The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-10-04
FENCE QUEsTIoN...PoTITlcs, &C.

"|ioo" SOu"Sy o's enO icuCc question, q
hearty acquiescence by both parties
should be the order Of The day. 1t so
happens that while a large majority Of
the townships have decided In favor of
the change, the popular vote Is so evenly
balanced that neither side can claim tie
victory. And it so happens that the
townships deciding in favor of the stock
law lie in compact body, and are pre-.
cisely those portions of the County that
stand in the greatest absolute need of
said law, while those deciding against it
lie also Uesapactly together, with one ex.
ceptiOa, and are precisely those portions
of aae County having the most tirsber,
and who hare NIT yet felt the hand of
meeseasity pressing SO heavily asoa chem;
I'm oasaes words, Chat both sections, in the
election, have acted upon tho eame pr;n.
ciple, only giving up the old plan when
the direct necessity forces it upon them.
This condition should reconcile both par.
tiles to the exercise of the greatest for.
ibearance and kind feeling towards each
'other, because the rapid course of events
iis driving all portions of the State to the
same result, and it is only a question of
time as to how long before Brushy Creek
and the other objecting townships shall
stand shoulder to shoulder with Hone
well and the other belt of townships
voting for it. If this be reasonable
view of the situation, and we think It Is,
how absurd the idea that the fence cues.
ton possesses legitimately any political
Significance whatever. As we'll might It
be said that the proper width of cotton
whether two, three OF four feet; or
whether said crop should be manurea
with guano, a compost, or stable manure
or whether n man who is dreadfulN
stTaitened for timber would find it More
economical to fence the stock rather than
the. crops; that ell these arc political
questions upon which parties must divide.
AS good reasons for one as the other.
These are all questions of agricultural
economy, of dollars and cents, to be
judged of ~ discussion, and by prac-
tical test of The advantages or disad-
vantages Of the different plans proposed.
That every sensible man will come to
Shis conclusion, after the passions and
prejudices of the law have passed away.
there cannot be 4 particle of doubt. Let
che Commissioners proceed at once to
carry out the provisions of lie law os to
those townships adopting the proposed
change in the fence law, Tor Shich would
be better, il generally agreeable, to fence
in the whole County, and the practical
test will soon develop whether it be a
good plan or sl,,tt. If it proves advan-
tageous and generally satisfactory, then
the nezt step Eor the Legislature to take
is to pass a general stock law for the
whole State, excepting those counties
only wtosc grazing interests would be
i4Jared thereby. In conversation with q
very intelligent gentlemen from Oolenoy,
an Pickeus County, near Table Rock,
since the recent election, on the subject,
and who expressed: ii!aiee:f as opposed to
the proposed law of the last Legislature,
he said that State law, properly framed,
would ne acquiesced in even by the
mountain people. Such law would not
lDure even stock raisers, as they could
easily fence off large pasturage grounds,
by telling a few trees across gaps or
gulcles in the mountains. On the other
side of the Blue Ridge, in North Caro-
lima, McGalloway said the people were
generally in favor Af the law now. So
that little time or breathing spell now
will likely bring all the people of our be-
loved Palmetto State, from the noun
tains to the seaboard, i'll full and harmo-
nious accord on the fence question, and
all other questions affecting the develop
ment of our material and industrial in
terests and our general prosperity and
happiness.
But higher than all, and above every
other consideration, is the perpetuatior
of our present State government. Tho
developments of the legislative Inveati-
eating Committee have unearthed an
amount of rascality and corruption
throughout the whole machinery of the
late Radical government, With scarcely scarcely
single exception, that has caused a
moral horror to vibrate every honest
mans bosom in this broad continent, and
across the waters even to the other hemi-
sphere. When the people overthrew this
monstrous pyramid of fraud and thievery
anu corruption at, the ballot-box, last
November, by the election oftHampton
and Democratic Legislature. they did
not conceive, in the remotest degree, the
heigbth aud breadth and length and
depth of onr great deliverance. But
every day is adding, and adding, and ad-
ding to the terrible truth--that under
Radical rule South Carolina, for the last
ten or twelve years, has been governed
by set of the most graceless scamps
that ever disgraced the habiliments oi
man in civilized country. But we have
been partially rescued from this appall-
ing maelstrcm of ruin aud destruction
that threatened to engulf every thing
dear and noble and patriotic in g Caro-.
linian's heart, by the election of Hamp-
ton and his compeers. They have buI
just commenced the great work of reform
and they themselves stand aghsst at the
E.upendotaness of the work elltrrsthd tn
their hands. To go through successfully
they need, above all things, the moral