The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-07-05
From Tie Nonticelo (M ~ Republican.
Reconstruction, &c.


The Anderson Is. c. zntelA;gescer don't
accept the Republicans suggestion in the
spirit in which it was given; but makes it
a pretcxt rather for an ovation tt the very
sentiment which ali right-thinking men
should wish to sec exercised Secession
is either wrong OF it is right; if wrong,
then everything tending thereto is censu-
rable. If right, it should be taught as a
duty; and those who have fallen in main
tanning it are worthy of martyrs crown.
Our sympathics arc naturally with the
oppressed and downtrodden and if, in
the late struggle, the cause for which the
Southern rebels rebelled, had been one
that could commend itself to Justice and
Right, they would have succeeded, for
then the Government of the United States
would have been in the wrong. The SIM
pie fact is, the men who inaugurated the
rebellion do not believe in Republican
or Democratic form of Government, but
rather in an aristocracy or governing class,
for whom the masses should be mere
"hewers of wood and drawers of water"
Finally, the two principles came into col
lision. The result is known Of all men.
The question now is, whether the South
ern people will accept it in good faith, or
fall back into the very track which led
them as before into crusade against the
Government. Prior to the commence
ment of the rebellion, and for two OF
three years after it began, the South were
misled by promised aid from Northern
Coppcrheads; and they are disposed to be
mislead by them again; but they are
counting without their host. No party at
the North can gain the ascendancy which
is not known to be true to the country;
and tho very avidity with which the re-
bellious element grasps at the Copperhead
organization as their forlorn hope is
enough to satisfy the masses who it is
unsafe to place in power We certainly
wish the Southern people no harm, nor
are we disposed to cajole OF flatter them
with soft words In waging q warfare
against the Government, they committed
the highest crime known to our laws; and
they cannot suppose that they did not
thereby deprive themselves OF many Of
their former rights. In due time the
greater part of ex-rebeIs will recover lost
rights if they merit them by conduct meet
from those who have so grieyousl ly erred;
but in our judgment, the course the In
telligencer is pleased to take will have no
effect to hasten that consummation, how
everit may please the people of its section.
1t is an easy matter to float with tho cur
rent, but it is sometimes nobler to stem it.
Does the hatelHgencer believe that States
have the right to sccede-that the slave
States arc deserving Of ccnsure or praise
for their late effort to destroy the Govern
mcnt? If they wero right, would it not
be proper to Try the same thing over at
the first available moment? These be
significant inquiries which it bchooves the
people Of the United States, represented
in Congress, to determine now. We evi-
IDENTIFY can have no permanent peace until
a solid foundation is discovered; and we
repeat that, for the rebel element to get
back into political power with all their
old assumptions, hatred Of representative
men of the North, East and West, as well
as aAiliation with Northern Copperheads,
is but an cntoring wedge" to another
rebellion at some future day. The Radi-
cal men at the North, upon whom the In
telligenccr lavishes so much inconsderate
reviling would, and probably will, pre-
vent the possibility of the contingency
contemplated by making thorough cure
Of the disease at the present time; and
hence are, as tho future will prove, the
best friends Of the South.