The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-08-28
Virginia and sonth Carolina.

There is nothing like contrast for showing
things in their true colors. For seeing correct.
| ~ the sham benefcence Of the Republican
policy in the South and for judging the capsc-
tiles of the two races for promoting good gov
eminent in that section, there is no contrast
more instructive than that which is presented
between the State which has escaped with only
moderate taste of negro rule and the one to
whose lips that bitter cup has been pressed the
most remorselessly. In all that pertains to;
education, socialstabiity, order, material pros
perity, and progress, Virginia under Democrat
ic rule has made rapid strides forward. South
ICarolina, sacrificed to savage negro rule to
promote the selfish ends of the Republican
party in retaining control Of the National
Government, has gone steadily backward in
the scale of civilization, while ignorance, bru-
tality, and corruption have usurped the high
Ell. R1n'ss wn'eh honesty ana 'n's'lssnes sn0a''
Nothing can turn Virginia aside from q
steady course of growth and prosperity except
it be the humanity impossible event of return
to negro Republican rule. Nothing can raise
South Carolina ont of the slough Of despond
in which the State is sunk except it be the
decay of negro rule, hastened by negro faulty
and folly. Of the arpet-bagger brood, some
have left because, having ruined the credit of
the State, there was no plunder remaining for
them, and others have been driven out by the
negroes, who holding full supremacy at the
hpolls, now aspire to enjoy the Offices. When
the negroes shall have fully emancipated them.
selves from the discipline of their white leaders
and fall to quarrelling among themselves for
the spoils of Office and of public plunder, as
they inevitably must, their day. of power will
have departed. This is perhaps the only hope
for South Carolina, and it is a hope which is
patiently entertained by those most familiar
with the character of the negro. -,
AS if to give the lie direct to the wild stories
ican journals have trumpeted through the
North, the condition of the negro race in these
two States now comes prominently into view.
In Virginia, under white rule, the negroes enjoy
all the rights conferred upon them by the laws
without molestation. They have public schools
for the education of their children at the ex-
pense of the white people, and are on the
whole useful, law-abiding class of citizens
In South Carolina, under negro rule, the ne
groes are mainly given over to idleness and
license, and many of them are sinking straight
into the rot of barbarism.
In Virginia the rights of the negroes are
secured not only by the laws of the United
States, but by the laws of the State and by the
platform of the Democratic party. In South
Carolina the rights of the white man are sys-
tematicaly violated, as is illustrated by the
recent arrest and imprisonment of a white
Sheriff and his posse on charge of. murder
for the killing of negro desperate who resist
ed arrest, and whom it was their duty to arrest
dead or alive.
With this contrast before them it is time that
Republicans should cease to accuse the Demo-
cratic party of hostility to the negroes. And
when Republicans sustain Grant in his outrage
upon Louisiana, let them say that they do SO
not in the interests of humanity or civilization.
-Ne,o York World. ss Il s,1