14 Aug 1867
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Newspaper
Anderson Intelligencer
Location
Anderson, South Carolina, United States of America
Date
Aug 14, 1867
Page
1
Advertisements in the Anderson-Weghly Intelligencer carried rates of one dollar per twelve lines for the first insertion and a reduced price for subsequent insertions. Liberal yearly deductions offered to advertisers, with four candidates announced for five dollars in advance.
A lengthy opinion from B F Perry of Guresville S C arguing Radical plans to enforce universal negro suffrage and Southern political radicalization. He asserts Democrats were denied seats in Congress for not being Black Republicans and warns of a race-based upheaval, predicting conflict if the white South loses power. He cites Agassiz on race, cites future convention aims, and calls for white political control to protect Southern interests. He laments foreign capital withdrawal and predicts major upheaval if negro enfranchisement proceeds.
A long narrative recalls a wealthy farmer and his beautiful daughter Mary, enduring threats from a suitor and a controlling father. A staged ghost encounter interrupts the courtship, culminating in a wedding arranged by the father after spiritual warning and a mysterious manly intervention.
A garbled newspaper fragment depicts a chaotic exchange with mistranscribed dialogue about execution and fear. It mentions a man beheaded, a bystander, and a dramatic question about firing a cannon, all tangled in unclear names and speech.
A New York Evening Post dispatch describes a Texas town scene with two men, Jones and Smith, who boast about shooting Black people. They lure a Black man, fatally harm him, are briefly freed on bail, then re-arrested by military authorities likely to face trial. An accompanying travel anecdote contrasts oxen named Presbyterians and Baptists with a Methodist ox making a ruckus.
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