The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-04-24

4 offered, worse will beimposed Have we
i any5 assurance that worse may not be I'm.
!. posed, if we do accept2 Like the wo-
J, m man who consented to her own dlshonor
[ to save the life of her husband, ana was
). then made to witness his execution
There is no faithein tyrants. Inreats ol
eonfseation are futile. Almost every one
} has been pardoned, by taking the amnesty sT, :
! oath or by special application. u Inc
y Southern people may be robbed ana nlur'
], dered, but their property cannot oe eou-
.fscated. orr,,+h.
q Tn order to debauch prominent south
arn me offers have beer made In Con;
d aress ~, tf, remove their disabilities, and, 1t
! % Syc,nId seem, not without success Threats
20 the many, and hribes to few, is the
.nolicy adopted for radicalizing the South
1 eern States. With universal negro suf-
fraoe and debauched politicians. we may
bid farewell to all hope OF republican, IN
Fstitutions. Virtue and intelligence alone
can sustain q, republic. When the negro
/ has acquired intelligence to understand
! lis political rights, and property to make
+ him fee un in ntefestin the proper exercise OF
them. he should be allowed to vote This
principle has been adopted III most of the
I Northern States, and is wise and just.
| But it is wicked to put ballots into the
hands of thosezwho will be the passive
tools of their employers, or the mischiey-
GUS agents Of Black Republican emissa-
ries.
Nothing:can be more unjust and inlqui-
tous than the discriminating disfranchlse-
.ment of the military bill. A Uulon man,
whose life has been spent in trying to
maintain the integrity OF the Union, but
who was member Of the Legislature or a
Judge ten or twelve years ago, and who,
after his State seeded, fed or clothed II
son in tile Confederate. army, is distran-
Echised! But the man whose whole life
Emay. have been spent in trcasonable Ell
forts to destroy the Union and involve
the @country3in bloody civil war, who
was a leading member OF the Secession
IEConvention, and afterwards a distinguish.
ed General in the Confederate army burl-
| ing his command against the United States
forces in a hundred bloody fields OF battle,
lis not distrancllised, unless he had pre-
I5yiouslystakene an oath to support the Con-
,stitution OF the United States! There
are many instances of this character
which might be mentioned, showing the
Injustice and folly Of this distrartchise-
.ment.. tits; believed that neither Gems
Byaureg gard, Hill, Magruder, or Gen. Lee
himself, the illustrious commander-ln-
chief of the Confederate torees is distran-
Eekis,sd. But the humble Union magls-
trate. Who relieved the distresses OF a sor
or friend in the Confederate army rs dis
franehised,! ,a.
/ = There.is not the remotest hope or pro-
liability of, the Southern States being re-
stored to the Union till after the next
Presidential election Why, then, shall
1--we voluntarily degrade ourselves, and
give up our dearest political rights for a
ldelusion? If fdishonor must come, do not
!. embrace it. If we are TO wear manacles,
let them be put on by our tyrants, not by
, ourselves If a man. threatens to kick
you, sclfrespect would forbid your ex-
] posing your person 10 him and asking
! him to kick YOU. at onceand be done with
it. We.haye lived already two years rsupder
military rule, in great poverty and dis
tress and have been cheered allsthe time
4 by5th consciousness that wesare not q
i degraded, though conquered people
We can continue to live in the same way
1.-TWO years longer, or, ifsneed be, ten years,
IE;lnd-ieelsa q pride in knowing that we have
maintained. our honor, and made every
effort possible to preserve ourfreedomand
constitutional rights. A man who feels
THAT he has dishonored himself, is lost !;
land SO it is with people.
! Let US live quietly and peaceably, at
Z tending diligently to our various voca-
! tions in .liIo-obeying patiently the pow
! ers that;bei; but never think of volunta-
!. rily voting away our rights as State or
j our honor. and freedom as men. Let us
4 trust ina returning sense of justice on the
part Of our oppressors, which sooner or
q later must come. Have patience; for
4 beurance and long suffering The South
! ern States fought four long bloody years
4 for what they believed to be sacred
!. right proclaimed by all the American
people in their Declaration of Indepen-
: denee. Can they not now afford to live
..tout years longer out of that Union,
q rather than sacrifice their honor, their
rights, as States, and the great republican
principles of freedom?
b. F: PERRY.
8 TAKING IT HARD-aA young lady. Of
NV ocnuaintonte - saws q friend in u 80