The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-10-04
The Future Of the Country.
The Richmond Times, in its usual fol

The Richmond Times, in its usual for
chile style, writes as follows:
Does any one recollect an instance fur
nished in human experience Of the pre-
servation of a Republican form of Gov
ernment, after the consummation of such q
revolution as that which the Radicals are
inaugurating? All free nations have lost
their libertiesjust as we arc doing, through
the Vaccinations of bad men and the cor
ruptions flowing from the misappropria-
tion of the public treasure. When our
revenues were small and expenditures
limited, the struggle for the possession of
power was not of such q character as to
shake the foundations Of the Government
and to break the peace Of tho country
But now we have an income which nei-
tber Greece nor Rome, in all the plenitude
of power and the magnitude of empire,
ever collected from their tributaries And
when "barbaric gold" had driven virtue
and honor from their councils; when their
simple Republics fell before the sapping
vices of conquest and wealth, their Gov
ernments were as hard to reconstruct"
as ours. They, too, had men like An
drew Johuson-wise and patriotic-who
essayed to check the downfall of truth
and virtue. But they battled in vain
The virtues of Cato, the wisdom of So
crates, the valor Of Scipio and the elo-
quence of Demosthenes and Cicero, were
vain to stop the food which, when once
it sets in, sweeps until the last landmark
of freedom disappears. De scensuS Averni
faciliS est, sed revocare granduna, hoe opus
est! 1t is not hard to lose liberty; but
when gone, who can recall it,? There is
no resurrection for the lost institutions Of
free people; and if the masses Of the
North shall follow in the lead of New
England and the Radical false prophets,
they will desert the platform on which
their forefathers stood, even as the He
brews of old abandoned their God, and,
like them, they will wander, perhaps,
forty years in q wilderness Of anarchy,
blood and suffering, smitten by the wrath
of Heaven fer their wickedness and idol
airy.
If, through the madness and folly of
faction, the liberties of the American peo-
pie are lost, history furnishes no example
to guide us in retrieving them. The lamp
of antiquity sheds no light over paths
which return from the sepulchres Of dead
Republics When they fall, they fall
never to rise again, and an iron despotism
rolls to the door of their tomb, a stone
which can never be displaced. New ma
tions may arise, new Republics be formed
from new peoples and materials, but when
once the fires of liberty go out, they can
never be rckindled upon the same affairs.
This admonition should not be disregard
cd by those whose dearest rights are in
jeopardy. The voices which come up to
us from the depths of the past, should not
be unheeded when we contemplate that
revolution which threatens with destruc-
ton the very pillars of our temple, and
with the strength and frenzy of blind
Samson would crush us beneath it's ruins.
It is too late to pause and regret neg
lected opportunities when they are gone.
No physician can save cholera patient
when the collapse is upon him, and there
is no remedy for the death wounds of the
country when vile faction has been per-
mitted to give them. Have We no Cas-
sandra, whose winning voice can save our
Ilium from the flames? If we have not,
then we fear that there is no "pious
1Eneas" to carry our Penates safely over
the stormy sea to found in theirpresence,
in foreign lands, great and glorious en-
pirc, where the virtues of the past shall
be renewed and the promises of future re-
nown fulfilled. A "Grecian Horse" has
been admitted into our walls, and when
struck we hear not only the sound of
arms, but the oaths and blasphemy OF
Radical traitors.
TIE LITTLE CHA1R.-There is little
chair that occupies silent nook in the
corner of q lonely room. 1t is never re-
moved out of it's place, and is occasionally
touched by reverend hands which softly
wipe from it's arms and little cane seat
the atoms of dust, tears dropping fast
nnoon1yhila but wholly unheeded The