The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-28
A REPUBLICANS VIEW OF IT.
OUR CANVASS THROUGH NORTH
ERN SPECTACLES. ;,., 49,

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The fixed Resolve of the Whites to VIII
-TIIden Secondary Consideration
The Effect of, Federal iTroopsTT
Blind Fury of the Blacks Against the
Colored Democrats-Our "Batterod
Ticket''7-The (" Cavalry in the Can
vass-Diyiding Time. -. !, i,
Dr. II. v Redaelfs letters to Cincinnati Commercial
''.'- SpARTANBURe, S, c., Sept. IL.
Back of the very fair and conservative
speeches ofWade Hampton, (sojust and
liberal that many of the sentiments he
utters would be received with applause
in the Ohio Western Reserve !; back Of
the Democratic platform adopted at the
State Convention solemnly pledging
equal rights to all back of the moderate
editorials of the News and Courisr-back
of all these which appear so fair upon
their face, there is settled determina-
ton among the whites to carry the elec-
ton at every hazard. They plead the
excuse that self-preservation is 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.
I believe that if it 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 it, restored to the rule of the whites,
they would do it. They would bargain
that the United States remain under
Grant and the Radicals forever, if, in the
trade, they could be assured of undis-
turbed possession of South Carolina. "
This will indicate to you the desperate
earnestness with which they are strug-
Cling to elect Wade Hampton and get
the Legislature. To carry the State for
Tilden is decidedly!a secondary conside-
ration. Of course if he carries it they
will seem to rejoice, but the main thing
with them is to get control of their do
mestic concerns" If the election in No
vember was for President-simply moth
ing else-the campaign here would be as
fat as pancake. The whites would
make no effort. They would regard it as
hopeless in the 6rst place, and thatithe
game was not worth the candle. Il 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 frisSed.
TRUE 1NwARDNEss.
The outsider is apt to be puzzled by ac-
counts of affairs here. He may not un-
derstand the formation of 'rife clubs"
"riHe 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 it is possible to
do so. The programme is to have "riae
clubs" all 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-
tion. A display of force unneryes them.
The whites understand this, and the i'm
mense marching about at night, and ap-
pearance at every Republican meeting to
'sdivide 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.
Tilden, as I have said, is a secondary
consideration. The point is to get con-
troll of South Carolina, and restore to this
State decent and economical govern
ment-a government, by the way, that
the blacks have utterly failed to give.
Of course the whites want Tilden elected !;
but if by trading him off to certain defeat
they could get control of South Carolina,
they would cheerfully 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 a lively
sense of its ability to sustain the same
against an armed rebellion) but they
deny that the negroes of South Carolina
are 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 a
Southern State what it may, when once
the whites come to the top, they are as
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
off," and the whites will come to the top
just as naturally. Nothing keeps them
under but the continued application of
force-the 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-
ined, and have so many "rife 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 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