The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-01-13
The Only Policy Worth Pursuing.

1t is very evident that the Chamber
lain coalition is powerful one; but
there are not lacking thousands of patri-
OTIS in the Palmetto State who abhor con-
nivance with the man who has injected
poison into the very veins of their ciyili-
cation, helped the black Radicals to rob
the people, insulted the noblest spirits of
the South, corrupted the seminary of
learning, and is mainly responsible for
all the woes that now beset and menace
the very foundations of social and politi-
cal order. The cry of "rcform" from
Chamberlain is Just about as delusiye as
the promise of "rcform" from Warmoth,
in Louisiana. The people Of Louisiana
bitterly bewail their blunder; the people
of South Carolina may repeat the wall of
Louisiana.
-. We are told by the Chamberlain Or
gans that Republican presses, like the
Nation and Harper's Weekly, are loud in
their praises of the South Carolina Exec
utive and vociferous in their denuncia-
tions of the results of black Radicalism.
They assert, with Grant at their head,
that the election of Whipper and Moses
is "bad for the party" There's where
the shoe pinch0s; and Chamberlain and
his devoted henchmen are relied upon
| to stop the downward course of Radical
ism, and, with the aid of conservatives"
and so-called Democrats" restore Re
publicanism to species of respectability.
Is it possible that the white people of
South Carolina can be trapped into such
pit-fall? There is grave danger that,
Just as they have been deluded in the
past, they will be deceived in the future.
Again Why should Harper's Weekly
be so furiously aghast at the election of
Whipper and Moses? Are these leprous
men not the logical and inevitable spawn
of the Republican idea, as represented
by that sheet and its kindred? Are we
to be told that the effect of Radicalisln is
evil and the cause good? Will the true
people of South Carolina swallow such
monstrous paradox and hold glorification
meetings over its promulgation Z If the
effect is destructive of civilization, how
abominable must be the elements produ-.
cling it?. If the fountain of disgrace and
ruin be not damned up or dried up, what
hope is there that its flow of abortions
shall ever cease? If coalition be made
with the source of iniquity, will the hide
GUS progeny of Radicalism ever be con-
founded2 The only policy worth pur-
suing is that of principle. Keep up
that standard in South Carolina. Enlist
under it every man, woman and child in
the State who abhors the villainy of the
past eleven years. Excite enthusiasm
for a course worth living and dying for.
Give the true people of the State some
thing to love, reverence and struggle for.
For our part, we cannot understand how
the white people of South Carolina cnn
take to their bosoms the man who boasts
of the new order of things he principally
introduced within their grand old COM
monwealth; and it is horrible to see
them embracing with ecstasy ain official
whom they so recently denounced as
conspirator and rogue. Even the
negroes see the trickery of this
change of base, and we are not sur
prised that one of them has threat
ened. that eff there is to be gen.
eral selling out they propose to be parties
to the sale, and before they will allow q
bald-headed Massachusetts, Yankee to sell
them. out, they will elect Hon. A: q.
MaGrath for Governor, and Hon. Geo.
A. Trenholm as Lieutenant Governor
We quote these words of a negro speaker
to show the drift of opinion, in most
stinging rebuke. Men of Carolina J.
Abandon the delusion that the world is
governed by humbug and not by ideas:
Make your campaign on platform of
principle and not mere scramble for
spoils. The truth shall make you whole,
if you abide by it. False issues, false
measures and false coalitions will keep
you in the dust, and deliver you naked
to your enemies.-Augusta Canstitutioa-
nList.