The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-01-23

IF thew want to come back and try and
do right, let them come. They say they
will compromise with US. and let us have
a small minority in the Convention If We
win be humble and behave ourselves, or
words to that effect. 1 don't think l
will accept any compromise with them
in the matter of my vote, but IN this
want it understood that am only speak
ing for myself; every other man can
speak for himself. We had just as well
not have any representation in the Con
yention as to have a minority. AS for
nv part, 1 do not believe in yielding to
any terms with them, but to put out
full ticket in every County, composed OF
the best citizens we have, and 60 to work
to elect it, and not allow any monkeying
with the votes like we had in the last
election. That is the only way to gain
any showing-that is the way our fore
fathers gained their independence from
Great Britain, and it is the way we will
have it to do. We have tried coalition
long enough, now let US take bold stand
and do our own thinking and acting, and
if any of the Reformers want to join us
and help US elect our best men, why let
them do so. We had just as we'll be de-
feated one way as another. What could
one or two men from each County do
with q three.fourths majority against
them? They had better stay at home
and be preparing their patches for tur-
nips. It ia lose or gain, and there is but
one way to gain, and that Is to put out
foil Conservative ticket and 20 to work
and elect it. AS for my own part l had
rather see a full Republic delegation
elected than to see full Tillmanite dele
CATION like the last two Legislatures We
have had.
Of course, B. r. Tillman has already
got the new Constitution written out, sc
thsre will be nothing to do but to take a
vote on it and adopt it; but If we can get
q majority in the Convention we would
have to get up Constitution siter tas
Convention met, and, of course, 1t would
we have the bulk of the expense to beaI
under the present arrangement, whether
we own the bulk of the taxable property
or not. So if we don't care for expenses,
nobody else need to grumble. There are
hundreds of men who will vote against
their own interests and welfare just be-
cause it's for the movement, as they say.
Now, r want some intelligent man to toll
me what good the "moyement," as they
call It, has accomplished for the common
working man? don't mean the coat
tail swingers who have obtained fat offi-
ces from it, but the common working
people Of the State, who are still toiling
away for living and can barely make
ends meet. These are questions that
every 1aboring man should ask himself.
Now Is the time, If We ever expect to
make an effort for liberty, to make the
start. We can't do anything holding
Joint conferences. It will be best for the
people If we will take a bold, indepen-
dent stand and call on all who have the
welfare of the State at heart to join us and
put down the autocracy that is being 80
fully developed in our State. # we fail,
it will be no worse than it would be If we
accept the Tillmanite terms Of coalition
if we gain, we will have something for
our posterity to be proud Of for genera
tions TO come. IF we don't do this we
may as well stay at home and let the Re
formers have full sway. It is no time for
the "summer soldier nor sunshine pa
triot," but every man will have to walk
into the campaign to win as though j.
depended solely on his individual efforts
for success.
These are my opinions of the political
situation, and do not presume to speak
for any body but myself. Let the result
be what it will, we will see in time to
come who "are'' right about it.
We had very pleasant time on Sales
day at Anderson meeting with 80 many
of our schoolmates and old soldiers, slso
some of our old neighbors whom we had
not met since our boyhood days.
would never have recognized Mr.. Seaborn
Strickland, If some friend had not intro
duced him to me. I was very small
boy when he was first made Orderly
Sergenta OF Beat No. 2, 4th Battalion, s.
G. Militia. This Company mustered"
at Gantts Store, near Broadmouth Creek,
and was known as the Broadmouth Com
pany. Alec. Mattison, jovial, good
hearted bachelor, was The Captain. They
met once every three months for Com
pany drill, and would walk around the
old field few times in sort Of harem
scarem way and called it drilling, and
reckon they thought thoy were doing the
lob up Sin ORDER" After muster was
over the Captain or 1st Sargent would
detail certain number as patrollers for
the ensuing quarter, or until next "mus-
ter day." These patrollers had to patrol
a certain boundary, and every negro
caught out from home or off Of his mas
ter's land, without written pass from
his master, had to take off his shirt and
take from five to thirty.nine lashes on
his bare back, the number being govern
ed by the humanity of the Captain of the
patrol. Some men liked the job, while
others, who were more humane, were as
lenient as the law would allow, and then
there were others who would not try to
catch the darkey on purpose to keep
from having to punish him. These passes
would read something like this: "Per-
NIT my boy, Jim, to pass and repass
until Monday morning." Another form
was something like this: "Permit my
boy, Leon, to pass to David Greer's ara
return Monday morning, this Sept. 9TH,
1874. ELIJAH WYATT" With such pass
as that he had to be on the direct road to
his place of destination, or at the place,
or he was liable to be taken up. With
appear to the younger generation, AID
the awful tales related by Mrs. Harriet
Beeoher Stowe in reference to the treat
ment Of slaves, nine-tenths Of them lived
better and were better cared for then
than they are now. AS we were going to
say, it had been so long since we had
seen our old friend and neighbor, we
could hardly realize that it was the same
man. And the boys that were boys when
we were boys are nearly all grand-daddY
now. There was Tom Townes, Kan
Clement, Tom Maddox, Hob Cobb and
several others who learned their c's
along with us. They are getting grey
headed now. How swiftly time does fly.
As we have said before, we always feel
more like we have been to Anderson
when we can meet our genial old friend,
Col. B. F. CraytoD, and shake his warm
hand. Col. Crayton is one of the leading
farmers of Anderson County, as we'll as
q model citizen in every respect. I wish
we had more of the same sort. Anderson
is growing city. So is Bolton. 1t is SO
seldom we visit Bolton we can hardly
realize that we are in Bolton when we 80
there. A business trip to the Court
House on the 14th inst, carried us by
Bolton, where we met the familiar faces
OF our old friends, Jack Stringer and
Wash McGee, two of the Oldest citizens
of the town, also Maj. Cox, John Green,
Dock Green, Tyler Tollison and several
others, whose names We do not remem-
Der. These old veterans have all had
more or less faith in Bolton and have
stuck to it, believing that Belton would
be town Of some note after awhile and
they are now realizing in reality their
most sanguine hopes. Bolton is beauti-
fully located and is perhaps one of the
healthiest localities In the State. Mr..
Stringsr says he believes in Sam Jones