The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-26
persiats in solidly voting for the dema-

persists in solidly voting for the dema.
go9ues 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 man does vote for the Repub.
licans, his vote will not be counted, and
he will gain the i'll will of his white
Southern neighl,ors without aiding his
friends In the Northern States.
II there are colored men who cannot
vote for Democratic candidates let them
| refuse to vote at all.
1t is wickedness to try to keep up q
Republican party in the South excepting
on tue basis Of large native white vote
1t will end only in still further troubles
to tie poor and misled and too.g-atefni
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, (as President Hayes
has done,) in making I'D his mind for
whom he shall vote in all future elec-
tions.
The allies Of the administration will
urge your people to rcpudiats my advice
| and appeal to them to be "loyal" to the
Republican organization. Let them turn
| 9 deaf csr 70 these deiudiu6 demagogues,
or ask them, at least, before listening TO
| them, Whether they hold an Office or are
seeking an Office? 1t would be O 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 good
thing for their race and let them act as
they shall honestly answer this question.
care nothing for political parties, but
do most profoundly sympatbize with de-
fenceless classes; and, familiar as / am
with the history of the last campaign in
South Carolina and Louisiana, 1 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 to 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-
raises 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. It was thia
silent heroism, this sublime devotion of
the blacks to the party Of their liberatora
that elected Hayes President of the Uni
ted States; that gave him the chance to
betray these men.
am not alone among the old friends
Of the freedmen in believing that they
now owe no allegiance to the Republican
party. asked Wendell Phillips the
other week, after saying that I should
advise my colored friends to join the
Democratic party IN the South, if he
would blame then, for refusing to remain
in the Republican party and joining the
Democratic party.
Certainly not" was his prompt reply
asked Senator Bruce why he did moi
urge the blacks to desert the Republicans
who had deserted them? told him that
would like to sign with him letter
urging them to do so. He said that as a
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
they could make with the Democracy
to 'look out for themselves"
What Senator Bruce does and Wendell
Phillips approves connot be false policy
for the Southern blacks as class.
But il I could lead the blacks, I should
say to them still flrther-pay less atten.
tion to politics and seek power through
business. Become the Jews of America.
There are two great policies both for men
and races-force and Cancellation. The
Anglo-Saxon 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 power 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
deni Go to SCHOOL, Get richl If one
county persecutes you, go to another. II
State refuses you protection leave it
and seek home elsewhere. Above all,
ask for schools for your children, and
leave the State if they ere 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, youi
children will secure all Others, by and
bye.
Fraternelly sours,
JAMES REDpATH.
To Mr.. N. HOWARD,
Er.tHerif ,yeffsrsOn Iounfu M;ss;Ssir1,,;