Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1882-10-12
The Greenback Party is tho Me-
gro Party.


gro Party.
[From the Charleston News and Courier
Why do the Radical cadcra urge the
negroes to vote for the Greenback aud In
dependent candidates7 1t is rot on &C.
count Of the character or capability of such
candidates, as tho R,dc, leaders admit
that the Democratic candidates, as whole,
tower above their opponents, and that there
arc not more than two or three Greenback
or Independents, if so many, who have
any claim to respect to consideration. 1t
is not in vindication of any high principle,
visiug the negroes to vote for the Grccn-
back cundidatea, repudiatod uuequivocally
the peculiar doctrines of the party. 1t is
not, as is pretended, t. secure a free vote
aud fair count as the election law guar
untecs that, and every election in which
the Radicals have had hand in South
Carolina was blackcucd by nugrant aud uu-
bushing frauds.
Tho reason that the Radical lenders
order their dusky legins to vote for Green
back and Independent candidates is that,
by so doing, they expect to divide the
Democracy two years hence. There
can be no doubt of this. The Radical
leaders, in the State cons entiou, declared
this to be their purpose. There was 20
disguise about it, in tho secret sessions of
the convention.
The Greenhack leaders were in cohsulA
tation with the Radical leaders in Columbia
ut the time that the Radical Convention
Ia b,r
sort with the Radicals. What the terms
of the bugain are we do not know. We do
know, however, that tho Grcenbackers
sought aud desired tho endorsement Of the
Radical convention and got it. The
Gr,cntackcrs know that the white memb bers
of their own purity arc not numerous enough
to make ripple on the surface of State
politics, and that nothing less than the
solid negro vote will enable them to elect
their candidates. Upon the negro vote
they rely, and by the aid of the negro vote
they must win, If they win at all This is
the essence of the Grecnback movement
|. is deliberate effort to capture the State
by and with the negro vote.
The Grccnbackcrs claim that, when they
shall have elected their candidates by negro
votes, theirs will still be white man. s
party. Was there ever more bold at
tcmpt to pull w,ol over the eyes Of the
people of the State? AS the mass Of its
supporters is, so must the party be. The
negro vote cun no more be purified ard en-
lightcned by the ctlusion of hapdfuI of
white votes than mass of rottiug mud can
by stone which is cast into It Moreover,
the Grccnbackcrs arc warned in advance
that the sole aim of the Radicals is to use
them as Trojan horse, in the bowels of
which lurk the foes of honest government,
decency and civilization. The Radicals
will have no further use for them when, by
their means, they have penetrated within
| the walls Of the Democratic citadel.
The Greenback movement, on tho pnrt
| of it's readers, is nothing more nor less
| than desperate effort to Afrcanize the
State. Its an effort to do it, because the
| Grccnbackcrs know what tho consequences
must be and still pcrscvcrc in the hateful
work. Tho names differ, but the issue is
unchanged. In 1882, as in 1876, the
negroes, as body, are fighting the white
people of the State. Then, as now, tho
maintenance of white supremacy, with the
honesty, public economy and security that
tho phrase implies, depends on the defeat
of tho opposition and the success of tho
Democracy.
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