The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-08-02
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CONSOLIDATION Is as DANGEROUS as Sc
CESSI0N.n

GEoo1UN.
At the recent conservative demonstration in Read
ing, Pennsylvania which is represented as 'the
greatest political meeting assembled in that
State and remarkable in the respect that it en-
braced men of oil political opinions opposed to the
revolutionary designs of the Radicals, The great
est enthusiasm prevailed, and wel-founded hopes
arise thererom that the conservative candidate Tor
Governor would distance the Radical candidate at
the approaching election. The pennsylvania Con-
servatiyes appear to be fully aroused to the impor-
tance of success, while the Radicals, deserted by
thousands of their former associates, are making
spssmodie efforts, discouraging to themselves, to
retain that power over the Key Stone State, which
it is asserted by intelligent and observing men,
they have certainly lost. So may it be, for never
vas power SO much abused, as it has been by these
iren-hearted, and iror-interested politicians and
reYolutionists of Pennsylvania
Appended to the call for this Reading meeting,
we notice the quotation which heads this article,
to wit: "Consolidation is as Dangerous as Seces-
sionn This sentiment is attributed to Andrew
johnson, and is one of very many other forcible
aphorisms, which, during his long political life he
has given utterance to. That SECESSION did en-
danger the s.US1oN" and the GOVERNMENT, no one
will pretend to deny it did all it could in fact to
destroy it, and but for the overwhelming numbers
brought into the field TO battle against it, that 1t
would have destroyed both, is not to be gainsaid.
We were secessionist, as we are now among
those who, having accepted the profered amnesty
of tie President, taken and subscribed an oath of
allegiance to the government-sworn 'to support,
protect, and defend, the Constitution of the Uni
ted States, and the Union of the States thereun-
der-are determined in good faith to do SO. That
Constitution does not, however, establish con-
solidated government. Consolidation would be as
destructive TO the ssUnion" as secession would
have made it. 1t would be destructive of all the
rights of the States, would create despotism, and
that would produce revolution. The President
was right when he uttered the sentiment, '.con-
solidaton is as dangerous as secession" And it
is against consolidation that he is now warning.
The Pennsylvania Reading Mass Meeting of the
conservatives of that State, recognize in this and
In other respects, the true nature of the political
conflict before the whole country. In the defeat
of the Radicals, they recognize the overthrow of
party bent upon the obteration of State Rights
and of State lines, and the establishment of
government ruled by Congressional maorities,
with no written Constitution protective either of
the rights of the States, or of the rights of the
people government with no republican feature;
one in which the minority shall have no protection
for either person, property, Or life, save at the
mercy of the majority. Hence, consolidation is
as dangerous as secession" and as the North and
West fought so successfully against the one, We
now in our turn, trust they will fight as success
fully against the other. In this fight, the South
will be with them. If it can do little only, that
little shall be done. If it may be permitted to do
much, that much will be DONE If it be decreed
chat she shall only be locker on at the conflict
she will look on and pray feryently for the over
throw of those who would abolish constitutional
government, destroy the rights of the States, the
liberty Of the citizen, and over them oil erect a
despotism more to be dreaded than any existing
one among the civilized nations of the world-At-
laato Iptcuiycnccr.