The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-08
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marks accompanying it state that in ae.di.
tion, appropriate resolutions were adopted,
expressing loyalty to the government of ID.
II. Chamberlain rs the only legal govern
ment in the State, resolving to pay taxes to
him and none other, and agreeing 10 obey
only his officers. This is o grim and feeble
joke on tho part of the Chamberlninitcs, AZ
:hey are not likely TO have an opportunity
OF paying taxes to the eusurpinggovernment
and thcre IRE no officers worth speaking Of
In Anderson County who favor his benig-
nant rule. Besides, the Chamberlain tax
payers are not oyerfowing with money or
credit, if we believe their own stories about
the pitiless condition Of the colorcd popula-
ton in Anderson County
Seriously, the statements contained in the
Preamble are utterly without foundation so
far rs We can ascertain, as to iaborers living
in the woods and old fields, driven from
their homes because of political reasons In
the first place. We do not know of single
instance wiieIo ali honest ant upright
laborer has been driven to the woods and
| old fields, and denied shelter for his family.
1t Is rue that some are out of employment,
but the number is exceedingly small, and
results largely from the inability Of farmers
to give employment to them, because they
| cannot purchase supplies on time as former
ly. Merchants are compelled to restrict
credits, and hundreds of farmers are neces.
sarily crippled in their operations this year.
The limited number Of leaders prescribed
under the resolutions of the Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee, not embracing more
than one hundred ut the outside figure, have
removed from the limits Of the County, or
are employed on lands belonging to Repub-
lican sympathizeH. The few leaders who
are now used as tools for the purpose Of
engendering strife and discomfort among
the laboring population do not and have
not lived upon land belonging to Democrats.
Not one of the men who figured so extern
| sively III tie San Domingo business has
been discharged as laborer, and neither Of
them can give reasonable proof for their
! reckless assertions. But the objects in view
were partly accomplished in bringing sew
eral hundred laborers from their honest toll
for the furtherancc of political purposes.
The resolutions are disseminated over the
country just as they were prepared ut the
Outrage mill' in Columbia. The belIcsts
of the party leaders nrc obeyed, and the
whole story is made for foreign consump-
tion. But the local objection is to galvanize
the Republican party of Anderson County
into life and being once more. 1t is
wretched corpse at this time, wrecked and
| stranded upon the shores Of corruption.
degradation and ignorance One-third of
the colored voters i'll this County assisted ut
its funeral on the 7th of November last, and
there is no resurrection from its inglorious
fate, unless our people are willing to forcgo
| the advantages secured by its demise. Dem
ocratic landowners and employers are not
compelled to foster and support the blatant,
noisy leaders, who. In every precinct are the
source Of mischief and contention, seizing
upon every trifle to poison the minds Of the
black laborer against his white employer
| 1t is no wonder that resolutions are pre-
pared and sent up from Columbia ~ ainst
this policy of designating leaders for pro-
scription, for 1t is through these local leaders
that the Republican party has maintained
its ascendency over the rank and file Of the
coloreG population. Hence, we would urge
upon the farmers to give employment with
out stint and to the extent of their ability to
the laboring classes and resoluteIy set their
faces against the turbulent, disorderly and
J prejudiced leaders, whose efforts are directed
to magnify the evils by which all classes are
environed, and create dissatisfaction among
| those vino are employed already and in the
| enjoyment of comfortable homes. A similar
meeting was recently held in Darlington
and similar resolutions adopted there on the
San Domingo question. which satisfies ns
fully that this whole movement was con-
cocted in Columbia.
The preG inble and resolutions adopted
here are as follows:
| We, the colored lnborers, farmers and me-
chanics of Anderson county, met in conven-
| tiOn to consider the action of our white fcl.
| low citizens taken in o convention recently
held at the call of tho Democratic Executive
| Committee upon the subject of labor and In
favor Of prescription for opinions sake. as
| MEN and as lovers Of our own freedom feel
| that it is our duty to condemn and expose
| American citizens because of their political
| opinions. We as labOrers, denounce as
false all charges that We are actuated by
hatred to our employers; nothing that we
have said or done can warrant this assault
| upon us by white capitalists. We have
been true to them for years as laborers; we
were faithful to them in the late war and
have been faithful since; il was our labor
which kept alive government organized
| to enslave us; we fed and sustained O SOL
diery which fought to keep us frosr rslc
dom we worked for their wives and little
ones in their ABSENCE it vas our labor
which II.ai attained the widows and orphans
of those fighting against our interests; it
was our labor that built their fine dwell
ings; it was our labor which made their
| forts in Charleston as buiwarks against our
freedom it was our labor which educated
their children, which built the railroads,
| which made the South what size is.
Knowing these things to be true, and that
ii0 malice has ever laid III oiT hearts against
those who held us in slavery, that our con-
duct has been magnaninlois and forgiving,
we feel the present treatment os the Whit
people as ungrateful and unjust. We, there
fore, meet to protest against all attempts to
curtail our right of free opinion and free
Whereas, the white landlords OF Anderson
County met in convention scme time since
and passed the following extreme resolutions
to our detrimeat, namely:
"Resolrsd, That this convention adopt the
actions of the labor question with the addi-
ton that Republicans who supported the
Hampton government and refuse to pay
taxes to the Chamberlain government, and
who Join the clubs be treated as Democrats
'.Resoired, That the Executive Committee
suggest that every Democrat in the County
ployment or patronage in any manner to
such men aa were prominent Republicans
partv or local leaders in tho racent alnctinn
and that all assistance and announcements