The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-04-22
From, the Charlotte O6ser,.er.

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Judge Mackey was in town yesterday.
As the Judge likes to talk and the pub
lie likes to hear him, an Observer reporter
was delighted at meeting with him in q
clothing store where he was being fitted
to an elegant cloth coat. Upon tho ex-
preston of desire for az interview, the
Judge sat down with the bargain for the
coat unfinished and the clerk looking
disconnected.
To induce the Judges eloquence to
break forth one has but to puncture a
hole in the dikes Of the. political sea.
The reporter suggested Grant in the
South and especially in South Carolina.
sI do not know a single Democrat in
South Carolina who will vote for Grant
ID preference to the regular Democratic
nominee; but, on the contrary, / do not
know of any who do not prefer him above
all other Republican candidates. His
speech at Galveston was 9 slap in the
face to the Northern Republicans. Their
theory is that the Southern people are
but the Confederate army in citizens
clothes-a full fedged bird waiting for 9
fine day to fly. Grant declared That they
were loyal men, ,Fand. that in another wais
the blue and the gray would fight side by
side, and another war, too, is .contem-
plated against Mexico in his scheme OF
Capitalization; and not only third buta
fifth and. sixth term. Texas. now
claims $4,000, 900 Indemnity from Mex:
leo for spoliations committed on the bor-
der. This claim is the excuse for the
war, and Grant will rejoice in the oppor.
tunity of attacking this magnificent
country, consisting of twenty-seven
States, with ii, 600, 900 population. The
blue and the gray will fight together,
and, by a judicious distribution of mill
tary patronage in the South, the oppor-
tunity for which this will give him, he
will become the hero of the South as
we'll as of the North. Two words will
pass aw ~. O. rather one word, rebel, will
pass away, and another, carpet-bagger,
will migrate. The Southern men will
flock to Mexico to represent the Mexi.
cans in Congress. The troubled 'Greaser'
will cry ont in the bitterness of his soul,
Carpet -bagger,' and the Carolinian, the
Georgian and the Louisianian will reply,
Gentlemen, We are compelled to do this
thing to get even.' Yes, sir, the South
will be most easily reconciled to central
ization under changed circumstances.
The cry against the third term all comes
from the North now. All we care for is
to elect our candidate"
81 have no hesitation in saying that
r. B. Hayes is my own choice above all
other men, but after him T am for the
nominee of the National Democratic
party; and in this connection would
say that there is no doubt that Grant
will be the Republican nominee, and the
only hope for the Democratic party is to
oppose him with champion of the civic
idea. This is most probable, and it is
strange that a man with the acuteness of
Alexander Stephens should think to the
contrary and advocate so strenuously the
cause of Hancock. It would never co
to oppose Grant with another soldier.
He is an eagles fight above any other
Northern man as military figure, and
Hancock would be dwarfed. 1t is only
when we come to Grants. civil life that
his character. becomes dark. For this
civil exponent, however, give Us anybody
but Tilden. He is q coward, and Amer
leans, you know, never forgive coward
ice." ~a
The reporter then inquired as to the
State politics in South Carolina and the
Judge was in his element.
"You must know, sir, that there are
three methods of dealing with the negro
voters-three methods: One is to- kill
him. At the present price of metallic
cartridges-13 cents-this can be done
cheaply and easily; but this method has
Objectionable points. The obtrusive
character which the United States gov
ernment has assumed, and the general
prejudice against cold.blooded murder
which strangely inheres in honorable
men, are amongthems The nextmethod
is to defraud the negro of his vote, but
this.not only degrades the defrauded but
the defrauder; and, again, honorable
men do not like to degrade or be de-
graded. 4 The Hast is the persuasive
methodY by the negro voter is
mildly reasoned into the conviction that
the white man-with whom his lot is cast
is his natural ally. This is the Hampton
method, and by it thousands of negroes
have been induced to don the red shirt
and vote the Democratic ticket. Hamp-
toms name is now benediction in every
cabin in South Carolina: General Has
good is5the associate of Hampton in this.
method: and the sympathies of the peo-
pie of the State, which have never q mo-
ment been estranged from Hampton, will
demand that Hagood be the next NOM
inee for Governor"