The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-10-19

False Friends of the Negroes.

We invite all candid men and all those
who have at heart the:we elfare OF the me-
gro citizens of hesSouth ITO contemplate;
the political canvass nov proceeding IN
The rival candidates forsGosernor rs
that proud old State are Gen. Wade
Hampton and Gov. Chamberlain. The
one is man ofspotless reputation. ltl is
true he was foremost among those who
rebelled against the rightful authority of
the United States, and fought uninter-
ruptedly during the civil war; but ne
maintained throughout that bitter time,
as he had before and as he has since, a
high and deserved character for gallantry
aud truth EThe;otherr aman who has
consorted with AtheS thieves awho have
plundered South Carelina, and has
shared in their oils. Though OIL
he has put on the pretence of integrity,
vet he is an out.and-out political fraud.
Hampton is man against whose honor
not even his worst enemies venture to
allege anything. When, few weeks
ago; the State was in turmoil because OF
disturbances growing out.of antagonisms
between the blacks and whites, Cham
berlain, instead of remaining:at his post
as Governor at Columbia, abandoned the
State and hurried to Washington to ask
the aid of United States trooPsto heiP
elect him AGAIN, to the'same office. Only
lately has!iie returned eSouth1 Carolina,
having obtained the soldiers for whom ne
asked. ~
But the most significant thing in the
South Carolina canvass is the attitude OF
Gen. Hampton toward the negro citizens.
A proud man, bred amid all the race
preiudices of the State in which slavery
before the war had its securest footing,
accustomed to look upon the negroes as
his natural interiors, people to whom TO
grant favors and from whom none could
be asked, himself large STAKEHOLDER and
the very type Of the aristocratic South
Carolinian, Gen. Hampton is now tra-
versing the State, arguing with the en-
franchised blacks, seeking to still their
fears of the results of a Democratic sue
cess in the coming election, and solicit,
ing their votes to the end that peace and
prosperity may again dawn on South
Carolina. 1t is spectacle we'll worth
the contemplation Of all men who doubt
the candor of the South in accepting the
results of the war, the citizenship of the
blacks, and their entire equality before
the law. Gen. Hampton is known to
the negroes throughout the State as no
otliersof the native South gCaroilnians.E
He is familiar5 to: every colDred citizen
and is respected by them all. We doubt
not that in casting away the sPre|udlces
against the negroes fostered by his ;rears
ing under the conditions which slavery
imposed, and in patiently instructing, as
he is doing, the black voters as to what
are their true interests, he is gathering to
his support a large following of these
previously snisled people: One has only
to Tread GenA Hampton's. speeches, bear
ing in mind his proud truthfulness, to see,
how. Gif: cohsiderate, and honorable his
intentions toward the negroes are and
how sincere his purpose to defend their
rights equally with those of their fellow
citizens of a lighter skin. ,,.-., s,.....,..
Nothing has occurred since. The war
which more surely indicates the safety Of
the negroes privileges as enfranchised
men and lawful voters, than this canvass
Of Wade HamptoI in South Carolina.
It affords happy promise that that
plundered and outraged State may
this year redeem herself from the
thieves who have rioted on her re-
sources, aud that the political division
which has hitherto been drawn on the
lipeof may be obliterated:' lAg men
who wish for the prosperity of the South
and the happiness of the negro, should
join in PRAYING for so auspicious result.
-Ne,o York Sun. 9gf4 (