The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-04-05

| God. in his mercy, avert such calamity
trust our people yet have nerve enough
to meet the emergency. 1 have not
thought it improper for me to say. this
much upon subject to me clad in gloomy
forebodings and apprehensions; for the
assassination of our Chief Magistrate OF
any successful effort, unconstitutionally
to change our Government, one or both
of which seems to be the purpose OF a
4 powerful party at the North, would, be-
yond doubt, produce such result Ii
such contest be forced upon us, let us be
prepared ato quit us as men" making no
war upon the Union and the Constitution,
but upon reeklessfanaticism, which would
engulph both in common ruin.
"Designing and defeated demagogues
among ourselves, and usual newspaper
correspondents may, by misrepresenta-
tions, fan the fame until great fire may
be kindlcd. and passion again usurp the
throne of reason. Yet I trust that our
people, warned by the past, will, as one
man. adhere to the Union, Constitution,
and Government of our fathers"
Speaker HARDEMAN, of the House of
Representatives, spoke as follows:
"The circumstances that surrounded us
at our meeting have been somewhat
changed, the Provisional Government
under which we met, has ceased, and we
adjourn to-day under Governor, elected
by the sovereign voice of the people of
our State. The same cloud, however,
that ovcrspread our horizon and threat
ened us with its fury-still blackens our
political sky-and though ever and anon
the sunlight breaks through its curtained
gloom, betokening the glory Of a brighter
day-it soon DER clouded and all is dark
again. The storm of war has passed, yet
the echo of its murmurings fell upon the
ear. and the evidences Of its fury are
manifestin the desolation that marks its
sweep. Where weturn, ruin darkens our
prospects, and desolation saddens us with
the fatality of its blight. Our people bow
in sorrow and in sadness-"for the fields
of Heshbon languish and the vine Of ST.
bininah" withers and dies. The fruitful
fields, the cultivated valleys, the cottage
home and the city palace-evidence to-
day, the hcart-sickening ravages of a
mighty revolution-as it was unto Tyre
so it has been unto US, sin the city is left
desoation and the gate is smitten with
destruction"
Yet though, destruction, sweep our lovely plains
Rise fellow -lnen, our manhood yet renlains.'
"And if we are but true to ourselves,
true to the great principles Of civil liberty,
true to the magma charta of our rights,
the Constitution of our country, to the
indomitablc will, the irresponsible encr-
gy, manly integrity and commendable
zeal, that has ever characterized our peo-
pie, cit is not yet a very little while and
Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful
field. The wilderness and the solitary
place shall be glad and the desert shall
rejoice and blossom rs the rose" To ac-
complish these ends your legislation has
been directed, you have provided as lib
orally as your capacities would allow for
Pthe wants of your destitute poor, have
properly appreciated the helpless condi-
tion of our manned and wounded soldiery
have guarded with commendable fidelity
the rights and interests of our former
slaves, haze passed liberal laws to develop
the vast resources Of our State, her min
eral wealth, her mechanical abilities, her
manufacturing powers, and now with
convictions of duty discharged, you go
hence to the more agreeable and profitable
avocations of civil life and domestic en-.
gagements. Think not, gentlemen, yon1
labors are over you but enter wider
and more faithful field. Here, you con-
tended only with your own prejudices
There, you should exert your powers and
the influence of your position to correct
the passions of the hour and to harmonic
your people with the surroundings Of the
present. Exhort them to patience, tc
forbearance, ano manly submission tc
the authorities that be. Teach them the
lessons of harmony, and implore them by
all that is dear in the present and hope
full in the future, to unite their energies
in the support of common destiny anc
a common conntrv. From every quarter