The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1878-02-07

upon the Executive Committee of the
State knows they would not pledge the
party to efectuate fraud. To separate
Che fraudulent bonds from the valid Con.
solidation Bonds is not rejection of
the consolidated debt. It is simply an
entertainment of that debt. If you sepa-
rate tares from wheat it is not rejection
of the wheat. The fraudulent bonds are
no part of what is properly called the
State debt, and when ne take them out
it does not affect the debt at all. When
the Consolidation Act speaks of debt OF
bond, the law and justice presumes that
it means valid debt or bond, and not pre-
tended debt or bond.
Next, the .Ne,os and Courier essays to
be witty, and produces the following in
teresting paragraph:
The success of the reputation policy
in South Carolina will be the ruin of the
Democratic party, and that is the main
reason Why the Ne,cs and Courier insists
so ssrenuously upon the faithful fulfil
rnent of every promise the Democratic
party has made. IF we desired or inten-
ded ito split the Democratic party" We
should advocate, just such reputation as
tho Anderson INTELLYGENCER bankers
after. With this difference, that instead
Of trying to prove black to be white, and
wandering in labyrinth of confused and
confusing propositions, We should define
our position In the simple declaration
that South Carolina will not pay cent
to anybody, unless the courts make her.
For the construction Of this platform we
charge absolutely nothing.
There is one portion of this witticism
in which our contemporary displays pro-
found. sense. 1t is when he says he
charges nothing for constructing the
foregoing platform. We have never
seen a more correct valuation placed
upon any production than the Nesos and
Gurier places upon this original produc.
ZION of its own in the way Of platform,
for it is worth absolutely nothing. In
saying that ne have been trying to prove
that black is white, the Me,qs and Courier
attempts TO change occupations with us,
but We must decline to plead guilty to
the impeachment, as we do not wish to
vie with our contemporary in his exclu.
sive right to assume that because he says
thing is so it must be true, and that an
investigation of it would be improper
NE have not been trying to prove that
black is white, but have been trying To
prove that the black streaks of corrup-
tion and fraud should be taken out Of
the State debt, and leave the whole of it
that IS valid white with purity and with
out faint. The News and Courier very
complacently places US among the advo-
Gates Of Reputation in the State, but we
prefer defining our own position, and de-
clare ourselves opposed to the repudia-
tion of any just debt, but in favor Of
rejecting the fraudulent debt.
As the Nc,us and Courier has attempted
to place us in false category upon the
debt question, We will try to return good
for evil by informing the public of the
true position occupied by the Ne,os and
Gmir, which is to pay sll'of the old
debt, whether bona fde or fraudulent,
which the. laws made by the Radical
thieves allow to be- paid.
|, The News and Courier concludes its
broadaide into the INTELLIaENoER thus:
The Anderson Resolutions were drawn,
We believe, by the Editor of the INTEL
L1GENcER, who is their expounder and
defender. We shall not, we hope, be
suspected of threatening the Democratic
party or the people of Anderson with
any serious consequences. if we say that,
according TO the explanations of Che
INrEILIGENcBR, the Anderson Resolu-
tions do not mean reputation, and if
they do not mean that they certainly
mean nothing, a
Our contemporary seems to think the
Democratic Executive Committee of the
County rather heavy load to carry, and
endeayors to relieve himself by narrow
ing his criticisms down to the editor Of
the INTELIIGEscEE, but, unfortunately
for him, the resolutions were unanimous.
ly passed, and hence every member of
tho Committee is equally responsible for
them as the editor of the TNTELL1-
eENcER, and no doubt would vote for
them again if occasion should suggest
them. The News and Courier may think
the resolutions mean nothing, but it is
not very complimentary to its perception
to admit it. The truth is our contempo-
rsry wishes to break their force by OBJ
scuring their meaning if possible, for the
position assumed in them favoring the
payment of the just debt and the rejec-
ton of the fraudulent portion of it is too
strong TO be contrasted with the position
of the .Mews and Courier, which advocates
the payment of everything, whether
fraudulent or not, that can be run in un-.
der the stretch Of the terms Of the Con.
solidation Act, which is" being made as
elastic as air for the purpose of letting in
all the frauds which were committed by
the birds of passage who swarmed in
South Carolina after reconstruction to
reyel in the lu1uries of immense legisla-
tive and official corruptions and frauds.
We are perfectly willing to leave this
great debt question to the people of the
whole State, and in their hands the hon
est creditors of South Carolina will re-
ceive no injury.
TAKING DRUMMERS.
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