The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-12-20
RTnng rye VIEW OF THE SITUATION.


signs now looming up to the public vision. None
can regret more thaa the writer Of this paragraph
that the skies are not brighter that the clods por
tend foul weather, and that the future is veied IN
so much uncertainty. But, nevertheless, We are
strongly impressed with the belief that 'ne OK
tremest practical measures have already oeen sp-
piled to this contumacious section, and tnat I'll
further efforts to humiliate and oppreSs WILL iack
the impress of practcabiity, to say nothing What-
ever of Constitutionality. Promising this much,
which our good people may smoke in their Christ
mas pipes, we will proceed to consider the work
chiselled out by our magnanimous and far-seeing
masters.
The impeachment of the President, talked Of 30
wildly before the meeting Of Congress, has subsi-
ded With the re-assembling of that body. It was
Radical can't, made up expressly for the campaign
then in progress, and whom the opportuniyis fair
ly presented for test Of their fSvorite schemes,
they unafectedly prate Of other and totally differ
ent measures. The impeachment question is efee-
tualy dead and there Is no dispcaition manifested
to resuscitate its issue. However, their intense
| party malice towerds the President 6nds vent in
two other distinct forms, and strange to say each
| of them has reference, although remote, to the
highest crime known to the laws, namely, murder
We will explain. The arrest Of JoHH H. suRRATT,
one of the alleged oonspirators, recently in Egypt
has caused thorough ventilation Of the theory
| that President JOHNSON vas connected with the
| assassination Of his predecessor. This Is now
charged upon him with asssiduity and zeal beeom-
ing better Cause and We doubt not that the '1y-
ing" Radical party win implicats the Presidens by
the testimony Of Witnesses who have enjoyed ~
Summarize confidence during his concealmeut end
exile. The other instance Of their hatred and mo-
lgnity is to be distinctly seen in the appointment
| Of committee to investigate the release Of our
fellow-citizens, Mesrs. KEYS, STovERs and BYnuM
They care not whit about the poor fellows who
were murdered at Browns Ferry, neither are they
concerned in reference to the venerable and dis
tinguished Judge who set ct liberty these prison.
ers, incarcerated without due form and held In
custody contrary to Che laws Of the land True,
they make use Of the case, as it was manipulated
by Court "organised to convict" but their prime
object is to ascertain the agency Of the President
in this matter, and by judicious use of the find
ing rendered by this Military Commission, con-
domn the President before the country. On these
two points, they hope to accomplish the results OF
successful warfare against the Chief Magistrate,
and perhaps destroy his reputation as man and
citizen. Whichever will best subserve their pur-
poses, will be most strenuously and persistently
pursued. It is cur private opinion that in both
they viii fail ignominiously. But, then, they will
have kept up the strife, and appeased their rapa-
cious followers in the rural districts.
Negro suffrage is now laid down by the boldest
and most depraved leaders as the prico Of admis-
sion to the Southern States. Some Of the more So
gacious and less infatuated members Of the Radi-
col party beginning to entertain serious doubts
about this policy in permanent point Of view
They are strongly inclined to think that only
few years would elapse under negro suffrage before
their precious wards might declare against them,
under the pressure Of former masters end kind
ncighbors. For this reason, TuAD. STEVENS de-
sires to remit the South TO territorial condition,
in order that population might be infused through
out these States, under the patronage of New Eng
the embers of discord and disturbance between the
native whites and blacks Of this region. But, in
this plan Of territorial organization, they find al.
most insurmountable difficulties, not the least of
which is the want of any pretence of authority for
such arbitrary action. The rejecting men of that
party will not commit themselves to policy about
which there would arise dissensions in their own
ranks. Hence the plan Of STEVENS to obtain ne
gro suffrage does. not meet with the strongest ap
proval, and as sort Of panacea for this trouble,
the Radical majority have passed the bill confer
ring suffrage upon all alike in the District of Col
umbia. Therefore, We would advice all enter
prising freedmen, who desire to deposit their
ballots on this any other subject to straightway
migrate for the national capital. They are not
likely in our judgment, to exercise this privilege
unrestricted on another foot of ground for many
years to come.
The territorial governments proposed by the
South are not likely to succeed, even we're Con-
gress to order tho immediate organization. The
appointing power still is vested in the President,
and cannot be lawfully taken awsy from him.
Whenever he is deprived Of that power, the ma
chinery Of the government is bengpulled to pieces
and the North is well aware that the consequences
may fall with equal force upon their own heads.
If the President is to appoint officers for the pro-
posed territories, the Senate might reject the nom
nations ad hbitum. In that case there would be
no officers to govern the territories, and hence the
plan prove miserable failure These difficulties
are foreseen by the majority in Congress, and they
are 10th to test the practical workings Of the plan
In addition, the Southern ''sympathizers," like
HOLDER, are averse to this project, and their nfu
ence may effect more than is seemingly apparent
We cannot close these hasty observations upon