The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-03-13
A Suggestion for Senator Window.

Inc TACT developed py tne uiCusS!ou
OF Mr.. WINDOWS bill is that the better
class of freedmen in the Gulf States are
weary of the system of disfranchised
peonage under which they live, and are
eager to remove to country where their
rights as citizens will be secure, where
labor is respected, and where a negro
who votes Republican ticket need not
tremble every time that he hears the
tramp of horse, for fear it is BULLDOG.
ing party coming TO correct his politics"
Cleveland Herald.
The fact developed by the limited dis
cussion of the Window bill is that the
only element of the colorcd population
in the South desirous of aiding this pro-
posed Republican raid on the Treasury,
is one composed of the disgruntled REM
nant of negro oficeholders, who had to
look about for living when the Federal
troops we're withdrawn from police duty.
Fred. Douglass, and other colored men
who represent the most respectable ele-
ment, have protested against the prose-
cution of any such scheme, and Win
dom's own State papers have thrown
cold water on his own plan. The South
ern negro knows from his experience
with the Republicans that if he was sor-
ted off on a reservation, like the Indians,
he would be subjected to the most intol-
erable phase of Republican bulldozing,
and rather than lose his freedom he will
prefer "peonage" Of the kind which
enables him TO amass property and pro-
vide for his family and do as he pleases
with his money. The Southern negroes
would doubtless prefer that, instead Of
making any such absurd propositions as
this of Window, the Republicans would
take up a collection and pay them the
S2,O0OO00, stolen from them through
that swindling Republican institution,
the freedoms Bank.
We observe that Rockford (Ill.) Jour
nal suggests neat little plan to the Re-
publicans, to transfer the negroes from
the South to the North, which the Cleve-
land Herald should really benevolently
contemplate. The Journal says:
"Why saddle this enormous expense
on the public Treasury? There is a
much cheaper way of doing it, and one
which need not cost the taxpayers cent.
The plan is this: This scheme is solely
for the benefit of the ofliceholders of the
Republican party. Now let each of these
take colored voter, his pick-a-ninnes
and coon dogs, and adopt him and them
into his own household. This plan is
particularly advisable in all the close
States. Take Ohio, for instance. In
that State there is the narrow margin of
5000 majority first on one side and then
on the other Of the political state. Now
let the 1000 or 1000 Republican office
holders in that State each adopt one of
the wards of the nation instruct him in
the proper use ofthe ballot, and the State
with its narrow political margin is sure
for the Republican party. In the same
way the slight Democratic majority in
Indiana might be overcome, aud the Tall
Sycamore of the Wabash and BLUE
Jeans Williams be snuffed out, and the
Morton and Tyne school of politics be
again established. Indiana, too, would
be a veritable African paradise, for its
forests abound in 'possum and coon, and
the chickens roots low in the branches.
It would be an easy matter to transfer
few thousand sable Kentuckians into
these two States, as only the Ohio river
separates them from Kentucky, and
Kentucky is so hopelessly Democratic
that ten thousand colored Republican
votes would never be missed from her
election returns. Apply the same plan
to such of the close and doubtful States
as Wisconsin, Connecticut, New Jersey,
New Hampshire, California, Oregon,
an Illinois, and, they are fixed for the
Republicans for all coming time; for
with the reproductive qualities of the
negro, there must of necessity, after
few years, be a steady annual increase
of the colored Republican votes, far sur
passing any efforts of white Democrats.
This scheme would at once give solid
Republican North, and render futile all
efforts of the Confederate Brigadiers'
and the solid South to 'subvert the
Government to pay rebel claims 1t
would place the Treasury completely in
the hands of royal men like Belknap,
Rabcock Schenck, Zach Chandler, Kel-
logg, John A. Logan, Chamberlain,
Robson, John Roak, Sheperd and Oakes
Ames, and make it impossible for such
men as Bayard, Ben Hill, Wade Hamp-
ton, Lamar, Governor Nichols. Thurman,
John NJ. Palmer, Judge Davis or Judge
Holman to plumber it. There is no
reason why this scheme Of colonization
is not absolutely practicable. The only
drawback to its absolute success will be
the unwillingness of the oficeholder to
be to the expense Of carrying it out, and
like Window, trying to saddle it on the
National Treasury"
There is an excellent programme
marked. out. The expatriation Of ne
groes is a proposition which the Repub-
licans do not disguise is scheme for the
aggrandizement of the party. Let them
bear the burden and place the negro un-
der Republican tutelage in the close prox-
unity suggested. Congress cannot be
induced to appropriate S200,000,00O for
purely political purposes. Let Mr..
Window show his faith and sincerity by
inducing his fellow citizens of Winona
aud Winona county, in Minnesota, to
take the initiative in throwing open
their purses, houses aud fields to Afri-
can enterprise.-LouisriHe Courter-Jour-
nal.
A REMARKABLE FUNERAL.-One of