTON, THE sEABoARD,
AND OF THE STATE GENERALLY.
We are influenced by various consider,
ations to. address you, and, in plain and
simple language, to tell you truthfully our
views and purposes. They are also the
views and purposes Of the great Demo
cratic party, which, for fully throe-fourths
of the life of our government, has govern
ed the United States, and is soon about
to resume the administration of that gov
ernment. Among those considerations
are the following:
First. We are naturally your friends
and you. are naturally our friends. Any
other relations between US are unnatural
and Injurious to both. We have the cap.
ital and give employmcnts. We own the
lands and require labor to make them pro,
ductive and profitable. You desire to be
employed. BY your labor alone you can
live We desire to employ you and to
have your labor-not because it is better,
or cheaper, or more profitable to US than
tho white labor, which will be glad to
come and take your place if we are com
PEELED TO discard yours and invite it but
we desire your labor because you know
us, AMI we know you. We were bora to.
gether here and we have grown up to-
gether. In infancy we were nursed to,
gcther, in boyhood We played together,
and we do not easily forget these things
for the sake of strangers. Hence it is,
that we intend to leave it entire y your
choice, whether you will be friends with
US or be our enemies, and compel us to
treat you as enemies.
We know we can do without you. We
think You will find it very difficult to do
without us. We think it our duty to take
care that you are fully informed in max
ing your choice, between enmity and hos.
tility to us, and friendship and peace with
us, rs we can inform you by telling you
the whole truth. The reason that it is
our dutNto do this, is because we arc in
debtcd to yon for great fidelity in tho
past, and because we are the stongor, and
You the weaker party. 1t is always the
duty of the strong and powerful, besides
being just, to be generous.
We haze Tho wealth. The houses in
which you live are ours; the lands upon
which you must labor or starvc are ours
We have education, advancement in the
arts and sciences, and in civilization gen
orally. You are, for tho most part, un'
educated, just starting in the career in
which we are so far ahead Of you. We
have the numbers over you; our race is
thirty millions or more; yours four mil
lions or less.
We think it our duty to use all these
great advantages justly and generously
for your welfare, for your advancement
in education, in the acquisition of proper
ty, and in the pursuit of every good thing
which is meant by, or makes up what is
meant by, "ciUilization,' if you will allow
US to do it,
Second. We see and know that you
are hurrying on into great and immedi
ate trouble and danger to yourselves and
your race. You are proposing to bring
on conflict between yourselves and our
selves. If it comes-if yon bring on that
conflict, it will be a conflict between your
race and our race. There are indications
that you already think yourselves pre-.
pared for this conflict. You have for
some time practiced aggressive and hos
tile conduct towards U.S.. You have as
sembcd as party or class, and you have
deliberately interrupted us in our meet
ings, insultcd and assaulted individuals
among us, pcltcd our houses with stones
insulted our families by vulgar and pro.
fame language, disturbed the night quiet
by unearthly wheops and screams, threat
cnins, death to the rebcls''-meanng
ourselves; assaulted and threatened the
police and police stations of the city. You
are arming and drilling in warlilke prac
tccs, and this for aggression and attack,
not for defence; because you have no
cause or pretence of cause for expecting
aggression Or attack from us. You have
never been disturbed, not even in your
riotous and disorderly conduct. We OF
course, know that you are urged and en-
tccd on towards this great danger and
trouble by wicked white men. We know
them, who they arc, and all about them
what they say, and what they are doing,
and weulso know botter than they or you
can know, the sure and swift penalty
~. h;nh u.iu ell nnnn nariicular men when