The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-01-22


Johnson, because he answers their pre-
tences with their actions.
"But that is not the most serious ques-
tion by any means. Congress is nothing
but a vane on the meeting g-house, ana
turns whichever way the wind plcases.
1t is ruled by a dozen men, whose names
even nobody knows, who wi1ggic their
way up to power nobody knows how, and
90 down like rockets, no one knows where.
/ It is not that miserable Llunderer of the
White House upon whose head we should
visit any of the faults Of our present sit
uation. do not think so meanly of my
countrymen as to believe that Il mean
third-rate corner politician Of benighted
Tennessee can chcckmate the American
people. 1t is not that it is because in the
great struggle of 1861, which resulted in
the present administration, the Repubi-
can party was willing to fight its own
principles; it is because Tor the sake OF
what il esteemed conciliation. God cursed
conciliation to the bcttomless pit. Con-
citation! To conciiate somebody who
cannot be summoned up into any palpa-
bio shape has been tho nightmare of the
American people ever since 1889. Tho
President doesn't do any harm. The sot
who staggers home in the morning day
light does not do any harm he Isl warn
ing, not an example; it lis the senator and
the respectable man who sit alongside OF
him in the grogshop who do The harm
1t is the Fcsscndens, the Grants and the
Stantons who, in the moment when the
people were trying to peer into the heart
i I'll, ont hnt "a
he was a rebel or a loyal man, covered
him with the cloak of their own popular
ity, that have done the harm. ltis Ulys-
scs Grant that makes Andrew johnson
President to-day. And the hardest sight
to man whose heart is i'll this problem
is the attitude of the nation before that
successful soldier. l would not take
leaf from his laurels; you may put him
higher than Wellington, and, on one scale,
superior to the Caesars and the Bona
parties, and will not complain. 1t is not
cannonecr, nor captain, nor corporal
that we want today but a man who
knows this problem and sees it rightly
To-day we present to the world the mar
veilous spectacle of q nation that has sent
out its irst-born to graves and taken us
garnered wealth and scattered it to the
winds, in order to accomplish q purpose,
and now, on the very eve and moment of
its accomplishment, is shutting its eyclids
and bandaging its eyes and trusting its
/ future to man whose only merit is his
reticence. We nave lived to SEQ ninety
nine out of hundred Journals praise the
rcticcnce of an American citizen.
"I can understand reticence at Moscow
The Emperor of the French has a right
to be rctcent; there is only one man in
that country who has a right to think
But we live in country where every
| man bears in his hand that ballot which
is at the same timo his title and his duty
to think We live in country where
thero are six millions of thoughts, six
millions of convictions; and it is in this
country that the press, which undertakes
to lead it, parades as the chief glory OF
General Grant, that he does not condo
scend to tell us what he thinks. Here is
man whose great historic words are, Il
will fight il out on this line if it lasts for
ever;' and here are twenty millions OF
people who are about to trust that man
with the helm of power, without claim
Ing the right to ask hin:, 'On what line
do YOU intend to fight it out" Yes,
man stands up and tells his ieilow-cltl-
IONS, L do not condescend to say where
am going to lead you, and yet we are
to elect him President. We loved Lin
coin with all his faults, because his face
was towards the light, and what he did
not know to-day he learned tomorrow,
and was always growing wiser than he
WAS Yesterday. His soul was always
open 10 the influence of Providence and
events. We have exchanged rim fora man
incapable alike of forgetting or of learn
ins-a man with his face not only turned
towards darkness, but bathed in it. And
it is now proposed to complete the trinity
by having man Of whom it is stated, us
matter Of pride, that we don't know
which way he looks. Why, when / was
in the West last spring, and was arguing
this thing, the reply Of my audience most
" was, It's no use talking; if VIC don't
take Grant the Democrats will In this
moment, when tho differences arc as wide
as heaven and hell when halt million
graves divide US, we must take that man
to our side, or he will slip away to the
other. Why, say that if there is the
ghost of homeopathic chance that
Grant would not throw Il Democratic
nomination out of the window, he is not
fit for Republican nominee dwell
upon him to-day because he is the great
danger and the great riddle Of the hour,
and ut the same time, the Republican par
ty, aghast at tho recent elections, under
takes to hide itself under the skirts Of
the soldier, in hope that by flinging ovcr
the cargo they will save the hull, and the
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