The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-08-21
.@olitieal.
Dead Issues. ("

&oa, ct Cincinnati, delivered recently at
St Paul, Minnesota, is one Of remarkable
power and eloquence. We invite the at
tention Of our readers to the annexed ex-
tract from the conclusion of Mr.. Pendle-
toms speech:
~They tell us we Democrats will cling
to dead issues" The integrity of the re-
publican government, the preservation of
liberty, the maintenance of our constitu,
tion and government, the happiness OF
mankind? Are these dead issues Our
fove for them may be dead, our tldellty
NAV be dead, but the issues will live TIL
they are settled in their full frultlon ana
the principles which underlie them are as
durable as the eternal throne. They tell
us that, like the Bourbons, we will forget
nothing, and learn nothing; we will not
submit to accomplished facts. tits mis-
take. 1t were wicked folly to resist the
inevitable. We would bow reverently in
its presence. But who shall open the
book of fate and say of any course OF
events, or of any condition OF things, 1t is
fixed forever. Who shall, with prophetlc
power, read the secrets of the Almighty,
and repeat in another connection the
words which only once uttered through
out all the ages reverberate along the
course of eighteen centuries: 1t IS finished.
The human mind has no power to discern
: the interchangeable. The DEGREES of destiny
are hidden from it's view, that its aspira.
tions may not be checked, its efforts may
not be palsied. When William Pitt camo
back to the ministry, he formed with In
credible energy and eXertion the CONT
mental Alliance. 1t required the labor of
Two years. Napoleon broke up his camp
at Boulogne, marched his heroic leglons
to the Danube, and in one hundred days
captured an army at Ulm, and shattered
the coalition on the bloody field at Aus.
tcrliz. The great statesman was bowed
to the earth-his hope was gone-hls
courage broken-his efforts at an end.
Broken-hearted, he exclaimed, "Roll up
the map of Europe for half century"
and died, believing that Napoleon had at
tained to universal dominion. Austria
was despoiled of her fairest possessions;
Jena followed, and Prussia was humbled
to the dust; Friedland followed, and the
monarch of the North bowed his naughty
head before the Imperial eagles. Napo-
leon was mighty. His fat vacated the
throne of Naples. He pronounced the
sentence, "The House of Braganza has
ceased to reign" and that family went
fugitives from Portugal to Brazil. Louis
was King of Holland; Joseph was King of
Spain--Murat was King of Naples. The
Confederation of the Rhine guarded his
frontier. The Dukedom of Warsaw and
the. Kingdom of Westphalia were the
props of his throne. Here seemed to be
an accomplished fact. But England re-
fused to "accept the situation, and in less
than three years Austria was in arms,
Prussia was recaptured, Russia had be-
come hostile, and in less than six years
the empire of Napoleon had passed away
Tho fabric of his power had been dis
solyed-Europe was re-established within
its original limits, and he himself Ian
guished a. prisoner in the Island OF st.
Helena In 1850 the compromise meas
ures were passed. They consisted of the
admission Of California, the amendment OF
the Fugitive Slave law, the establishment
of government in the territories. They
commanded the support of the leading
statesmen of both great political parties.
They were declared to be an honest hon.
orable, final settlement of the issues of
slavery as connected with the Federal
Government. The national conventions
of 1852 both approved thcm. The people
thoroughly endorsed them. But Chase,
and Sumner, and Hale, and Giddings, re-
fused to "accept the situation" and on the
repeal of the Missouri Compromise they
recommended the agitation, which ended
IN war, and has obiiterated from the stat
ute book not only those laws, but the
very principles upon which those laws
were based. Who shall dare to say what
facts are accomplished? Who shall pre-
dict the "ways which are past finding out?'
TO aaccept the situation" if it be wrong,
is the cowardice of timid spirit, or the
weakness of q wearied one. Error is
never fixed, wrong is never established,
the courses of evil are never accomplished
Truth wages against them perpetual war
It never wearies. Its strength never
fails. Its spirit never flags, and it is i'm
mortal. "The eternal years of God are
hers" Let us be her soldiers and emu
late her virtue. Let US accept nothing rs
accomplished unless our judgments and
consciencies approve the result as right.
Let us stand by our constitution which
we believe to be right, and maintain our
form of government which we have found
to be bencfcent Let us accept no re-
suit as final which accomplished their
overthrow. Let us be unwearied in this
contest, and 1 believe we shall save our
institutions to bless our children even rs
they have blessed our fathers 1t we fail,
we shall at least have deserved well OF
our countrymen, and shall have done that
which, like the seed after being hidden in
the frosts and SHOWS, and darkness of
winter, shall bear fruit; and if this land
1~.za,.x, ~, mt must fnlInu the fnntstnns