The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-26

persists in solidly voting for the dema-
gogues who use him las Hayes has done)
as mere ladder to political power, to be
kicked aside as soon as he is used. Ii
the black MN does vote for the Repub-
licans, his vote will not be counted, and
he will gain the i'll will of his white
Southern neighbors without aiding his
friends in thJ Northern States.
If there are colored men who cannot
vote for Democratic candidates let them
refuse to vote at ALL
It is wickedness to try to keep up
Republican party in the South excepting
on the basis of large native white vote.
It will end only in still further troubles
to the poor and misled and too-grateful
blacks. The best thing that every black
man can do in the South is to consult his
own individual interest, without regard
to party platforms, las President Hayes
has done,) in making up his mind for
whom he shall vote in all future elec-
tions.
The allies of the administration will
urge your people to repudiate my advice
and appeal to them to be "loyal" to the
Republican organization. Let them turn
a deaf ear to these deluding demagogues,
or ask them, at least, before listening to
them, Whether they hold an office or are
seeking an Office? 1t would be great
triumph to the Administration party if
the blacks should continue to be true to
the President who has betrayed them.
But let the colored people seriously ask
themselves, Whether it will be a good
thing for their race? and let them act as
they shall honestly answer this question.
I care nothing for political parties, but l
do most profoundly sympathize with de-
fenceless classes; and, familiar as am
with the history of the last campaign in
South Carolina and Louisiana, should
refuse to believe that God governs this
world if the dastardly treachery of this
Administration to the blacks is not visi-
ted with the destruction of the party that
shall sustain it. The Republican party,
if it submits 10 the leadership of Hayes,
will not be fit to live, because it will
thereby abandon both its principle and
its saviors: the principle of the govern
ment of the people for the people by the
people which Lincoln announced: and
the negroes Of South Carolina and Loui.-
siana who, when the roads were picketed
with armed men, crawled, at peril OF
their lives, through the swamps and mo-
rasses and thick woods, in order to reach
the county seats, where the presence of
the boys in blue made it safe or even
possible for them to vote. 1t was this
Silent heroisln, this sublime devotion OF
the blacks to the party of their iberators
that elected Hayes President of the Uni
ted States; that gave him the chance to
betray these men.
| lam not alcne among the old friends
of the freedmen in believing that they
now owe no allegiance to the Republican
party. I asked Wendell Phillips the
other week, after saying that ! should
advise my cclored friends to join the
Democratic party in the South, II ne
would blame hem for refusing to remain
in the Republican party and joining the
| Democratic party.
"Certainly mot" was his prompt reply.
I asked Senator Bruce why he did not
| urge the blacks to desert the Republicans
who had deserted them? I told him that
I would like to sign with him a letter
urging them to do so. He said that as
Republican Senator he could not public
| ly advocate this policy, but that he had
advised all his friends-meaning colored
! political leaders-to make the best terms
| thew could make with the Democracy
| to "look out for themselves"
What Senator Bruce does and Wendell
| Phillips approves connot be a false policy
| for the Southern blacks as class.
But if could lead the blacks, should
say to them still further-pay less atten-
| ton to politics and seek power through
business. Become the Jews of America.
There are two great policies both for men
and races-force and conciliation. The
Anglo-Sa1on race fights. The Jewish
race conciliates. Both have become great
powers by policies entirely opposite: The
black race cannot fight It would be ex-
terminated if it tried that policy. 1t
| must win powe:: by the arts of peace.
Let the blacks adopt lagos advice: Put
money in thy purse" Work! Buy land! !!
Own your homestead and patch or gar
denl Go to school! Get rich! If one
! county persecutes you, 60 to another. II
a State refuses you protection leave it
and seek homo elsewhere. Above all, !,
ask for schools for your children, and
leave the State if they are not built and
kept up for you.
Cease to array yourselves against the
| whites in politics, but, at the same time,
quietly and everywhere and always insist
on the right of securing an education for
your children. Securing that right, your
children will secure all others, by and
bye.
Fraternally yours,
| JAMES REDPATH.
To Mr.. M. HOWARD,