The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-10-26
The REPUBLICAN, MEETING.


vinced that the Republicans of this County
do not rally at the call of their party leaders
worth cent" The day has evidently
passed when the crack of the party whip
can muster the honest colored men of An
derson County at the Court House to attend
ing else to do some Of them come, but they
have no disposition to quit work to come
here to be in rally" The fact is, the
majority of the colored people of our County
have about come to the conclusion that the
carpet-bag orators and scallawag canvassers
are more interested in getting to speak to
them than they are in hearing the speaking,
and they are not so anxious to attend meet
ings as they were when they thought their
political rights depended on the success of
the Republican party. AS will be seen from
the correspondence elsewhere, the Republi-
cans refused to divide time, and the Demo-
Gratis did not go near their meeting which
was held at the Greeley Institute, except
about fifty persons, who were present rs
reporters and conservators Of the peace sent
by the Democrats to preserve order for the
Republicans A full estimate of the crowd
| would not exceed four hundred, of which
number there were fifty white Democrats
and number of colored Democrats, with
about two hundred men and women from
the town of Anderson and immediate yicin-
ity, leaving at large estimate about one
hundred and fifty colored men from the
country.
G. D. Williams called the meeting to Or
der. and said that the meeting was called in
the interests of the Electors and L. Cass Car
penter, candidate for Congress from 3rd
Congressional District.
J. N. Tolbert was the first speaker, and
takes it as an omen of-the result off 7xh, No
yember by seeing SO many present. sadhe
was native Republican When she came
out of the war with life in his body he laid
down his arms and took the oath Of allegi-
ance in good faith. He had offered up
prayers on the battlefield to God to save his
life Thinks this masnanimous govern
ment, because his property was not con6s-
Gated. He said he came to talk for gov
ernment that protects the rights of every
man. He yielded to no man in his love for
South Carolina. Alluding to national poll
tics, he said Grant said we had to unload
but he hadn't unloaded yet. Draws his in
spiration from Hayes and Wheeler. D. H.
Chamberlain, his standard bearer has made
the Republican government respectable in
the State. The Democrats so regard il, and
fought each other over Chamberlain.
Chamberlain represents an idea that will
christianize this country. He intends to
follow Chamberlain wherever he goes, and
there he wants to put up school house and
church. He has been doing we'll since the
negroes got free. When he first ran for
office he got six votes among the whites.
Two years ago he began his fight for reform.
He got beaten. Like such great reformers as
Luther and others, hAcould not succeed at
| once in this. Until the Hamburg riot
Chamberlain was all right with the Demo-
Gratis. He alluded to Chamberlain going to
Washington to get help to protect the peo-
pie, and told them to keep their freedom by
following Chamberlain. He is going to fol-
low him himself until Chamberlain comes
to the jumping off place. Red shirts call
to his mind the Spanish bull fights in which
red shirt was waved to infuriate the 9bue
Alludes to Miss Campaign when the red
| shirt was worn to scare the negroes. Did
not need, any argument to tell them .why
they ought to be Republicans. You were
born Republicans, and before you vote any
other ticket you will fill the graves of Re-
publicans.. The above with few remarks
on secession and "gones ta Halifax,n- which
by the way he had just sIeaTnedhs few days
ago was curse word, made up the principal
part of his harangue. -
T. F. Greener, colored, commenced by
saying he didn't, know what more to say
after the convincing speech of the gentle
men-who preceded him. The reason heis
away from his books and the quiet walks Of
life is because he feels for once the cause OF
| liberty in South Carolina is in peril: HE
stands rs q Republican whose hands had
never been dirtied by participation in fraud
[Pure man was he.] AS one of the coloted
Republicans he would denounce any Re-
publican or Democrat who wasjdishpnest.
His reason for not wanting the Democrats
elected is, he does not wish the Democrats
to reform South Carolina, but wants the
Republicans to reform her themselves. He
acknowledged that there is corruption in
the party, but claims that history proves
that every war turns up adventures, and
that he has faith i'll all these adventurersS
has faith in the black people, and claims
that the colored man will vote for an honest
man rather than dishonest one. He issur-
prised at the Democrats, and thinks they
make great blunders. Thanks God he is
negro. He said if the Democrats really
didn't believe there were honest men in the
Republican party, then he didn't blame.
them for doing all they could to elect their
own ticket If he is whipped he will come
down like David Crocket's coon. He has
not always felt in accord to Chamberlain's
policy, but every time he tried TO find fault
with him the Democratic newspapers proved
to him that Chamberlain was trying to do
his duty. He claimed that Chamberlainhad
honestly tried to reform the government.
Here the speaker went into details about
Chamberlain's: acts with the Legislature
what every body had already heard time
and again. In referring to the bank bills of
the State, he claimed that thirds of these
were owned by Democrats, who came to
Columbia and begged negro Legislature to
make them receivable. Democrats have'no
right to say they are poor. They don't look:
poor when they are hurrahing for Hampton.
He had received only $50 since last May.
He objects to the name of Democrat-con-
servative is more in accordance with his