The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1865-09-07
From the Memphis, Tenn, Daily Commercial.
,Eet. the. South he Heard.

and most permanent basis ana hasten INC
plete restoration of tho. machinery OF
civil government throughout the South
ern States it is matter of no small i'm
portance to the authorities at Washing
ton, that the true sentiment Of tic South
ern people shopld. bs definitely made
Known rs regards the situation in which
they are placed by the unsuccessful re-
suits of their revolutionary struggle, and
the relations which they sustain, or de
sire to sustain, to the Federal Govern
ment.
And tits, perhaps, of no less Importance
to the, public tranquility and the great
work of national reconciliation, that the
people of the North and West should be
put in possession Of facts instead of ru-
lnors, as to the real position and purposes
of their Southern neighbors, and fairly
understand the tone and temper Of the
Southern mind.
At present there is disastrous igno-
rance. on this subject among the pcorlo
at large, and an ignorance all the greater
on the part of those who assSrie to feel
the greatest interest in Southern regencr
alton, and seek to control and shape it,
as this want of knowledge and conse-
quent lack of real sympathy may chance
to suggest. ,..e
Nor is the Goysrumentit itself SO thor
ougbly posted upon the matter. that it
needs no further enlightenment to assist
and promote its deliberations. The Pres
ident has much else tc learn than niat be
gathered from the delegations that have
waited upon him as representative South
crners, many of whom. are sclfconstitu-
ted committees, with individual objects
to accomplish, unauthorized to speak
eveni, for their friends and neighbors, still
less to reflect the public sentiment of any
considerable constituency.
And far less may the authorities or
people derive from the correspondence Of
the public press information that is s,' OF
value or reliability. Much oft is posi-
lively falss-nsuth of it smbelIished by
fancy or prejudice-all of it, with scarce
ly an exception, fraught with mischief
and evil:
1t is by this sort of literature that the
public mind is kept in q torment, and the
passions of the people fed, with what, in
many cases, seems a pertinacity almost
Internal
Isolated instances of disafection, bru-
tality or cruelty to negroes, are sought
out or invented with q truly Satanic in
dustry, and reiterated in the ears Of the
people and the administrations as evil
dence of the refractory, sullen, rebellious,
or still reasonable temper of the South
ern States.
1t seems to be a studied purpose with
these conspirators against reunion upon
the basis of the Constitution, to vilify the
esouthas barbarc, irreolaimaoly dcpraved,
and fit only for subjugation.
In these sources, the radical opponents
of constitutional restoration are constant
ly finding new arguments for forcing their
dogmas upon the attention. of the, people
and the Government, and the Govern
n;esnt itself is unavoidably misled to a
greater or less extent, by the same PERM
cious system of misrepresentation that
has left the. Southern people completely
at the mercy of their foes as it were, and
virtually helpless.
There is in all this q manifest injustice.
The South, in the name of humanity, has
a right to be heard She has attempted
to throw off the National authority, but
falling in the effort, groaning under its
terrible consequences, ready to renew her
old time allegiance, and indisposed to
bubble as to terms which she can neithet
alter nor reject she oEly asks that the
work of restoration be spesdad and that
she may have some opportunity of vindi
eating herself. from the broadcast asper
sions which are SO fndustriously dssem
mated to blacken the sincerity of her mo-
tives and prolong her miscrics.-
For the purpose then of giving to the
inhabitants of the late Confederate States
an opportunity of announcing III some
general and authoritative. way, what
may. be. regarded as an official declaration
of sentiment, rejecting tho dominant
opinions of the Southern country, we beg
leave to-. suggest that Convention Of
Delegates, from all the seeding States