The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1861-04-17

- StLowing from the PROCEEDINGS oU u
>5Si,s-S7 s..f;on toward the close Of us i1''
r..7.,sI ,,'.ss, ,,no,;5uszy, THAT the tanks
nSs0's l,s;s s,on7ontion arc due, and are hels
Of TINS a.: nol':' +othe I[or. D. t. JamlsOn ,.
BY o5, 4ss courtesy, dignity impartial i a;l
nd i2s ability, with which 10 ma, ha' os uis-
ty' g5., anu 'Ij his duties as its Presiding ON
'', The President then delivered the l0ll
lowing d1;Iesa" gsap'aff Of the conyeaion: whspF,s
called upon, by your kindness, to presto
c'.a,. c,'ns the cravess, the abiest, andtho moSF
ooag courteous :sq Sc 5ody Of gentlemen With wedl
7 Goba Savo svor been associated in a gonty
life. extending now to moro tbs by your
1 ayo Years, I was greatly oTeras unexpoc-
confidence, for complicated: and now
ted as, I felt, it wastae this renewed e1-
I am willing to cindness into a trlou'o
preston of x6ns, rather than to gooa
10 good If :.
decdsour acts, during the twenty ds.s dsS
Fir iirst session, youAavo adda9 more
=. ,an enc gage to history which TF1ll sur ~
yiTo-lor men will love to 9olS ,,.," OIL 'l,o
ononin@ incidents of a rey'f@tion' c0ndao-
op0nlis LS ,l'is = di@nitv. e>n6ncss, proprioty'
ted NAoa q 49, - ,Muit of right, which
! (5os I3oS' few Gs-, ,o,xamD,Sin past times
Within t5/6ref interval Of less than
4,..oa ms6S6s between your first session
snS s,,l ds, many striking incidents have
l,M crowded, which n.::ght, also, become
History; but tie doubts, fears, struggles,
anxioties end hopes deferred, and then
the gradual increase of confdencefron in
creased strength and resources, arc only
fully known 10 the few, who acted the
chief part in the trying scenes of this Win
ter; and they, if they could, probably,
will not write its history.
This revolution, so far, has been BLOOD
less. What q glorious consumation it
would have been !! What q triumph Of
civilization and Christianity, if the great
principles involved in this movement
could have been Successfully achieved,
without shedding q single 'nop Of human
blood! But now it seems to be other
wise. While am yet speaking, ,hal
tile feet is Gaid to be approaching our
shores and before the coming night clo-
ses over us, the sands IF Morris Island
may be stained with, Mc best blood of our
people. May GodShow the right
I ccngratulato5ou, gentlemen, at the
close Of y your lDors, on the adoption Of
Copstitutiop%hich, [ trust, will be found
an perfect. There are, claus
cs sond;;a'ees5sSich' and on,;--;-a.a render it much
less acceptable to inSo,t,n.a s am 15r [5s33 from
attaching as groasas many s1ySa apDear rr TO =
written ConstituticHsSsSSns a. spPssP = = Il
do. writtcn .co4sfitS<daS ,l's,l1a are GI5 bs bs
Ndmarks to point Out-A0 route '' TO s be
Ncd; and all exp u 'l,o e p''S' 4
~ poo.@fates that a Govern
'|s1 y ESQ., 1l+ed to the capacities,
IT II viii will s. 'sust of people, and it
ms ~ and charas Or dospotic, as the peo-
he either free sll be found to deserve
themselves wSthcr, Why, it may be :
: form or the 0se civilization Of the
Rod. is it, that th1 Semitic race has
,steqn nations oe bencfcial !
,cn so unprcductSc>>cSN at times ?
contcmporaneous >osSsS hire no S
thatswo Jo,s hold thcrn-,s's><<es soo;al q
- IN no principle Of governmcH>SL Sso'i''' /
nelioration? 1t is because their g0S~>n- 5
.cnt was stern depotism, which inter- F :
oscd an immcasurablc distance between
&c throne and the people; and, it may
= added. because their religion was
l--... ....a degrading superstition, which r
owed down to the creature instead OF to
no Creator. Where is the British Con-
titution written? Not on paper, but in
he traditions and memories Of the domi-
ant portioh VI = lsSseSsd sssH Suffering, vim
ho9sanagaeaFFlsgf e Fights to liberal Govern
1cmt 1nTt- Where is the Constitution Of the
rcnch to be fonrdF Not in Jacobin
lnbs no.. che romanesque rovcrics-nf |
-elfiaud, Madame -Rofanu and Brissot
Warvillc; not in the "Threc Days Of C
lly," nor in the fanciful theories of La Fl
artinc, and in his impracticablc doc Il
mes of {" Liberty, Equality and Fratcr- il
ty," but in the will of an absolute mon is
ch, who preserves order and restraints Il
ion l,- l,nle o -. IL. =