The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-03-18
By negro manned Kiader near George,s

1
The period covered by this summary
is rather more than two months. It is
an appalling exhibit: 81 homicidea, 16
assaults with intent to kill, rapes. The
homicides and assaults with Intent 10
kill were almost without exception, per-
| petrated by white raen upon whites, or
by negroes upon colored people. We
| mention this to show that the colored
people are not the subjects of attack by
the white. The whites main and kill
each othe.. aud do not molest the colored
people. The rapes were committed by
negroes exclusively.
A simple statement of the number and
character of crimes committed in this
State, such as We have given, is more ele.
quent than words, and forces the most
careless to admit that something must be
| done at once, to arrest the spread of law
lessness. The Courts will DO their whole
duty, we are. confident. No ill.judged
COMMUNICATION for those who have shed
blood will actuatejudges juries or prose-
| cutting officers. But the object of the
punishmeut of criminals is the preven-
| tion of crime. And crime can Be pre-
vented in other ways than by hanging
and imprisonment in the State Penitenti.
ary. The Courts need the co-opera-
tion of the public. This cooperation
will give strength to their judgments
and emphasis to their sentences.
Unfortunately the cause of the crimes
! committed by whites in this State is not
hard 20 find. There is 10 mystery in it.
The root of the evil is apparent. Nay |
| no attempt is made to hide it. Whiskey
and the practice of carrying deadly wea-
pons are at the bottom Of nine out of ten
bloody offences perpetrated by tho white
| people. The carrying of concealed wea-
pons is had enough in :tsel:G A passionate
impulse, crook of the finger, and
death It is killing in haste, and re-
pentiDg at leisure. When he who has q
weapon in his pocket is excited by whis-
key, arousing the savage instincts which
are found in every breast, his control ever
himself is gone. A brother man is hur-
as q fly is crushed on the wall. What
wo have to address ourselves to, there
fore, is (1) the abolition of the practice
of carrying concealed weapons, and l2)
| tho encouragement of intemperance.
The Legislature, at the extra Session re-
fused to pass bill making it misde-
| meauor to carry concealed weapons, and
until the Legislature shall meet again
| the main deterrents to be relied on are
| the conviction that sucn practice is
unmanly and an encouragement to strife
| and 1.-the belief that it is unnecessary for
self.protecsion. The second cause Of our
troubles, Whiskey- can be dealt
with promptly, and, We believe, effectu-
ally.
Every influence save one has been ex-
| erted to oheck intemperance and induce
| abstinence from the use ofalcoholic stim-
nlsnts, Clergymen preach Sunday efter
| Sunday. The conductors of religious
and secular newspapers expoun1 and ex-
hort until brain and fngers are weary.
Societies and Associations of one sort and
another work on the same line. They
| have accomplished much, but not
enough. And the reason is, that they
have not secured the effective assistance
of the one class of persons in South Caro-
lima who have as much power as Pulpit
and Press combined, and who now too
frequently, instead of treating intemper-
ance as Elm against him who is made in
ciety. wink at it, laugh at it, and condone
it. We mean the Women of South Caro-
lima, especially the younger women, the
sveethearts who viii be wives and mpth-
era.
Dothe women of South Carolina, know
ing, as they do, theruin of body and soul
which is caused by whiskey drinking,
exclude the tipplers and drunkards from
their society, rs unfit companions for
the gentle and the chasts7 They dc
not. It is common to hear girls in their
teens laughing OF Mr.. A., who was
"sligh.ly Affected" or Mr. B., whose
merit Is chat however mu-a he "indulgea''
no always behaves like gentlemnn.'
| :This is an encouragement TO wrong do
i ing. It teaches the inebriate that he can
have the compapionship of our sweet
maidons and choose his wife from the
rosebud garden, whetherh he be sober or the
| reverse. Thoughtlessness and habit ac-
count for it, no doubt, and it is in no
fault-finding spirit that We point out the
| faults of women who are crowned VITA
noble qualities and pride. Onr hope Is,
to arouse them TO sense of their danger
and to ar appreciation of their opportu-
nityi
The women of South Carolina did moi
/ falter during the war. They never hesi-
tated, never: doubted and never snrren.
| and were the main.spring of the public
1 1876 they saved the State, by their en-
enlargement, their appeals, sheir laboE=
and their prayers. The State is more in
need of saving than it was in 1876
| WhishSj Ia worse foe than Radios ..sm
and hringa worse ills in its train. To the
woml,n Of South Carolina then we appeal
ior tne State and in the name of the
i State. We entreat them to organize in
their own way, their own associations
We entTeat them to Hst the sHnl Of ahei.
scorn upon the forehead of the habitna,
drinker. We entreat them to Danish
from their society every man, however
neur or GEAR, VINO dares 10 approach
them with the flush of liquor on his
cheek aud its stain upon his heart. We
entreat them 60 strike from the list of theil
acquaintances every one who is known
60 be tippler, and in everything thei
they do, aud wherever shey 60, to draw
the line sharply between the man who Il
his own master and the man who is whis
keys slave. If they will DO this, they
will confine drunkenness TO those vhC
are past curing, and who, excluded from
g . y, viii lose their opportu
mites of degrading, and putting Co thl
blush, our aieters and our daughters
Aud thesa viii rapidly ssnrrCsrd them
selves With friends who arc always natu
raj, moderate and pure, men fit to bt
their companions and worthy to he III,
partners of their lives. How much sor
row, YepEoach and shame sls;y vi, vi. Hsaar;
themselves and the State, no human
tongue can telli- Caark%ston Ne,oS am