The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-10-24
FRIDAY.
The Liberal Electoral Ticket for South
Carolina.

To the People of South Carolina:
On the 5th day of November the people OF
South Carolina, in common with the people OF
all the United States, will be called upon to
elect President and Vice President to serve
for the ensuing four years.
The course that has been pursued by the pre-.
sent administration has been so subversive OF
all local self-government, and hostile to the
rights and liberties of the citizen, as to have
excited the greatest apprehensions tor the safe
ty of our free institutions, and has aroused the
intelligent and Conservative masses of the ma
tion to a united and determined effort to rescue,
if possible, the government from the hands OF
its present audacious and unscrupulous rulers,
and bring it back to its constitutional bearings.
More than this-so alarming and widespread
has been the growth of corruption in high places
as to have tainted all the fountains of public
Justice. and 80 reckless the use of corrupt in
strumentalities by public officials as to under
mine every principle of honor and honesty IN
the breasts of the people, and prepare the way
for the rapid and almost sure decay OF all pub
lie virtue.
To arrest the spread of these evil and danger
ous tendencies, and to save to the people the
substance as we'll as form of a constitutional re-
public, the citizens of all classes and parties
have organized holy, firm, indestructible aill-
auce in behalf of purity in government and
sympathy and reconciliation between sections
Tie cardinal principles Of this. movement
were promulgated from Cincinnati on the tlrst
of last May, and solemnly ratified by the De-
moeracy of the whole Union in general con-
Horace Greeley of New York, and 3. Gratz
Brown, of Missouri, chosen az the standard
bearers of this cause, have been hailed with
patriotic enthusiasm by the friends of law, or
der and we'll regulated liberty throughout the
land. The principles which have been en-
blazoned upon our banner in the hopeful words
of our illustrious candidate cannot die, but
must and will survive even defeat, If defeat
were possible.
South Carolina, recognizing this as the only
movement in the present crisis calculated to
overthrow a monstrous Capitalization, and TO
secure to the present generation the blessings
of just and free government, has, through a
convention of her people, recorded her adhe-
sion and pledged her support to the movement.
While we are not permitted to speak the
language of assured victory to our people in
this State, it is, nevertheless, our solemn duty
to adure them by their enlightened love Of
country and their devotion to its institutions,
to summon to their aid that highest fortitude
in man, of fidelity to principles even in the
midst of disaster, and, rallying around our
colors, give to our candidates manly, gener-
GUS and united support
Animated by the foregoing sentiments, and
profoundly sensible of the responsibility de-
volved upon them, and to insure the action
which is recommended, the State Central Exc
cutive Committees of the Democratic and Lib
eral Republican parties, after a joint confer.
ence, have determined, under the auspices Of
the undersigned representing this State in the
National Executive Committees of the two
parties to present to the People of South Caro-
Tina and invoke their suffrages for the follow
ing ticket of electors:
State at Large.-M. P. O'Connor, of Charles
ton; w. H. Wallace, of Union; s. A. Pearce,
u First TsHsi District.-w. W. Walker, of George
town.
Second District.-Johnson Hagood, of Barn.
we'll.
Third District Simeon Fair, of Newberry.
Fourth District.-W. R. Robertson, of Fair
THos. Y. SIMoNs,
National Dem. Executive Com.
S. A. PEARCE,
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