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

OF property should be allowed to vote
T Republican authorities at Washing
ton ,aght differently at that time. But
q sudden change came over them whe''
they. found that all the Southern States
had gore Democratic and elected Demo-
cratic Governors, members of Congress
and Senators. They then deterlnitied to
onifanc.iise the negroes and disfranchise
the white people in order TO give all the
Southern States to tho Republican party
Was there any regard for the colored
people in all this? Was it not their own
interest and their own. party purposes
which prompted them to hestow this boon
on the negro? They required five years
residence before foreigner ia allowed 10
vote This was to enable him 10 become
acquainted with our laws, our constitution
and form of government. He had like
wise TO produce in court certificate OF
good moral character. How different
was their conduct all at once towards the
colored people when they adopted the
idea Of controlling the Southern States
by means of the freedmen. Without any
preparation or education or certificate OF
moral character, the whole of the freed
men wcre 8 eclared citizens, with the right
of suliragcl ,st,-.
This is the pretended sympathy Of the
Republican party for the negro 1t is
false in every particular. They never
had any sympathy for him except where
their interest prompted them to have.
They were, in tho first place, actuatcd by
q base and sordid interest in sending
their vessels to Africa and kidnapping
the poor negro and selling him as slave.
They were actuated by their own interest
Itu1,n E,,I . L., l.1~
er profitable, they set him free. They
consulted their own interest and not the
interest of the negro when they took him
into their armies, and declared that the
Southern States should not be restored to
the Union till he was set free. They
were actuated by the same motive when
thoy gave him the right of suffrage And
they are now actuated by the same prin-
cipfes and the same feelings when they
tell the colored people to vote for the
sent the Republican party in;the South
crn States.
Your. Exccllency knows fall Tell the
corruption of your Republican party in
South Carolina. You yourself, hare de-
n0unced it and tried to reform it. The
Legislature has elected rieu SO infamous
to seats on the bench that ycu have re-
fused to commission them! Time and
again yon nave vetoed their fraudulent
bills, and tried to stop their roEuery aud
plunder Why, then, do you ask the
ignorant and orcdulous negro t, sustain
those rogues and plundcrers whom you
have thus boldly denounced They,
such men as Moses and Whipper, Bowen
aid Noagio, and Leslie and Whiitemorc
and their satellites, are the Republican
party of South Carolina! The great
masses of the colored people are too ig-
iOrant to understand the political Tprinci-
pies Of any party, and they have been
led astray and turned against their Dem.
ocratic friends, with whom they were
born and raised, by just such speeches II:
you made to them at Lancaster, Marlboro
and other places. l am sure, nir, yo;
have too much regard for your reputation
to tell the colored people, as your Rcpuh
lican understrappers do all over the State
that ii the Democratic party get into
power in oonth Carolina they will bt
thrown back into slavery or deprived O
their political rights and privileges. You
know, sir that the Democratic party now
has the control of Georgia, Alabama
Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, Mis-
souri,, Texas and Arkansas. And in nj
these States the colored people are better
off, more secure in all their rights, more
prosperous and more of frecmcn thar
they are i'll South Carolina under Rcpub
lican or Radical rule 1t has been said
that all mankind are governed by love ol
fear. You seem disposed to govern By
the former principle and your under
strarpers by the latter
am, sir, most respectfully yours, &c
Ri II r PERRY