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

to carry the State most rigidly adhered
TO- So far there have been no fights OF
forcible breaking up of Republican meet
ings, only as the mere fact of the pres.
ence of Democratic cavalry" may break
them up. i9= Fheii reports in Northern
papers that these men fire into the ne.
groes, and thus: break up their meetings
are!not true! They do just what detail
here, no more5 no less. l expect you
think it is enough"
~ THE EXCUSE
which the Democrats give for the novel
proceeding, of appearing at every Repub-
lican meeting, and demanding division
of time, 10, 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 |! accus-
ing the Democrats of a. desire to return
them to slavery and so forth, and that
they, the Democrats, intend to be on
hand at every meeting and refute these
charges, or, as they put it, throw the
id lies back into the teeth of the Rad
icals." They say they have not meddled
much in politics since the war, being so
desperately in the minority, while the
Radicals have been pumping grand as
sortmcnt of misinformation into the heads
of the credulous blacks, and that they
take this means to put stop to it
On the other hand the blacks have not
sought to interfere with the meetings of
the whites, either by claiming division
of time or otherwise. They have, in
some parts ilof the State, organized a
"cayalry force" and do good deal of
marching and countermarching (but at a
safe distance from any Democratic
camp,) but tits merely AS show of re-
taliation. "a show of it is as far as they
are able to get. in that direction. They
have, however, a project on foot which
will lead to a fight, if carried out. And
in the fight there will be from fifteen to
twenty negroes killed, and perhaps one
white man wounded. Mark that. This
project is to organize a regiment of blacks
to be called .r.!a.. a.,~..
THEi"BoYs IN BLUE"
,5. Il fGW g!!i.;gJd H.,
who are to be armed and 60 about the
State to "ptotett" Republican meetings.
I sincerely hope this will not be done,
for it will result disastrously to the blacks.
It makes not the least difference how q
contest begins, or who is to blame, the
blacks are slaughtered. Look at Ham
burg. There the blacks outnumber the
whites four to one. They had arms of
an improved pattern. They had ammu-
milton. They were regularly drilled
company of militia. They had the 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 are no more match for the
whites than so many sheep. and that
every contest, no matter how it begins,
always ends the same.
My hope as to the South Carolina cam
paign is that it may pass without blood
Shed. Every day feel like offering con-
gratulations that there has been no fight,
and feel relieved that we are so far to-
ward the election without great blood
shed.
You can judge nothing of parties here
by parties in the North, for here it is
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 more get the idea into
negro's head that one Of his race has
right to act with the Democrats, than
you can get gum-drop into a milestone.
That whites should be Democrats they
think perfectly right and proper, and
they think none 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 consuming fear of the whites.
And this does not always suffice, for they
have been known to face drawn pistols
to get a blow at a Democratic negro"
Altogether it is a very singular and a
very disagreeable condition Of things we
find here. .s.e