The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-04-25
Must We Have War?

upon US with their stern and stirring re-
alties?
Our readers know that we have repeat
edly declared that we did not believe
that war between the North and the
South would be the result of dissolution
of the Union by the secession of the South
ern States. With the sound Of our can
non still ringing in our ears, we are OF the
same opinion still.
That the brutal fanatics who sit in the
high places at Washington arc ready to
plunge the whole country into contest
and blood, we have never doubted 1t
was a thorough conviction of their treach-
erous and desperate hatred of the South
that compelled us to urge, as the only
course of safety for the South, a prompt
and eternal separation from their power.
Events have shown that our estimation
of this brutal and bloody faction was cor
rect. Large portions of the people of the
seeding States did not believe it. The
Frontier Slave States have not believed
that there were feelings of fraternity to-
wards the people of the South, from the
great body of the people Of the North.
Hence they have fingered in the foul en-
braces of a Union, mastered by Abolition
ism, whose one great policy was the sub
lection Of the South to the dominion Of
the North-whosc one great passion was
to destroy the South. Slowly but surely
time has lifted the veil from the hidcous
and loathsome features of Abolitionism
cnthroned in Washington. Its inaugura-
ton by cannon and bayoncts, manifested
at once its principle and it's reliance for sue
ccss-dcspotism and force Oliver Crom-
we'll praying whilst Charles the rs head
was being cut off, was the example Of its
bloody hypocrisy.
With Lincoln's Probation, and hisrequi-
stion for troops to marchupon the South,
the standard for the conquest of the South
is at last unfurled. Thirty years agitation
and hate, at last breaks forth in its eager
cry for blood. 1t is most natural. Thank
God, the consumation is in our day, whilst
we have yet the power to rcsst-thc capa-
city to save ourselves from its mcditatcd
devastation, insurrection and horrors.
But will Northern hate and fanaticism
fail in its prey? Will it not at least carry
through the South one long track Of blood.
which will tell to future ages its fierce in
vasion and stern efforts for conquest? We
answer no.
Fortunately for the world, it is never
all mad. The first great result of the
mcditatcd invasion Of the South, will be to
unite the South together. United togcth-
or, the South is invinciblc. The North
knows this as well as the South On this
account. We rejoice at the late demonstra-
tions in Charleston Bay, and the war pol
icy declared at Washington. Virginia
will soon be with us; and the other From
tier States will follow her lead. They are
forced to take sides, BY the Abolition Gov
crnmcnt at Washington. They must
help to conquer us, or aid us in our de-
fence. We cannot doubt the result The
miserable fanatics and charletans at Wash
ington arc pursuing the very course OF
policy we most earnestly desire them to
pursue, and will defeat and destroy their
power for evil in the effort TO exercise it.
We deprccatc war; but We frankly con-
fcss, that if war is necessary to consoli-
date the South, it is far preferable to the
Slavcholding States being divided 1t is
very fur preferable to mixed Confedcra-
cy of Slave and Free States. The demon
straton of war upon the South will, how
ever, prevent war, by raising up such a
power to meet it, through aunited South,
as will ensure its defeat War between
the North and the South can only exist
by the Frontier Slave States joining the
North against the South; and this we
deem an impossiblity.
But will not Fort Pickcns be held like
Fort Sumter? and will we not be COM
PEELED to shell them out? Yes! But this
will not be war; VIII not our coast be
blockadcd? Very probably. But this
will be war on sea, where we cannot reach
them. But q campaign war-a war OF
invasion for conquest, by the North
against the South, we do not expect to
see. 1t will be most fatal TO the interest
of the North, whilst it may be most bene-