The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-01-15
What. IT MEAEs.

With the world, we must adhere to the cash system
WHAT IT HEARS.
= Tho revolutionary scheme proposed upon the re-
assembling Of Congress, and which was published
IN these columns last week, has attracted the at
tenton of the whole country, and will do much to-
wards opening vide the eyes of the Northern peo-
ple to their own danger in cascthe South is bound
hand and foot as is proposed by the infamous reso-
Iutions of boutwell,, of Mass. The Reconstruc-
ton COMMITTEES, to whom these resolutions were
referred, seem prepared to 90 O. step beyond the
original proposition, and ut once make up the issue.
We can only become Silent spectators of these
eroyiue germs of revolution. and earnestly hope
that the cause of liberty and justice may prove tri
umphant in the end We know that the sequel is
to be determined by the Northern masses and that
the fame of civil liberty has not died away in that
region altogether there is on abundant proof
The Baltimore Gazette, in commenting upon the
resolutions adopted on the first day of the session,
makes the following clear and graphic statement
ss to their true intent and meaning:
l eye have not been in the least surprised ct the
introduction of these resolutions nor DO they oher'
IN our Judgment, much room for comment 10
d;scnss the Constitution and the laws of this coun-
try, in connection with such propositions Wouio
be simply childish, and to treat the men who sup
portea their reference to the Committee on Recon-
atrucion as honest but mistaken legislators. would
be but to trife with the honest good sense of the
country. II the Reconstruction Committee recon-
mends the .expediency' ofauthorising by 'lsw' the
measure referred to it by the House, the meaning
and effect Of that recommendation will be that Con-
press, shall declare that the Constitution OF the
United States is henceforth ebrogated in toto-that
the President is virtually deposed from offce-that
the Southern portion of what is known as this Re-
public shall be subdivided into military Districts
that the Conventions of negroes, stray Northerners
and yenal Southern men, who have been gotten to-
rether by the Radical party by the most lawless
and unscrupulous means, shall be at once clothed
with all political power in ten States-that the e1-
isting governments in those States ehsll not De
swept away-that the rights Of the majority OF the
people of the North shall be deliberately and def
antly set aside-that the great mass Of the people
Of the South shall be placed under the domination
sociaIsy and politically, Of the negroes and an in
significant minority of the baser portion OF the
white populption-that this atrocious despotism
eshall be upheld by the sword, and that Congress
abalI constitute itself supreme and arbitrary lord
End master Of the lives and the liberties of the peo-
ple of the United States. Such is the clear intent
and meaning Of the propositions which the Recon-
atrnct;on Committee now has under consideration;
and if adopted, their adoption will be solely to the
end that the revolutonists now in power may be
able, by force and fraud to perpetuate that power
for FIVE years yet to come
s.What the President OF the American people
may be prepared to say or do should Congress
dare, as it probably will, to carry out the revou-
ton it has SO boldly insuguratcd, it is not in our
power to divine. What they ought to do and say
we know right well. Too long already has this
mad work of destruction been tolerated-too long
has On unprincipled and malignant faction been
S permitted to trample down everything which this
people has been taught to hold as more than denr
and almost sacred-too long has the country with
shameful lethargy Witnessed the growth of usur-
patton and despotsm against which the subjects of
the Kaiser would long since have revoltcd, which
would have filled the streets Of Paris with barri-
dispersion of the Parliament of England If Con-
gress needs not the warning given it last year, let
the people now speak to it in tones more unmisaka-
BILE. and in language it dare not disobey. If Gen.
eral Grant is the head of or party tothis conem-
plated subversion Of the libarties and the Constu
ton of his country, let him be sent TO Walrussia
by order of the President, the Chief
of the Army and Navy of the United States, and
let Mr.. johnson proclaim that civil liberty and
constitutional government shall not wholly perish
:. in this land We cannot believe the army is yet
prepared to become the obedient instrument of the
reckless faction which aspires to rule this country
IS the Jacobin Convention once ruled France. We
know the people ore not prepared to make q will
ing remuneration of the nestimsble rights and
privileges which their fathers so resolntely won'
and Of which they have ever professed themselves
so proud. Let them, therefore, speak, and let the
President act and all may yet be well.'
THE so-cALLED coNvENTIoN.
The assemblage of negroes and ..scalawags," Ito
use phrase of Georgia coinage,) in conformity to
the orders OF Gen. CASBY, took place yesterday in
the city of Charleston, if nothing prevented We
1..., - etotad that there are onl,, t,v. ~,