The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-28
A REPUBLICANS VIEW OF IT.
OUR Canvass THROUGH RORTM-
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OUR CANVASS THROUGH NORTH.
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The fixed Resolve OF the Whites TO win
-Tiiden Secondary Consideration -
The Effect OF, Federal Trocps,rThe
Blind Fury Of the Blacks Agalnst the
Cofored Democrats-t}ar SBataercd
Ticket'',-The "Cayeiryy' 'in the Gan
vase-Diyiding Time.
DR.. II. v Redh.lGs LeatTs 70 CiacinnaH OsalRe,uiai
SpARrANBURG, 8. c., Sept. II.
Back Of the very fair and conservative
speeches Of Wade Hampton, (so Just and
liberal thet many Of tho sentiments he
utters would be received with applause
in the Ohio Western Reservc;) Back c.
the Democratic platform adopted at the
State Convention solemnly pledging
equal rights to all; back Of the moderate
editorials of the Nc,rs and C5urier--back
of all these which appear so fair upon
their face, there is settled determiIu-
ton among the whites to carry the cleo
ton at every hazard. They plead the
excuse that self-prescrvation IL the first
law of nature, and that they cannot
longer stand the rule of the Radicals.
Their property has deprecated steadily
since the war; taxation has as steadily
increased, and they conceive that the
only way to preserve the remnant of their
possessions is to restore the State from
negro rule to white rule. Comparatively,
they care little for Tilden. Their Whole
energies are bent on electing Wade
Hampton and securing the Legislature.
L believe that If il was within the power
of the white people Of South Carolina to
give the General Government over to
Grant and Ben Butler for any number of
terms, in consideration Of having their
beloved State, their mother" as they
call ~ restored to the rule of the whites,
they would do it. They would bargain
that the United States remain under
Grant and the Radical, forever, if, in the
trade. they could be assured Of undis-
turbed possession of South Carolina.
This will indicate to you the desperate
carnestness with which they are strug-
Cling to elect Wade Hampton and get
the Legislature. To carry the State for
Iilden is decidedly at secondary conside-
ration. OF course if he cnrries it they
will seem to rejoice, but the mair thing
with them is to get coutrol of their "do.
mestic concerns" If the election in Nc
vember was for President-simply moth
ing clse-the campaign here would be as
fiat as pancake. The whites would
make no effort They would regard it as
hopeless in the frat place, and that the
game was not worth the candle. 1t is
the Legislature and the governorship
they are after, and if they secure these,
farewell to NEGRO rule" in South Caro-
lima. The thing will be finished.
TRUE INwARDNEss.
The outsider is apt to SO puzzled by &c
counts Of affairs here. II, may not un-
derstand the formation Of "rifle clubs"
"rifle teams" artillery companies"
among the whites. What are they afraid
Of? They are not afraid of anything.
Why, then, this arming? They intend
to carry the election if 1t is possible TO
do so: The programme is to have "riae
clubs ali over the State, and, while
avoiding actual bloodshed as much as
possible, to SO impress the blacks that
they, or certain number of them, will
feel impelled to vote with the whites out
of actual fear. The blacks are timid by
nature, timid by habit, timid by educa-
ton. A display of force unnerves them.
The whites understand this, and the i'm
mense marching about at night, and ap-
n,"or.ncc ct every Republican meeting to
divide time," is with view to impress
the blacks with the sense of the danger
of longer holding out against white rule.
Add to the number they can scare the
number they can buy, and they hope to
have enough, united with the solid white
vote, to gain the day, elect Hampton,
and secure the Legislature.
IIlden, as l have said, is secondary
consideration. The point is to get con-
troll of South Carolina, and restore to this
State decent and economical govern
menIa government, by the way, that
the blacks have utterly failed to give.
but if by trading him off to certain defeat
they would checrfully do it. Republican
rule at Washington is much less trouble
to them than negro rule at home. They
acknowledge that the National Republi-
can party is competent to administer the
general government, (they have lively
sense of its ability to sustain the same
against ar armed rebellion) but thew
deny that the negroes Of South Carolina
arc competent to administer the State
government. So, if they could, they
would trade off the general government
to Radical rule indefinitely If by that
means they could be assured of white
rule at home. Indeed, it is hard to say
what they would not trade off to get
South Carolina under their control once
more. All they want is to get it once,
knowing very we'll that they can hold it
forever. Be the black majority in q
Southern State what it may, when once
the whites come to the top, they are rs
certain to remain there as an inflated
bladder to float. An inflated bladder
will remain under water no longer than
held by force, and when the force is re-
moved, up it comes. Remove the Fede-
raj force from South Carolina, say "hands
OIL and the whites will come to the ton
just as naturally. Nothing keeps them
under but the continued application OF
force--thc knowledge that the blacks are
sustained i'll their supremacy by the Fed
eral power.
WILL THEY WIN?
The whites are so united and determ-
incd, and have so many "rihe teams
that they would certainly win were it not
for the large Federal force in the State
we'll scattered, and with positive orders
to see that The blacks have all the rights
guaranteed to them by the Democratic
platforms and Scott Lord resolutions
AS it is, they may win anyway. One
day l think they will, and the next day
think they will not, and am all the time
| Of the opinion that the chances are pretty
| evenly balanced. AS to the Federal
troops "intimidating" the whites, the
very idea is SO positively ridiculous that
| can not write about it with patience