The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-11-19

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viii arrive tomorrow morrow from Baltimore, and the
Salute in honor Of tile victory will be fired sui
;ficien1tly near the White House to remind the
President Of what had recently Happened to
C5arsP and tie managers 5SE say they VII not
DE briefsitthler: either: pl'. :" s:oa .,ag. 10 lny:.
:li,,sN lrs Negro NIsl! /, Rights Pitt Jeopardy the
sT" s~ss Democratic ], pen II 9Yl1' NstaETies' ,al
n,rhe Democraticparty isise evidently ON the
high road to. national success that the I1rlenas
of the. .colored ,racaMih feel .sbnne: anxiety and
'as. to- e:,aecnrltY OF rsnetr newly
acquired rights:,ReEieto the. negroes VIII 6e
the chief, topic of inAammat tory appeal by the
Republicans in their attempt to stepD step the tide
;of Democratic victory during the ensuing two
years. This topic may be urged with great
plausihility, but probably with nc, greas. sue
cess, Fears Of this, Emd viii be simulated BY
politicians; who do not feel them The .Eepl9p pg9
fican. leaders cannot so underestimate the
shrewTdness Of their. democratic opponents as
to believe they will attempt to deprive the ne
gr6es Of either their freedom, their civil rights
or the elective franchise It,would be 'ihpos-
.sibEe to conceal such "a purpose if it'were en-
.tertaired. and nothing 'would'so certainly ar
rest the political revolution now in progress as
q belief that: the Southern negroes would be
remranded by. the; Democratic party to, their
former conditions! 3.os' - =. ~
1--WE have no doubt that the rights of the
negroes will be more secure in Democratic
than in Republican hands. 1t is the tendency
and effect of the Republican policy to array
the negroes in hostility to the best classes OF
ithe Southern population, and thereby obstrqct
tGf Intelligence character, ana
property in Southerd politics. !. Negro suffrage
has proved to be a great evil, chiefly on account
at fSa divorce erected in the South between
nun5bersS and iptefligpce:1S The SOpthern
SlacEgHave Been formed into a. political party
under outside guidance and control-a party
which had set Of interests, Or supposed in
texesss-separate from the general interests OF
the Southern community. In healthy state
Of politics there is a, ,.':solidarity" of feeling
between the prosperous and the poorer classes
and although there may be two parties--as
there ALWAYS are in free eountries-they are
ION; both sides of the rich and the
poor. the intelligentr rand the ignorant. 1t is
the preropatiye of intelligence to control lgno-
rance, and, the chief evil of Southern politics
since the war has consisted in such an organs
zation of the blacks, as has, arrayed them ia
opposition to the enlightened local feeling of
the communities, with which their lot is cast.
But as soon soon as Federal influence shall cease to
control the negro mind, intelligence and ca
pacity will reassert their sway, and negro
voting in the South will be as, safe as the i'm
,migrsnts vote, has always been in the North.
TIE Democratic party will have. no temptation
to deprive the negroes of the right OF suffrage,
because it will have no difficulty in controlling
the negro mind when, the potent Federal infiu.
ence co!operates with local Intelligence instead
of Frustrating and defeating it.
~ Even under the great disadvantage OF hav-
ing the Federal influence opposed to them the
Southern Democrats have made some headway
in controlling the. negro vote! In the recent
election in Louisiana quite a proportion OF the
negro citizens acted with the Democratic party.
AS soon as Democratic ascendancy is establish
ed in Washington, Democratic negroes will be
as common 10 the South as Republican ne
groes, and the negro question will then cease
TO be an element of disturbance. The true
interests of the negroes are identical with the
true interests of Southern whites. The ne
groes cannot prosper when the community in
which they live is impoverished. They can
find remuneratve,, employment only when the
wheels of business are in full activity. II cap
ital Yields no profits, labor cannot expect con-
slant employment or good wages; and the
most important lesson the Southern negroes
have vet to learn is that they cannot thrive on
the depression and ruin oflthe owners of prop
erty. Their credulity has been too long abu-
sed and their simplicity deceived by interlo-
ping demagogues, who have inculcated the idea
that they have separate interest from their
wI..ite fellow citizens. This state of things is
likely to continue so long as the negro mind is
led by the Republican; party; but within
year or two after it is left to local control q
majority of the negroes will be- steady Demo:
cratic voters, and the negro problem will dis
THE THE Democratic politicians, both of the
North and the South have always displayed
remarkable capacity for controlling ignorant
voters: There has always been large class of
uneducated whites in the Southern States, but
there was Isl no section of the country whose poll
itics, previous to the war, were SO completely
controlled by its intelligent classes 1t has
been in former times the active party in eX-
tending. the suffrage it has always been fore
most in defending the political rights OF cltl'
zens of foreign birth; it has always felt the
most undoubting confidence in its ability to
a ;aarfays the most despised orders of the commu-
nity on its own side in politics, and make them
its faithful allies. The Democratic party has
genius for managing such, classes of voters,
and it would belle its antecedents, and tenden-
cies if it should attempt to disfranchise the
Southern negroes instead of attempting to
manage them. It's past opposition to negro
suffrage is a transient phase Of politics which
has been further prolonged than it would have
been if the Freedmen's Bureau and the carpet
bag influence had not got so decided q start in
the control of the negro mind. Had the South
been left to itself after the elective franchise
was conferred on the blacks, the Southern
State governments would have fallen as COM
pletely under the influence of the old govern
ing classes as they were when the same classes
80 successfully managed the uneducated whites:
Nothing is more certain than that the mass OF
the negroes will never act independently in poll
tics. 1t is their destiny to be led. They have
thus far been led by the Republican party, and
arrayed by;it against the enlightened public
>..;,,onf of tho Southern communities hrt