The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-10-19
,ANDERsoN"S B., THURSDAY OCTOBER ls 1876, =.
made a speech to ths blacks OF DARLINGTON
county. ThiS Is b very heaViS BIaeIF cStii,.
ty ahout ted toiouaI br2k.voI Hvn hol1 ~, Al

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made speech to ths blacks oY IjatlinRatoiI
county, ThiS Is B very feAvlSs' BIa5eE cotii,,
ty, ahDut tNo to- one bnt.wo asg told tha
1t will 60 Denlocra.ic. ,rla,insA u, &
Please read what General RR7nntot
said in his speech there 10 tho blacks. 4
Ii right 20 the point 8peaking og th,
fact th8G' no - an early advocate O
negro suffrage, because " would Eiye Iii.
South much power, ne aays:
"Why did I recommend that you b
permitted to yote2 There orc 500 ,GOl
colosed voters in che Goath. They ado
to the power and strength of the South
We have more yoter5 In the prcaldfetia
contest, and We. have more Repres eate,
uyea sn Congress. Why shagid &c TSss.s:;
to cut of one.third OF our votes lO
coune we should 6eaire to keep, them
We know that Il the time has not come
that it will como and aluat come, wheu
blacks and whites In The Southern Statct
will como together i,,3l,4 aoa. ~
| That 10, all vote the Democratic ticket
and make solid South. Es continues
"We would he, indeed, fools 70 desire
with 100000 colored votes and 10000
white votes, 70 cut OF one-third Of OF.
strength. The Eorta saw it, and hence
the Mortons and Andrews opposed tb q
move to allow the cnlnred people vot1s
was the first tnan in the South who nd.
vocated that measure, and have nores
gone back on it. You will s!s hsys "a
| corie together, and have been waiting
fo- the time, and it is not Gar distant nov,
when oil the colored people will be ready
TO Jine the cavalry" Applause and
laughter. or s'FiN
Do you see the point? he haB Ger.
tainiy made 1t very plain. .'F 4
Speaking pf the fact that he was the
very. first white man in South Ourolina
to advocate negro suffrage, he says: IS l..
Il made the proposition at several pub.
lie meetings in Columbia, and / took the
ground that they had been made citizens,
and that they should not he excluded
from the right to vote. And recon-
nended then, land ut that time none but
whites had the right ID e6fe, 1'tf whom
your leaders tell you ahl rebel, that I
am an unresopstructed fire. eater, they
will tel! yo.: sae Lord ealy knows what
about me, and yet repeat that was the
frst man in South Carolina who recon.
mended that tho right to vote ahonld be
given 70 the colored people. lApplauae |
60 to Nash, Edwards and others, and asE
them Ii what have told you 10 not tTue.
When was taking that ground in South
Carolina, Governor Morton, youy. cho:ee
for the Psesidency, che mar who, waving
tho bloody shirt and diggingnsaao ths
very graves of our dead, made spesches
at the North, in which no said your peo-
pie were not fit to vote, and Recommended
that the franchise should not be granted
them for twenty years. have the speech
of Governor Morton, aud any Of you can
see 1t if you wish. MY speecheB were
also published, and you eau SEQ them Il
you desirs. Governor Andrew, aIBo an.
other of your Republican friends, took
the same ground aa Morton, aud i have
his apeech also. These are facts that
cannot be disputed. Thyy are printed
! dc-cnmenta and are neg snsnns che g.
chives of Massachusetts and of Corgresi
These are the men who profeS. noS 70 be
your warmest friendsl-sneye men who
would have put their feet upon your lib,
critics for ell time" as .- tta..
He was in favor of black suffrage, he
cause it would give the South preEou
derating weight in National affaira.y 70,
| at the same time, Morton, In Indiana
made. very clear anu argimentativt
speech against negro suffrage, copies o.
which Hampton reads to his black ahdi
tors, and distributes among them for theil
edifcatiop. l1a fiA ,Suna i,Y .49iIou
| IL is now in ordeEifor come reforuer
who thinks the South 10 occupying tor
much space in affairs, to, start a party
having for its cardinal principle the
| graceful taking of the negro out Of poli
tics by way of y oounter+acting eohstitu
tioEal amendment. Bat you NAY be cure
no Tilden reformer willlstart auch par.
r.. They have got too good thing oi
Iit sill be through the pgepohdeEatine
weight which negro fsutffegejhas given
lthesolid South. They virtually -hsve O
! gin of the representation arising from
| eight hundred thousand votesitor begin
with. This, of ITSELF Is fsir atart to.
ward Washington. 1n,a .,d 2.a.
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