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

washington, WuO uibSt2Ce Ills nIRH OEnCe
by trampling ON the liberties Of his coun-
try, ana crushing out all constitutional
| principles of our government. The Rad,
States have also Perpetrated the boldest
| and most Infamous fraud ever known in
any government by setting aside and
multiplying the election maGo by the
American people In the late Presidential
canvass, and declaring that candidate
Of thei. own shall be inauguratcd Presi-
dent who was defeated by the majority of
three hundred thousand votes! But
there will be, there must be, 4 reaction,
and this Republican party which has
disgraced every name that it ever IS
sumed will be consigned to everlasting
infamy. -
There is one hope still left US in South
Carolina, although Hayes may be fraud
ulently declared President, and Cham
beriain acknowledged by i.iI as Cover
nor of the State. The Democratic party
hold the purse strings Of the government.
| This renders Chamberlain and the Radi-
cal party powerless in South Carolina.
General Grant well said, the other day,
that the whole army Of the United States,
would be insufficient TO enforce the COL
lection Of Chamberlain taxes. We
have pledged ourselves, all over the State,
!c pay na 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 for the army under Hayes adj
ministration. A standing army in time
of peace is forbidden in t5e Federal Con-
stitution, and for several years past this
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the States, and upholding tyranny, op-
preston and fraud.
There is m antagonism between capi-
tai and labor in all countries except where
slavery exists or wealth ia 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 Lf this antag-
onism. Their slaves were both capital
and labor. It ia doubtful, however,
whether the farmer or planter was better
off then thnn he is now. We can hire
labor for less than the interest on his
capital invested in slaves. Before the
war he paid q thousand or fifteen hum
dred dollars 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 lnborcr dies he
loses no capital. He does not have to
support him in sickness or old age. 1t
follows as n necessary consequence that
If the capitalist is beneiitsed by the abo-
lition of slavery, the freedman is injured.
This is the case. There are very few
freedmen in South Carolina whose condi-
ton haa 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-
ery7 How many of them have acquired
any property? The last census shows
that they have not increased as they did
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 alf
| Your Labor Reform Society" have
wisely refrained from attempting to reg
ulato the price of labor and wages. This
regulates itself, and is owing to demand
and supply. But Jou have very properly
adopted many wholesome regulations TO
enforce fair and honest dealing between
yourselves and your laborers. Whilst
you pledge yourselves to act correctly by
them, you require them to perform faith
fully their engagements. Where Ia
borcr hires himself for the year he is not
permitted to violate his contract. IF he
does, no one else will employ him. You
have, by your Societies, put down the
Illicit traffic in seed cotton, which was q
growing evil in the country and encour-
aged stealing and embezzlement.
One great object 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 the;- lands instead of wearing
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
frat cultivated. And in many parts of
Italy, lands are moro productive than
they were two thousand years ago.
It ia sad error ever to permit your
farms to be worn out, no matter how
profitable your crops may be. In the
end you will find your capital destroyed
and all your profits not more than enough
i TO repluce It. Don't try 10 cultivate too
much land. It is very bad policy. Ma-
nure your lands vel and cultivate them
we'll, and You will make more on one acre
with half the labor than you would 9TH
! erwise on two or thEoe acres. Instead Of
Purchasing commercial manure, which
will take half your cotton crop to pay
| for them, mako your own manure, by
hawling leaves and littering we'll your
stables, horse lots. and cowpens,. Suhsoil
your fields and manure every acre you
plant. Droughts are the great terrors of
| farmers, and by subsoiling you escape in
| great measure the disasters of q drought.
Horses and mules are very expensive; |;
so, like laborers, the fewer you can do
with the better. have known many n
/! farmer make . fine crop of corn and feed
it all away to his horses and mules. You
| should endeayor to raise your own horses,
mules, cattle and hogs. It should be the
policy of every farmer and planter to
grow and raise every thing possible which
| he uses on his farm or plantation. It is
| q mistake to suppose that he can purchase
any OF these arsicles cheaper than no can
grow or raiso them. The man who de-
pends on purchasing with his cotton crop,
his horses, mules, pork, bacon, -four, &C.,
will find himself making nothing &C the
end Of the year, if not in debt. H.s
lands, too, without raising stock, will be
Impoverished, and he will find himself
ultimately poverty-stricken.
tits an important question for farmers
and plahteis to decide whether to rent
tiieir lands or hire labor to cultivate