The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-07-01
Hope for South Carolina.

While the people of Arkansas are regaining
prosperity now that they have once more &C
quired the right of self government, and the
citizens of Louisiana are looking to speedy
consummation of the same desirable end while
even Mississippi, despite the great preponder-
ance of ignorant and purchasable voters, is
hopeful, the planters and land-holders of South
Carolina, who have nearly all the taxes to pay
without having any voice in the public expen-
dtures, are respondent in the extreme. Under
negro and carpet-bag rule they have been so
numerically and continuously robbed that it
seems to them that there is hardly any reason
to hope for a better condition of affairs.
We admit that there is much that is discour-
aging in the situation, but at the same time it
seems to us that the prospect for deliverance
of South Carolina from the rule of her plum
derers is far brighter now than it has been at
any previous time since reconstruction. The
enormity of the wrongs which have been in
ficted upon her has aroused the indignation Of
the whole country, and we do not yet despair
of seeing just punishment laid upon the most
guilty of the robber band who have grown rich
which swept over the country last fall, will
destinies of the State, and that speedily.
Intelligence must ultimately dominate over
ignorance there as elsewhere. A great proper
tion of the negroes who have been used to
maintain the carpet baggers and their colored
allies in power have heretofore "stood by their
color" as they call it, quite as much because
they believed that in obeying the dictates of
their leaders they were fulfilling the orders of
the Federal Government, as from considera-
tions of race Without the support of the
national administration, Scott, Chamberlain,
Kimpton, Parker, and the other political
knaves whose frauds have impoverished the
State, could never have run their Infamous
career. In few months Democratic House
of Representatives will assemble in Washing
ton and the Investigations which it will insti-
tute into the transactions of the administration
will give Grant and his men all they will want
to attend to in defending themselves. They
will have neither the disposition nor the means
to organize new crusades against the property
Of Southern taxpayers
The negroes are keen in scenting which way
the wind blows, and those of South Carolina
will soon learn the difference between the rep
resentatives of an administration which had
the sure support of both Houses of Congress,
and the men who represent party already re-
pudiated by the people, and whose own acts
may soon receive strict scrutiny from an op-
position House of Representatives, The result
will be the same that has followed the diminu-
tion of administration int1uenc in other South
ern States. The most intelligent of the blacks
will 90 over to the Conservatives, and the reign
of ignorance and thievery will be at an end.
With prudent management, this revolution
may be effected sooner than any one suspects.
Already the Republican party in South Carroll
ma is torn by dissensions; the chief plunderers
are fighting among themselves, while the cor
poral's guard of honest men who have mixed
with them, are complacently enjoying the dis
turbance, and doing their best to bring offend
ers of both factions to justice. Unless the
Conservatives commit the inconceivable folly
of being seduced into an alliance with Gov
Chamberlain, the most dangerous of al the
gang who took part in efecting the ruin of the
State, their day of deliverance is not far off,
Such degrading alliance, however, would
indefinitely postpone the day when the inteli-
gence and worth of South Carolina shall again
rule in her public afIairs.-N Y. Sun.