The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-12-14
EDITORIAL NOTES.

EUIIUklAL NUIESs
Col. John +. Sloan, Clerk of the Con-
stitutional House of Representatives of
South Carolina, was sent by that House
with message to the Senate, but was
refused admission into that body. The
Senate thus cuts off all communication
with the representatives. Of the people,
and helps to uphold the usurpation which
is now being attempted. The people
who overthrow these miserable wretches
at the polls, will in the next election
overthrow the Senators who are thus
thwarting the popular will.
Gold is only sl.O7s cents in New York.
That does not look like the business men
of Wall Street thought the result OF the
Presidential election in much doubt. 1t
is also an indication that they do not
have much fear of a revolution, for if so
the demand for gold would be so great
that its price would be much higher.
The fact is, the people know Tilden has
been fairly elected President, and they do
not mean to have any foolishness over his
Inauguration. Hayes, Grant, Chandler
& Co. to the contrary. Notwithstanding.
The price of gold is an exceedingly en-
couraging feature of the present crisis. ID
General Hampton asks our people to
have patience, and says that he, never
thought it;advisable to inform his enc
mics as to what moves tie expected to
make, and therefore he does not choose
to inform the Republicans at this time as
to the manner in which the Democrats
intend to thwart the.infamous usurpation
which is attempted by the robber band
of South Carolina. We need not expect
! to be delivered from the tyrants' grasp
Immediately, but we have an immovable
confidence in the success of our cause.
It may not be completed before March,
but when it is accomplished, it will bring
a thorough reformation to ous. @ aa.
Republican politicians are beginning to
think seriously of going back on negro
suffrage in the States, as they have in
the District of Columbia. This is alto
gether because they see that the long
career: of robbery ofthe Southern States,
which the negro population at last-6nds
affects them as it does white men, is turn
ing the negro vote against them. The
Ohio State Journal, the home organ of
Hayes, says: "The fair thing to do,
should the present Democratic terrorism
and intimidation in the South be perpet
uated, would be to count out the blacks
entirely in the basis of representation, in
which case the South would lose fifty
electoral votes and fifty representatives
in. Congress" A similar proposition is
made by the Chicago Inter. Ocean.
The great Centennial Farce continues
in South Carolina, and the free people of
this nation still blush with shame when
they read the news from the old Palmetto
State. What contrast! One of the
original sisters of this great country, pin.
ioned with bayonets, and enslayed to
aliens aud thieves. The pride of Ameri-
cans has been insulted and their honor
tarnished by the lnisereants who have de-
fed all laws and all precedents in this
State, and who are to-day endeavoring to
lake South Carolina a den'of thieves and
usurpers. A day of FEARFUL reckoning is
in store for these culprits. Patience and
obedience will triumph over crime and
shame, even .ifthe bayonets of the nation
do uphold them. 1.f,'
The electoral vote has been cast, and
the regularly attested returns give Tilden
1856; Hayes 1874. A few days ago Re-
publicans claimed that-the certified vote
must stand whether right or wrong. Was
that position taken upon conviction of
principle, or upon the Radical principle
that the Gecision must be made to suit
the interests of the party? We shall see.
In either case; however, Mr.. Tilden will
now be President, as the Democrats have
! already broken the head of Radicalism
with the very weapon which had been
provided to destroy Democracy. They
have the vote, and the Senate can either
count it or not. fit is counted as cast,
Tilden is President. Ifitiis rejected, the