The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-10
To the Voters Of Anderson Co.

~ GllG VVeG@S VI sAAAsS"SSA Tvs
FELLow-C1rIzENs Four years ago, came
before you as candidate for the lower branch
of the General Assembly; and promised, if
elected, to use rny whole influence and energy
in the interest of our State and County. You,
in your wisdom gave your support to my oppo-
nents, and against that decision have no words
of complaint TO utter; for it was the voice OF
the people, which is all powerful and will pre-
vail; neither do presume to say that those
who were elected, proved recreant to their
trust, but it is certainly true, that their Efforts
whatever they may have been, have proven pow
erless, and to-day, we are in more deplorable
condition than then. Every man will admit
that for the last four years the people have de-
rived but little benefit from the State admins
tration, and will readily perceive that two years
more like the last will wreck the State. To-
day she is trembling on the verge of preci-
pice, and unless the people arise in their might,
she is doomed to struggle four years longer in
the cess-pools of fraud and corruption, and now
is the time to make one more effort to redeem
her and place her where she properly belongs,
as the fairest star in the galaxy of the nation.
know full we'll our financial troubles, and an
excessive bur,iensome tax can be traced to the
Acts of the General Assembly, which was COM
posed of two-&hirds of the party to which be-
long and to the NAL administration of the affairs
of the State by some of our officials. assert that
many members of both parties failed to do their
duty; the truthfulness of my assertion can be
proved by the journals of both houses. Admit
ting then, as do, that my party is greatly re-
sponsible for our present troubles, ! claim
as Republican, who voted for some OF
the men who brought about our present condi-
ton, that it is my duty to assist in making re-
paration by an earnest effort, to have purer
and yentler reign of law in the future; laws
which Republicans can point to with pride, and
will do honor to those who may assist in
their passage; laws which guarantee equal
rights to all; laws that say to the children of
men from every cline, "come and be of us, for
here YOU can find haven of peace and securi-
ty;n laws that protect the right of property
and hold it as sacred as the rights of the citi-
zen. TO say either has been protected by the
State authorities would be untrue, but l am
unwilling to believe that in the future, the
rights of the people are to be trampled under
foot. either by an armed mob on the one side,
or by the venaIty of corrupt office-holders on
the other. trust the day is not for distant
when Carolina will be governed by Carolinians,
irrespective of race or color, knowing that she
will then Phcnix-like rise out of the ashes OF
fraud and oppression. Let every man who has
onv pride of State, contribute his mite to rescue
one ofthe original thirteen States from the grasp
other spoilers who have cast blot upon her es-
cntcheon, o blot that no Carolinian can behold,
let him be white or colorsd, without feeling
Of main which so paralyzes the energies and
ambition of his nature, he is almost ready to
Give ND in despair, and allow our sister States
Of the Union to outstrip US in all which goes
IN make people happy and prosperous. See
;no and feeling this, can assure the citizens OF
mv native County, that if elecsed, shall ever
he found among the foremost to bring about
the reform which is absolutely necessary to the
neace and prosperity of the people, claim to
have at heart the welfare and honor of my ma
tive State, and this have fully proved when
many of those who now attempt to traduce me-
dared not. l defy any man to say, that ever
failed to do my whole duty, where the honor of
INV State was threatened. say further, I nev-
or advocated the passage OF any Act of the
Iec;slature that was not promotive of the
interest of the State, and challenge proof to
the contrary.
The only acts with which was connected
IN which che State was interested, either
directly or indirectly, were, first the Greenvlle
and Columbia Railroad validating bill, which
had had beep passed during and after the war, by
two separate Legislatures, representing !. the tax.
navsrs Owing to the adoption of the new
constitution, it was necessary to validate the
oction of those bodies; saw that few men
or or' a ring" was organized to sell the road
whereby the people of this and adjoining coun- n