The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-11-30
A NORTHERN VIEW OF THE ADOPTION

lustration of the wondrous moral revolu-
tions and mutations resulting from our
late war, by being the first of the States
lately in rebellion to accedo to that cardi-
nal prerequisite of President Johnsons to
the restoration OF Union fellowship con-
tanned in the adoption OF the amendment
to the national constitution abolishing
and forever prohibiting slavery through
out the country. The despatch announ-
ces that tho constitutional amendment
was yesterday ratified in both houses of
the South Carolina Legislature with very
little opposition. South Carolina has
thus very sensibly and gracefully, with
out unnecessary delay, taken step
which will enabl. her to be represented
in the next Congress, ard the avoidance
of which would most assu:edly have
closed the doors of the national Capitol
against her, since it will be remembered
that the President has heretofore official
ly informed her Provisional Governor, as
we'll as the North Carolina delegates who
visited him last Friday, that the adoption
by their Legislatures of the slavery pro-
hibition amendment was a. necessary pre-
Iiminary to the admission of the South
crn States to their former position in the
Union. BY this action of the Palmetto
State are now rendered secure the ma
king of this amendment portion of the
supreme law of the republic, and the rem
dcring of our great aud glorious country,
from it's centre to its utmost limits, most
exphatically and without the shadow of
proviso, "the land of the free" There
are now altogether thirty-seven States
in the Union, the ratification by the Leg
islatures of three-fourths, or twenty-eight,
of which is necessary to make tho amend
ment part of the national constitution.
In. twenty-five Legislatures it has now
been adopted, and in three has been re-
jectcd; but on one at least of the latter
New Jersey-was secured by the late
election for it's ratification this winter, and
it will also pass in the Legislature of Cali
fornia and Oregon at their next sessions.
These will complete the requisite number
of twenty-eight.-Ne,o York Herald.
Souru CAROLINA ALI. RIGHT. They
have statesmen in South Carolina, in fact
have always had them, and we are glad
to sec that those Of the present day seem
10 realize the situation and act with de-
gree of common sense. The Legislature
has adjourned until the 25th instant, but,
before the adjournment, that body passed
the Constitutional Amendment, and, as
she telegraph informs us, with but slight
opposition. This is as it should be, and
we say, all honor to South Carolina for it.
Tennessee and other States that profess
10 have had vast amount of Unionism
all the time, hesitate and daily, but South
Carolina, the first to strike lsow, comes
up manfully to the work. She has passed
the Constitutional Amendment, and now
if she has or mill ignore the rebel debts
and conform to the other reasonable re-
ouirements of the national authorities, she
may present her Senators and Represcn-
tatives at Washington with reasonable
hope that they will be received.
Gentlemen here who profess to be be-
hind none in their devotion to the Union,
admit that while they are willing that tho
Constitutional Amendment shall be rati-
fed by or Legislature, it will be bitter
pill. Why bitter? We think it should
bo done willingly, chcerfully, and that it
is but right and proper that those who
control the Government demand t,.for
we want the everlasting question of Afr
can slavery buried 50 deep that the "last
trump" can't reach it.
After the example of South Carolina,
will our Legislature hesitate? We trust
not. Let those who compose that body
come together, then, with determination
to forget the past;le bygones be bygones'
and perform their duty as patriots. The
Constitutional Amendment should be
ratified on the first day of the -sossion-it
should be done by unanimous vote. Do
that and we may get representation in
Congress, but fail to do it and there is no
hope.-Raleigs Progress.
Brigadier General Beverly 81. Rober-
ston who commanded a brigade of caval-
ry during the late war and participated
in the campaigns of Virginia, North Car
o,;no and South Carolina, has been ap,