The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-05-31
The Southern Press and People,

The Southern Press and People.
We cordially and emphatically endorse
the sentiments of the Richmond Times
in the following scathing article. There
has been entirely too much funkeyism
and so-called "conciliation bestowed
upon those who would be considered as
especially our conquerors and though
this spirit of toadyism is not widespread,
there has been sufficient display to gene
rate a horrid stencil in the nostrils of all
truly loyal and upright men:
We were favored a few days since with
a letter from very worthy gentleman,
who honored us with great deal of gra-
tiitous advice relative to the manner in
which the Southern people should deport
themselves at this time. Our adviser ev-
identity believes that we should initiate
the early Christians, as we'll as the "Cov-
enanters," in the times of Claverhouse,
and weep for our dead where the voice OF
our lamentations shall not offend the
ears of Jaeobins and Radicals. All such
indiscretions as piously gathering up the
bones of dead Confederate soldiers, and
strewing flowers upon their humble
graves should be carefully avoided. Nei-
ther should we make much ado about the
great renown of Stonewall Jackson, 'Jor
these demonstrations do mach harm"
To all this we have but one response to
make. The Southern people, although
denied nearly all the rights and privi-
leges of American citizens, are rendering
to the Federal laws and Constitution q
respectful obedience which is worthy Of
imitation at Washington. They are pay
ing their taxes, although they are denied
all the advantages of epresentation, and
they are law-abiding people.
But we scorn and spit upon all the at
tempts which mercless, ungenerous and
tyranical revolutionists are making to
dictate to us where our sympathies, affec-
tions and sorrows are concerned. 'iTrea-
son can never be made odious" by vile
and impudent attempts to dictate to the
Southern people where questions Of SEN
timent and feeling are concerned.
Those who advise us to try concessions,
humility and "roticence," with Radicals
and Jacobins, are utterly ignorant Of tho
history of such parties. The leaders of
such parties are as merciless as wolves.
They triumph as long as they are oppo-
sed by timid conservative parties. Let
our correspondent read the history of the
Jacobin party in France and he will find
that it triumphed over all who opposed it
with timid conservative appeals and al
guments.
Such parties must be taken by the
throat and strangled. They must be de-
nounced and pursued as enemies of the
human family. Andrew Johnson under
stood the wisdom of this offensive policy
when he grappled Sumner and Stevens,
as a policeman would two veteran offen-
ders, and boldly denounced them. An
drew Jackson dealt with his political
enemies in the same way and crushed a
party far more formidable than the Radi-
calls The Know Nothing party was q
giant in strength until Governor Wise
inaugurated fierce, merciess, relentless
war upon the Order, and it died like a
huge serpent in his grip.
So must the Revolutionists be met and
conquered now. North and South, all
Union loving, honest, conservative, God
fearing men must draw the sword and
cast away the scabbard. With the des-
perate, lawless men who have seized the
vessel Of State there can be no. compro-
mise-no terms Of honorable capitulation.
They have soized the ship, dishonored the
''stars and stripes" and run up the black
flag of Anarchy, Disunion and Revolu-
ton. They have proposed no compromise
to the South that does not mean Infamy
Degradation, Dishonor, Negro Equality
Disfranchisement and Confscation. Pres
ident Johnson, sustained by the great
mass of the respectable politicians Of the
North, has determined to rescue the ship
of State from these men. His policy will
hereafter be aggressive, because it is the
only one which promises ultimate sue
cess.
We belivo that so far as the Southern
people are concerned, there is neither
honor nor safety in "rsticence" and ''re-
specttul acquiescence." We are the vic.
tins Of monstrous and most ungenerous
outrages, and the revolutionists, in show
ing their malignant detestation of us, are
trampling upon the Constitution to effect
our degradation and ruin. The allegiance
which we owe to the Constita+t1ion and
laws of the United States is not due to
those who have deliberately trampled
those laws under foot.
1t is as much our duty to protect those
laws as it is Andrew Johnson's, and it is
right and proper that we should denounce
our calumniators, detamers and traducers.
They are not the Government, and it is to
that and not TO it's enemies, we owe obe-
dience When the people of the South
failed to achieve that national indepen-
dence for which they battled for four
years, their failure entailed no disgrace,
neither does our renewed fealty require