The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-11-29
WHAT WELL SAVE THE NATIONS

Thousands of patriot tongues, North and South,
have asked and are still asking this question, and
wearily await an answer as the watchman longeth
for the first appearance of the dawn. For near
FIVE weary years the American people were tossed
in wars crimson whirlpool with the cessation of
hostilties it was hoped and believed that partizan
feeling would be assuaged, old animosities die out,
and the era Of good feeling and brotherly love
would be gradually inaugurated. The South was
told by the Executive-the lawful representative
of the nation-to conform to certain conditions
to undergo prescribed process Of publication, and
her sin of attempted should be pronounced
forgiven, and her delegates admitted to worship in
the national temple, albeit THAD. STEVENS should
minister ct the altar as High Priest. No Priest,
or pilgrim to the tomb Of the Prophet, ever done
penance more faithfully than have the people Of
the South. They have exercised their ablest and
truest men, carefully guarded their utteranses con-
formed to all the suggestions Of the Executive and
yet they are declared, by g dominant party, unre-
pentant sinners and denied admission to the ma
tional Sanhedrim. The governing party, during
the late political contest at the North betrayed
increased spirit of malice and rage towards them
declaring in words that outraged all decency, that
they were only worthy to be exterminated, have
their dwellings burned, their lands resurveyed and
resettled. Thus oontemptuously spurned and in
suited, the people of the South, drawing around
them the mantle Of q spotless honor, have no fur
thor concessions to make-no further conditions
that they can or viii accept; nor will their fixed
determination not TO voluntarily degrade themselves
further, be shaken by the brutal threats of cow
ardly heroes, who e1empli6ed in the late war the
old maxim:
"He who fights and runs away,
May live to fight another day"
France trombled when RosEspIBRRB, DEsMou-
LINZ, MARAr and DAEroE, ruled in her Conven-
ton, and the American people may we'll trcmble
at the thought, that BINGHAM, BUTLER, STEVENS
and SUMNER, are TO rule in the American Congress,
during the succeeding years. Are the t'scenes Of
the hundred days. in Paris, to be re-enacted in
America? Under the rule Of such men, are we as
nation to be sconrged for our infdelity, as were
the French under the Jacobin rule7 Time alone
can answer.
A foreign war would have saved tie French peo-
plethe sufFerings and hnmiliations, the divisions
and cruelties which they endured under the Jaco-
bin dispensation; as foreign war would have pre-
vented secession among the American States healed
their discussions, and averted the horrors of the
civil war. We verify believe that some signal dis
pensaton Of Providence such as financial crash, or
foreign war; can alone check that bitter party spirit,
which threatens US with horrible domestic war.
National as we'll us individual reformation result
more frequently from the pressure of adverse cir
cumstances, acute pain afliction, than from any
other cause. The North camo ont Of the war ar
rogant in the pride of success, revengeful in the
exercise of undisputed power, and idolatrous wor-
shippers of ill-gotten wealth. South came out
of it ruined by defeat, helpless and mortified. A
fellow feeling makes US wondrous kind; We have
endured the sharp pangs of poverty and distress
but the North has in no wise paid the penalty Of
pride and mammon worship. God may draw us
together on o common platform of sympathy. He
may still the political tempest ct home, through
the intervention of nforegn war, or as seems more
probable, He may soften the hard hearts Of the
North-disarm their bitterness and hate, by COM
mercial ruin, and so humble, chasten and refine
them, as to incline them to treat us as brethren