The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-02-17

orators Of that time permitted fraud to
be perpetrated upon the country Under
its clumsy. antiquated, barbarous"
"machiuery." and now 10 advance, and
without Investigation or o hearing, de.
nounce the work OF the tenth census
because, forsootb, "Southern senators
aud members Of the House selected the
enumera'ors." l am prepared to take
my share OF the responsibility for the
reflections. The superintendent OF the
census will bear me ou. in the assertion
that as far as could control it l would
consent TO the confirmation of no man,
Democrat or Republican, whose charac.
ter was not guarantee to O faithful,
honest performance of his duty. asked
for the appointment OF no friend or par.
tisan because he was friend or parti-
san. tried to secure the appointment
ofthose only who would 4, theiF duty ire
spective OF party on party Interests. and
believe know only such were appoint
ed and confirmed for South Carolina.
And, Mr.. President, it will require some
thing more than the sneers and anarls OF
cbnrlatans, and carpings Of disappointed
maicontents, to drive me from the good
opinion i baye Of the work on the tenth
census in that State. Those intrusted
with the work do not belong to that
breed of c0rm0rants foisted upon her and
sustained by the malevolence and hatred
nf some of those Republican patriots of
1870. VINO now challenge the efforts and
misrepresent the motives Of those of us
who strive to rescue her from the palsying
paralyzing touch of their vulgar hench
men.
No, Mr.. President, there has been no
fraud in the enumeration Of the inbabi.
tants of South Carolina. The census
has been taken with fidelity, srd the
proof is' conclusive, overwhelming, and
yet the author off the charge has not the
sense of justice to withdraw it, to make
honorable amends for a gross misrepre.
sentation. A Presidential election was
pending, and perversion, prejudice, and
injustice were more efficacieus for the
purposes in hand than truth and justice,
and right recklessly' were they welded.
They served their purpose, but the ira
ducer of my State and her people shalt
not escape exposure The result of that
enumeration has converted many cenf.
dent predictions of partisan politicians
as to the drift Of political power into
dismal fallacies. It has baffled the CAL
culati0ns and clouded the hopes of so
many who hate the South and foret0ld
her decadence that perhaps some allow
ance should be made for their bad tenn
per and reckless accusations. Not con-
tent with criminal participation in
lespoiling the South by commissioning
for that special service a band Of greedy
vampires, and sustaining them while
they piled their insatiate avocation, after
>he is plundered and bied to depletion,
the chief rallier of that band of spectators
depreciates her because of her poverty;
and upbraids her for her humiliated
attitude. Why, Mr.. President, when the
professional highwnyman or outlaw
overcomes md robs the helpless way.arer
he, even, 10 too magnaDimous to insult
his victim by huTlng at him vulgar
anathemas and bitter curses.
Let :his political h;ghwayman 60 learn
humanity ana magnanimity from the
reckless outcast, and shelter his ignomi-
ny from the kissing storm of scorn and
contnmely. The lesson, Mr.. President,
which this last census teaches Is an
instructive one. 1t deserves to be pray
erfully studied by those who have spent
anxious hours arguing out" the "steady
decline" and ''stagnation" of the South.
The little State which I hsve the
honor in part to represent, $4,000 square
miles, has lost within the last two
decades not less and perhaps more than
three hundred and fifty million dollars,
actual cash values lost to her rs COM
pletely and effectually as If sunk to the
button Of mid ocean. Within that time
she has also had reconstruction, the
ninth census, th: reign of the carpet
bagger and missionaries from the North
ern Methods. Church and her own mis-.
takes, blessings enough to have translated
her to the happy confines of Elysian
fields or to the sublimaIed heights OF
Plymouth Rock self complacency, or
curses enough as these visitations may
be regarded frcm the different stand
points, to have consigned her to the
ninth circle Of Dante's Inferno. Whether
they have been blessings or curses. she
has bravely survived item, and rs best
she may, is wrestling with the grave
problem of race issues and social incon-
gruities, hoping to master them upon
principles Of broad humanity and with
triumph of law and social order.
She has no complaint to utter eave
against those who traduce and villify
her, and to those che returns Lhe salu.a-
tion of scornful contempt.
-Four years ago, when she rescLed her
government from the hands ofthe spoil
ator, she gathered up her credit, being
hawked about and spit upon in the mar.
ket places. by.word end seproach,
and to day her securitie. s;e command
ing from to 10 per cent. premium on
their pnr value. .,4 ID.
She has the framework of a public.
school system that, under the encourage.
ment of wise and judicious manage.
ment, is being annually aud steadily
developed into an educational asylum
for all her children, and needs only time
and money and Judgment TO DO made
equal to any in tho American Union.
The Improvement in her homestead laws
is fixing her population permanently
upon her soil, and she Is no longer q
nursery for her young sisters ofthe West
and Northwest. Under the operation
and protection Of equal laas, Justly
executed, system Of land tenaniry is
being changed to one of land tenure, and
life and property are safely guarded.
principal staple lso per cent. in ten
y, ara. namely, in the last Eve, and this
yearit is estimated at 6l6 900 bales against
226,000 Ia 1870. Her manufactures
have moro than doubled in capacity, as
the following table will show.
ah 1880. 1870. Pr. ct. inc.
Looms........"..". Liz a45 iss
Spindles ........927eS 3t.o4G 100
Hands employed 2is5 IFS 90
And within the last thirty Days the
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