The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-08-17
THE TRUE WAY WITH THE SOUTH.
The New York Herald, in long arti-
Gle upon this subject makes the follow
inc very sensible remarks:

The New. York Herald, in long arti-
Gle upon this subject, makes the follow
ing very sensible remarks:
Zone of the phrases oftenest used about
the Southern Statessis that they "must
become like the North. -" eve want to
make Louisiana like the North, " said Il
very prominent Republican of that State
the other day. "We want to make Mis-
sissippi like de Norf," said colored
Sheriff of that State not long ago to q
Northern traveller, who replied to him,
gravely, You are Sheriff of this county,
my friend; you cannot write Il sentence
correctly; you can barely read; you own
less than $500 worth of property in the
world; yet you are a Sheriff of a great
county, and you would want to have your
State like the North. Believe me when
I tell you that there is not State nor
county in all the North where ten men
could be found to nominate you for
Sheriff, or, in fact, for any office what
ever. 1 do not speak it to offend you,
but to inform you. If you lived any
where in the North, even in Massachu-
sets or the western reserve OF Ohio, no
soul would ever for a moment think OF
nominating you even for constable, much
less Sheriff.. You would be a patient and
contented day laborer or farmer, and
your widest dreams would not lead you
to think of Office" Is not this true?
And if so, when we echo the Southern
Republicans or the Southern negro's cry
that the South shall be "like the North," I"
ought we not to think what that means ?
Louisiana has a negro Lieutenant Gov
ernor; Mississippi had one until he was
impeached for bribery. Almost every
Southern State has colored Stale officers,
colored Sherifs, colored tax collectors,
colored Judges, colored school officers.
In this are they not unlike, very unlike,
"the North ?" Frederick Douglass is a
cultivated man, an eloquent speaker, a
forcible writer, man of property, a good
citizen. What party in New York has
ever; thought Of nominating him for
Lieutenant Governor?
It is often asked, ""'Why should not q
Northern man run for office in the
South?" and the question is thought to
demonstrate Southern intolerance. y
But suppose Massachusetts had q majori-
ty of citizens, but lately slaves, Ignorant,
without property, but little moral. sense
and less value for that which we call char
acter and reputation. Suppose a Louisi-
anian should thereupon remove to Massa-
chusetts and at once control this Ignorant
and debased majority for his own political
ambition; suppose he should do this by
appealing now to their fears of re-en-
slavement, now to their cupidity; should
unscrupulously arouse their unworthiest
ambitions teach them that lack OF
character and capacity need not keep
them from taking the most important
offices; should divide the plunder of the
State with them; and when he had at
tracted to himself and to them also the
suspicion ear and hatred of the old citi-
zeM, should then appeal to the omnipo-
tent and dreaded Federal power for sup
port and get it, what would be the condi-
ton of public opinion in Massachusetts z
Would not society be shaken to the core
Would not respectable and otherwise
virtuous citizens be embittered to the
point where they would ,shut their eyes
to violence? ~..,
We do not excuse violence. Nothing
excuses murder or lawlessness. But these
crimes which happen in the South, and
of which, Just now, the President and the
Republican organs and politicians give
such horrifying accounts, are not without
cause. They are the results of a long
course of abuse begun and continued by
'unscrupulous and selfish Northern adven-
tureers, who have, with the help of the
Federal government, preyed upon South
.errn society, and who have not even had
the courage and energy to punish these
crimes of which their conduct has been
The main cause. Let non-interference
have trial. Let us see what will hap
pen if these adventures, can no longer
Cali upon the Federal power to maintain
them. That IS the only cure.