The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-10-19
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We give DeiOW response to the calum.
nious letter published in these columns
last week, copied from the st. Paul
(NIinn.) Press and Tribune, upon which
wc commented at the time. The writer
Of the letter herewith appended has been
resident Of this section; for six,years,
and Is much bettercentitted 10 give an
opinion upon the situation than one
whose residence is not of longer duration
than six weeks or two mouths, He
speaks as Republican, too, but not RS a
prejudiced partisan, who is willing to
yilify aud tradnce good citizens without
cause, We, co,ppfIa tho letter7Sf Mr..
Greene to the itizens Of the Northern
States who may chance to read this
paper, and We would suggest to our ex-
changes that its republication in their
columns will assist 10 refute the ISLANDERS
so industriously circulated by enemies of
the South, including the carpet.bsg Gov
ernor Of South Carolina n who is just. now
engaged most extensively in this dirty
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SENECA CITY, S. c., Oct. G, 1876.
Editors LnteNiyencer. A friend called
my attention to O letter in your paper,
copied from Minnesota paper, but
written by Northern man from Wal
hala, which is SO well calculated to de.
ceye the readers of that paper that
have taken the liberty to write to its
editor to set the matter right, for no man
knows better than myself that there is
scarcely grain of truth in the whole
letter. I made the acquaintance Of the
writer when he came here, took him to
my house, and had ample opportunity 10
form an opinion Of the man. He was
one of those honest, yell-,neaning sort of
people that we often meet, who have .
happy faculty of making themselves dis
agreeable whenever an opportunity pre-
sents itself. At the North We call them
fanatics; at the South they are fire.
eaters: If you agree with them you are
an honest man, if you don't you are
thief; and they. are class that often
have the opportunity TO do much harm.
He was going to the mountains Of
Western North Carolina where Hattering
prospects had been held out to him; but
he was disappointed in his expectations.
became homcsick, and possibly out of
money, aud in that frame of mind he
wrote that letter TO "lre the Northern
beast,"' aud I regret that it has been
used for that purpose. Now, 1 am 9
Northern man. ard have lived six years
at the South. am good RepuDiican-no
man goes before me in his devotion to
the party, and defend it and advocate
its principles whenever the opportunity
presents itself-anl ( yah .dp NIB less than
say that no man has ever offered me an
insult or spoken an unkind word to me
iuall these years. have everywhere
been treated with the greatest cpnsidera-
tions, often greater tlah 1 deserved: I
have never heard q threat, nor have
ever Thought my life or property any
more unsafe than it would be in Massa-
chusetts- I came here to make hope.s
notitd seek an Office and rob you, not to
force my political views upon you, nor
to aid that band of rascals who have
stolen the "livery of Heaven to serve tho
Devil in" and uuder the guise of Repub-
licanism, and to its eternal disgrace, have
robbed-and fh,inea ysda stas% "~4s6ave
neitherSgptpathy nor iirespecH fas ahose
political parasites who hong upon the
skirts Of the Republican party, watching
their opportunity TO plunder and to steal !;
and the great party that represents the
wealth and intelligence, Of the North is
held responsible for their crimes. n
have, read with much: satisfaction
your article on Northern ,nen in the
South" ] endorse every word cf It.
You can quote ME as living instance of
its truth; Northern man, Republican
OF the straitest sect, instantih season and
out Of season to give reason for tho
faith that is in him, in whose veins flows
no drop cc Democratic blood, Union
soldier who bears honorable scars, and
one, too, you may add, that is hopeful
when this ;,gapg tofl thieves shall have
been driven into obscurity, and the places
that nov 5Pqw then, ,,HBhlpll knew them no
more forever, that there will rise up here
onlthe soil of South Carolina Repabli-
can'ipartyy. tS'which an honest man may
eonsclentionsly belong, and at the men.
ton Of whose name he need not hide his
'"'s pSesas'tn5lGS1H MGLSNAM
GILBERT JAYa GREENE.