The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-02-08
TIE SAN DOMINGO % RESOLUTIONS.

marks accompanying it state that, in addi-
ton, appropriate resolutions were adopted,
expressing loyalty to the government of D.
H. Chamberlain as the only legal govern
ment in the State, resolving to pay taxes to
him and none other, and agreeing to obey
only his officers. This is grim and feeble
Joke on the part of the Chamberlainites, as
they are not likely to have an opportunity
of paying taxes to the usurping government.
and there are no officers worth speaking OF
in Anderson County who favor his benig-
nant rule. Besides, the Chamberlain tax
payers are not overfowing with money or
credit, if we believe their own stories about
the pitiless condition of the colored popula-
ton in Anderson County.
Seriously, the statements contained in the
preamble are utterly without foundation, so
far as we can ascertain, as to laborers 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 where an honest and upright
laborer has been driven to the woods and
old fields, and denied shelter for his family.
1t is true 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 sympathizers. 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 in the 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 ed in bringing sew
eral hundred laborers from their honest toll
for the furtherance of political purposes.
The resolutions are disseminated over the
country just as they were prepared at the
Outrage mill' i'm Columbia. The behests
of the party leaders are obeyed, and the
whole story is made for foreign consump-
ton. But the local objection isto 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 in this County assisted at
its funeral on the 7th of November last, and
there is no resurrection from its inglorious
fate, unless our people are willing to forego
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 triAe to poison the minds of the
black laborer against his white employer.
It is no wonder that resolutions are pre-
pared and sent up from Columbia against
this policy of designating leaders for pro-
scription, for it is through these local leaders
that the Republican party has maintained
its ascendency over the rank and file of the
colored 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 resolutely set their
faces against the turbulent, disorderly and
prejudiced leaders, whose efforts are directed
to magnify the evils by which all classes are
environed, and create dissatisfaction among
those who 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 us
fully that this whole movement was con-
cocted in Columbia.
The preamble and resolutions adopted
here are as follows:
We, the colored laborers, farmers and me-
chanics of Anderson county, met in conven-
ton to consider the action of our white fel-
low citizens taken in convention recently
held at the call of the 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
the expressions sought to be imposed on
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 it was our labor
which kept alive government organized
to enslave us we fed and sustained SOL
diery which fought to keep us from free
dom we worked for their wives and little
ones in their absence; it was our labor
whicl, maintained 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 bulwarks 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
no malice has ever laid in our hearts against
those who held US in slavery, that our con-
duct has been magnanimous and forgiving
we feel the present treatment of the white
people as ungratetul and unjust. We, there
fore, meet to protest against all attempts to
curtail our right of free opinion and a free
ballot, and adopt the following resolutions ::
Whereas, the white landlords Of Anderson
County met in convention some time since
and passed the following extreme resolutions
to our detriment, namely:
"Resolred, 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.
'Resotred, That the Executive Committee
suggest that every Democrat in the County
be earnestly requested not to give any en-
ployment or patronage in any manner to
such men as were prominent Republicans
party or local leaders in the recent election,
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