The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-04-28
A Colored Mars View of4the Fifteenth
Amendment. =

owned, edited and published by colored men,
says "it will give thanks to nobody or party 1or
blessings to the colored race secured by the FIJI
teenth Amendment, save to- God Almighty
alone" This is the just and reasonable view
all along held before the ecolored people by their
late masters. The public speakers and writers
of the South, truly representing the white peo-
nle have always contended chat the hand of
Providence alone guided events resulting in the
emancipation of this people from slavery, and
their subsequent inYestiture with the rights and
privileges of American citizens. The North,
in waging war for the restoration of the Union,
distinctly avowed its purpose not to intefere
with slavery in the Southern States; and the
solemn declarations of the Federal Congress,
together with the more important overtures OF
President LINCOLN in the proposed basis OF
settlement in 1864, never contemplated any
disturbance of the relations existing between
the two races. 1t was an afterthought, and as
! such enforced upon a prostrate people, whose
power and influence to prevent it had forever
gone. It was the finger of Providence drec-
ting for wise purposes the release of an inferior
race from slavery. But the glory of the achieve
ment was seized upon by reckless fanatics and
demagogues, and for their own selfish ends these
deluded people were subsequently made to pass
beneath the yoke of Radicalism. Here again
let us listen to this @man and brother OF the
Maryville Republican, who declares as an "un-
questionable fact" that the majority of 'the
colored people contemplated in that change OF
the Constitution are as much slaves to-day, to
the Radical party, as they ever were any kind
of slaves in their lives before. With very few
exceptions the Radicals would prefer return
to the old slave system at once unless they can
be masters of the colored mans vote" while he
recognized another fact, that "the Southern
people, or so-called rebels, are, without excep-
ton, thankful that this settled matter of slavery
is dead forever"
Is not every word of this undeniable truth?
The Radicals of this State, while charging in
timidation upon the white people, have illus
trated it on every occasion. In our own streets,
during the elections held in 1868, it was posi-
lively dangerous Tor colored man to vote the
Democratic ticket. Only a few showed pluck
enough to go contrary to their Radical masters,
and in nearly every instance they were made to
suffer by taunts and jeers, if not actual blows,
from the vast majority who were seeking to en-
force the behests of their League rulers. But
let us enquire as to their thraldom to-day.
Every appeal from the white Radicals is to the
prejudice of the colored voters, either in behalf
of the political party which claims to be their
deliverers or against the white people of the
South. They would not have the colorcd voter
to enquire as to the fitness or capacity of any
proposed candidate. 1t is enough for him to
know that the Radical party is represented, and
it is rank treason to cast ballot independent
of that party. The chief strength and support
of the ofice-holders is this mighty grasp upon
their deluded followers, and they know full
we'll that the exercise of independence and un-
restrained freedom will bring about change OF
rulers Hence their efforts to impress the ne
groes with their importance and value IN
political point Of view, and the unreliability OF
any professions made by their white neighbors.
We are convinced that tine and individual e1-
ertion will satisfy the colored race as to the
baneful effects of their present slavery. Alien
alton and distrust of their former masters can
not be perpetuated, even through the agencies
of oath-bound organizations and party lntlml-
dation., The day is coming when the large ma
jority will appreciate the CALLING chains OF their
subserviency to the Radical white leader, and
when their eyes will be opened to the selfish in
trigues of the men who have grown rich by their
countenance and support This awakening has
its terrors for the carpet-bagger and scalawag,
and they would postpone the evil day until
their opulence and ill-gotten gain WOULD make
them Independent of thsscolored voter, and
they would no longer feel the necessity Of pan
dering to his prejudices or appealing to his
blind infatuation for the Radical party. 1t is
an imperative duty upon the white people of
the South to expose the base pretensions OF ad-
venturers and recreant natives, and in the most
effective manner show to the colored people the
nature of this political slavery under which
they are yet governed. The instance cited in
this article proves that "truth crushed to earth
| will rise again." and we would ask our readers
to improve the opportunity given by this exam
pie to illustrate the subject in all of its bear
ings.
! THE IRoN-CLAD OATH TO BE DISPENSED
w1TH.-We are gratifed to know that the many
difficulties which have environed the respecta-
BILE white people of the South, in regard to seec-