The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-02-01

pire. David, tho King, the statesman,
the Warrior, and stAo, manaof letters.
yielded to the temptation of a beautiful
but momentary vision, darkened his fame
with cowardly and cruel murder, and cor
rupted his line with the offspring OF a
two fold crime.
aEven She primeval parents OF the human
race who had communed face to face with
the Eternal Presence, and whose daily
guests IN the bowers of Eden were the
angels and ministering spirits from
Heaven, looked no higher nor further than
the branches of the tree where the forbid
den fruit, hangingin fatal splendor, prom
ised an immediate enjoyment and the full
fllment of immediate desires. And are
these mournful instances in the sad phi
losophy of human nature to bring us no
lesson of warning in the discharge of our
present duties? Shall we grasp the close,
proximato pleasure of power and revenge
in defiance of all the principles of tho Re
public, in violation Of its Constitution, and
in contemptsof all our own deliberate and
solemn committals, with no thought OF
care for the, future, which will be filled
with misery, disaster and shamea It may
be SO. The present smore powerful here
than the past OF the future. The majority
in Congress as utterly ignores its own re-
cord of the last. four years assif it was
blotted from the memory of man; and to-
attain. an unlawful result would launch
the people of this Government ona future
destitute of constitutional protection"
In conclusion, Mr. VOORHEES, said: !
{" Mr.. Speaker, have thus far reviewed
and discussed, rs I understand them, the
leading features of the domestic policy
of the Executive The success of some
portions of this policy remains wholly
with the future Upon the leading meas
ure, however, of "a restoration of the
States to Union and harmony, an impor-
tant chapter in history has already. been
written. Has it been success or fall
ure? have tried it by the high STAN
dards of right, justice, constitutional law
and precedent. I submit it now to an
other test, on which.it is bitterly assailed
by those who yet claim to be the only
friends of the Admintration. Those who
perform their duties Of friendship toward
the. President by malignant denunciations
Of his policy are now engaged in. imprcs::
sing the public mind with the belief that
he has accomplished nothing worthy of
acceptance by the people. The gentle
man from Pennsylvania, Nr. Stevcns)
pronounced his plan of restoration i'm
practicable and untenable. He not only
speaks for himself on this point, but also
for everybody else. He says that every
few now consider" the administrative posi-
ton tenablc one. An arrogant Senator
in the other end of the Capitol pronoun-
ces the whole thing fraud, a white
washing process, by whichs sins and crimes
are connived atIeand hid from the public
gaze. Adventurous members of this
house have crowded themselves into the
presence Of the Executive, and with ex-
quisite delicacy assured him that, with
their constituencies, they. think his plan
of restoration not likely to give success
to his Administration, and that, after an
uninterrupted trial of seven months, his
efforts to reorganize the rebel States and
restore them to the Union must be recog-
nized as q failure. Then with profuse
protestations of true friendship they mod
estly ask him to step quietly to one side,
not to lift finger of interference, not
open his lips in remonstrance, while they
smash to pieces all his well ordered plans
and kick to the ground withtheir vandal
feet his almost completed structure of I'm
ion and peace.
"Sir, this class of dissatisfied spirits is to
be found in every age. 1t is composed
of boding birds of evil omen. It's their
mission to destroy, not to build up. The
borer in the trees of the forest, the worm
in the heart Of the flower, the wolf in
the farmers sheepfold; the tiger in the
travellers encampmcnt'by night, all pur-
sue their trade of destruction and mark
their career with ruin. But no useful
thing ever grew from their labors- And
like these beings in the animal world.
created to destroy, SO there are unhappy
members of the human family, who nev-
er beheld the fair and beautiful creation