The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-06-24
TEE APPROACHING DEmocRAT1C coNvEN
TIoN AND CHEZ JUSTICE CEASE.

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to equal rights" as understood by the great par
ty of moral ideas, and admit that the work already
nceomplished-in the South could not be interfered
with by. the Democracy when that party came into
power. This barefaced suggestion, more than its
adherence to CHASE as on available man to defeat
GRANT, caused Indignation far and wide among
the staunchest supporters anu, adherents of the
Democratic party and caused general display Of
resentment to the leadership attempted by the
World. Such tergiversations were not expected
from nm. influential recognized organ of The De-
mocracy, and savored more of the character al
ways maintained by the New York Herald. The
last named journal, not to be eclipsed in it's own
peculiar line of politics, entered at once upon o
vigorous prosecution Of the idea that CHASE was
tho only man possessing the requisite chsracteris-
tics to defeat the Radical nominee next fall. In
furtherance Of this idea, the Herald sent corres-
pondent out West to feel the public pulse on the
CEASE sensation, which correspondent writes from
Cincinnati on the l1th inst, giving it up as fore
gonB conclusion that the CHIEF Justice has no par
ty in the great West Hc.says:
The Western Democrats are Watching with jeal-
ous interest the progress of the movement to nom-
nate Chief Justice Chase. 1t was o complication,
or rather development, for which they were
wholly unprepared. They feel, not bitterly, but
warmly on the subject in opposition TO those who
would make Mr.. Chase the Democratic nominee
for President at the next election, and the friends
of Mr.. Pendleton will make most desperate Aght
against the Chief Justice in the Convention. They
cannot understand the inconsistency, as they call
it, of their Eastern brethren in abandoning the
principles which they advocated only few months
ago when it was possible that Mr.. Chase might
even be the most suitable of candidates to the
most Radical Of Republicans. Mr.. Chase's views
are not Democratic, and he cannot stand upon the
Democratic platform without On entire recanta-
tion of his own words. or without very decided
alteration of his opinions.ss The Democratic faith
according to the Western Interpretation Of it, en-.
tertains no policy on the question of suffrage ex-
cept that the question is one which should and
must be left to the States TO decide each one for
ITSELF Even modification of Mr.. Chnse's views
would not be sufficient. Universal suffrage, suf-.
fage and representation according to the proposed
article fourteen, impartial suffrage, all
trary to Democratic doctrine. The nomination of
Mr.. Chase would, therefore, be impossible without
q very curious political somersaU!t the part of
the Chief Justice, fatal abandonment of prin-
ciples by the Democratic party.
This kind of information from the Chief JUS
tice's own State was decidedly chilling to the
friends of the proposed movement, and we ore not
surprised to find that the World has backed down
from its support of CHASE In it's issue Of The 15h
the World repudihtes the advocacy of the Chief
Justice as an available candidate for the Democ-
racy, doubtless melted thereto by the potent rea
soning that the masses of the Northern Democracy
are not prepared to give in their adhesion to tho
monstrous, iniquitous legislation of the Radical
party, forcing universal suffrage upon the South,
and which has received the unqualified endorse
ment of. the Chief Justice. In connection, there
fore, with the meeting of the National Democratic
Convention, this movement seems 70 haTo fallen 10
the ground, and the situation is not likely TO Be
complicated with the question Of going into the
Republican party to find standard bearer for the
Democracy.
The Southern people. in the meantime, are NOT
idle spectators Of the wire-pullng incident to a
nominating convention. While so many have on
undoubted preference for this or that individual,
and give expression to their feelings, the great and
overshadowing desire Of the Southern heart is to
see placed in nomination such man as will ex-
hibit the highest proofs of state0manship in the
Presidential Office, and guarantee the administration
Of the government upon the broad principles con-
tanned in the Constitution of our fathers. That
universal suffrage is an accomplished fact for the
time being is recognized by the wisest and best of
our leading men that this fact entails the grossest
injustice does not admit of doubt among unpre-
JUDGED minds, and we of the South ardently hope
and believe that the American people will never
rivet the chains of an oppressed section by perpet
uating this injustice. AS an experiment, univer-
sal suffrage rs destined to have its day, but there
will be reckoning against this wrong and injury
done to brave people, languishing after on une-
quail contest, and oppressed BY the bayonet. Feel
ing thus. the Democratic party would disappoint
concessions to the opposite party, either in its
platform or nominees. We know the difficulties
that beset US, and are manfully struggling to use
the weapon intended for our own discontinue and
disgraes. But there is nm abiding confidence
among our people that time will assuage the as
psritics of war, and That the Northern people arc
even now prepared to set the seal of condemnation
upon the fanatical works Of Radical majority in
Congress. To destroy this confidence, and blast
the hopes of an entire section, the Democratic
party have only to recognize this foul blot upon
civilization, and give over the South to the hordes
of adventurers and degraded men in OCT midst,
thereby creating the anarchy of Mexico and the
revolutions of Hayti. As ono of the humblesl sons
Of the South, whose devotion has been sealed on
bloody fields, We cannot believe that such is the
destiny for our section. Its fair fields and fertile
valfoys, its brave men and patriotic women, will
never be consigned to fate worse than oblivion,
from which death itself would be relief to all of
its Inhabitants.