The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-03-06
Stand From Under.

sSlAuu TIUu Uuut1s
A great deal of Northern capital has
gons into the Southern States in the last
half dozen years; and there is not q
week now that one does not read reports
of new enterprises in the South under
Northern control and management and
set up with the help Of Northern capital.
We have word of warning to give to
the owners of these many millions of
Northern capital invested in Southern
enterprises, and Of other millions ready
to be invested in the same region.
The proitableness of such enterprises
depends upon the continuance of peace
and order in the Southern States. Un.
der the rule of Mr.. Arthur, and still more
under that of Mr.. Cleveland, peace and
order did obtain iu these States. Con.
fdence in the stability of things down
there drew many millions of Northern
capital into those States. They are rich
in great variety of undeveloped natural
resources; they have an abundant and
sufficiently capable laboring force.
Given good order and the Northern ven
lures in those States will continue to be-,
for years, uncommonly profitable; and
there will be for long time to come
great inducements for more Northern
capital and enterprise in that half of the
Union.
So far all has gone we'll down there.
No complaints are heard from the North.
ern men who have gone into the South
with capital to engage in useful and de-
veloping enterprises. They are welcom.
ed; they find their capital safely and
very proftably invested; I; they have no
fault to find with the local laws; the
taxes are low; their property, be it in
mines or mills or factories, is secure.
But we warn the owners of these many
millions of Northern capital employed in
the South that this happy and satisfac-
tory condition may not last much longer.
The Republican managers in Washing.
ton have determined, as desperate par.
tisan expedient, to fling Southern affairs
and interests into confusion and disorder.
They have agreed on policies intended to
set the two races in violent opposition to
each other all over the South. They are
getting ready laws which, as sure as they
are enacted, will plunge the whole South
into condition which every one will see
is fatal to all legitimate business enter
prises.
Already all over the South is felt The
ground swell which foretells the coming
storm. The proposed Republican legis.
lation for Federal control of elections in
the Southern States means, as the negroes
as we'll as the whites understand, an at
tempt to make the most ignorant and
corrupt part of the negro population
rulers over the whites in the States,
Counties and townships. In all parts of
the South negro demagogues, excited by
the promises of Republican legislation,
are raising their heads with new hopes
of mastery. They have the votes, aud
the Republicans in Congress, they be-
lieve, will enact laws under which the
solid negro vote in all the black country
shall once more, as in the reconstruction
times, control the Offices, lay and spend
the local and State taxes, and begin a
new career of robbery, lswlessness and
decentralization.
The beginnings of the great upheaval
are already seen in the increase of incen.
diary fires in several Southern States
since the Republican programme became
known, in the frequent assassination5 OF
peaceful and orderly white men, and in
a sensible increase of violence and disor.
der and crime between the races.
Watching these things carefully we are
bound to warn Northern capitalists to
"stand from under" Unless Northern
public opinion makes itself heard, as it
did in the latter carpet bag days, against
this Republican programme the party
now in power in both houses will make
laws and the party managers will require
policies from the Executive which will
so excite the negro demagogues in the
South as to produce in all these States
collisions between the races which are
sure to result in incendiarism, pillage,
murder and a general and total disor-
ganization of the negro population.
The Republican managers do not care
for the negro, but they see no hope Of
carrying another Presidential election
unless they can once more, in the old
Mississippi steamboat way, "put niger
on the safety valve." They care nothing
for the general interests of the country ;
they care nothing for its prosperity
they care only for power, as has been
shown in the House of Representatives
already, they will do and dare everything
to keep themselves in power.
1t is for Northern public opinion, by
vigorous and timely protests, to drive
them from their evil and unscrupulous
designs.-Neav York Herald.
One Hundred and Fifty PEE Cent.
The Chemical National Bank, of Ne'S
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