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

The following article was contributed
short time ago to the Edgefeld -4drertiser
but its appeal for campaign fund vii
apply with equal force to Anderson
County:
MEssRs. EDITORS l believe that tho
success of the Democratic party in Edge
field County is already assured. Tho
bold, resolutc and determined attitude oi
the democracy has had a telling effect
and the victory has already been virtu'
ally achieved.
But Edgeficld is the banner County
and her motto now is Excelsior" We
desire to accomplish more than a simple
majority. We wish to beat the Radicals
by 1900 or 1000 votes. We wish to
make this fight, to them Waterloo de-
feat. We wish also to set a patriotic ex-
ample to our sister Counties and to our
fellow-citizens throughout the whole
State. We want the same wind that will
sweep Edgcfcld like q prairie fire, to
consume the Radical broomscdge from
the Mountains to the Scaboard. Let lis
create breeze that cannot by any posi-
bility or contingency fail to watt the no
BILE, chivalrous, honest, yirtuous, gallant
Hampton into the Executive Chair of
the State. Without relaxing particle
of the means and efforts that we now
have under way, let us 60 one step
further and raise a campaign fund Of Jfve
thousand dollars Or more, to be placed at
the disposal of the Executive Committee
of Edgefcld County. Let us have the
"sinews" of political warfare. Come
veal or come woe, we must win this fight.
Like Cortcz, we have burned our ships
behind US, and there is no safe avenue of
retreat. We must look neither to 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.
Our forcfather's pledged their fortunes
as well as their lives and their sacred
honor in the contest for freedom and the
struggle for independence hundred
years ago, and nobly did they redeem the
pledge. The men of 1860 initiated their
illustrious and heroic example. Shall
we of 1876 prove to be less self-sacriicing
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. l mistake the spirit and temper
of the people of this county if they should
fail to respond with alac.ity to a 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 raised and nobody
hurt. 1t 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 sclf-denial to redeem the
State. In 1850 our wealthy citizens uni
formed whole companies and equipped
them for service, as an evidence of their
zeal and patriotism. Are not our 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. Shall we continue any
longer to pay millions into the Radical
Treasury when 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 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 burdensone and oppressive. 1t will
be saving of a 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
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
ticrcenesss and with the utmost disregard
of expense Shall VIC who have become
the slaves of slaves, whose inheritance,
that has been handed down from a hun
dred generations, has been usurpcd BY a
black inferior race of political cormo-
rants, the most corrupt that the world
ever saw and who groan under the most
intolcrablc burden of disagreement and
political rottenncss, 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
our Radical Legislatures, and that Solo
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. Mahcr and Reed
and Shaw were defeated by such miscre-
ants as Virgins and Whipper and Moses
because these last paid u few hundred
dollars q piece for their selection
Money is powerful lever to turn the ma
chinery that moves the world. The
Spoils The spoils!! The spoils :!
This is the Shibboleth Of the Radical
party. Let lis 60 at them with their own
favoritc weapons. Let us fight them on
their own ground. Let us beat them at
their own game.
VULCAN.
DON'T BE Too Observation-Disclosures
you do, never set up for a critic. We
don't mean Il newspaper one, but in pri-
vatc, life, in the domestic circle, in socic-
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