The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-06-05

| Will MN, tnat IL VIII be well Tor you tC
give to the Associated Press his telegram
and mine to you, referring to affairs nov
I'D the south. J. u. CAMERON,
Secretary of War"
or the vast open -jawed and cavernous.
bellied nature of this promise have moi
the heart or the time to discourse.
shall content myself with initiating the
discretion OF Mr.. Rodman, who, return.
ing home one night full Of tax-paid, and
fearing that his speech would betray him
TO the many questions of his wife. for a
long while maintained an obstinate si.
lence, until at length, to end the matter
he solemnly remarked, Mrs. Rodman
you know am man # few words and
now am plumb done talking" That
subject Immediately became res adjudi-
cafd. am done talking on this subject
80 well calculated to make an American
citizen blush
Jhe arguments made by the opponents
G these bills, especially those of the
veto messages, strike me with good deal
of amazement. TO illustrate their alb
surdity, let us frame them into the SEM
blance Of mathematical propositions,
thus:
Proposition First: 7ncorem.- The
troops Of the United States are two thou.
sand miles away on the frontier and could
not be used TO control elections if they
were wanted.-Senator from Maine.
The troops could not be so used if they
were here, as the law forbids it. Iprom-
Use not to use them.-The President.
Hence it is revolutionary and danger
Gus to liberty and the purity of elections
to pass this bill forbidding such use of
troops.-Q. Z. d.
C0roHary Grst.-The necessity for
troops at the polls to secure fair elections
is i'll proportion to the squares of the dis
tance Of their present location, i. e., the
greater the distance the greater the ne
cessity.
CoroNdry sccond.-The necessity for
| the presence OF troops at the polls is also
in proportion to the legal inability to use
them II they were present, and if the
President is determined not to Use them
at all to control elections, then the neces-
sity becomes absolute.
CoroIldry hird.-Thc revolutionary
| and dangerous character of law con-
sists in The fact that it is useless, there
being all lady in existence laws sufficient
to effect the purpose.
iSchoEum In the above it is assumed
automatically that the terms liberty"
and purity of elections" are synonv-
nous with the term Republican party"
Prolonged laughter
Proposition Second 7Heorcm.-The
right of citizens of the United States to
vote shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any State on ac-
count of race, color or previous condition
of se-v;tade.
SEC. 2. The Congress shall have power
to enforce this article by appropriate leg
lSlation. The fifteenth amendment
quoted by the President.
The Supreme Court in the United
States against Cruikshank, and in Myers
rs. Happersett, have declared that the
only right guaranteed by this amend
ment is the right that citizens shall not
be Disseminated against on account of
race, color or previous condition OF servi-
tude. Hence national legislation to
provide safeguards for free and honest
elections is necessary, AS experience has
shown, not only to secure the right to
vote to the eniranchised race at the
South, but also to prevent fraudulent
voting in the large cities of the North" ;"
The President.
Corohary .frst.-It follows that if John
smith gets drunk at an election in North
Ca ,lina and punches negro's head, he
Immediately, by Presidential logic, be-
comes the State of North Carolina en-
bodied i'll the flesh, and he, or it, dis
crim:ndtes against the said negro within
the meaning of the constitution, End the
guarantee is called for at once.
C0rOllary sccond.-If it be white man
whose head is punched by the embodied
State of ohn-Smith-N North Carolina it is
discrimination all the same, provided
the said white man was about to vote or
had voted the Republican ticket that
being the true meaning and interpreta
ton of the words "race, color or previous
condition of servitude."
C0roNary Mird.-It follows necessarily
that if a New York repeater vote the
Democratic ticket five times in one day
he becomes likewise the great State of
New York (incuding the Senator), or, c
conrcrsO, the great State of New York be-
comes the repeater, and by SO voting he
discriminates (the Lord knows howl
against the right of somebody (the Lord
knows whO) to vote on account of race,
color or previous condition of servitude !;
and the only avenue opened up by which
this guarantee can be enforced is to send
in the army and Johnny Davenport.
| Laughter.
.SchoGum The previous condition"
/ referred 10 IN the foregoing 70 tnat OF Re-
publicanisln, and implies also present
condition; that is, being Republican.
.Schoiium second.-Entorcing the right
to vote by soldiers is not an Interference
with elections"
.Schoiium Mird.-This doctrine of "dis-
elimination" does not apply to the State
of Rhode Island, where white mans
right to vote may be freely abridged on
account of his present condition of i'm
pecuniosity.
Proposition M;ra: 7acorea..--" -"Tlie
practice OF tacking to appropriation bills
measures not pertinent to such bills did
not prevail until more than forty years
after the adoption of the constitution.
1t has become common practice. All
parties when in power have adopted it.
The public welfare will be promoted in
many ways by return 60 the early prac-
tice of the government and the true prn-
c;pics of legislation" The President.
Hence the practice of tacking legisla.
tion to appropriation bills having been
practiced by all parties for more than
fifty years, it should be Immediately
abandoned when disagrccable to the
President or inconvenient to the party,
its antiquity not being sufficient to justify
it, though greater than the period of It's
nonusc.
CoroNary 6rst.-It follows, therefore
that the practice of using troops at the
polls, which did not prevail for more
than seyenty-fye wears after the ajon-