The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-07
Let Us Have a Campaign Fund.

The following article WAS contributed
ishoit time ago to the Edgefeld Advertiser
butts appeal for campaign fund Wi!
apply with equal force toi'AndeTsof
County: ;..r 4, - G>.:r ~ni .
MEssRs. EDITORS: :, ! believe that tht
success Of the Democratic party in Edge
field County, IS already assured. The
bold; resolilte and determined attitude Of
the democracy has, had O. telling effect
and the victory has y already atly been Y Yirtll; y;
ally achieved. ~
But Edgefeldr is the banner County
and her motto is gEkcelsior." I'VE
desire to accomplish. more than!a simple
majority. I'VE wish to beat the Radicals e I.
by 1900 or 1900 votes. We wish td
make this fight, to them a Waterloo de-
feat: We wish also, to set q patriotic ex.
ample to our sister. Counties and to oul
fellow.citizehs throughout The whole
State.>i We want tho same wind that will
sweep Edgefed like a prairie: fire, to
consume, the Radical broomsedge, from
the Mountains to the Seaboard. Let us
create breeze that cannot BY any posi-
bility or contingency fail,to watt the no.
BILE, chivalrous, honest, yiruous,l gallant
Hampton into the, Executive Chair. OF
the State. Without, relaxing particle
Of the means and efforts that we now
have under .way'ileti7 us 60 one step
further and raise a campaign fund Of fue
Mousand dollars or more, to be placed at
the disposal of the Executive Committee
of Edgefeld County. Let us have the
"sinews" of political warfare. Come
veal or come woe, we must win this fight.
Like Cortez, we have burned our ships
} behind 'us, and there is no safe avenue of
retreat. We must look neither 10 the
/ right nor to, the left, but fix our eyes
steadily upon the goal of Democratic
! victory, like the Eagle fixes his upon the
sun. "a ~ Alo'.! ~ ~
Our forefather's pledged their fortunes
as we'll as their lives and :their sacred
honor in the contest for freedom and the
struggle for independence a hundred
years ago, and nobly did they redeem the
pledge. The men of 1850 initiated their
illustrious and heroic example. Shall
we of 1876 prove to be less self-sacrificing
than they? Are we not willing in this
hour of our country's greatest need to
bring up our Offerings" and lay them as
willing sacrifices upon our country's
altars. I mistake the spirit and temper
of the people of this countyif they should
fail to respond with alac-ity to call like
this. An assessment of two hundred
dollars upon each Club, or something
like that in proportion to their respective
means, would raise the required amount.
This sum could be raiaed, and nobody
hurt. ., It would scarcely be entitled to
the dignity of the .appellation sacrifice.
And Yet the demands Of the hour require
that we should actually make sacrifices and
resort to great self-denial to redeem the
State. In 1860 our wealthy citizens uni:
formed whole. companies and equipped
them for service, as an evidence of their
zeal and patriotism Are notour men of
means, of to-day, willing to give one or
two hundred dollars each to, rescue this
noble old commonwealth from the hands
OF the vandals.i Shalt we continue any
longer to pay millions into the Radical
Treasury when a hundred thousand dol
lars would elect the Democratic ticket
beyond all peradventure? Five thou
sand dollars raised by each County in the
State would yield fund of one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, If we act
well the part of the WAGNER in Aesop
and put our own shoulders to the wheel,
there is q Hercules at the North that will
double the amount.
: The taxes of the next winter will be
levied by the new Legislature. If the
Radicals prevail, these will be exceeding
ly burdensome and oppressive. It will
be saving of half million dollars to
the pockets of the people to elect the
Democratic ticket, in the matter of the
next winters taxes alone. Shall we not
bring up our treasure to the rescue. in so
momentous crisis as this? a-r /,
The times are propitious-; the occasion
is far more favorable than any that we
have ever had presented before; the
Radical waves are receding; their Bel
shazzers are trembling; the hand writing
is on the wall the Democratic hosts are
advancing; and South Carolina is the
last stronghold of this modern Diabolus.
Every one knows that money has here
tofore been very freely used by the Radi-
Gals In this State-and public money too
poured by the Democrats into the Rad
ical Golfers. At the North hundreds of
thousands of dollars are annually spent
in elections when the candidates are all
white, and the best representative men
are put forward by both parties. The
people there have very little to lose in
the triumph of either party, and yet their
political contests are fought with intense
fercenesss and with the utmost disregard
of expense Shall we who have become
the slaves of slaves. whose inheritance,
that has been handed down from a hun
dred generations, has been usurped by a
black inferior race of political. cormo-
rants, the most corrupt that the world
ever saw; and who groan under the most
intolerable burden Of misgovernment and
political rottenness, that any civilized
people ever had to endure, shall we not
be willing to contribute. freely of our
means to be restored to our Inheritance
1t is said that Robertson and Patterson
each paid forty thousand dollars to be
elected. to the United States Senate by
Jul 1sdutCdi ACelsidtok0oj auu euop ooAOl
mons Bank contributed tens of thousands
of dollars to elect Chamberlain Governor
two years ago, and after reimbursing it
self from the public funds in its keeping,
suspended payment. Mailer and Reed
and Shaw were defeated by such 'miscre.
ants as Virgins and lWhipper and Moses
because these. last paid g few hundred
dollars piece for their selection
Moneyiis powerful lever to turn the ma
chinery that moves the world. The
Spoils The spoils J.! The spoils III
This is the Shibboleth of the Radical
party. Let us go at them with their own
favorite weapons. Let us fight them on
their own ground. Let us beat them al
their own game.
VULCAN.
DON'T BE Too CRIT1cAL.-Whatever
you do, never set up for a critic. We
don't mean newspaper one, but in pri.
vate, life, in the domestic circle, in socie.