The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-03-29
Emigration from the South.


evidently from the pen of its able and
accomplished editor, Hon. John Forsyth,
formerly Minister to Mexico:
We understand that thirty persons
reached this city yesterday, from the in
terror, en- route to Mexico, as colonists.
We are receiving frequent letters from
Georgia and Alabama, making inquiries
touching matters in that country which
it is useful to an emf grant to know. We
have before us, and shall publish it to-
morrow, manifest from Col. M. F. Mau-
ry, formerly a distinguished citizcnof the
United States, and now Imperial Com
missioner under the Empire. In that pa
per the emigrant can learn everything he
desires to know about the country, and
it comes from q man whose character
gives the stamp of truth to every word
he utters.
There is something alarming to us in
the spread of the spirit of expatriation at
the South 1t has been greatly intensi-
fed by recent developments at Washing
ton. The Radicals are driving the flower
of our population from the land 1t is
not the needy, the brolSen-down and the
adventurous who constitute the migrating
cIass-heretofor unknown to the South
but it is the intelligent the spirited, the
high-toned, the brave, who, born and bred
in an atmosphere of freedom, fly from the
homes of their childhood and the graves
of their fathers, because they feel that the
halo of liberty has departed from the
land. 1t is well known that we have
steadily set our faces against the wisdom
of this respondent judgment of our coun-
try's future. But we cannot but respect
the nobility of soul that disdains to wear
fetters for one syllable of time. We ap-
preciatc the heart sickness which comes
of turning ones eyes to the daily pro-
cecdings of the Congress of the United
States, where thoughts and passions are
rife that were once believed to be impos-
sible in American society, and under the
shadow of American institutions. But
should not the spectacle inspire disdain
TO fly the ordeal of duty imposed by the
country's needs (?
Shall we abandon our native land to
bowling fanatics, and look not behind nor
stay to strike one blow for the redemp-
tion of the heritage of freedom our faith
crs left US? Hope is not lost. There is
"life in the old land yet" and recupera-
tive energy in the blood of our race that
will rise up and throw off the party des-
potism that is using all its power to stran-
gle constitutional liberty. That energy
exists, but is not yet developed. 1t is
beginning to move in its slumber, and
soon we shall hear the tread of its mil
lions marching to demand the restitution
of the Constitution to its pristine glory.
Who would wish to be absent in for
eign land when his vote and his influence
could &c given to Che mighty cause OF a
regenerated Constitution We are alive
t. all the charms of peace and immunity
from the wear and tear of the coming
struggle, to be found under the orange
and olive trees OF beautiful Mexico. We
are tired of strife and turmoil and strug-
gle. But voices from the graves of dead
sages and patriots command us to pre-
serve and defend the legacy of their toll
and blood.
We sought to do it through indepen-
dencc of the Satanic influence OF Puritan
ism supported by arms. The effort fail
ed, but the duty remains and beckons us
to another feld-the field of reason. The
pen takes the place of the sword, and the
tongue is to fight, before the great forum
of the American people, the baltic which
but lately moistcncd the land with frater-
nal blood. We come back to the starting
point of 1860, where, placing no reliance
upon the second sober thought" OF the
people, and turning our backs in despair
of help upon the conservative masses OF
the North, we flew TO arms We come,
stronger for the lesson of blood and war,
for it has written in flaming colors the
true character of the fanatical teachings
and purposes of the party that drove us
to desperate measure, and SO written
that it's hideous mien is visible to every
liberty flowing man from Maine to Texas
1t has made allies for us, wherever Dem
ocratic throb is felt, wherever the intel.
!, lgence exists to know that, in our Gov
ernment, consolidation is despotism, and