The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-03-02

for earnest work. The shade of Wash
ington beckons you on. His spirit leads
the van, and calls you to remember his
untiring effort in securing your fore
fathers independence. When the palla-
dunn of American liberty was tottering,
and tyrannical night with its horrid out
lines was brooding over this sunny land,
the heroes of the little Palmetto State,
with shout of victory or death, rushed
around its quivering base with drawn
swords determined to perish beneath the
fall, if fall it must. Hear their united
voice as it spans the past, calling upon
you to redeem the State in which their
sacred ashes repose. But how is she to
be redeemed? You have. the means. in
your own hands. The unity and harmo-
ny, the cool determination fixed upon the
countenance of each Democrat present,
speak volumes for your success You
cannot, nor will you, shirk your work
while the angelic smiles of woman cheer
you onward, and bid you God speed. In
unity there is strength. but when the
Democrats once again scatter their
forces, and hug the fatal phantom coali-
ton to their bosoms, then all is lost Let
the Democrats of South Carolina, quit
themselves like men (; think of how much
they have to gain; think of their loss
should they fail by indifference, but fail?
never! Think of the misrule you have
quietly submitted to, and the overtures
and the compromises you have made, in
days gone by. Think of such vermin
as the cheat 'Whipper, whose evil deeds
follow in his wake, and who now howls
and RACES over thwarted purposes; of
F. J. Moses, jr., the vile unscrupulous
would-be-judge, who swelters and prays
to reach the public Golfers once more;
and remember the whole miserable crew,
many of whom are jail-birds, Tor. will be
Carolina, lording it over you for eight
dismal years. If.this wilL,not arouse
your patriotism you are hopelessly dead.
Do I dream when I say that our State
once had a, Hayne, q, McDufie and the
sage and philosopher Calhoun, and a
host of others in Congress, and our State
is now misrepresented by stranger, who
has no sympathy with us';; carpet-bag
ger, who calls out to his theivish clan,
"Hold on, there are five years of good
stealing in South Carolina yeti" Is it a
reality, or mere creation of fancy? And
your. Congressional District that could
once boast Calhoun, without including
Richland, and your County that could
once boast Speaker the House, in the
palmy days of American history, in the
person of your countryman, late Hon. j.
l.. Orr, is grossly misrepresented by the
willy Hoge, a regular. ofice:stealer, a
political harpy, who doesn't know how
far it is from Anderson to Williamson
by moonlight. @. ,...4 5c rair:
The mills of the gods grind slowly but
surely, and the morning light will soon.
break, when all such vermin will stuff
their filthy old carpet-bags with their ILL,
gotten gains, and sigh for the wings of
eagles to. bear them swiftly away, from
the rattling of the old dry bones Of South
Carolina. Listen to no more words of
coalition, unless you wish tosrepeat your
former folly. IF fithe lamp. of experience
has not burned sufficiently bright for the
Democrats Of this. State, they are sadly
deficient in observation. Listen to no
syren song of reform. The shores of the
slough of Radicalism present. a ghostly
appearance of skeletons of false promises.
There is no reform in the Radical party.
The experiment has been tried, but with
out success. 1t is adefunct rotten carcass
that stinketh throughout the land; and
there is not an honest Carolinian who
can be SO void of understanding as to
Join himself to a party in which such
men as Whipper, F. s., Moses, jr., and
such like, are recognized leaders. ..a:hI
1t is hardly necessary for me. to- dwell
on the time when the Democratic party
of Anderson suffered itself to be led up
to the Radical altar, and like a: lamb,
dumb before her shearers, opened not, its
mouth. You will manifest no more in
difference in your work. we have. moth
ing to fear if we work with the proper
spirit. But if any hope to rid us of our
evils by mounting astride the hybrid
coalition, perish such hope, and Let the
day Of its birth perish from the memory
of man. Let the Democrats, rise in their
might and turn back the tide of corrip-
tion and ruin. Let them. throw up'abEl-
wark, and swear thus far, shalt thou, go
and no further. What though. insulting
demagogues howl and rage; what though
insulting lies be published to the world
of outrages that never happen;afwhat
though Morton. insultingly faunts his
"bloody Shirt" what though spitefnnl
Blaine hurls his bob-tail amnesty at, us.
The future historian will Dc us Justice.
He will snatch from the devouring Jaws
of time the true records of our misrepre-
sented country. .iAnd IF !it affords our
enemies pleasure let them revile, let them
gnash on us with their teeth, let them sneer
and scoff in this the Centenniafo of Ameri-
ican Independence, at our causegnbut
when the death-knell of State sovereign
ty is walled out for the last time, and the
eternal principles upon which the Arneri-
can Constitution is based shall be up
heaved by demagogues and swept'away
| by revolution, coming generations will
weep a tear of sad regret DER the untimely
death of American liberty. Then take
these for your watch-words, along the line
let it sound-Washington, South Caro-
lima and Liberty! these threer-buta the
greatest of these is Liberty! 49, ri. ,1,ob
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