The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-10-16
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Wednesday Morning 6, Oct. l6.
REACTION AT THE NoRTH--WHAT W:
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REACTION sAT THE NoRTH--WHAT WE
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The greatest danger to the Southlies in the fact
that sodr people may become forgetful that the
). present majority in Congress, although the reae
! tionar movement shall sweep every state' VIII
continue in power for the. next eighteen months
under any circumstances. The laws that are to
govern the process Of reconstruction nave already
been enacted and must control our conduct and
destiny until they repealed This will never
;sbss done by IL party enacting them: On the con-
trary, with power heing loosened frola their grasp
and tbs seal ofscondemnation set against them, it
consonant with their past history 10 believe that
additional hardships may be imposed, and even
more desperate efforts put forth TO establish negro
supremacy. Goaded by defeat and exasperated
by political opponents at home, an excuse may be
: furnished, them to impose more degrading terms
upon any portien of ourp people WI who.skall unwsey
.endeavor to bring about asdirect conflict between
2 the South and Congress: We are powerless and
prostrated. Does not every man feel the force Of
this truth? Are there any SO blind and. Ignorant
s:asto believe that The South alone Gun defeat the
nefarious purposes of this arrogant majority The
battle must be fought Northern soil, and re are
to remain silent spectators. We must patiently
bide the time for our release from this political
bondage, and when the time arrives for our disen-
sthralmenE we shall feelsthc shackles giving away
irons ear limbs and behold the sualightof liberty
penetrating the darkness by which we are now
surrounded. EnduranceSis noble virtue, and its
lesson has yetto belesrned by many Dfour people
Fo are restless and chafed at the dispensatons Of
ian orerruling Providence. This quality is one of
the attributes of faith and buoys the depressed
spirit. Let us all exercise abiding faith in: the
justice of q Supreme Ruler, controlling the desti-
enies Of nations as: well as individuals
s But let US examine this question more particu-
larly. 1t is of vast Importance to consider when
the probable time will arrivoto effecta change of
rnlers. "a contemporary has stated the case SO for
'cibiy that We adoptits language: s..:,''
one jot or title Of those laws viii be dis
pensed with until the present majority in Congress
Is oyerthrown and substituted by q party opposed
Ssto the plane of reconstruction that they ordain.
Fave NE any reason to belieye that so tremendous
revolution as this will occur in a single session
..of Congress When did it ever happen in this or
any other country that such . majority as the Re-
.ppblcan party now wields in Congress wiltcd
: away and was lost at a single election? But ad-
z: NIT that by some miracle the Republican majority
; s.of over one hundred The present House of Rep
:resentatiyes is to be supplanted by n Democratic
majority in the next House-whot of the Senate :?
{ { Tere the majority is proportionatcy great, and
Senators are elected for six years. If every State
should, from this time, electonly Democratic Sena-
tors, it would require at least four years to over
Scome The Republican majority in the Senate, and
that majority must be overcome before the present
yeconstrpctionsla laws be repealed and any other
plan of resturatian substituted. At least four
yearsfour years Of military despotism. four years
submission to the CALLING yoke of the conqueror,
four years:with the sword of confscation hanging
by o hair above, four years of business stagnaton
!: and constantly increasing poverty and suffering
and all for the bare hope that one, instead of the
either of the parties will be.in power"
Thus it viii be perceived that the Southern peo-
pie have a long and gloomy night before them. 1t
Z remains to be seen whether or not they have the
s powers of endurance necessary to sustain them
through the terrible ordeal, and possess the dis
cretion thatis requisite to uphold their friends in
y the North. The New York Journal of Commerce,
san:able Democratic sheet, in elluding to several
paragraphs copied from Southern papers, ,e1uting
Sat The prospect of reaction, says:
8, sExpressions like the above are becoming fire.
{ quent IN Southern newspapers, but their truthful
sness depends perhaps as much upon the deport-
! ment Of the Southern people in the coming months
]. as upon anything else. They must abstain from
. any course of action or use of language that can
: give ground of suspicion in regard The genuine
ness of their professions of loyalty, that is
,zpa5lc Of being perverted miscoDstrucd by reck
Sless demagogues for purposes of mischief"
= Here We have the truth in o nutshell, and we
:zwonld have it sink deep into The minds of ALL
: Especially do we commend this utterance to those
<ncW-aedged warriors, who stand ready TO derounce
every one mot disposed to- coincide with their ex-
Sdreme notions. But ne have another extract, and
ssNith this, will conclude for the present Tho GNa-
sional Intel is regarded an organ of the
: President. That paper, in q recent issue, says .
: sThe white men of the whole South, should
know by this time that reconstruction under the
Congressional plan cannot be ayertcd, and should
be wise enought control it to right results, sofar
us this is new possible. On themselves will be the
: aoss;and suffering if they fail to do it'
This declaration is semi-ofhcal, and should have
Sdue: weight in determining the position of every
man who has heretofore sympathzed with the
President. Unfortunately, SO far as South Caro-
iinais concerned, the time is passed when it was
possible for her white citizens to control, what
@t'cannot be averted, to right results. Apathy and
snpineness have given over to the State irreyocaby