The Robesonian. [volume] (Lumberton, N.C.) 1870-current, 1872-11-20

white people, | know that an influence
might be brought to bear on them which |
they could not resist, if the property
holders If the State were disposed. Let
every land holder refuse to rent or to
cmploy any lahorer, unless he will agree
With proper stlpulations, to vote with |
his landlord or employer. This may be
done without neurring the penalty of the
Act of Congress against intlmidatihg
voters. L lere wilt be no intimidation,
but "a fair legitimate agreement, which
the rarties have right to make. But
IT tuay be said that our lands could not
be rented or cultivated on these terms.
hiseis Eres uln;Ag :: hat the lahorer can.
i've longer without food than the eui-
pt,yer can without his labor 1t is tar
better that We should work for ourselves,
aud let the greater part OF our lands lie
Idle aud rest, than to live any longer
under such government a. We have
robbing us OF all we can make by taxa
ton, aud corrupting all the fountains of
Legislation.
In every other country in the world
where they are allowed to vote, the ten
antry and laborers vote with their land
lords and employers John Quincy
Adams Jr., old me, speaking If this
very question, that when he was re-
publican all of his tenants and laborers,
about forty in number, voted with him,
and when he quit the republican party
and turned democrat. they also turned
with him and voted the democratic tick
ct without word being said to them or
the subject. He expected them to vote
with him, and they knew it and did SO
Now, suppose it is just as proper for; ;
cotton planter to require this of his col
ored laborers in South Carolina as it il
for Mr.. Adams to exact it 4ot his whit
laborers in Massachusetts, And espe
cally SO when these zcolored lahocers ar,
voting for rogues and scoundrels in pref
enee to hanest and intelli GENT. men,
Chief Justice Chase told me, in 1865
). we need not p~ehend any difficulty il
controlling the negro vote in South Car
olina.. Brains and property said he
!. will always control labor. l rcplie
.-..s-..ss sf szera act e -th
carpet baggers. ~ said the carp
baggers would soon become identife
with the citizens or leave the country
But the carpet -bagger, in South Ca1
olina, instead Of leaving the country, {
identifying himself with the people, h;
become. with the scaawae, throue
their influence over the negro, a sort ,
/ arstacrat or autocrat and tribune # th
colo, ed race. Now, wemust get rid
these autacrats and tribunes. We mu
datnrnne them aud break their sceptl
= py Destroying their influence over tt
J. negro This can only be done by tea@I
ing the negro that he is dependel
on us, and DoJ We on him. Let l
! therefore resolve unaninously y aud sti,
to it, that We will not rent our lands t
- or empIoy any one who will not asr'
t. vote with us in all the elections.
:. this way. and i'll this way onl y. We ca
- rouG the carpet bag2er and scalaW,
and get control Of the cnIored penpi
:. Cutfee has no gratitude in general. as
i, have we'll tested, though there are e
ceptions, and he can only be infuenc
!, by his wants and necessities | ther
fore urge upon the white people.
or over the State, to determine unanimo S
, and at once, t, nave nothing to DO WI
Do the radicals, white or black, in renti
r. their lands or employing their lahore
MS without they will agree, in writing, u
he der penalty, to vote with them in
=. future elections. In three months afl
Is the enforcement Of this rule, the
ce would be no radical party in Soutn G;
a olina, no carpet baggers, no scalawa;
ir- except in the penitentIary. And on
th more we should be living under an h,
II est government in South Carolina
h. Until We adopt some stringent rule
or this kind, and adhere to it, and 20
.al at elections and vote for honest a
nd wise men, We shall be getting worse a
X worse every year, until the most hol
TO- Bile and terrible revolution and civil '
mr. co, RS the land with bloudy desol; t
ng and ruin. The remedy is simple q
ne. easy and peaceable. The evil is
trightful to think vf! Let me beset
you to avoid it.
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An Arkansas sury.