The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-03-30
Tone of the State Press.

Tone of the State Press.
We give extracts from various newspapers in
this State on the first page of this issue, and as
further indicating the tone of public sentiment,
several other extracts are herewith appended:
From the Keoa0ee Courier.
Here we have taxation without representa-
tion, ignorance, corruption and roguery exer-
cising authority over intelligence and integrity.
All ideas Of correct government are reversed.
intelligent property-holding minority, feeding
sion, the necessary sequence of this abnormal
condition, exist. While we deplore this state
of things, we feel sure that the only remedy is
general reform, and return to Legitimate gov
ernment, where property and intelligence shall
have voice. We all recognize, as fixed fact,
the Fifteenth Amendment, but all deplore fur
ther Congressional interference with the States.
Where. are the liberties of the people? Look
to the last Legislature of South Carolina, and
find an answer in the ignorance, corruption and
extravaganza of that body. Look at the army
of useless officials flooding the country, the
heavy taxes, the large amount Of property ad-
vertised for taxes within the past year, and lind
an answer. And in viewing these evils, let
those who advocated the last election exult in
the fruits of their victory. We condemn the
disorders prevalent in the State, but we con-
demn DO less that state of things, which have
given them birth and nourishment.
From the Lexington Dispatch.
The white people of South Carolina, as we
have before on several occasions taken occasion
to observe, desire nothing but to be permitted
in peace and quiet to rebuild and restore that
prosperity which was destroyed by the war
They have endured with patience and fortitude
wrongs and indignities to which the people of
the North never would have submitted, and
which our people would have resisted had they
not known that the United States army would
quickly have been hurled upon them. But
they cannot and will not endure negro bayonets
and negro outrages, such as have marked the
last six months. They are not the aggressors,
and they desire simply the execution of the
laws, and the great mass in every instance have
been found on the side of order, fact which
has been proved by the earnest aud united
efforts Of communities in which disturbances
have occurred to prevent conflict.
We are very much inclined to think that the
army of tho United States will not take the
part of the negroes against the whites. To
say nothing of the influence of race, We know
Vi no CtluSe- WliCu VIII preluulcialiy ConIIoi
them against the whites. The army is not
composed comp of Radical fanatics. and it will Judge
fairly and impartially, and report the truth to
the United States government and the people
of the North. Its officers will soon find that
the disturbances are due to negro aggressions,
negro bayonets, negro supremacy, bad gov
ernment, official misconduct, plunder of the
public treasury; to misrule, despotism and
tyranny of the most grinding and disgusting
nature of which the records of history give any
account.
From the Kingstree Star.
We charge that Governor Scott and the rest
of the vile crew that has been engaged for the
last five years in stirring up strife between the
whites and the blacks is responsible for the
present situation of affairs in this State. They
have kindled fame that is about to consume
them, and being unable to manage it, they ap
peal to the very men whom they have traduced,
to give them aid and counsel in extricating the
the State from its terrible condition. During
the late canvass, when the wise and good men
of this State were counselling against the policy
of the Radical party, and warning the people
of the consequences that would follow, if they
persisted in their ruinous course, these men
were denounced as enemies to the State and its
welfare. If the honest men of that party (if
Cnere are any HaQ SUSTAINED Cne hclOlul move
ment and elected good men to the Legislature
and appointed competent men to Office, all
would now be we'll.
From the Union Times.
The fact is now very apparent to our mind
that the two races cannot live peaceably to-
gether and the country prosper, particularly
with the inferior race as the governing power
1t is an unnatural position for either, and the
white and tax-paying race will not longer sub
NIT to the degradation. The white people Of
the South have exhibited more forbearance than
we supposed they possessed; but the results of
this unnatural position are fast eliminating in
corrupt legislation, taxing one portion to keep
up the extravagant government of the other,
disorder and riots throughout the land. Force
cannot reconcile the opposing parties. There
must be change in the governing power
That alone will ensure a permanent peace
The Northern people would not submit for one
month to the humiliation and oppression which
the Southern people have patiently suffered for
FIVE years. It is inhuman to ask it, and dis
graceful to the nation that forces it upon any
part of her citizens. 4a II. 49,. :
Impeachment and Removal of Governor
Holden.