The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-08-08
For the anderson AtelHgencer.
Public Meeting.
ANDERSON, S. c., August 5, 1S7

mlnlStratlOn Oh the ederal ana Otate Govern
ments, aud disposed to unite with the Liberal
Republicans and Democrats in the grand effort
that is now being made to SAVE the country,
very large meeting, composed chiefly Of intel
ligent farmers, planters and working men,
from all parts of the County, was convened in
the Court House to-day.
On motion of COL j. N. Brown, w. Fl. D.
Gaillard, Esq, was called to the Chair, and
Messrs. A. R. Broyles and w. A. McFall ap-
pointed Secretaries.
On taking the Chair, Mr.. Gaillard explain
ed briefly and intelligently that the object of
the meeting was to consider the action of the
Liberal Republican Convention at Cincinnati'
and the Democratic Convention at Baltimore,
and take such measures in relation thereto as
might be deemed advisable. Whereupon The
following preamble and resolutions were intro
duced by Hon. J. P. Reed:
WHEREAS, After twelve years of practical
disunion between the peoples of the North and
the South-four of them spent in sanguinary
conflict of arms, and eight in conflict Of pas
sions and prejudices-un the influence of
which the common government at Washing
ton, whilst pretending TO reconstruct the Union
on the basis of the Constitution, continued, in
fact, to wage against prostrate and ruined
South, an unrelenting warfare of tyranny and
oppression, depriying her of every imminent
of good government held sacred by free men.
AND WHEREAS, by the action of the Liberal
Republicans at Cincinnati, and of the Democ-
racy at Baltimore, a National Platform has
been erected on which all good men, of all Sec
tions, who have the welfare of their country at
heart, without regard to race, color, previous
condition, or past political atfiliation, may
stand shoulder to shoulder, heart linked to
heart, and grasping hands "across the bloody
chasm, unite in one grand effort, laying aside
all the bitter memories of the past, and looking
steadily to the future, to restore the Federal
Union, with its millions of lately enfranchised
freedmen, to the condition in which it came
from the hands of its illustrious founders,
when in the enjoyment of peace and good will
slife, liberty and the pursuit of happiness may
be efectually guaranteed to all its inhabitants :"
AND WHEREAS, whilst our fellow-citizens of
every other State in the Union are rushing
with patriotic enthusiasm to mount the afore-
said platform, and range themselves in line,
under the command of those great civilians
Horace Greeley, of New York, and B. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri, to aid in the coming con-
f1ict for the redemption of their country, in
which the password will be "peace," and the
weapons 'struth, justice and the Constitution"
it is the sense of this meeting that South Car
olina should not longer stand aloof, but that
she, too, with an assurance that redemption
of the National Government must work out
her political salvation, should claim her "place
in the picture" and by her energy and gallant
rY in the common strife, entitle herself to
share with her sisters the glorious fruits of the
victory they are fastening to achieve. Be it,
therefore,
Resolved, That the Platform adopted by the
Liberal Republicans at Cincinnati, and ap-
proved by the Democracy at Baltimore, with
the candidates placed thereon for President
and Vice President of the United States, are
cordially accepted and ratified as the Platform
and candidates of this meeting; that in the
Horace Greeley of to-day, we recognize the
BENJAMIN Franklin Of '76, and with the meas
ure that we revere franklin as one of the
fathers of the American Union, we hope hence
forward to regard Greeley as its restorer and
preserver, not in theory merely, but in fact, in
the "hearts of his countYnen."
Resolued, That whilst the colored voters, who
are in large majority, remain confined in the
tolls of the carpet-bagger, the prospect of car
rying this State for the Liberal candidates may
seem forlorn one, we recognize the duty rest
ing upon us to make the effort, and are not
without hope that the reformation which has
commenced to sweep the country may include
oven unfortunate South Carolina; but whether
or not, we utterly repudiate the idea so fire.
quently urged, that we should take no interest
in the pending National conflict for fear of
prejudicing our local interests. We are salts
fed that the redemption of the State from the
&c ;o in
measure, on the restoration of the Federal
Government to civil supremacy under the Con-
stitution and laws, and that by aiding in the elec
ton of the Liberal-Democratic- Republican
candidates for President and Vice President,
we adopt the only available means for the res
toration of our own commonwealth.
RESOLVED, That it is the sense of this meet
ing that an organization of the friends of the
Liberal candidates for President and Vice
President should be effected as early as practi
cable, and to this end We respectfully call upon
our fellow-citizens in the several Counties Of
this State, who concur with US in opinion, to
assemble on the earliest practicable day, and
arrange for the appointment of number of
delegates equal to the number of their repre-
sentatives in the Legislature, to meet in Co
lumbia on Wednesday, the 2Sth August inst,
for the purpose of organizing for the Presiden-
tlal election, ana coHStdeTHy tOHuI 0ctlOH StOutC
be taken in regard 10 the State elections.
Resolved, That the citizens of the respective
Townships in this County, who concur in the
objects of this meeting, be requested to hold
meetings on Saturday, the 24th August instant,
to appoint two delegates from each Township,
with one additional from each incorporated
Town, to meet in Convention at the Court
House on Monday, the 26th inst, to appoint
four delegates and four alternates to represent
this County in the proposed meeting in Colum-
ba on Wednesday, the 2Sth August.
The foregoing preamble and resolutions were
announced to the large audience with great
distinctness, and after very full explanation
and discussion by the mover in his usual clear,
forcible and eloquent style, were adopted unan-
imously eycnnt that two Or three dissenting