The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-27
VOLUME Xxx (. { II o 90.

nrauEpipg and absorbing the rights O
the cclGred men, are e3ertiug iust doubl
the political power OF the white msp II
the Northern States. e,...I $50. FF,
| submit, my friends, that auch O con
dition of affairs Is. extraordinary, unias
and derogatory TO the manhood Of th,
North. Even those who are yindictivel,
opposed to negro sufffage will not DEM
that If Presidential electors are assigned
10 the South by reason of the negro
population. that population ought to bt
peru,itted free suffrage in an election
10 deny that clear proposition is &c
affirm that the Southern white man In
the Gulf States is entitled to double the
political eower OF the Northern white
man In tho Lake States. Il IL, TO affii,,
that the Confederate soldier ahall WELD
twice the influence in the nation thai
the Union soldier can, and that perpetual
and constantly increasing superiority
shall be conceded 10 the Southern white
man In the Government of, the Union
IL that be quietly conceded In this gener.
alton 1t will harden into custom until the
badge of ipfeIiority will attach 10 the
Northern white man az odiously % ever
Norman noble stamped 1t upon the Saxon
churl. ,G. n.,,.',l.g, r.. ~, - :
This subject ia of deep interest to the
laboriDg men of the North, with the
Southern Democracy triu :, ,hau. in their
States and in the NatioL, tho negroes
will be compelled to, work for just such
wages as the whites may decree, wapes
which will amount, as did the. supplies
OF the slaves, TO bare subsistence. equal
in cash, perhaps, to 80 cents per day, If
averaged over the entire South.
The white laborer In the North, viii
soon feel the destructive effect, Of this
upon his own wages. Il ;,.a, II G,na@
Tho Republicans have clearly seen
from the earliest days Of reconstruction
that wages In the South; must, be raised
to tho just recompense of the ylahorer, or
wages in the North be ruinouely lowered,
aud the party has, steadily worked for the
formei result. A reverse influence will
be now cot In, motion, and that condition
Of affairs produced which years: ago Mr..
Lincoln warned the free lahoripg men of
: the; North, will provo hostile to their
independence and will inevitably lend;to
u srnsuous reduction of wages. A mere
difference in the color of the shiu will
not eufiice for maintaining IN entirely
different standard of wagea In contiguous
and adjacent States, and the voluntary
will be compelled 10 yield to the invoi-
uutary. giyyiti.. ~, ii S,,atia5
Is So completely have the colored man In
tho South been already deprived !l,y the
Democratic party OF their constitutional
and legal rights as citisens of the United
States that they regard the advent of that
party to National power as the eignal OF
their Ts enhancement and are sa:iSh.sts.
because they think all legal protection
! for them ss gone. ,.}ss&a s3 ag't t.h4tF3a
|. i Few peIeons in the North, realize how
completely the ehiefai of. tie Rebellion
WELD the 3p3liticai power which has
triumphed in the late election. :, It is ;a
portoptous fact that; tho II Democratic
Senators. whO 3came from the States OF
The late CCnfederacy; all, ard Imean all
without Nsingle exception, personally
,sartipipate5 tn ssse rebellion against the
National Government. Is la nBtili more
significant fsctl that in those States no
man who was loyal! to! tho 1 Union; no
matter how strong Democrat he may be
to, day, has the slightest chance ofpoIit-
ical promotion. Tho one, great avenue
to honor In thai sectioa 10 the record of
zealoGs !. service In tie war against the
GoyernmGnt. 9YS 4. sx,r, =! u !, 81, Z.
IL lie certainly an astounding fact that
the section In which friendship tor the
Union In the day of its trial and agony
10 still O political disqualification. should
DO called nbw 70 rule eyerS.the Union.
AL this takes place during the lifetime
of tho generation that fought the war,
and elevstes into the practical command
Of the American Government the iden
tical men who organized for It's destruc
tion andIplunged ua into the bloodiss,
conteat Of modera times 49,, ts,, S, .g,
have spoken of the South as placed
by the late election, In possession of the
Government, land II mean all that my
words imply u. il.siq, gl,axsl .,ts'
The South furnished nearly three.
fonrths Of the electoral votes that defeat.
ed the Republican party and they will
atep TO the command Of the Democrats
as uuchallenged and 90 nHfestrained az
they held. !6e same position for thirty
years before the civil. war. Gentlemen
there cannot be political : inequality
among citizens of O free Republic, iEs..t,
cannot be. q a. Inoiity of white
menin the South ruling. O majority Of
white I, men siuf the North. Pairiotis5a
,self.respect, 20 State / pride. anroteatinn oi
garann and safety for the counttg. all cry
ont against IL. i The very Thoughts sof. X
stire sEsa blood Of menlWho Inherit equal
ity from The Pilgrims who first stood or
Plymouth Rock aud from the liberty,
loving pgssiota who, came, TO, the Deia
ware with William Penn. II becomes q
| permanent question: zof American nan
hood. q u demands o heaslng and isettls
.menh and that aetslement will; yindicat.
The equality of lAnzerioasa ,citiEaus in Ell