The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-12-07
seemed 10 swear.

t0 privileged questions in the House, we
will tell CAN'T. and all. men Of his kind,
that we, and the class of white men to
which We belong, do not, as he seems to
think, despisc him on account of his be-
ing black or even ignorant. On the other
hand, but for the course he has been pur-
suing and his incorporate remarks, made
in that very ignorance, in all probability
with the hope of impressing some Of his
associates, he would, as many other men
of his race have done, have made friends
of the white men of the South. We can
tell him, further, that when the ancestors
of the very carpet-baggers who are the
authors of all his woes and the woes of
his race first brought his forefathers from
the wilds of Africa. and sold them to the
Southern planter, they were speculating
in the flesh and blood then, as they are
now in the credulty, of the colored man,
for selfish, sordid motives. Even his
liberation by the armies OF the North was
effected by no love for him or his race,
but simply as a war measure, adopted by
the North to crush their Southern broth
ers, which, for two years, with all the
world 10 draw from for troops, money and
material, they had been unable to do;
and bnt few weeks before they declared
the black man free, they declared to their
white brothers of The South, which they
persisted in calling us even then, that
they never desired, never intended, the
liberation of the negro, and that any such
declaration or act upon the part of any
man in their armies would be violation
of the spirit and of the letter Of the con-
stitution under which we all had lived.
CAN'T should know these things and
profit by them, and as he desired to see
something good in the Register for his
Sunday reading, we have told him this
much, which he hardly knew before.
Just after CAN'T got through with his
remarks for "those Register" Mr.. Bowen,
a member of the Senate, made his ap-
pearance at the door of the House and
applied for admission. The assistant
Sergeant-at-Arms refusing, in language
which was offensive to Mr.. Bowen, to
permit him to pass, he pushed him aside
and entered. This created little ripple
of excitement, but nothing came of it ex-
cept that Mr.. Bowen entered the House,
as he had a perfect right to do.
A Charleston delegate at this moment
rose to "pint" of order, but being un-
able to tell about his "pint," he was di-
rected by the member from Bermuda to
take his seat, which he did reluctantly,
declaring that he believed he had right
to "'scuss de merits and de demerits OF
ebrything."
Robertson, of Beaufort, said he had
been called "Ring-tailed Roarer" by
those Register, and he wanted to correct
the "gentlcmens what writes dat paper. "
He said that he was "Red-hot Ring tailed
Roarer Robertson; )" hence we stand cor
rected on Robertson.
Tom Hamilton, of Beaufort, now OBJ
tanned the floor, and said that the issue
had to be made sooner or later; that he
might as we'll make it now. He then
proceeded to arraign the Republican
leaders of South Carolina who had de-
nounced Chamberlain as a traitor, q
Democrat and thief, after he had nom-
mated him in the Republican Conyen-
ton. He proved his consistency as q
Republican. and pointed them to meas
ures which he had opposed, but which
they in their madness and folly had
passed over his head, and afterwards &C.
cused him of disloyalty and want Of
party fealty. He told them of his de-
termination to do right and fulfill the
oath he had taken to support the consti
tuition, regardless of the consequence:
that might follow. He told them tina
T two years hence he would be candidate
for reelection, and that he would be re-
turned from his county. He denied thai
the people of South Carolina had any OBJ
lection to Northern people coming into
the State, provided they did not come a:
professional politicians. He alluded tt
Leslie as well-known thief who hac
fed the State. Hamilton ridiculed the
idea of Laurens and Edge6eld being
thrown out on account of the number o
votes cast, and said that his own county
which had given the second largest Re
publican majority of any county in th'
State, had cast 5000 more votes than i
had two years ago. Hamilton's speecl
was long and exhaustive one, and HI
closed it by warning the "bob-tailed Leg
islature," as he termed it, of their effor
to force upon the people of the Stat
their unlawful body as a genuine, bon'
fde Legislature.
At the conclusion Of his speech, Ham
ilton approached the Speakers stand
with his commission iu his hand, and re
quested to be sworn in as member o
the constitutional body. The most in
tense interest was manifested all over th'
House as Hamilton took the oath; aftel
which he returned to his seat.
$ Pinckney, the "rurial" member from
Charleston, walked down the aisle anc
: began to deliver a speech denunciator,
of Hamilton's course. After getting a'
far as "tRe sight was the most damnable,
some of the old Radical rats went up tt
, him, whispered in his ear, and the "San'
, tee orator" with a sickly grin, subsidized
Thomas, of Newberry, then returned
, and moved the passage Of the report ol
the Committee on Privileges and Elec-
ii is, which was adopted.
This report recommended the exclusion
of the Democratic members of Edgetield
and Laurens, and was adopted by the
Radical wing of the House, which, OF
course, amounted to nothing.
The time having arrived for the vote
for Governor to be considered, that bus
mess was dispensed with until Monday,
upon which day it must be considered.
Miller, of Beaufort, followed the post
ponement of the election matter in a
speech in which he made an exhibit of
the increase and decrease of population
in Beaufort, Edgefcld and Laurens, and
also made an exhibit Of the ratio of votes
in proportion to the population, all OF
which was very satisfactory to Miller, if
to no one else.
Miller was followed by N. B. Myers, of
Beaufort. Myers is very intelligent
colored Republican, who has stood side
by side with Hamilton in his manly de-
fense of the right.
At the close of his speech, which was
very we'll delivered, he also advanced to
the Speakers stand and took the oath,
which was delivered by Gen. Wallace,
the legitimate Speaker of the Legitimate