The Greenville enterprise. [volume] (Greenville, S.C.) 1870-1873, 1872-11-06

300 white voters who did not feel
interest enough in being repre-.
sented in Congress- to turn out at
the election. In Fairfield, a
County distinguished for its intel.
ligence and wealth, one.tbird of
the white voters remained at,
home. The same thing occurred
in every County. If all had gone
out to vote. and had exerted a
proper influence with the colored
people, the elections would have
gone very differently. We might
have redeemed and regenerated
the State. 80 ,ro '.ra.
Il know that the negroes are
banded together, as a race, under
the lead of vile carpet.baggers
and infamous scalawags, who
wonld as quickly sell their Coo
for thirty pieces of silver as they
have betrayed their race and
country for Office, promotion and
the hope of stealing, swindling
and plunderingl But, notwith.
standing this antagonism to the
white people, l know that all in.
fluence might be brought to bear
on them which they could not re.
sist, if the property holders of the
State were 80 disposed. Let every
land holder refuse to rent to or
employ any laborer, unless lie
will agree, with proper stipula.
tions, to vote with his landlord or
employer. This may be done
without incnrring any of the pen
alties of the Act of Congress
against intimidating voters
There will be no intimidation, but
a fair and legitimate agreement,
which the parties have a right to
make. But it may be said that
our lands could moi be rented or
cultivated OH these terms. This is
presuming that the laborer can
live longer without food than the
employer can without his labor.
1t Is far better that we should
work for ourselves, and let the
greater part of our lands lie idle
and rest, than to live any longer
under such government as we
have-rohbing us Of all we can
make by taxation, and corrupting
all the fountains of legislation.
In every other country i'm the
world, where ttey are allowed to
vote, the tenantry and laborers
vote with their landlords and EN-.
ployers. John Quincy Adams,
Jr., told me, speaking of this
very question, that when lie was
a Republican, all of his tenants
and laborers, about forty in num-
ber, voted with him, and when lie
quit the Republican party and
! turned Democrat, they also turned
| with him, and voted the Demo.
cratic ticket, without a VOID be.
ing said to them OH tho subject
lie expected them to vote with
him, and they knew it and did so.
Now, | suppose it is just as prop.
er for a cotton planter to require
this of his colored, laborers in
South Carolina as it is for Mr..
Adams to exact it Of his white
laborers in Massachusetts. And
especially SO when these colored
laborers are voting for rogues and
scoundrels in preference to honest
and intelligent men. Chief Justice
Chase said to me, in 1868, that
we need not apprehcnd any diff,
Guilty in controlling the negro
vote in South Carolina. Brains
anu property" said he, "will al
ways control labor" replied
this might be, it it were not for
the carpet>baggcrs. He said the
carpet. baggcrs would soon become
identified with the citizens or
leave the country.
But the etbagger inf South
Carolina, instead of leaving the
country, or identifying himself
WIN tne people, has become, with
the scalawag, through their infu
ence over the negro, a sort of ar
istocrat or autocrat and tribune
of the colored race. Now, we
must sot rid of these autocrats
and tribunes. We must dethrone
them and break their sceptre by
destroying their influence over the
negro. This can only be done by
teaching the negro that he is de.
pendent on us, and not we on him.
let us, therefore. resolve unani
mously, and stick to it, that we
will no: rent our lands to, or EN-.
ploy any one who will not agree
to vote with US IN all the elections.
i In this way, and in this way only,
can we route the pet.bagger and
scalawag, and get control of the
co!ored people. Cuffee has no
gratitude in general, as / have we'll
tested, though there are excep.
tons, and he can only be ipfu.
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