The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-12

| 0fthats b4s0tteds lying carpet-Dagger aS
Washington, who disgrace his high Office
by trampling on the liberties of his coun-
try, and crushing out all constitutional
principles of our government. The Rad
ical or Republican party of the United
States have also perpetrated the boldest
and most infamous fraud ever known in
any government by setting aside and
nullifying the election made by the
American people in the late Presidential
canvass, and declaring that candidate
of their own shall be inaugurated Presi-
dent who was defeated by the majority of
three hu..dred thousand votes! But
there will be, there must be-, reaction,
and this Republican party which has
disgraced every name that it ever as
suned Will be consigned to everlasting
infamy.
Carolina, although Hayes may be fraud
ulently declared President, and Cham
berlain acknowledged by him as Cover
nor of the State. The Democratic party
hold the pnrse strings of the government.
cal party powerless in South Carolina.
General Grant we'll said, the other day,
that the whole army of the United States,
would be insufficient to enforce the col
lection of Chamberlain's taxes. We
have pledged ourselves, all over the State,
to pay NO taxes for the support of the
Radical government in South Carolina,
be the consequences what they may.
And it is To be hoped that the Democratic
House of Congress will make no appro-
priation foc the army under Hayes ad-
ministratioz,. A standing army in time
of peace is forbidden in the Federal Con-
stitution, and for several years past this
army has been destroying the rights of
the States, and upholding tyranny, op-
preston and fraud.
There is IN antagonism between capi-
tai and labor in all countries except where
slavery exists or wealth is unknown.
Before our civil war and the abolition of
slavery in the Southern States, the farmer
and planter owned their labor as we'll as
their capital, and felt none of this antag-
onism. Their slaves were both capital
and labor. 1t is doubtful, however,
| whether the farmer or planter was better
off then than he is now. We can hire
labor for less than the interest on his
capital invested in slaves. Before the
| war he paid thousand or fifteen hun
dred dollar, for negro fellow, and he
can now hire one for the interest on that
sum of money. Then he has this great
advantage that if the laborer dies he
loses no capital. He does not have to
support him in sickness or old age. 1t
| follows SIS g necessary consequence that
| if the capitalist is benefited by the abo-
lition of slavery, the freedman is injured.
This is the case. There are very few
freedmen iI South Carolina whose condi-
ton has been benefited by their freedom.
Let me ask you to look around you and
see how many of the colored people are
living better than they did when in slav-
ery? How many of them have acquired
any property? The last census shows
that they have not increased as they did
in times of slavery. The death records
in Charleston show that the colored peo-
pie of that city die twice as fast as the
white citizens do. In all the Northern
States where the colored people have
been free for years past they have not
increased at all.
Your Labor Reform Society" have
wisely refrained from attempting to reg
ulate the price of labor and wages. This
regulates itself, and is owing to demand
and supply. But you have very properly
adopted many wholesome regulations to
enforce fair and honest dealing between
yourselves. aad your laborers. Whilst
YOU pledge yourselves to act correctly by
them, you require them to perform faith
fully their engagements. Where la
borer hires himself for the year he is not |
permitted to violate his contract. # he
does, no one else will employ him. You
have, by your Societies, put down the |
illicit traffic in seed cotton, which was a
growing evil ia the country and encour-
aged stealing aad embezzlement. /
One great on;ect with the farmer and
planter should be to employ as little labor |
as possible. In order to do this they
should plant less cotton, and SOW more
of their lands in small grain. This will
improve their Lands instead of wearing
them out. In old countries, where the |
lands have been in cultivation hundreds
of years, instead of being worn out, they |
are improved. There are lands in Eng |
land, which have been in cultivation five
hundred years that are now twice and
thrice as productive as they were when
first cultivated. And in many parts OF |
Italy, lands are more productive than
they were two thousand years ago.
It is sad error ever to permit your |
farms to be worn out, no matter how
profitable your crops may be-. ln the
end you will find your capital destroyed
and all your profits not more than enough |
to replace it. Don't try to cultivate too |
much land. Il is very bad policy. Ma
nure your lands we'll and cultivate them |
we'll, and you will make more on one acre
with half the labor than you would 9th.
erwise on two OK three acres. Instead of |
purchasing commercial manure, which |
will take half your cotton crop to pay |
for them, make your own manure, by |
hawling leaves and littering well your
stables, horse lcts, and cowpens. Subsoll
your fields and manure every acre you
plant. Droughts are the great terrors OF |
farmers, and By subsoiling you escape in |
a great measure the disasters of drought.
Horses and mules are very expensive; !
so, like laborers the fewer you can do |
with the better. I have known many q |
farmer make iine crop of corn and feed
it all away to his horses and mules. You
should endeavor to raise your own horses,
mules, cattle and hogs. 1t should be the |
policy of every farmer and planter to |
grow and raise every thing possible which |
he uses on his farm or plantation. 1t is
a mistake to suppose that he can purchase
any of these articles cheaper than he can
grow or raise them. The man who de- |
pends on purchasing with his cotton crop,
his horses, mules, pork, bacon, -four, &C.,
will find himself making nothing at the |
end of the year, if not in debt. His
lands, too, without raising stock, will be |
impoverished, and he will find himself |
ultimately poverty-stricken.
tbs an important question for farmers
and planters to decide whether to rent |