The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1860-09-25
A Dual Executive.

pen OF Mf. IL. ". Iaimef, Jr.
A DUAL ExEcUT1vE-Lincoln and Ham
lin, the sectional candidates of a sectional
party, will have evidently to be chosen, if
chosen at all, by a sectional majority, Pre-
sident and Vice-Presidcnt of the United
States.
Such result would go to prove con-
clusively the necessity of an organic
change in the Executive Department of
the Federal Constitution, namely that Of
a Dual Executive, Northern and a
Southern. Each would be elected by a
distinct constituency, and each would
represent the opinions Of his respective
constituency whenever he might be called
upon to approve the acts of Congress,
which would, of course, have to be done
by both concurringly before such acts be-
come Federal laws.
An organic change of this kind would
have the effect Of restoring the equilibr-
um that will have been lost between the
two sections, by simply giving to each
section negative upon the action of the
other, a mutual negative that would cause
necessarily all Federal legislrtion to take
the form of an intersectional compromise,
would be in perfect consonancc with the
equitable spirit of tho Federal Constitu-
ton. The trainers of that instrument, to
prevent the smaller States from being op-
pressed by the larger, SO judiciously or
ganizod tbs Legislative departments as to
preserve the perfect equality of the States.
In order to prevent the stronger sec
ton from expressing the weaker, expert
ence has shown, that, to this generation,
belongs the work of SO rc-organizing the
Executive Department as to preserve the
equality of the sections.
The equalization of the States was the
task of our ancestors, the equalization of
the sections is our task.
First Of all, however, the amending
power of the Federal Constitution has to
be invoked, and should it be so invoked
to no purpose, then it would be obvious
that South Carolina could no longer con-
sistently with safety continue in a Con
federacy that would be governed by a
sectional majority already committed to
consolidation as its primary policy and to
abolition as It's ultimate.
Such Government, it is supcrhuous to
add would be nothing more than an arb-
trary dcspotism with Republican SYM
bols. =.
LET Us ORGANIZE FOR TIE Projection
OF THE SoUrn-Thc following we copy
with pleasure from the Wilmington Jour
nal: '~--4,-,--t 7-r,.-.,.--
ave understand that during the past
week q Philadelphia 'Wide-AwalSe Club,
numbering eight or nine hundred learn
ing that number of Southern gentlemen
were stopping at the Continental Hotel,
called halt in front Of that establish
mcnt, making internal and diabolical
noises, intermingled with cheers for John
Brown and groans for the Southerners.
'.Thcse Wide-Awakes are the drilled
police Of the Lincoln array-they are ac-
tually driIled-taught to march-to go
throughth the manual-to rally at the word,
and they make their boasts that they can
Immediately substitute muskets for their
lantern poles. 1t is about time we had a
good deal more organization in North
Carolina. There never was such needfo
it. The conflict is coming. Even SUBJ
mission cannot avert it long.
"New York, too, dependent as she has
been and is upon Southern trade, hardly
makes an effort to prevent the collision.
They are assured that in no case will the
South resist. That's what makes them
rampant. The denunciation Of disunion-
ism hurled against the trne Democrats ut
the South, imparts confidence to the ag-
gressive abolition feeling ut the North, un-
til it can no longer be restrained, and, in
decd, few seem anxious to restrain it.
"In every case North, and indeed
South, Mr. Douglas and his peculiar friends
have opposed any fusion or cooperation
for the defeat of Lincoln. Wehave little
to hope for in that way. We must be
ready for any and every emergency. We
have no confidence in the Dean Rich
mond, New York and Albany Regency,
and indeed we are beginning to have less
confidence in mere politicians generally
than we used to have"