The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-12
GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
ADDRESS OF HON. B. F. PERRY,

3 ADDRESS OF HON. B. F. PERRY,
Before the Central Association, Anti.
Cotton Shop and Labor Reform OF
Laue ems County, at its 'Semi-Annual
Meeting, held at Clinton, March II,
1877. :.%ss'+' =
From the Ldurensville Herald.
FELLow-C1TIzENs: I am happy to
have this opportunity of meeting you,
and addressing you on the subject Of
Labor Reform Societies. feel deep
interest in the subject, and have CRATE.
full remembrance of the people of Lau-
rens County. Many years ago they were
my clients, and twice they have honored
me with q warm support for seat in the
Congress Of the United States.
Your prosperous little village has rap
idly sprung up within a few years past
The road from Laurens to Newberry be.
fore the construction of the Greenyille
and Columbia Railway, was very familiar
to me. But your present town was then
q forest; and I have not passed over this
road since the conversion of the forrest
into town. The name of "Clinton" Is
dear to me. It was named in honor Of
one of Laurens' truest and noblest sons,
one whom she loved to honor, and who
honored her for more than half century,
at the bar and in the halls of Legislation
I feel a just pride in naming Henry Clin-
ton Young as having been one of my
nearest and dearest friends. For many
long wears we were most intimately asso-
ciated in our profession, and as members
of both branches of the State Legislature.
In our social relations and intercourse we
were still more intimste, and never, for
more than the third of the century, was
there the slightest interruption of our
friendship. Your town is, therefore, en-
deared to me by the name of "Clinton," !"
the middle name of my honored and
distinguished friend, Henry Clinton
Young.
To You, fellow-citizens, is due the hon.
or of having been pioneers in this move
ment of Labor Reform Societies. The
County of Laurens is perhaps better or
ganized in this respect than any other in
the State. Five years ago, / urged the
farmers and planters of South Carolina
to make it a condition, in renting their
land and hiring their laborers that their
renters and employees should promise, in
writing, to vote the Democratic ticket in
oil elections, whilst in their employment!
This suggestion of mine met with very
little popular favor at that time. Some
of the public journals of the State pro-
nounced it ,unwise and moral " wrong |
when it was well known that the Repub-
licans of the Northern States required all
their factory hands and laborers and en-
ployees of every description to vote with
them, or dismissal was the consequence
of this refusal. The clerks in all the de-
partments of government at Washington
have to vote the Republican ticket, or
they are turned out of Office. John
Quincy Adams told me, many years
since, that he had thirty or forty voters
in his employment in Massachusetts, and
they always voted with him, as matter
of course.
Whilst he was Republican they voted
the Republican ticket, and when he be
came disgusted with the frauds and action
of the Republican party, and turned
Democrat, they all turned with him, and
voted the Democratic ticket. This they
did voluntarily and without anything be-
ing said to them on the subject. It is
true, as Chief Justice Chase once said to
me, that labor is necessarily dependent
on capital and intelligence, the world
over.
I am confident in my belief, fellow
citizens, that if my advice, five years ago,
had been adopted all over the State, there
would not now be a carpet-bagger or
scalawag in it. The Radical or Repub-
lican party in South Carolina would have
been extinguished. Weshould long since
have had wise and good and honest
government administered by virtuous and
patriotic men, instead of roguish gov
ernment in zthe hands of thieves and
swindIers. It is vain to reason with the
negro on politics. He is incapable Of
comprehending the subject, and honestly
thinks that it is his interest to vote
against the Democratic party. He must
be convinced to the contrary by stern,
hard and stubborn facts. We must show
him that he is dependent on US, and that
we are not dependent on him. he can
not live without our patronage and sup
port. The Radical carpet-baggers and
scallawags will not and cannot give him
employment, support and protection.
The negro is ignorant and credulous,
and easily imposed on. he belongs to
an inferior race-a race which has always
been, from the earliest history, either
savage or slave. He has made no pro-
gress or improvement in science, litera-
ture or civilization for four thousand
years past. The earliest civilization of
the world, was in Egypt, near to the
whole African race, and yet, they caught
none of it in ancient times. Whilst the
caucasian race in the East and in the
West has made rapid and wonderful i'm
provement in all the arts and sciences,
and civilization of life, the African race
has made none. It is not, therefore, sur
prising that the cunning, unprincipled
adventures from the Northern States,
aided by the unworthy sons Of our own
SOIL" should have acquired the influence
tuCy udSC OfCA QUILL q pSopAS. Ivy poAOt
the freedman that he would be thrown
back into slavery again if the Democratic
party ever got into power! That all of
his political rights would be taken from
him, if he did not stick to his party!
Union Leagues were established all over
the Southern States and the members
sworn to vote for none but Radicals
Promises were made them of a homestead
and "forty acres of land and mule"
the education of their children, and the
Offices and emoluments Of government.
None of these promises have been full
filled. The money appropriated for the
purchase of homesteads-oyer 100000
has been stolen and squanderedl The
taxes, levied for the education of their
children, have gone in the same way.
Precious little of the Offices and emolu-
ments of government have the carpet
baggers and scallawags bestowed on
them! The colored people are, with few
exceptions, as poor as they were when
first emancipated, and they are beginning
to see that they have been duped and