The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-19

Georgia. ............. 63S,926 545,142
Louisiana. 362Oo6 364, ,2Ol
Mississippi. ......... 382,S96 1442O1
North Carolina.......... 67S,470 39l 500
South Carolina. .......... 289657 415,814
Texas. as....................... $4,000 253,475
Total. ,2SO 3,1O3,S6O
1t will thus be seen that there is here DOM
iciled in contiguous territory population
consisting of 3,S77, $50 whites and ,10S 1850 col
ored persons The two races are animated by
feelings easily excited into hostility, and have
memories of pride and servitude that slumber
uneasily in theirminds. If once infamed into
animosity it may, for these reasons, be many
years before hatred can be obliterated. With
out doubt the most terrible and enduring of all
the contests the world has known have been
those generated by the rivalry of distinct races
involved in war for mastery, and bequeathing
the resentments of one age to rekindle the
struggle in another. Desolated empires, de-
stroyed civilization, re-established slaveries
have chronicled the result of such strife in
Eastern lands, whilst many of the fairest pro-
vinces of Europe have been kept in state of
chronic internal hostility by the same cause
Moor and Spaniard in their deadly feud red
dened the waters of Granada from the sea to
the Guadalquivir. Hungary was torn by con-
flict of Magyar and Sclavenic populations, by
peasant wars and fomented jealousies, until it
iapsed hopelessly under Austrian dominion.
Poland owes half its miseries and all its subju-
CATION to fateful rivalry of races In fact,
only the seyerest forms OF des3potlc AUTHORITY.
have been able to maintain the semblance of
order wherever such animosity has once been
fully antagonized
That feature, however, which if more sharp
ly defined than all else in the dealing of the
President and his party with the colored race
at the South, is the rigid isolation they have
been induced to maintain. To that end every
legal and political appliance has been directed.
To that end special laws have been invoked
from partisan Congress, such rs that of July
10. 1867, and March II, 1868. The latter was
supplemented by the Ku Klux act of April
90, 1871, and still further enactment in the
same behalf was demanded at the session of
1872. To that end the operation of the Freed
mems Bureau was prostituted, the military in
terycntion chiefly directed, the officers of the ar
my converted into political agents, and the
service made stepping-stone to the guberna-
torial chair or the United States Senate. TO
that end, even crime went unpunished; the
penitentiarics were transformed into partisan
schools, and in one instance 200 convices par
doned on the eve of election-190 were negroes.
To that end the control of the Southern States
was organized upon an almost exclusive color
ed vote, and has been held fixedly by the same
tenure ever since. The doctrine inculcated
there has ever been, rs it still is, an imagined
necessity, to combine as race and seize on all
power for protecting liberties which they are
taught to believe threatened.
In the States themselves, when ascendency
had been thus achieved, the local legislation
was promptly engineered in the same channel.
The election laws, the registration laws, the
militia laws, the tax laws are illustrations of
the same point. The banding together of the
colored population in secret loyal leagues
formed the ground work for system of intimi-
dation and cajolery which brought the whole of
it into subsection to one sinister influence 1t
was direct appeal for caste rule. With an
unchecked control in all those States, with
every possibility for securing support from the
entire community, it is as indefensible as it is
significant that the administration effort should
have been only in the direction where Ignorance
so much prevailed, and where bad passions
were so easily excited. This alone would con-
vct it of design to rely upon an easy wrought
alienation, rather than any moral force 1t
was the hazardous incentive to war OF races,
for the sake of political gain. To band them
solidly in the struggle for control was to ignore
the whole genius of Republican government,
and invite collision sure to develop into vio-
lence. This, of course, involved the arming of
the race, as we'll as its consolidation into po-
litical unit, and the facts followed swiftly upon
the inference The garrisoning by such armed
nartisans of the States of Arkansas and Lou
isiana. the declaration and enforcement Of
martial law by Governor Holden, of North
Carolina. through colored soldicry the clan
destine establishment of fourteen negro regi-
ments and illegal purchase of arms for them
by Governor Scott, of South Carolina. pending
his reelection, the repeated rejection of white
darollments when voluntarily rendered, and in
one instance the disarming of white cadets to
turn their guns over to company OF blacks,
arc conclusive evidences not only OF the pur-
pose had in view, but equally so OF the shape
such antagonism must necessarily assume at
last. On this point the Congressional report
SAYS "To-day in South Carolina, Texas and
Arkansas land in 1868 it was so III tennessee
and elsewhere, the emancipatad slave rcgi-
ments parade in State uniforms, armed capca-
pie with the most approved weapons, paid for
bv taxation, while the white men are denied
the right to bear arms or to organize even as
militia for the protection of their homes, their
property or the persons of their wives and
children"
When held responsible for having conducted
the colored race mt the South to the edge of
such emergency as now confronts it, the re-
sponse m vonchsafed by the Administration is
that in all it has done it has but reflected the
will of the North. If this be true, and wheth-
er true or false, does it not impose double
duty on Northern men, to correct such admin
istration and dismiss from power party which
has so imperiled the situation If knowing
how fagrant has been the overture to the bad
passions of race not Injured to selfcontrol,
they may doubt it's power to extricate itself
! from, the tolls thrown around it, does not hui