The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-28

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Senate nor corrupted q Legislature, sand
I have never been charged with bank
breaking as Patterson hassbeen, neither
have had the epithet ofs'honesp ap.
piled as name toSme as5ft hassheen to
Patterson. This is the class Of men
seeking martial law in this State. Such
declaration would be contrary to all
law, and if attempted will secure the
election Of fTiIden and Hendricks. What
have we. done to deserve it? I have
never seen o. disturbance. or heard hard
word during this canvass, but, because
YOU come out with United States and
State flags, from far and near they wish
to put you under martial law. If they
succeed i have butllittle advice to yon,
but it is Important My advice is to go
straight on in your determination to be
peaceful and law abiding people. Well
ington has said that every citizen ought
to obeysthe law, butif it is bad he should
endeavor to reform and correct it. How.
ever great may be your wrongs do moth
ing rash or indiscreet, for by so doing
you will peril all our best interests. We
want sober and successful campaign,
which we cannot have without discipline,
and I feel that from the position you
have put me in have the right to mark
out that discipline. This becomes a dou-
BILE right when / appeal to your hearts
and affections. I ask and implore you
to preserve the same good order which
has marked the canvass in the up-country
in the past. 1 wish to say something
about the nominations made by the Re
publicans. Just before the Governors
denomination, Elliott denounced Cham
berlain, and claimed sufficient evidence
to convict him of larceny and felony,
and he sat there and made no reply,
Even more, it was not one dey before
Chamberlain allowed him to be nomina-
ted Attorney General without opposing
him. Does it not look like purchasing
silence7 1t shows that one or; both sides
of the party are corrupt; and if the
charges are true,,7the first thing, if Cham
berlain and his ticket are elected, that
the Attorney, General would have to dc
would be to prosecute and convict the
Governor and have'him sent to the peni-
tentiary. Is this representative ticket
and if so does it represent reform? The
Republicans have announced an inten.
ton to reform. Is this step toward it,
Democrats have voted for Carpenter,
Tomlinsoui and Green With Republicans
because they said they wanted reform.
For six years we have been voting fol-
Republicans to get reform and have not
got it. These failures are the secret oi
this movement. We-have determined,
as they cannot succeed with our help, to
see if we cannot succeed with theirs.
We have put forth good men upon q
platform of good laws, low taxes and
reform. Judge Cooke has been Re
publican for nine years, and is Repub-
fcan yet, supporting Hayes and Wheeler,
but when he saw " at was done in that
Convention, he saiu, II cannot support
that ticket, for it is too corrupt, but !
will support the State Democratic Ticket,
which is composed of men whom be-
ilieye to be true and honest" Hundreds
of Republicans who look to State and not
to party will do the Sane thing which
Judge Cooke is doing. If they are wise,
my colored friends, follow them. The
men upon our ticket would not tell You
a falsehood. If you do not believe it
now you will be convinced after it is too
late to save yourselves from corrupt rule
for the next two years. Remember that
when the property-holders 60 down from
fraud and taxation your race must go
under, for you are dependent upon them
for employment. AS soon as portion
of your race come to us. s..we will have
good laws. If I am elected I solemnly
promise to know no party, nc. color, no
race in the government of this State, but
will hold the scales of justice equal, and
see that your race is equal to any upon
earth, 80 far as the laws of this State are
concerned. If you try the Democrats
one term every. right of yours shall be
protected. There IS no reason for this
separation between our races, except the
meddlesome interference of men from
abroad, who are stirringu strife to ben
fit themselves. They tell you there is
dangero of your race being put back into
slavery, but I tell you this is as impossible
as it is for the sun!to rise in the West. I
said in Walhalla that if I had the power
/ would not put your race back into
slavery. I was the, first man who spoke
to q colored audience after the war, and
was the first in the South who advocated
suffrage to the .colored people. Senator
Morton then said thatit would not do for
twenty years, and Cow Andrews, of Mas
sachusetts, agreed with him. /, Dem
ocrat and rebel as they called me, said
these men are citizens and no difference
should be made on account of race. If
I said this then, would I be likely to 90
back on it now p The white people know
the colored vote gives us more power, and
we DO not want togcut it of. We want
you to 90 with us. 1 may not see you
again, but it is for your good and our
good that we should go together. We
now propose to put your race upon an
equality with the white race before the
law, and want you to help us redeem the
State, but if you will not help us we can
carry the State without you. These
white people have said this is our coun-
try by inheritance, and we intend to re-
deem it from its present corrupt govern
ment. In my County, in Mississippi,
which has 10000 colored men to 5000
whites, there was not single row during
tie last campaign, and yet it gave a
Democratic majority of 400. The Re-
publicans promised you land. Have
they ever given it to you? They prom
ised you free schools, and are your schools
kept open? Come as men who have an
interest in our State and help US to put
this party out of power, and place South
Carolina where she used to stand. But,
my friends, it is useless for me to speak
here. There is nothing TO do, for you
have made up your minds to free this
State, and have only come here to hear
the music aud see the cavalry. The old
saying that if you want to have a good
time you must "gine" the cavalry is GER
tainly true in this canvass. I am not a
candidate in the usual acceptation of the
term. You have placed me in charge of
your flag and I intend to bear it to VIC
tory. Nothing but the call of my old
mother could have made me undertake