The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20

that sink Golfer dam into the river and
work for months in anchoring great
stones to build the solid abutments aud
piers, whose work is by.and.by covered
by the water and out of sight, do not get
their share of the credit. The gaudy
structure of the bridge that rests on these
piers and across which the trains thun.
der is the thing that strikes the eye of
the great public great deal more. The
sunken piers and yard work, tho cduca-
tional growth and the building up of in.
dustry, the economy and all that can
help the foundation of local prosperity
is the work that in the long run tells.
Some Scotch poet said, or put it in the
mouth of some prophet to say, that the
time would come
"Whcn Bertram's right and Bertrams might
Shall meet on Ellengowau's height"
And it is when the might and the right
of people meet that majorities are
never oppressed by minorities. Trust
ing, gentlemen, that You may take part
in this earnest work of building up your
race, from the foundation inte the solidi.
ty of intelligence and industry, and upon
those bases at last see all your rights re-
cognizcd, is my personal wish aud hope
for your people,"
A Good Suggestion thrown away on Alaa
bama Negroes.
The following is the full text of the
remarks of Gen. Garfield to the delega'
tion of colored representatives from Ala.
bama, who visited him at Cleveland,
| Ohio, on Tuesday:
Gentlenaen-I am obliged to you for
your congratulations and courtesies; and
will not detain you nor myself-for we
are in the house nfa gentleman who has
some people visiting him that we must
Immediately sec-except to say that i
most cordially concur with you in all
your efforts to enlighten and elevate and
strengthen your people. That is the
true ground of progress for everybody
everywhere. Your friends who stood by
you in the days Of the war and since tho
war have always had to meet on the part
of their antagonists this thought: You
have thrown upon us great mass OF lg-
nnrant voters, wholly unacquainted with
the wants of the people and the manage
ment of affairs, and you have done us a
great injustice in compelling that class
10 be our equals in voting. Now, there
is some force in that. There is not one
of you that will not admit that there is
some force in that statemen. There is q
great deal of force in it. 1t is a difficult
thing for any people to get along with
that situation. 1t is in your hands to
take that argument away absolutely
not all at once, not iu day, but to take
it away from your children, so that by
the intelligence OF your children in time
to come that reproach will not be left
and that argument cannot be made.
When that day comes I do not see any
argument that any human being can
make against the fair right Of all men to
equal privileges under the law.
Now, therefore, doing all we can at our
end of the line, you should do all you
can at your end of the line to take away
the last obstacle that confronts US in ad-
iusting the troublesome question which
your race and its place and it's late con.
dition have given to this country.
Whatever our people can do toward
helping you to do, that | am sure they
will be very glad to do. Whatever can
do to forward that purpose in general
action or of individual action, I shall be
most glad to do. But don't let anybody
get up the race feeling among you to the
extent of saying 1--WE are a separate
class that are going to have separate priv.
ileges and separate rights" As said on
another occasion, don't let anybody
abuse you because you areblack, but
don't let anybody nor let yourselves
get to feeling that anybody should
praise you because you are black, and
certainly don't bear wrongs because you
are black. Those are the points. You
know that brings us up to the equality
and liberty of the law. Gentlemen, |
am glad to have met you.