The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-04-08

ing of the 3rd of March Can it be that the purity
of the ermine of IN Associate Justice and the in
tegrity of the Office of Revenue Collector have been
so far prostituted by these covetous aspirants to
seats in Congress. to canse them 10 conspire with
the unscrupulous authorities of the State OF South
Carolina deprive one-half of the people of their
rightful representation in Congress. by committing
pal pable fraud upon the House of Representa-
tives!
The Legislature of South Carolina, by which
the election law was passed under which the par
ties claiming seats from this State present them
selves, is composed of eighty negroes end forty
white members in the House, and of twelve negroes
and twenty whites in the Senate, and the Republ-
can majority on joint ballot is not less than one
hundred and thirty. The election law required
the Governor to appoint Board of three Commits
sioners Of Election for ea.h county in the State,
who were also made County Canvassers, and it
was the duty of these Commissioners to establish
the election precincts and appoint the managers of
elections. The Governor, as was to be expected,
appointed in nearly oil the counties majority OF
Republicans on each Board of Commissioners ana
they in turn apponteda majority of persons. when
they could be had, of the same political faith, on
each board of managers. By another Act of the
same Legislature, the State constabulary force,
together with the Sheriffs and their deputies, and
the police force of towns and cities, were required
to be distributed ut the several election precincts
in the State election day, to see that the peace
was preserved and the election conducted accord
ing TO law. And in fact these officers were present
at every precinct in the State, and the election
passed off with quiet and good order unprece-
denied in any country.
Again By an ordinance of the Reconstruction
Convention, more largely composed of the Repno-
lcan partv than the Legislature elected afterwards,
the Congressional Districts of the Slate were gerry
wandered and changed so as TO throw large ma
ority of negro voters, who had been first organized
into sworn Union Leagues, in every Congressional
District of the State. In a word, the leaders re-
sorted to every imaginable device it was possible
to conceive in order to secure the triumph Of the
Republican party And yet HoGE and WALLACE,
who were the nominees for Congress Of the ne
groes, the carpet baggers and few renegade whites
in the 3rd and 4th Districts, were defeated by the
Overwhelming maioriiies hereinbefore stated
Their first impulse was to contest the elections Of
REED and SIMPSON, and they did so, not pretending
in their volumnious protests that they had recev-
ed, or were entitled to receive, the sufrages OF
any portion of the white race. but the burthen OF
their complaint is that the negroes were kept away
from the polls by intimidation terrorism and fraud
These stale and ridiculous charges, which might be
applied with equal truth and propriety to any cleo
ton that has yet been held or will take place for
the next ten years, would hare sufiiced them, if
they could have sustained their allegations, by
credible proof, which they knew it was impossible
to do. Hence, they abandon the contests for the
time being, and manipulate the State authorities,
including the Governor, until they are each furnish
ed with certificate that they had received, not q
majority of the votes rs the law required, but a
majority of the legal uotes; and these certificates
were supplied, as we have fully shown, after the
authority of the Canvassers to investigate or certi-
fy in regard to the election had ceased, and they
had no more power in the premises than any other
equal number of citizens.
In q word, it is one of the boldest attempts that
has occurred in history to thwart the will of the
people, and deprive the Caucasian race of all rep
resentation in Congress. for no one will have the
audacity to allege, that the white people of the
State are represented by the miserable caricatures
on manhood, yclept carpet-baggers, who are new
quietly occupying seats in the 4lst Congress, and
10 which class these contemplate aspirants from
the up-country of South Carolina, HeGE and WAL
LACE, properly belong.
In conclusion, we will remark that this article is
not expected to benefit the respondents, Messrs.
REED and SIMPSON, in their efforts to obtain JUS
tice at the hands of the dominant party in Con-
gress. We have felt it due to the cause of truth,
TO the principles underlying the foundations of our
republican institutions, now sadly ignored, and
to the Democratic party Of these United States,
that a thorough and complete exposure should be
made Of the manner in which the peoples mandate
has been set aside, and the worthless character and
despicable conduct of high officials be brought to
see the light of day. Adler pens have not at
tempted to perform the task, and hence an effort
is made to give true rendering of all the facts in
the case, which stamp indelibly the mark of shame
and disgrace upon the brows of that "noble army
Of martyrs" the Office holding sealawags and in
truders, who hold high carnival in this down-rod-
den State. Finally. there is little doubt rs to the
result IN Congress. Already, the Committee on
Elections have reported that HoGE has the prima
faeia right 10 the seat he claims, and this will be
foilowod nv n similnr declaration in favor of WAL
LACE The credentials of REED and SIMPSON are
ignored, and the facts bearing upon their relative
positions are passed unoticed. Another high-han-
ded outrage is added to the long list of usurpaions
and tyrannies of the Radical party.
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