The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-09-05
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FELLOW CITIZENS OF ANDERSON COUNTY:
The time for prompt, decisive action has ar
rived. If we would win in the approaching
County elections, we should organize at once.
The necessity is obvious and pressing, the peri
cd short in which to effect organization. Next
Saturday the various townships meet to send
delegates to general convention to be held at
Anderson Court House on Monday following.
Throw off then all apathy and Indifference, and
bestir yourselves. Use your utmost diligence.
Put forth your highest energies to secure full
meetings and free expression Of opinion. Send
your representatives instructed to vote for
whom you will BE not deceived by aspirants
and morbid office hunters, they would throw
firebrand in your camp, they would produce
divisions and discussions among you. OF such
beware Having nothing to lose, they expect
to gain all by distraction, confusion and anar-
chy. They will raise objections, they will throw
in Instructions to harmonious action. Trust
to the sincerity of none who oppose your pro-
ceedings. They are designing demagogues,
gloating after the spoils of Office. Listen not
to their sophistrics, but proceed calmly, dispas-
sionately, and deliberately to elect your dele
gates and to impart your instructions. We
may object to nominations, but the extraordin-
airy times and occasion make it the only feasi-
BILE and possible plan of success. We are
forced to it by the Radical opposition. 1t is
not, however, new or partial, but Of long
standing, and universal throughout the United
States. Then, not only precedent justifcs, but
exigency proves its adoption.
Now, fellow citizens, suffer not yourselves i'm
posed upon by advocates for concession and
Cancellation. Radjcalism and Conservatism arc
diametricaly opposite They are irreconcila-
BILE. He who is conservative opposes radical
ism, and he who is not conservative favors rad
icalism. The reverse proposition, or opposi-
tion to no party or measures is absurdity and
qualification. Hence, he who stands on this
undcfned and undefinable ground is incompe-
tent and disqualified for public position, arising
either from dishonesty or ignorance of things
self-evident and automatic. 1t belongs to you; !;
| it devolves upon you, conservatives and tax
payers of Anderson County, to say who shall
fill your oflices-competen honest men, or
such as may be incompetent and dishonest
You are $500 white voters, 20G0 of whom as
sumo are neither aspirants to office or desire
public employment. You are opposed by the
blacks, 1900 or HOO strong in with rare ex-
ceptions) solid phalanx. Add to these 500
restless and dscontentcd spirits, Il hope and do
not believe there are half so many,) and you
have from 100 to 1900 in the opposition.
Now, is it not evident that you are all powerful
and can control every election in the County.
Will you not then assert your right TO govern
your own affairs, BY unanimity, by cxcrton and
alacrty? Sacrifice your best friends if need
be, upon the public altar. / ask, who may lay
claim to your sullragcs, except they who are
willing and prepared to do and suffer along
with yourselves? Ignore father, brother; vote
not for the dearest kinsman, if it be cxpcdient
to do SO. Forget personal likes and dislikcs,
and act in reference TO the public good, and
only for the general benefit. Such is the
duty of the hour. No logic or rhetoric, no clo-
qucncc or clocution can be necessary TO enforce
it.. Let every citizen realize it, and unite to
save the County from possible, nay, impcnd-
ing rapaciy, pcculation and spoliuion.