The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-08-12

: yassalage of the Southern States anu the
}. degradation of his own race, ought ever
to be received into decent family IN
Georgia or in the South now or hereafter
+. TCrics of "never."7 And this rule we can
make now. If I'VE have not the power to
help make the laws for our Governmen.
or for society, thank God we can at leas1 !
pass social laws for our ewn homes. !
charge you this day, as you honor you,
household and would preserve your gooo
name for your posterity, never suf1er
. single native renegade who votes Tor the
i yassalace of these States, and the dlsSrace
of your children and your race, to darken
your doors or to speak to any member OF
your family. [Cries OF "good, that
/ right" ishurrah."1 You condemn the
pooryictim to the Penitentiary who steals
2 horse or hundred dollars, and yet
these miserable creatures have sought to
bargain away everything that you have
or can value. You scorn the CRIMINAL
who has violated the penal laws OF your
country. These miserable rencgades are
faithless to every law Of Heaven and OF
earth. and have used every means to sell
von to those who hate you, and to place
your lives and your all in the power OF
the ignorant and debased. Another
thing [ insist shall be done: A people
who will not resent such foul innovations
Of their right are not worthy of freedom.
;. "a voice atrue."] You have been help
iess-your great men have been silenced (;
you surrendered your arms to what you
/ thought was a gallant foe; you surren-
dored them under the assurances OF pro-
tection, and yet these men, your own
citizens many of them, who hurried you
to war have taken advantage OF your
poverty and belplessness, and of tho
presence Of the bayonet; they have inva-
/ dcd your households, they have stolen
| Your property; they have robbed you OF
your goods; they have joined the negro
and the stranger to tax, Insult and op-
press you; and they have, contrary to the
laws OF the land, forced into dungeons and
before military commissions the proud
freemen of this country. You have been
powerless to prevent these things. But
|smy VOW is recorded, and l shall redeem
Fit. find the people. willing to sustain
me. Men who have trampled upon the
rights of the citizens Of Georgia at a time
when the laws were paralized shall feel
the power Of that restored law when lib
.erty is rcawaked. Ye vile miscrcants Of
the Convention, who stole the money of
the State to pay your PER diem, | give
you notice that you shall pay it back.
and there is good legal principle here
| which l want you to remember, and that
is that where q number of men band
themselves together for the commission
of.s common purpose, each one is respon-
sibe for what all the others do or get
Tremendous checring.l And, therefore
cvorr man who took Il portion OF that
stolen money is liable for every cent that
| negroes and carpet-baggers received, and
we are going to make them pay 1t. ie
constitution makers. ye men that sprung
at one bound from the penitentiaiies OF
the country to tramo constitutions for
honest people, yc men who oscillate from
Grand Jury rooms with charges ofperj Jury
| upon you up to legislative halls and other
HIGH places in the land, servo you with
notice to-day that the money shall be
repaid with interest. And you who are
deprivipg the people of liberty, threaten
ing ard conspiring against their lives
(hold me responsible for what | say)-l
tell YOU that the day is coming when tho
Judges shall be in the prisoners box and
the prosecutors shall be ciamoring for
mercy. eThou shalt not take the life
or liberty or property of citizen except
according; to tho laws Of the land and by
| the Judgment of his peers" is the first
and great commandment in liberty's dec
| alogue, and upon it all the other COM
mandments hang. 1t was given as con-
ccssion from power TO the people more
than six hundred years ago at the politi-
cal Horeb of Anglo-Saxon history, and no
man from that day has violated or disre-
garded it who was not tyrant or q
| traitor. or both Great chccrs. No man
in English history ever trampled upon
these sacred rights without being called to
account. Wicked men have the power
now; they have bayonets to protect
them, and they feel they can insult and
oppross with impunity forever.
So did Judas feel safe when he helped
eat the Lords supper with the Lord
Cataline held power in Rome. Arnold
onco held commission in the American
army. And you-you vile creatures,
whose infamy no epithct can describe and
no precedent parallel-you will find your
names more odious than those Of Cata-
line and Arnold combined. Immense
applause and long laughter Return
then. the day Of grace is almost passed
Reform now and we will forgive you. /
do not want single man except carpet.
Dagger to vote for this Chicago platform
And you who call yourselves Demo
Gratis and who yet arc lying round here
seeking and bargaining to get office from.
u Legislature which every line OF Demo,
cratic principles declares to be an illegal
and illcgitimate body, shame, shame upon