The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-06-17
Cancellation.

heard much, upon the subject of conciliis-
tion-how it is the duty of the Southern
people to conciiate the North, to bow the
neck and bend the knee, as it were, to
that great Baal of Despotlsm which has
cnthroned itself in the Capitol of the Ma
ton, and lords It's tyranny over the unllap-
py people of ten Southern States. What
have we done to conciiate them for p
What hayo We done so heinous, that de-
mands so much humiliation? What have
they done so generous, that demands SO
much gratitude? Did we make war upon
their principles, upon their rights, or upon
their liberties? Did we desoate their
land, pillage their farma, and murder their
wives ard children? Were we guilty OF
all these atrocities, and so ncrited for our
! selves the terrible punishment which has
been meted out to us? And to lessen the
rigors of this deserved punishment, must
We now submit, uncomplainingly, to all
the indignitics they choose to put upon
us, and tell them, with bowed heads and
bendcd knees, your yoke is sweet, your
burden light? Have they been SO gener-
Gus as to spare our lives, which our wick
edness had forfeited, and thus have won
our gratitude and humility? Did their
generosity show itself in numbering our
people, in insulting our women and chill
dren, in plundering our farms, in desolating
our cities and lands by fire and sword, in
incarcerating innocent men in loathsome
dungeons and prison houses, in placing
irresponsible Military Dictators over US,
in foistlng illegal Conventions, and still
more illegal Constitutions and State Gov
enments, upon this people, in restricting
the liberty of the Press, and the thousand
other petty acts Of tyranny and oppres-
sion which We have to suffer and to endure?
Surely, it ought to be sufficient that We
are compelled to endure them all, without
requiring of us that further humiliation
and shame of conciliating such a people
guilty of such tyranny.
We are conquered, we are powerlcss to
resist but our people have not yet lost
the spirit of manhood with which God en-
dowed them, and when they are asked to
conciliate their foes and their tyrants, they
have no answer to give but the bitter
mockery of scorn and contempt which
they naturally feel for foes without and
foes within.
We sought to vindicate right which
they hypocritically acknowledged L, we had
the right of selfgovernment. Their su-
perior numbers, and Unlimited resources,
defeated our efforts. Our soldiers lald
down their arms, the "the conquered Ban
ner" was slowly and sadly furled away,
all with the vain belief that the conqueror
was magnanimous and just; that he ould
respect bravery and devotion to q cause
at least believed to be just. Yes, vain
belief! No sooner were the arms removed
from the hands Of the South than the
heavy heel of the tyrant came down upon
her neck, and grinds there to this day
Three years have come and gone since
Gems. Lee and Johnston, surrounded by
overwhelming numbers, their little armies
reduced and starving, gave up their
swords, and with them the cause for which
they had so long and so nobly struggled,
and placed the South in the hands of those
against whom tl.ey had slrivcn and con
tended. Three years Of peace-thrce
years of disbandcd armics-three years OF
submission to every demand upon us
and yet the heel Of Tyranny grinds out
the life blood, the energy, and the hope of
the South; and yet the flag Of the Nation
floats over Il country half free and half OPP
pressed; and yet the wcak-sprited and
craven-Lcartcd sing peans Of praise to the
generosity of that Government, to the
glories of that "dishonered banner" to the
iorbcarancc Of that cxacting North, and
urge upon us the duty of conciliation!
What are we to conciliate for? Whom
are We to conciliate? How are we to
conciliate? Alas! we have conciiated
enough--too much. We can now submit
and bear-trusting in the goodness and
justice Of God to lead us out of the house
of bondage, as he lead the hosts Of Isrca,
to land freed from the tyranny Of the
opprcssor, and blessed with that sunshine
of freedom which our torefathcrs shed,
when the day Of American Independence
first dawncd upon this land
When the heel Of Tyranny is removed,
and Justice and Right are once more
awarded to us, then it will be time 10 talk
Of conciliation. Until then, we have our
elfrcspect, our manhood, and our sense
of justice to maintain, and our political
rights to contend for. AS for the rest, we
must leave that to God.-Banner Of the
South.
"A cobbler from away down East,
visited one of the large shoe manufactures
of Lynn the other day, and for the first
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