The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-04-26

conciiiatorr,, With principles and courage
both, would have put Key, and Alcorn
or Settle and Frederick Douglass-all
three Of them--in the Cabinet, even il
he should have been forced % enlarge
the body of bis councillors TO do 90. That
would have meant equal rights, Justice
and conciliation. Like all %eaE men.
hayes went just far enough to lose and
not far enough 10 win. It was an insult
TO the Southern white Republicans in
every Southern State to leave them un-
represented. The organs of the Presi.
dent have heaped fresh insults on this
conspicuous insult by speeriug at them
as unworthy of honor and trust-they.
the most sincere and the most Trustworthy
Republicans in all this nation. As far
and as fast rs Hayes shall turn out of
office in the South the political birds Of
prey from whatever State they may
"hai"-giving to the citizens OF the
Southern States ell the Federal offices in
those States; as Haf and as fast as he
shall weed out, without pity or exception.
every ffioce-holder in the Departments
here who ;a Credited" tc son..ern
State without being citizen Of tie State
thus taxed; as fast and as far as he shall
show by word and act :nat the crime of
rebellion Is absolutely and forever con-
doned, che President should receive the
corz.al cooperation of every patriot, and
especially of every friend Of the blacks.
Nobody but demagogues have ever de-
sired to keep alive the memories of the
war, excepting 80 far as they serve to
convict the rebels of to-day. General
Chalmers, openly defyiag the Constitu.
ton In tie "Whip-Cord. District" Of
mississippi, calls up by his own &C. the
black spectres of Fort Pillow; as Ger.
Hampton, by his arrogance, uncovered
the graves of the national soldiers whose
dead bodies were exposed in the streets
of Charleston with derisive placar5 on
their bullet-riddled breasts.
1t was not with the rebels against the
country that we had any quarrel, because
that contest had come to an end. It
was only with the rebels against the con-
stitutional guarantees of equal rights that
were the ripest and best fruits of the war.
But even that fight is over now. 1t is
Idle to-day to denounce Hayes or to op-
pose his policy of abdication of Presi-
dental prerogatives to the Democratic
bantlitti. We made him our leader, and
ne has surrendered, and we are bound by
his aCc. l was one of the Radical Re-
1
to make no useless contest, and sincere
ly trust that Gov. Packard will not delay
the inevitable hour in which force shall
triumph in Louisiana. It is better for
the sake Of the blacks that the surrender
should be made quietly and quickly.
The ofiice-holders say that 1--WE should
| give Hayes policy fair trial"
What part of his policy? No one op-
poses Cancellation. Every decent man
desires it. That is part the first of Hayes
! policy. But part the second ;s surrender. suTzenidssi
1t means tue acquiescenCe Of the Nation
al Governmet in the rule of the majority
by the minority BE- cause that minority
of citizens has majority of property, in
telligence and military power. Now that
policy has been tried in this planet of
ours for ages upon Pons; for six thou
sand years by the briefest aud least scien-
tific computation and it has always, in
every cline and among every rice, result
ted in the oppression of the Ignorant and
tho poor. It has had trial enough in this
world. Republicanism means not the
rule of respectability but the rule of the
majority; and Hayes Gulf State policy
10 the suicide of republicanism.
Nov, then, for your question, What
should the blacks do?
First of all, they should be taught that
they can now freely and honora5ly choose
their political associations without refer
ence to the past history of their race.
They should be taught that the men
who fought for their freedom are now in
a helpless minority in the Republican
party; that the blacks owe it no allegi-
ance whatever now; and that its recog-
nized leaders, who WELD the power of the
Government, are to-day the recreants
who advocate and defend and decree their
abandonment.
It is true the Democratic party resisted
their enfranchisement, but it is equally
true that the Republican party -cfuses to
protect them in the exercise of the fran
chise that they gave. There is absolute
ly no difference whatever, now, between
the Democratic party and the Republican
party, (as represented by Hayes,) on the
|question of the rights and condition of
the negro, excepting in one important
particular. That exception is g vital one.
It points out the path of safety to the
black voter. 1t points out, also, the path
Of duty. We owe allegiance where we
receive protection. The Democrats pro-
tect the Democratic negro; the Republi-
cans abandon the Republican negro.
For myself, being white man, and q
Northern man, I propose to remain in
the Republican party to do my part to
purge it from the thieves Oil the one hand
and the pedagogues on the other hand
who now infest it; but If were negro
and III the South, ! should join the Dem
ocratic party at once, and vote for its
candidates wherever they we're reputable
men. Whenever they were bandits I
should refuse to vote at all, I was q
member Of the frat Republican National
Committee, and I have always been a
radical Republican in my political action.
But l was more than that-a Kansas
Republican," O "John Brown abolition
ist;" and through good report and evil
Irepert, I have never wavered in advocat-
ing the rights of the negro. There is no
man so black that am ashamed to look
in his face. l feel that have done my
whole duty to the black race. And with
this. record, unbroken by single word or
act conservative, should urge the black
men of the South, If my voice could
reach them, to join the Democratic par
ty.
If they were to do so in body, what
would be the result? Absolute protec-
tion, to begin with, in their rights of life
and property. They would not be driven
from their homes by the thousands as
they were driven into the highways of
South Carolina, Mississippi and I.ouisi-
ana, because of their loyalty to the Re-
publican party. The Democratic negro
is the safest male creature that know of
in the Gulf States. All other males