The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-09-04
Agriculture and Politics.

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cred speech at the Clayton County Fair, in
which he considered the question as to what
the Southern people must do in the future. We
make the following extract from the address,
commencing it TO the careful perusal and study
of the farming community:
Now, affirm, it is cheaper for you to raise
your own provisions than to have them brought
from the West, and given to you at the nearest
depot free of all cost and charges! How is
this In the first place, if we raise five millions
of bales of cotton, we will get no more money
for them than we would get for half that num-
Der. Then, out of the same amount realized
of production Half the labor and supplies
employedin raising five million bales of cotton
could be employed in raising supplies, without
But half this labor would raise more than you
needed for supplies. You could employ much
of it, also, in enriching your lands, and i'm
proving your property i in many ways. Then
you would come to the end of the year with
your cribs full of corn, your smoke-houses full
of meat, your family full Of smiles, yourselves
full of independence, and your pockets full OF
money for Investment And how would you in
vest it? In cotton factories. on the waterfalls
which God sent all through your country to
run spindles. This would make you indepen-
dent of Old England and New England Then,
also, you would mine your own iron and make
your own implements of husbandry, and this
would make you independent of Pennsylvania
foundries and Massachusetts, workshops. In q
word, every improvement would be built up in
your own country, and all the profits of those
improvements would 60 into your own pockets.
Go on az you are now going, making cot
ton your chief crop, and slavery is the doom of
your children and your children's children for
ever A people who depend on other people
for their food and clothing, are and must be
slaves
Make cotton your surplus crop, and your
wealth, independence and power will multiply
as surely as the years increase
But you say there is a great obstacle in the
way of raising our supplies. The freedmen
will destroy them before they can be gathered.
I admit the full force of this obstacle. The
negro, as a race, prefer to live by idleness and
theft rather than by labor. When the present
generation of negroes-who acquired their dis
ciplin:.ry habits in slavery-shall pass away,
the troubles alluded to will increase with every
future generation. This brings us face to face
with great problem. And say heretnow, if
there is not sufficient craftsmanship in this
country to devise laws which shall compel the
negro to quit stealing and 60 to work, then the
best thing we can do is to pick up our children
and hunt another country. would give the
negro every right TO which he is entitled under
the laws but he is entitled under no law to be-
come the destroyer of his neighbors' property,
nor to keep the white race of the South in pow
erty and bondage.
The first thing to be done is to secure home
government for home affairs. This is our right
and our necessity. We must get control Of our
own labor and regulate our own industry.
Massachusetts and New York cannot do these
things for us wisely or we'll. With State gov
ernments for State affairs every other good will
follow. Without this every evil is inevitable
Well, 90 on and tell how we are to have this
great boon of self-government for our own at
fairs? I will. 1t can only be obtained by Sc
curing proper Interpretation OF the Constltu-
tion Of the United States as now amended, fix
ing the proper limits of the Federal and State
governments. This is the great work of the
country, and it must be done in the neat four
gears and it must be done at Washington.
Now, my friends, take breath and listen to
me, for want you to comprehend the biggest
idea of the age, and one which holds in its
keeping the future of yourselves and Of your
children for veal or woe. What does the Four
teenth Amendment mean? Does it mean that
citizenship q the United States is the primary
citizenship in this country; or does it mean
that citizenship as it heretofore existed, is only
extended to the emancipated race? Does it
mean that man is q citizen of State because
he is first citizen of the United States; or
does it mean he is acitizen of the United States
because he is first citizen Of some one Of the
States?
Protection to the citizen is the duty Of the
Government. That protection must extend to
all civil,rights, such as to hold property, make
contracts, sue, give evidence inherit, bequeath,
and everything which pertains to the security
and enjoyment of life, liberty and property.
Now the government Of which person is pri-
marily citizen, is bound primarily to extend
this protection, and must have the primary j'.-
risdiction to that end. If, then, the Fourteenth
Amendment has made citizenship of the Uni
ted States the primary citizenship, then the
primary protection of citizenship is with the
Federal Government, and the primary jurisdic-
ton to extend that protection is IN the Federal
Government But if the primary jurisdiction
is in the Federal Government, then the State
governments can only exercise such jurisdic-
ton subordinate to and under the supervision
of the Federal Government.
In UneSc TCW UItCI NOluo L ANfS ASOoiJ plS
sented the question of all questions for all the
people of the United States, and the one on the
solution of which hangs all possible hope in
the future for the Southern States and people;
It will settle whether you shall be paupers and
slaves, or independent freemen.
THE WONDERFUL VIRTUES OF INK.-No
fluid water perhaps, excepted, has so benefited
the world as ink. It has been the medium
through which the great thoughts OF all all the the
discovery by which the art preservative of all
arts was made possibility And yet, much as
has been written on the subject, and long as it
has been experimental with, it has remained
for the present day to develop some of its most
remarkable qualities. One night last week a
Louisville gentleman, who had retired to rest
after light supper of soft crabs and cucum-
bers, awoke in the night with certain pains,
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