The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-01-13
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Is that this is an auspcious time for the cot
ton planters of South Carolina to essay
supreme effort for recovering the State, oven
if the bayonet should be employed in the
next election. Bacon is very high and cot
ton very low in price now, so much so as to
leave little or no profit in cotton culture.
Hence, numerous avaricious planters who
have hitherto been weakened in support
ing their race and State ut elections when
cotton was up and bacon down in price, can
now convert themselves with astonishing
facility into Jealous patriots. Cheap cotton
and dear bacon had more to do with the
result of the late Mississippi election than
perhaps either Radicals or Democrats are
willing to admit. High priced cotton has
been the carpet-baggers' staunchest ally
since the war, and profit on Sambo's labor in
the future as in the past is the latter's only
hope OF salvation from determination even
in the Cotton States. No true white person
Graves the negro for a neighboring land
owner, for school-mate, for kinsman or
for juror, voter or office-holder. With
decent white people who will speak the
truth, Cuffee is wanted the world over only
as laborer or body servant, and for no
other purpose. A very large acreage of
South Carolina has been sowed down in
small grain, and thousands of our large
planters are exceedingly careless abou; re-
tanning much negro labor. Uuder this state
of facts it may well be supposed that nearly
all our whites are prepared to talk for De-
mocracy, work for Democracy, spond their
money for Democracy, expel the negro for
Democracy, and, if necessary, fight little for
Democracy.
A fourth reason why we should run o
straight Democratic ticket is the innate pas
siyeness and cowardice of the negro chs,rac-
ter. Although the negro has been the hinge
on which American politics has turned for
the last twenty or more years, yet durin, oil
his momentous career on this side of the
Atlantic, he has borne only passive part
He had nothing to do with fetching himself
to tho United States; nothing to do with
achieving his freedom; nothing to do with
obtaining the ballot for his race and will
have nothing to do with effectively e1e:cis-
ing that ballot except so far as he has been,
or shall continue to be, mere passive in
strument in the hands of white men.
Bayonets in the hands of white men and
not numbers of kinkey heads have controlled
elections in South Carolina since reconstluc-
ton began. Every Southerner at least
knows that million Of negro men could
not govern the fifty thousand white neil Of
Mississippi or South Carolina if left alone to
cope with the Caucasians. The negro i' as
conscious of his inferiority in brains and
nerve when compared with the white man
as the dog instinctively feels his feebleness
in the presence of his master, and the mule
does not obey the horsc with more facile
dociEty than the negro submits to the white
man when he sees that the latter is deter
mined to make him submit.
Accordingly, when the bayonet was with
drawn from Mississippi at her last election,
the whites of that gallant State had small
difficulty in triumphing overwhelmingly.
AS soon as the whites were assured that no
troops would be employed to intimitlate
Democratic voters at the polls, nor to stuff
ballot boxes, nor to dragonade the State
after the election, they put forth super
human efforts to succeed, and did succeed
in every county except few where the coa-
lition policy was tried. The negroes, feeling
that the Federal Government had deserted
them, in obedience to their passive, coward
ly nature, at once surrendered.
Now, why should Grant withdraw the
bayonet from Mississippi and yet consent to
its use in South Carolina Why should
the whites of Mississippi be able to overcome
negro majority of thirty thousand, and
the same numbers Of whites in South Caro-
lima be unable to overcome similar majori-
ty if the bayonet be absent, as believe it
will? Let our people have faith that they
will not be harried with midnight arrests
under the ku klux acts, and then convicted
| by bribed witnesses before perjured judges
and packed juries to languish in the dun
geons of Albany and my life on it we shall
roll up at least as handsome majority as
our second daughter Mississippi did. 1t
may be folly, it may be superstition, but l
have that within which tells me South Car
olina will shortly rejoin Mississippi on The
Democratic limo. AT all events, in these
centennial days, why not hope it? Why
not try for it2 There is no fitness in driv-
ing South Carolina at the point of the
sword to partake of the centennial banquet,
and deep down in the hearts of the. better
clashes at the North lies some dormant re-
spect for the defendants of Marion and
Sumter-some pity, some sympathy 5or
our patience and long suffering. For fifteen
eventful years Mississippi and South Carcli-
ma, like twin sisters, have shared the same
fate, for good or ill. Why should they be
separated now? They were the two fist
States to seccde, on which account they were
forced to be the first States to re-enter the
union in accordance with Radical ideas Of
poctitical justice, and the eternal fitness of
things As Mississippi has thrown off the
Radical yoke, it would seem that retribu-
tive justice from the Radical point of view
ought now to be satisfied, and speedily per-
NIT tho first srring Confederate sister to be
the last to re-cnter the bosom of the happy
family.
A fifth reason why we should march only
under our own flag is chat in all probability
Democrat will be chosen next President of
the. United States Ifso even if the Radicals
should defeat us in tho next State election,
their government in South Carolina would
fall t., the ground shortly after March, 1877,
from inherent rottenness and weakness.
With Democrat in the Presidential char,
all carpet-bag and scallawag incumbents of
office would voluntarily, or involuntarily,
vacatc their places ir double-quick time,
unless sustained by very respectable num-