The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1866-11-01
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w1II. THE SOUTH ADOPT THE CON-
sTITUTIoNAL AsIENDMENTl

WILL THE SOUTH ADOPT THE CON-
| z sTITUTIoNAL ABIENDMENT'
| The New York Ne,ps, upon reading the allusion
in the Charleston Nevs that we were drifting back
into the Union upon the basis Of the constitutional
Amendment, repubshes the proposed Amend
ment and gets off leader in which it suggests,
that 'the urgency of the necessity for Southern
political rehabilitation" the great need of North
ern capital and industry to regenerate the South
may possibly induce her people to adopt 1t
Strange things do happen, and if this should occur
it would be the most marvellous event OF this mar
velous age. That the Southern people, after send
ing representatives to the Philadelphia Convention
to aid and assist the Conservatives of the North IN
uttering solemn protest to the American people
against the unconstitutional and humiliating terms
demanded by the Radicals, should turn round and
voluntarily adopt them, would be to admit that the
protest was wrong, and that the Radicals are right
that they sent the wrong delegation to the wrong
Convention-that the Black and Tan assemblage
at Pittsburg was their Convention, and BRowNLow
and his travelling menagerie were proper delegates
| To adopt that Amendment would be to admit the
negroes to perfect political and social equality with
the white race-to allow them to intermarry with
the whites, vote and sit, upon juries with them,
plead as lawyers and preside as judges in our
Courts, and sit as members of the Legislature and
Congress And what reward is held out to them
for all this sef-stutifcation and denial of the de-
oency and rights of the white man? Why, the in
fux of capital and population into the South, and
the admission of her members to seats in that raw
ing, Jacobinical brothel called Congress, side by
side with TuAD. STEVENS and BEN. BUTLER. Great
inducements, truly! For this poor privilege, we
cannot consent to sign the death-warrant of our
race and Radicaize the Constitution of the United
States.
| AS to seat in Congress, we doubt if any de-.
scent plantation negro would prize very highly the
doubtful honor Of sitting with STEVENS and But
| LER and, as much as, we desire to see the influx
of capital and population into the South, from the
North and from Europe. we should look with sus-
picion upon any people that could gain their own
consent to settle in.the South after she had thus
day is far distant when the South will voluntarily
embrace Radicalism and Negrophilism. She may
do it, when this generation dies out and their chill
dren forget the lofty virtues and teachings of their
| heroic ancestors, and become BRowsLow's and
JACK HAy1LToN's, but not till then. The Radical.
leaders now assert, that they will not admit us
| into the Union, although we adopt the Amendment.
We are fully assured of that fact, that our people
will never adopt the Amendment.
They have the power and we say let the show
go on. Let them impeach and depose the Presi-
dent, abolish the governments of the Southern
States, appoint Provisional Governors and allow
the negroes and renegade whites to elect Provis-
ional Legislatures We shall be sorry to see it,
but as the degradation will be forced upon us, we
can bear it as heroically and as proudly as the
Hungarians and Poles have borne their unwilling
epslavement. But, while the peoples and States
of the North and West calmly stand and see States
blotted out and their people enslayed, the same
fate awaits them in turn. The blow will not fall
upon the South alons--the rebound will fall fear
fully upon them also. 1t is law of radcalism
never to stop of itself. 1t lives and grows upon
its own malignity, and once having got its hand
upon tho throet Of lawful and liberal government
it will crush out all lie liberty and hope, not alone
in the South, but in the North ard West, as we'll
When the South is used up, the other sections will
be bound hand and foot simply awaiting theiI
doom. In the meantime, the working classes Of
the North are now staggering and groaning Under
the weight of taxation resulting from the national
Indebtedness, and their realizing the death of the
Union, would sweep away the entire debt at sin
gle blow. Greenbacks NOW pass in some sections
at two for one the spectre of reputation which
haunts the minds of bondholders and Radical lead
ers would, upon the dsfranchisement of the South,
become reality, ahd the currency and securities
of the Government of the United States be worth
as much as those of the late Confederacy. If the
rest of the Union, then, can look composedly upon
our ruin, we can afford to look it full in the face,
assured that our fate will be theirs.
We are willing to 60 back into the Union upon
the plan of President JOHNSTON; otherwise, we
wish to remain out of it; and hope that God may
rive with his blackest thunderbot the renegade
Southern who may advocate our re-admission upon
the basis of the so-called Constitutional Amend
ment.
THE PIERCEToWN MEETING.
We notice that meeting of the citizens of the
upper portion of the Districts called for the I'd
November, at Pieroetown, to consider the resolu-