The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-11
THE NEXT CONGRESS.

and the maintenance of party supremacy.
THE NEXT CONGRESS.
We are no alarmist, our nerves have been sufi-
cently trained during the past six years, we trust
to endure composedly almost any test that men
are called upon to undergo. We are not excited
ourself, nor do we wish to excite others it would
avail nothing for good to do since Se are politi-
oally powerless But, we must express our deep
concern for the result of the Congressional cleo
tions, which are to be held during this and the sue
ceeding month in many of the Northern, and most
of the Northwestern States. Every man, woman
and child in the South are vitality concerned In the
result and the future is fraught with peace, pros
perity and hope, to each of prophetic of un-
told calamity and woe, as the Conservatives or
Radicals may chance to triumph. Prior to the
war; our people put but little stress upon political
conventions and resolves, and were rather amused
with the forid specimens of political defamation.
They looked for them as certainly as they did for
the Autumnal Equinox, and with no more appre-
hension. They could do SO now, but for the fact,
that experience has taught that parties and party
leaders are fearfully in earnest; that they have
become practically the Government, rising superior
to written constitutions to the co-ordi
nate branches of the Government, and acknowledg
ing no authority superior to the behest of party.
When We see party that has plunged the nation
into one revolution threatening it with another if
their terms are not accepted, we have reason to
pause and consider,-not whether we will embrace
those TERMS but whether there is not evil intended
us in case that party retains itspower. Ordinarily
we should little heed the utterances of such low
flung scamps as BRowNLow, STEVENS, FoRNEY and
BUTLER, but when we know that they have hitherto
gone strait forward to the accomplishment of their
ends (; and that, upon the eve of another election,
they are proposing line of political action to
people who alone have the right to accept or reject
it, and are everywhere applauded for their fendish
incantatons we are justified in forecastng the flu
ture and calculating the chances of their success
The King and nobility of France, doubtless, looked
at one time with smile Of derision upon the raw
| ings of DANToN, MURAT and RoBEsPIERRE, but that
did not avert their gnomnous death by the guillo-
tine! President JOHNSON, and the most patriotic
of the officers and soldiers have warned the coun-
try of danger; and is there danger? We think so.
1t might concern us very little, whether BRowN-
LOW made speeches at the North or not, but for
the fact that lie has declared himself in favor of
war of conhscation and determination, if the South
does not accept negro equality; and that he has
been furnished by Northern Governors with $4,000
stand of arms and ammunition. BRowNLow is as
desperately in earnest as was old JOHN BRowN.-
| 1t might be matter of Indifference to US whether
or not THAD. STENENs and BEN. BUTLER are elect
ed to Congress, but for the fact that they are the
representative of q policy in deadly antagonism
with civil liberty and social order. They stand
pledged before admiring thousands, if elected, to
impeach the President, overthrow the existing
| State Governments at the South, and establish
Provisional Governments in the hands of such men
as the Tennessee fiend; to confscate the lands of
those whom they are pleased to term ''rcbels," to
punish them by hanging, and have fitting npotheo-
sis, by going to hell with loyal negroes in prefer
ence to heaven in company with Confederates.-
Here are their boldly avowed purposes, and We
cannot doubt, from their antecedents, but that, if
elected, they will endeavor to accomplish their pur-
poses. In view of probable triumph, their party
at the North, both black and white, are arming
anu QrllIng. we Dclltfc LHeJ uio SCOiVHy ui""A"6
the negroes ut the South, and whether successful
or not, in tho impending elections, will use them
to inaugurate bloody drama in our midst as they
did ut New Orleans. They boldly avow that, they
confidently rely upon that population to serve them
in ON emergency. 1t will not do to regard these
threats as the mere bravado of irresponsible men ;
look to the spirit and tone of the Radical party
that it is revolutionary in its acts and tendencies
and that like the Jacobins Of France, it is led by
the most reckless sanguinary and violent of its
members, and it seems to US that the country is
menaced with danger, even though the elections
should result favorably to the friends of the Pres-
dent The Conservatives have to gain only twen-
ty-fve members to have majority in the next
House. These, and more it is thought, will be Sc
cured, in Connecticut, Pennsylvania New York,
Indiana, Ohio Wisconsin, Missouri, New Jersey,
| Maryland and Kentucky.
CARRYING CONCEALED WEAPONS.
There is no excuse for wearing concealed wea-