The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-11-11
Shameless Efrontery.
What is Republicanism2 z


been given the negro to guarantee re-
ed by tho Constitution of the United
States That means to constitute re-
publican form of government, it is necos-
sary that tho majority OF negroes in South
Carolina, who can not read i Line or write
their names, must constitute the Govern
ment. Ii this be republieanism, we pre-
fer monarchy decidedly, for at least four
reasons:
First. An ignorant mob is unstable and
revolutionary-truIy the sssmany headed
monster thing" which delights in over
throwing everything conservative, good
or great.
Second. Mobocracy never represents
tine property of tho State; but, on tho
contrary, invariably tends to destroy it
always deriving increase OF appetite frona
what it feeds on.
Third. When that ignorant, pennileas
mob is of different race from the property
holding, intelligent minority, this chaos
is intensified, and must be perpetual; and
when YOU add the fact, that one class was
lately the slave of the other, the elements
are perfect for constant, living hell on
earth. Tet
Fourth. But the crowning misfortune
consists in the facility which this state of
things affords to tho foreigner and mere
adventurer to obtrude himself into the
Offices of others, and eat out tho substance
of those for whom he has no sympathy.
So much ignorance and poverty and class
prejudice make it easy for the unprincipled
Of the superior race, by the 7ilest means,
to sway the great mass OF sovereignty
against the whites for their own base
partisan purposos-men so lost to all sense
of Justice, patriotism and delicacy, as soon
to lose the least sense of shame. This re-
Election is painfully forced upon us by see
ing the Radical ticket put into the hands
of the poor, deluded negroes in this Dis
trio. at the late election for President.
The very ticket prepared at headquarters
and distributed over the State, is a rich
commentary upon the republicanism of
the Radicals 1t is printed in high eolors
and flaming characters, like show bills, to
take the eyes of the poor creatures who
were directed to drop it in the boxes me-
cbanically, like automatons. This. shows
both the ignorance of the voters and q
knowledge of it on the part of the ring
masters, for the negroes will not vote any
ticket except those made to order. But
the emblem placed on said ticket is more
than rich--it is shametully brazen and ar
rogant Afying Eagle, supporting carpet
bag. These people boast of being carpet
baggcrs, and adopt the carpet-bag as their
escutcheon. They have no more interest
among us, and are no more entitled to our
Offices than the pigeons which are now
coming South in swarms to eat our South
ern acorns, and winter here. An impu-
dent crew of beggars and robbers, with
out any selfrcspect or even sense of de-
concy, they now unblushingly proclaim
and boast of their own shame. When
man loses all shame, he is lost beyond all
redemption. We suppose tho bird is rep
resented flying, to make plain to the com.
prehension of the negroes that he is
'bird Of passage'-having no rest tor
his feet, no home, and no goods except
what is carried in the carpet-bag. These
people remind us of wretch we once
knew, who habitually spoke of himself as
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CouNTY-DIsrR1oT.- confess to q
partiality for District. We have been SO
long used TO sDistrict" as the common
name of tho sub divisions of South Caro-
lima, and it is SO interviewer in the trans
actions, records, history and "reminiscences
of the people and Of the State, that the
change seems to bo more than in name.
We cannot see that the change was ne
cessary to give efficiency to other changes
It was not name peculiar to secession or
its results. 1t neither robbed others Of
their ''good name" or honest "trash." 1t
was the family name, given sovorally to
the children of Palmetto-one OF the
thirteen original sons of the fruitful moth
er e Pluribus Uaum. The reason tor
the change could not DO to increase the
humiliation Of those to whom such small
things were dear, for that would have
been too small an act for convention.
Though there were doubtless sufficient
reasons with the convention for making
the change, yet for one We must be al
lowed time to harmonize. To say ne
were born in Anderson County, sounds
good deal like wo were born nowhere, and
t to address letter to Abbeville County,
seems like it is intended to go in the
foreign mail, and to receive letter from
a friend headed Marion County, makes US
feel, for the moment, like he had seeded
from tho State and changed his name.
Well. we submit-to the task of trying to
Get usod to it--by degrees. There is one
advantago--a small onc-in the change
il will give more distinction to District,
as applied to the subdivisions of our Con-
ference territory. Well try to mako
much of fit-Christian Neighbor.
A CoLoRED MAN RECEIVES FORTY ACRES
OF LAND, &C., FROM HIS OLD MASTER
Mr.. William L. Brunson, one of the old