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

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portunity to take possession of the COLI
ored race on account of its incapacity for
governmental first. They,came like the,
6arpy@f to make, Meir ortunes, and
poisoned TIE minds im the3colored people;
byGtelling them theWhites wished to put
them backinto slafsfy. Mhey. came to:
stir upshatA5 mahca and fsse6ge iniorders
to ingratiate themselves into prominence
in politics. do not blamethe colored
people, for time was necessary to educate
them. The carpet-bagger talked cum
ningly, but my colored friends have they
fulfilled one single promise? Where is
your forty acres of land and0a mule 2
They spent 500, 900 for purchasing Land
for the poor, but where is it2 Stolen,
gone, squandered by these, Republican
leaders. Although there is lsrge, fund
raised for school purposes, even it is
stolen, Chamberlain at Lancaster and
Marlboro said you ought to sustain the
Republican party, whichs set .syou free.
As q lawyer he knew il, was not true that
this party set you free.1dN either, Lincoln
nor Congress had the right to free you,
and T challenge one single disinterested
act up to this time which this party has
ever performed. 1t was the State of
South Carolina which freed you. The
ancestors of these Republicans kidnapped
and stole your ancestors and brought
them to this country where they sold
them as slaves. They owned slaves at
first, but found them Improbable in the
North and sold them toithe South, Then
they became jealous of our prosperity
and raised the abolition movement to
divide the country by sectional lines so
as to prevent Southern statesmen from
having control of our government. Was
this for you or themselves? They tell
you that when the war broke out it was
for your emancipation, but this is untrue,
for the war was for the union according
to what Congress declared. They were
willing for you to be slaves, and when
Gen. Butler was in Maryland he sent
slaves back to their masters Lincoln
refused to increase his army with colored
troops. When he saw it was impossible
to restore the union he. declared all slaves
free, unless the States returned to the
union by certain day. Was this for
your good2 After the war did they give
you suffrage? President Johnson denied
it to your race and Morton opposed
giving it to- you. The South sent Demo-
Gratis to Congress and then; they gave you
vote to help them keep in power. Vile
carpet-baggers then came down here to
antaeonize the twoiraces. Although our
property had decreased to, two-thirds of
its former value, theseh.men have made
our taxes twelve times as great as they
formerly were, and have piled up'a debt
of eighteen or twenty million dollars.
This money has been stolen by these ad-
venturers, who came downlhere poor rs
church mice and soon became wealthy off
of the honest labor and property of our
State. They say now they want reform,
but Whittemore, who was expelled from
Congress for selling a cadetship, was the
man who reported the platform Of this
convention. Would that Hogarth could
paint Whittemore, Moses, Bowen, Neagle
and Patterson in council for reform
Did thieves ever reform outside of PEN
itentiary? Will they reform as long as
there is anything to steal,
| Gov. Perry then discussed the practical
subjects of taxation and the relations of
the races in a temperate, able and con-
vincing manner, and showed up the in
capacity and corruption of Republican
rule in most lucid manner. He was
frequently applauded. %a :"
Col. Hoyt next introduced Judge T.
81. Cooke, Republican, who has an
nounced his intention of supporting
Hayes and Wheeler, the nominees of the
National Republican party, but who has
also declared for Hampton and the
Democratic ticket of South Carolina,
and is working for a reform of our State
government Immense applause.
JUDGE COOKE SAID:
NY FRIENDS AND FELLOW CITIZENS
Ny distinguished friend, the leader of
the Democrats in South Carolina, has
about made my speech on this occasion,
but you will pardon me for saying few
words upon this great question. For
| more than eight years I have been acting
with the Republicans in South Carolina,
and am to-day an advocate of the election
of Hayes and Wheeler, the nominees of
the National Republican party, but 1
cannot support the corrupt State ticket
which has been put forward by the recent
Republican Convention in Columbia. It
may be said that it is strange I should
have remained so long in this party in
South Carolina, but if it is strange the
Democrats are partly responsible for it,
as this is the first time they have given
me an opportunity to leave it since 1868
by Offering me. a good and straight-for-
ward ticket for which / could vote. I
have always looked to the tickets in nom.
ination, and decided for myself which
was composed of the better men. I am
going to talk TO tie colored people to-day,
and wish to say to you that you shall be
protected in. all of your rights by the law.
You are interested in this government.
Gov. Chamberlain two years ago prom
ised reformation, and to-day promises
reform to the State. The Democrats
promise it also. Both parties are crying
reform, and there is no necessity to prove
that it is needed, for it is admitted on all
hands. When Gov. Chamberlain made
these promises I believed him to be in
earnest, and thought his ticket better
than the other, but was mistaken, and
his conduct has convinced me that he is
fictitious reformer, caring only for his
own ambition, and aspiring to the high
positions, even wishing to thrust his vile
presence into, the Presidential chair, if
possible. was in the city Of Columbia
during the Convention, and on the second
day went to attend one of its sessions. I
had hardly entered the room before / was
called upon for speech. responded,
telling them I would support the ticket
with Chamberlain at its head, if good
set of men who really represent reform
,uora nlaced nnnn II for the other Offices