The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-09-28

70 carry the State most rigidly adhered
Co. so far there have been no fights or
forcible breathing mp of Republican meet-
ihgs, only as the mere fact of the pres.
eRte of "Dctnoefatic cavalry" MAY break
| them up. The feports in Northern
papers that these men fire into The ne.
gfoes, and thus. break MP their meetings,
are.not true They do Just what detSil
here, no more, no less. ] expect you
think IL Is enough!"
Tue EXCUSE
which the Democrats give for the novel
proceeding Of appearing at every Repab-
lican meeting, and demanding division
of tinie" ip, the manner have stated, Is
this; They say that the Republican
orators seek to fill the heads of the blacks
with all sorts of misinformation eccus-
ing the Democrats Of desire to return
them to slavery aud SO forth, and that
they, the Democrats, intend to be on
hand at cvory meeting and refute these
charges, or, as they put it, 'throw the
ID lies back inGo :he teeth of Tie Rad
icals." They say they havo not meddled
much in politics since the war, being SO
desperately i9. the minority, while the
Radicals .lave been Pumping q grand as
sorsmcnt of INSTRUMENTATION into the heads
of the .crcdulons blacks, and that they
take this means to put stop to it
On the other hand the hlacks have nc.
sougat to interfere with the meetings Of
the whites. either by claiming division
OF time or otherwise. They have, in
some parts lof the State, organized a
cavalry FORCE" and do good deal Of
marching aud countermarching (but at
safe distance from any Democratic
oamp,) but it is merely as a show of re.
taliation. "a show Of it IL as far as they
are able to get in that direction. They
have, however, a project on foot which
will lead to q fight if carried out. And
in the fight thore will be from fifteen to
twenty negroes killed, and perhaps one
white man wounded. Mark that. This
project is TO organize regiment of blacks
to be called Ill.,.
THE"aoYs IN BLUE"
who are to be armed, and 90 soout tho
State to "protect" Republican, meetings.
| sincerely hope this will not be done,
for it will result disastrously to the blacks.
1t makes not the least difference how q
contest begins, or who is to blame, tho
blacks are slaughtered. Look ut Ham
burg. There the blacks outnumber the
whites four to one. They had arms of
ap improved patterr. They had ammu-
nition. They wero a regularly drilled
company of militia. They had ths ad-
vantage in numbers, arms, position and
ammunition. But how quickly they
went to the wall. Many lives. will be
saved when it is fully understood that the
blacks aro no more q match for the
whites than so many sheep, and that
every Contest. no matter how it, begins,
always ends the same.
MY nope as to the South Carolina cam
paign is that it mey pass without blood
shed. Every day feel like Offering con-
gratulations that there hns been no fight,
and feel relieved Tint wo are 80 far to-
ward the election without great blood
shed.
You can judge nothing of parties here
by parties in the North, for here Il la
race against race. And the black man
who joins the whites suffers more at the
hands of his race than does white man
who joins the blacks. AS I have before
stated, you can no moro get the idea into
@ negTo's head chat one Of his race has a
right to act with the Democrnts, than
you can get gum-drop into milestone.
That whites should be Democrats they
think perfectly right and proper, and
they think mono the less of them on that
account; but for black man to turn
traitor to his race. and "go with the Dem
ocrats" fills them with, uncomfortable
rage, or rather rage that is only con-
trolled by a consuming fear of the whites.
And this does not always suffice, for they
have been known to face drawn pistols
to get blow at n Democratic negro"
Altogether it is very singular and a
very .disagrceable condition Of things we
find here.