The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1867-02-27

the dead mlnGlnS Win tIle lVlHS' Iorter Vi Tic
Spirit, and Inman, the artist, and glorious John
Brougham, and Alexander Dimmitry, large-souled
as one of Homers heroes and wise as Plato
Breckenridge and Bonham, Boyce and Robert
Johnson four men of like princely natures all
these, and many like these. met at Washington
in the better times, when the Senate Of the United
States sat in the old chdihber and that city was
the capitol of both the Northern and the Southern
States. Eheu, flgaccs! how the years drift away,
and TIE become garruous, and forget that the long
list of nailcs, and the memories they call up, Of
the reflections of the gods and times gone never
10 return, and scenes already dim rs they fccede
into the past, have interest for but ourself
Nevertheless it is tFrtteh it is cry from the
heart Let it stand Thank God, neither power
and malice can confscatc and sell for coin to
knaves the happy or the sad momentoes Of the
past"
Comments of the washington Press;
We subiou the comments Of the newspapers at
Washington in relation to the bill which has pass
ed Congress for the government of the South:
at late hour last night the reconstruction bill
passed the Senate with the odous House amend
mcnts inchdedAamendments that should have
palsied the hands that penned then!, as they will
blncken, in after days. the character of those who
pushed them forward TO successful consumma-
ton. We know that the better sort of Republicans
desired at heart that that form of ernbiitered pro-
scrptiycncss should not be forced upon them, but
the behess of lanaticsm and merccnaries were all
powerful as is seen by the apparently despairing
vote against the bill.-NatOnal Intetlgencer. 2lst
AS it will be observed, this bill passed the Sen
ats yesterday evening If the President approves
of the measure, he will make himself a military
despot over ten States of the Federal Union He
cannot sign it with honor. 1t sets aside the Con-
stitution and Supreme Court of the United States,
disregards all civil authorities and laws, and con-
fers absolute power. unlimited and uncontrolled
by men, upon the President. We believe him TO
be too much of patriot to accept the boon thus
offered him. At the same time, we sincerely hope
and believe that be will return the bill with his OBJ
jections; and throw the responsibility of having
enacted such q monsirous law upon Its authors
Such q thing in a mans pocket would certainly
make him feel uncomfortable. e.-Natonal RepuJh-
can, 2lst
The measure of Congressional reconstruction is
complete. 1t leaves nothing to interference. 1t
is ccar-it leaves nothing to doubt. While with
one hand it excludes traitors from control, it re-
stores the common or natural rights to all loyal
men, and accompanies tks pledge with the protec-
| ton. ut one fell sweep, the whole system of op-
preston, whether State Governments or State laws
falls TO the ground. For the first time since the
beginning of the world. man has been secured the
/ full opportunity to prove himself worthy of self
government.-Forney's Chronicle, 21st.
Official Impudence.
| The reader will remember that, few weeks
since, several young men in Rome, Geo., were ar
rested by the military for participating in ta-
bleaux where The Confederate flag was introduced
We learn that the officer making the arrest was or
tlcred also to take into custody the young ladies,
but declined. The young men were kept in con-
finement for two or three weeks, and then released
by an order from Maj. Gen. THOMAS, to whom the
case was referred. The following extract is from
the order making this release, and we submit that
it contains more downright efrontery and bare
faced impudence than any similar production Of
these degenerate times.
The sole cause Of this and similar offences fies in
the fact that certain citizens of Rome, and por-
ton of the people of the States lately in rebellion
do not, and have not, accepted the situation. and
that is that the late civil war was rebellion, and
history will so record it. Those engagedin it are
and will be pronounced rebels. Rebellion implies
treason, and treason is crime, and lrenous one
too, and deserving of punishment; and that trail
tors have not been punished, is owing to the mag
nanimity of the eonqucrors. With too many of the
people of the South the late civil war is called u
revolution. Rebels are called "Confederates :"
loyalists to the whole country are called Odd
Yankees and traitors" and over the whole great
crime, with its accursed record of slaughtered he
roes patriots murdered because of their true love
of country, widowed wives and orphaned children,
and prisoners of war slain, and such horrors as
find no parallel in the history of the world, you
are trying to throw the gloss of respcctabity, md
thrusting with contumely and dersion from your
hands with you in the work of running your coun-
try Everywhere in the States lately in rebellion
treason is respectable and loyalty otlious: This
the people of the United States. who ended the re-
bellion and saved the country, will not permit and
all attempts to maintain this unnatural order of
things will be met with decided disapproval.
Eloquent Extract.
The Athens Geo. ITatchman, referring to the
opening of the University of Georgia, and to the
fact that there arc thirty MANNED Confederate SOL
diers entered at the High School, mukes the fol-
lowing eloquent and affecting allusiOn to their
| nracapna.