The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-01
THE san pomIuao METRO.

iousneSs, 10 hear something as to O pIaf,
which WIGS proposed to carry their race us a
colony to the Island Of San Domingo where
they could live without toll and harvest
without sowing-where the fruits of tropics
hahg IN ample profusion to supply the
wants of every settler. Some six or seven
hundred iaborers left their work ant, came
10 Anderson in quest of the news concern
ing the New Eldorado," to which they cx-
pected 20 start Immediately Soon ertcr
reaching Anderson il began to appear that
inc meeting was TO DC political enc, ard
large numbers of the coloied people who
came to town, realizing the fact that there
was no sincerity ill the San Domingo move.
iiieiit, nia not attend the meeting. Some
three hundred. however, repaired to the
Greeley Institute and organized meeting by
electing Seaborn McCurry Chairman. and
Green ID. Williams Secretary The meeting
was called to order, and Moses Lee. coal
Dlack descendant Of Africa, with infinitely
more lungs than brains, offered preamble
anu resolutions, which for some reason lie
did not read, but called upon the Secretary.
who read them as if he had studied over
| '''~"' A'i a iOi1B tIillc. lueSC resolutions
have not been furnished us, but in substance
they commend the Presidents message
about San Domingo, and ask Congress to
adopt its recommendations. They then at
tack the Democratic party on its labor pol
Icy, and dcnouncc the white people of An
derson as inhuman prosecutors Of the color
ed laborers who have served them during
the war, and i'll clearing and settling the
country before, &c, DC. They provide for
sending copy of the resolutions TO the
President to each Of the Senators and Rep
rescntAtivcs from this State, to the Governor
OF each State and to n number of Northern
| Republican newspapers. These resolutions
were adopted without debate. and Moses
Lee offered another resolution, which lie
got the Secretary to read, endorsing Cham
berlain's administration. and asking his help
to secure the removal of the colored people
to San Domingo. This was also adopted
and the crowd looked sorry that it could
not rcsolutc something further, Us it had
finished its work entirely sooner than was
expected 1t is proper here to mention that
no white Republican attended the meeting.
anG that Moses Lee, who lives upon Senator
Cochran's land, and has been one OF his
political runners all the time, was in posses
sion of all the resolutions. Senator Cochran
was i'll Columbia.
After the adoption of the resolutions
speaking was i'll order, and William X.
Parker, colored preacher of the Fork
Township, who is under indictment for cr-
bezzling school money, was the first spokcs-
man for the day. He commenced by locat
ing San Domingo, and saying that if the
colorcd people had to leave this country he
wanted better home than San Domingo.
Hc then attacked the white people of this
country, and claimed that the country
was as much the black mans MS the
white mans, because they had cleared and
drained it, and worked for the white people
| until emancipation. He complained of the
people for not letting Republicans vote as
! they please and continuing to employ them.
He said that this harsh policy was driving
the colored men to starvation, and that they
were living i'll huts in the woods and old
| fields. That the time had come when the
father would go to the mother and say we
are all starving to death. Let us kill our
Oldest child and eat him. and the mother
would object and they would name over
each Of their children and decide at last all
| to starve together. (Hc had evidently for
gotten TINT he was speaking to n civilized
people, and imagined he was addressing
| barbarians at this stat of the mecting). He
| lid that the white people made it necessary
| for the coorcd race to steal, for if they did
not give them employment they must live
| anyhow. He then said that the whites were
false to their PROMISE; to the ooIoTeli, people
! for Democratic cc!crcl ...cm did no: fare any
better than Republicans (He is either false
| i'll this statement or he has proved that poll
tics has nothing to do with the imaginary
hard times of which he speaks) He said
great deal that was vile and bitter towards
the white people, but we cannot afford to
follow his incendiary and violent harangue
| any further.
The next speaker was another colored
preacher, Phillip Morris, who wanted to sny
; that he 'don'r know nothing about ST. Min
| co." but that he did know great deal about
| the expressions rracticed upon his race in
| this country. He said that simply because
colorcd men voted the Republican ticket
and tried to get others to do go they were
considered leaders. aid the Democrats
would not give them employment He
said that besides this they did not half paw
laborers, and wanted them to work the
same as if they were we'll fed He Sail, the
colored people did not want anything but
chance to work. This speech like tue pre-
| ceding one was of the most incendinry
| character, and was evidently intended to
dissatisfy the colored people with the re-
muneration they received for labor He
! said thar the white people violated the laws
Of God, and that nc believed they mad ceased
reading their Bibles
| After him another colored preacher Elias
| Terrell, undertook 10 discourse upon the
| subject OF going to "St 1omingo," as he
termed it, and followed to considerable cx-
| tent the line of abuse indicated by the pre-
ccding speakers. His remarks were evil
IDENTIFY called forth IS desire to have
voice in the Wholesale abuse of white people,
which was the order of the day.
| Next Gilbert Rutledge, Moses Lee and
Green d. Williams made speeches very
much in the same style as the foregoing.
The meeting, rs we predicted, was purely
political, anu at it's close secret session was
had in the Greeley Institute under the pre-
tense of organizing n cooperative store.
The whole affair was in bad spirit, and no
! doubt had its inspiration from Columbia.
Four-fifths of the colored men who were