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

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tend otherwise. 1t would have been quick
and decisive, and ended before this time.
Upon the click of the telegraph that Dem
ocrats could. not peacoabfy assemble in
Charleston to ratify their nominations,
the City of New York could alone send,
and would have sent from her swarming
population, men enough to avenge US,
and have made that the last Of such con-
f;cts for this occasion. Our next and
only public meeting since wasa few days
later, and in the open air. 1t was SO dis
turbed by colored people, with singing,
music, whooping, and screaming and in.
sulting language, tbatt adjourned All
this has been submitted to without retail
alton or merted punishment. Other de-
signs and threats have been reported to
us upon evidence seemingly trustworthy,
but not 30 criminal and horrible that we
will not disgrace you by the public appear
ance of belief in such charges. They are at
variance with our experience of your ma
ture and general good character, but IN
consistent with the bad character and de-
praved nature of tho white men you listen
to, and might be the natural consequence
of language we know they have USED.
They will be held to fearful account when
the day Of "their whirlwind cometh,"
We know, better than you know, why
it is that the infamous outcast white men
who lead you urge you into these ag-
gressions. We will tell you why 1T is
that they do it. They are instructed by
the central power Of the Radical party.
They would provoke bloodshed just as
they did at Memphis and New Orleans
in 1866. The massacre and blood of
few colored people, they think, pending
this great election, would be prolific seed
for Radical votes; and SO it would be II
the suffering of four years war, and the
worse endurance of Radical rule for three
wears, had not taught us some wisdom.
! IF the conflict comes-if there shall be
massacre anu SSiiooashed-it shall not be
charseable upon us; and the contrlvances
of your Radical associates, and their lying
newspapers, will not avail again to cheat
the people in that respect.
Do YOU remember tie evonts of 1861
the attack on Fort Sumtor, and the COM
mencement of the war? We are sure
YOU do remember. There were then
more people in the United States who be-
lieved we had good cause of complaint
who were opposed TO the Republican
party and it's purposes-than there are
now who approve Of tho political supre-
macy which has been given 10 you. The
Republican party was then, as you arc
now, in minority. Mr. Lincoln and his
party went into power by aminority vote
of the whole people. A great majority Of
the American people was opposed to the
war. 1t could not have been carried on
against us. Artful and designing men OF
tho Republican party, seeing this, con-
trvcd to lead us on till they made us ap'
near before the world as the aggressors
and the authors of the war. Fort Sum
ter was reduced, and tho national flag
fred on and lowered by us. And then it
was at once that the North, ard the East,
and the West were united against us. So
it will be with you. You will begin the
conflict You are now beginning it. II
You 90 on, our race with its thirty mil
lions will be as one man against your race
with its three millions. Ten to one! Do
YOU doubt the result, or your inevitable
fate? Consider what will then be your
condition which you will have accepted
and chosen in exchange for your present
hopes and the assurance of equal laws,
equal Justice, peace and pcaceable pros
perity. Again (third): we know and
fully understand the arts and falsehoods
bv which the false and Infamous white
MEN. excite you into yourpresent danger
You are arming and drilling in warlil<c
practices to protect your freedom to
prevent your being again reduced to
slavery! These infamous men tell you
it is tho purpose of the Democratic party
to restore siavery-that we intend this
that if YOU vote with US you will vote to
make yourselves again slaves. No false
hood over exceeded this in wickedness
and audacity II you would stop to think
one moment you would see and detect it.
We will expose it to You; we will not
ask you to take our word for it, but we
will establish what we say by public re-
cords. 1t is q double falsehood. For
they know that we are not only guiltlcss
of the charge, but we are the party which
insists that your freedom is fixed and for
ever settled that it is not and cannot
ever be questioned or discussed, while the
Republican party have made it an open
question and have left it SO; if thoy pre-
vail now, at somc future day the lawful
extinction of slavery may be denied and
discussed. We will tell you how this is:
On the 9th day of January, 1865, Con-
gress agreed to an amendment of the
Constitution of the United States, to be
submitted to the several States for their
approval, in the words following:
aAnrlcLE XIII. SECTION l. Neither
slavery nor involuntary sorvitude, except
as q punishment for crimo, whereof the
party shall have been duly convicted,
shall exist within the United States, or
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