The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-11-18

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Homestead exemption, which, by the by,
cannot avail against taxes orpublic dues.
During this year hO paid certain laborers'
ten'dellars per month wages, and to 9th.
ferst he gave one.third rofsthe crop produ-
cod by,them. Before the crop is. pitched
another year, he is required TO pay one
hundred dollars State taxes on. his farm.
This he. must necessarily provide tor, and
can do so in no other way than by throw
ing-it.oG-on~bis-employee -lby. giving to
those to whom he. paid ten; dollars per
month heretofore. six dollars per month
hereafter, and to those to whom he gave
one-third of the crop heretofore, one
fifth hereafter, to be fixed irrevocably in
his contract. This results both just and
natural, as every man white and colored
must perceive.at'oice,S and itscannot fail
to convince them that we ARE alike.inter-
ested in throwing ioff the incubus OF Rad
ical. msrue. .ps> ~ s. ~ .:..s q. :ss.s
But having satisfied. tho, colored. man
by reason and argument that his inter
ests are identical with those oftlle white
man, lit became. necessary to expose to
his understanding the fraud and falsehood
BY which his, ,credulity and fears had been
excited, in: relation, to his emancipation
and his future status as freeman: He
had been taught, to. believe, that he had
been freed by the Radical party, and that
If the Democracy were successful in the
Presidential election he would be re.
mariiiddeed to slavery. 1t painful to. know
that even men who drifted South as the
Ehangers on of victorious army, ,4and;re-
mained here as part Of its debris, to;fll.
their carpet-bags, with the. scanty earn
ings of both the white and colored races,
and then decamp to- their own, country,
should have uniredSin propagating such
unmitigated and mischievous. .faEsehoods.
But the fact. was neverthe so, and it
had to bennett AS to the mede,by which,
| the slave became free, it is admitted that
he was practically emancipated by the
results OF. theiwar, but.he isrealy more IN;
debted to the Confederate than the United
States army--for the fact The-former
began and perseFeredi thecontest which
ended :,in. his freedom, in despite Of the
offer held out by Mr.. Lincoln, the bead
Of the Radical party, as also by the Radi:;;
cal Congress of the United States, up. TO-
the first of January, 1863, that an aban-.
donment of the confession our part should
secure TO us tie perpetuation Of slayery:
This the South refused to do, prefsrrins
rather TO give up slavery than abandon
the contest for elfgovernment,; in which,
after years of sectional strife, they had
been led to engage. Therefore, the Sonth,
on the first of January, 1863, consented
to give up slavery, upon being defeated
in the contest of arms. But if eadmit
that they were practically emancipated
by tho army Of the United States alone,
then tllas was not emancipation by the
Radical party That army was composed
of both Radicals and Democrats, and,
generally as wewere advised, much the
largest proportion of the latter, andi was
Isnot, therefore, the act of a party, but OF
the American people.zRut, however, their
practical emancipation may have been
accomplished they werenever legally free
until the people of the South in theirown
State Constitutions and by tho ratifca-
tion of an amendment to the Constitution
ofthe United States. unanimously declared
them free, and that slavery should neuer
aoain exist in ths broad limits OF the
| American u Union; and to sustain their
freedom, thus established and secured,
every Democrat in the United States is
pied sed by tho ballot, by principle and
by honor, and every white native OF the
Southern States by his solemn oath In
writing, which is filed with the archives
of the country Not SO, however, with
| the Radicals as party. On the contrary,
whilst falsely and corruptly charging that
the success of the Democracy would re-
establish slavery, they have themselves
took position that would enable them to
affirm. consistently, if their interest
prompted them to do SO, that the colored
peoplc have never been emancipated. and
arc, to-day, legally the slaves of their
former owners. By the Reconstruction
| Acts they, in effect: affirm that the terri
tories South, formerly known as States,
were not States at the close OF the war,
but conquered provinces. If this position
be correct, then slavery has not been
abolished, for the people OF mere prov
inces could neither have made constltu-
tions for themselves, or ratified the
amendment to the Constitution OF the
United States abolshing slavery; and it
would remain to-day, as it stood when
the Northern merchant-man and specula-
tor forcibly brought the negro from his
native country and sold him to the South
ern planter, thus establishing an institu-
tion that has recently become revolving
TO most of the civilized world.
But, my fellow-citizens, am sure you
will say, as Isaid to the colored people
on all occasions, that it is absurd AID
ridiculous todiscuss this question, even TO
meet a most nlalignantialsehood, and but
for the -iIIiterate character OF that people,
If would have been so. They are free,
and no party or individual in the United
Co. ~ n ,ho world will ever again