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

win arrive tomorrow from Baltimore and the
salute in honor Of the victory will be fired sut-
Gciently near the White House to remind the
President of what had recently happened to
Cessaarism, and the managers say they Will not
abe brief either. una ',''iyg 49,, .i. =, i,......
l,,,N liz Negro N1,sS j. Rights Pitt Jeopardy BY the
sJ" ,,,sx Democratic ifl,Xl Xtet9aries'a ari! yAI
Ea,The Democraticcparty is:so evidently on the
+high1uad to national success that the Tirienas
of the .colered racaWiA feel .solne: anxiety and
,misgiuings ,as, tor o1theusecntity efdhelr newly
hacqdiied rights, the negroes WEI ;oe
the chief. topic of inAammator appeal 10y the
Republicans in their, attempt to step :he tide
Eof Democratic victory during The ensalpg tW9
1lausibility, but probably with no great. sue
cess, Fears Of this; kmd win be simulated by
politicians who do not feel them, The tRlepnl6-
tican., leaders, cannot 50 underestimate the
shrewdness of their, democratic opponents as
to believe they will attempt. to deprive the ne
groes of either their freedom, their civil rights
Or the elective franchise. Itwould be 'irnpos-
sibIe to conceal such 8 purpose If ltwere en-
t teftained, and nothing would so certainly ar
rest the political revolution now in progress as
belief that the Southern negroes would be
rennianded by the Democratic party to their
former condition.. 60 ~ :, -
I'VE 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
The Southern population, and thereby obstruct
the- -ascendancy of Intelligence character and
property in Southern politics. Negro suffrage
has proved to be great evil, chiefly on account
of tie divorce effected in the South between
4untersf AND 7mtsliigepce:!H The S9gptthefnn
'blackssH&ve been formed into a political party
under outside guidance and control party
which had set Of interests, Or supposed in.
-tasestsr srseparate from~the general interests. of
the Southern community. In healthy state
Of politics there is q, 'tsolidarity' 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
Ecomposed ;on both sides of; the rich and the
poor, the intelligent tnand the ignorant. 1t
the prerogatiye of intelligence to control igno-
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 ~
opposition to the enlightened local feeling OF
the communities, with which their lot is cast
But as 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
migrant, vote has always been in the North.
The 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 inf1u..
ence cotoperates with local Intelligence instead
of frustrating and defeating it.
:" Even under the great disadvantage OF nav
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 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 ID the South as Republican ne
groes, and the negro question will then cease
e. he an element of disturbance. The true
interests of the negroes are identical with the
true interests of Southern whites. The ne
proes cannot prosper when the community in
which they live is impoverished. Ihey can
find remunerative employment only when the
wheels of business are in full activity. If cap
| ital Yields no profits, labor cannot expect con-
stant 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 of the owners of prop
ertv. Their credulity has been too long abu-
sed and their simplicity deceived by interlo-
ming demagogues, who have inculcated the idea
that they have separate interest from their
white fellow citizens. This state of things is
likely to continue so long as the negro mind IS
led by the Republican party; but within
wear or two after it is left to local control
majority of the negroes will be- steady Demo,
cratic voters, and the negro problem Will DIS
appear from our politics. -.
The Democratic politicians, both of the
North and the South, have always displayed a
remarkable capacity for controlling ignorant
voters. There has always been large class OF
.uneducated whites in the Southern states, ont
there was no section of the country whose pol
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 citi-
er zens of foreign birth; it has always felt the
most undoubting confidence in its ability to
aIfav; the most despiscd orders of the conimu-
nitv 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. Its 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 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 classe, as they were when the same classes
90 successfully managed the uneducated whites