The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-11-18

being that protection stimulates home
competition, which lowers prices more
rapidly and surely than all the free trade
in the world, and he adduced many in
stances, such as saws, calico, etc, cheaper
now than before the war, in support OF
his claim.
The other reason, he thinks, is the
thoroughly satisfactory administration OF
President Hayes, who goes out OF office
with an unsullied name. The easy re-
sumption of specie payment under his
administration told at the North. The
Judge thinks that we at least should hold
him in grateful remembrance as the res
torcr of civi! rule. Another point i'll his
favor is that he had the decency to Ego
west' and avoid saying anything for Car
field.
His travels North lead him to believe
that the Solid South is feared by the
masses only on account ofits proposed SOL
idarity for free trade The "bloody shirt"
issue is entirely forsaken. "Thc Solid
Mort" said tho Judge, "is 81 myth.
He then went on to state as the result of
elaborate calculations that a change Of
four per cent, or four men in every hum
drcd voters, would give the North to the
Democracy. Less than 8 per cent. will
change Ohio. :.and g per cent. will carry
New York handsomely. 1t is idle, he
thinks, to call section, only n portion
of (which is held, and that by so frail a
tenure, ''solid,' or to call the Democratic
party with its strength so nearly eqnal
its opponents, in anywise "dead.'
AN INTERESTING TALK WITH SENATOR NJ. c.
BUTLER.
The Columbia correspondent of the Ns,rs
and Courier, writing under date of Novem-
Der 18th, gives the views Of Senator NJ. q.
Butler on the political situation Us follows:
Question: Well, General, what do you
think of the result of the late elections?
Answer: Very badly of the result of the
Federal elections. With the result in South
Carolina l am quite we'll satisfied.
Q. What, in your Judgment, will be the
attitude Of the Solid South towards Gar
fields administration
A. That depends upon the attitude of
Garfield's administration towards the Solid
South. If Garfield will treat the South with
fairness rs he docs other sections of the
Union. the South will give him no trouble.
He can't do us any great harm if he had
mind to. Heis much more dependent upon
the South for success in the measures Of his
administration than the South is upon him
for ANYTHING, and, as have said, if he will
treat the South fairly her representatives
will scarcely throw obstacles in his way.
All this stuff about conciliating the South is
nonsense The South asks no Cancellation"
Her people are not spoiled children. All
| that they ask is common fairness and COM
mon Justice at the hands Of the Radicals or
anybody else. She is as able to take care OF
herself as any other section of the Union,
and if this eternal prating about the South
ern policy" of this man or that had been
! done away with long ago the whole coun-
try would have been better off.
Q. You do not apprehend, then, that the
Radical majority in Congress Will attempt
| to reconstruct the South?
A. Not bit of it. In the first place
am not sure the Radicals have q majority in
| Congress. 1 think we shall retain control
| of the Senate by small majority, and Rad
! ical clerks of the lower house have set us
some valuable lessons in the preparation of
the lists of members preparatory to all Or
ganizaton of the House. and it is by no
means certain we shall lose the House. But
suppose they have majority, what greater
reason is there for reccnstructing the Gov
ernment of South Carolina than of New
| York? We are either in the Union, upon
the same terms as New York, or We are not
in it ut all. If we are, then any '"recon-
struction" Of South Carolina which did not
apply equally to New York would be revo-
lutionary, and the money changers Of the
country are hardly prepared for that. No,
do not apprehend any attempt at recon-
struction, and, if there should be, it will
fail ANONYMOUSLY.
O. Do you think the present attitude of
the two sections towards each other is desi-
rable and advantageous to either?
A. What do You mean by present atti-
tude?
@. mean is it desirable that there should
be solid South against n solid North, or
vice versa.
Al do not think such an attitude desi-
rable or advantageous to either section. But
are you not mistaken in assuming such on
attitude? The two parties at the North are
very nearly evenly matched in point of
numbers, and so they, are in the South. So
there can be no "solidity" whilst this is the
case. The white people of the South are
solid because the Radical majority made
them SO. They are so not entirely because
they are Democrats, but in self:defencc, to
protect themselves against the negro donli-
nation which the Radicals set up over them.
That is the only immediate issue in the
South, and just so.long as there is menace
or possibility of negro governments being
restored in the South just so long will her
white population remain solid. And on
the other hand, just so soon as we have
| guarantees from ang authoritative source,
! Northern Radical or Northern Democrat,
against q restoration Of carpet-bag negro
State governments, just so soon will that
solidity dissolve, and not before. 1tappcars
to me that this is one fact about which the
Northern people ought to have been con-
vinced before this. Let Mr.. Garfield and
his advisers show by his treatment OF the
South that he does not intend to render
possible such disgraceful State Governments
paramount cause of our soldity is removed.
South Carolina, or anything like them, and
we do not intend to have them.
@. Did not Mr.. Hayes make some such
showing?
A. Yes, at first he did, but either by rea-
son of his own weakness, or because he was
coerced by the Stalwart wing Of his party
he faltercd, then turned back, then out
stripped the Stalwarts in his extreme hos
tility to the South. Why, it was only me-
cessary for a fugitive from justice in a
Southern State to go to Washington brand
ed all overwith ihtamy to secure lucra-
tive appointment. Everybody lost conf
dence in his sincerity. His veto messages
were the EXTREMIST Of the extreme. And
if we had not protected ourselves, his ad-
ministration would have left us rs COM
pletely at the mercy of the reconstruction
robbers as in the worst days of the Radical
regime.
Q. DO understand you to express the
opinion that the Solid South is a good
thing for the South?
a. have expressed no opinion about
it.
@. should like to have your opinion
upon that question?
A. Well, I say to you frankly that I
think scctionalism in any form is bad for
the whole country, and have never used