The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-09-06
Radical Violence.

!oCiCy VI hs'Ireo Whlcn inspired Ine Hauy
bad acts of the Radical party during the
last few years. Political, social and per-
sonal service or worth has not, and does
not, weigh an atom with these men in
their estimate of the opposition to their
schemes. Position, least Of all. The
higher and more responsible the position
occupied by the object Of their malice the
more indecent their acts and language
used to defame and villfy the person or
persons assailed. Thus the President of
the United States receives no protection
from the elevated position in which he has
been placed by them, but with cowardly
malignity they seem to delight in assail-
ing ono who is too exalted to reply: and
whose Office fails equally to command re-
spect from them, or to afford him an op-
portunity properly to answer the base at
tacks made upon his motives and deeds
zealously carrying out the policy OF his
predecessor, which also accords with his
own Judgment, these attacks are rs often
sivo to the true friends of the late Presi-
dent as to those of Mr.. Johnson.
But if even the President himself is
not above their malice, so also the hum
blcst citizeni is detained and slandered. No
matter what gallant service he may have
rendered at home or abroad in the field
or upon the sea-, how many brave SONS Or
brothers he may have lost upon the bloody
altar Of his country in her hour of trial,
if he docs not uphold the wild projects and
vague theories now rut forth by Radical
disorganizers he is denounced as rebel,
copperhcad, and insulted in evory mannor
possible for malignity to invent.
AS this is truo of individuals, so, also,
is it true of masses and parties who are
opposed to these men. Thus we see even
the grandest convention of modern times,
composed of the leading minds of all sec
tions of our Union-assembled in SOLEMN
and sober garb, to act for the highest
possible good of the whole Union-assail-
ed with reckless impudonce, in language
almost too indecent to be read by men
protesting to be accustomed to good breed
ing. And this too from presses claiming
to lead public sentiment, and to represent
all the decency and responsibility in their
sections Again, we see person holding
the Office of Secretary to the Senate of the
United States-thc representative of two
newspapers, in two of the leading cities of
the country, candidate fer the position
of q Senator of the United States-doing
all in his power, by pen and tongue, to
| inhame the lowest and most brutal pas
sions and preiudices of mob, to ineite
them to deeds of violence, provocative of
murder and arson in the streets of Phila-
delphia! Such an act might seem, and
docs seem, strange and incomprehensible
to those who casually look at events and
occurrences but to those who have closely
observed the course of the Radical party,
it appears only as the legitimate fruits OF
the deadly and desperate policy they have
pursued, and still wish to pursue, in this
country. Courts-Martial have taken the
place of Civil Courts-acts of Congress
have usurped Executive prcrogatives, and
the rights of the citizen and of the States
have been trampled under foot. Mobs
arc the legitimate fruit of such policy
Laws must bo abrogated if they stand in
the way of usurpation, and on this doc
trine the Radicals have acted until mob
is openly claimed to be "a timely affair."
and calculation is made of how many pro-
bablo gain in votes a mob in this place or
that will be to their party. Thus we are
informed that "the timely affair" at New
Orleans was "worth ten thousand votes
to their'party." Upon this principle, per-
haps, nicely reduced to tabular statement,
Forney acted when endeavoring to inclte
riot at Philadelphia. 1t would be GU
rious history to read the names of those
intended for slaughter and those, if any,
who were to be spared in the Forney
programme.
But those bloody Instructions may too
soon roturn to plague the inventors; the
spirit of anarchy once raised is no respec-
ter Of persons, parties OF position. They
are the fruit of Radical teachings, against
which we have almost daily warned our
community for the past three or four
years. 1t is time our men of substance
who have stakes in this community, prop
erty, character, families, should arouse to
the dangers which have stolen, perhaps
unperceived by them, upon us through
the teachings of the bloody doctrines OF
Sumner, Stevens, Forney, Boutwell,, and
mon Of their savage and insane ideas.
The era of peace has come; let us cher
ish it; let us like brave and christian mon
clasp hands with all the Union. The old
Union of tho Fathers; land flowing
with milk and honey, rich in minerals
and precious stones, but richer in golden
memories and glowing with imperial ex-
pectations
Oh, that some prophet as of old would
arise and cry, "come up, oh, my people,
out from the bondage of narrow minded
ness and radical bigotry into the Gods
given heaven of restored country once
moro happy, united and free."-B0st0n
Post.
= "Strangcr, where mought you be
from" MADAM, I reside in Shelby coun-