The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-09-02
s'The Best Way to Avoid Danger
is to Meet It."

of humanity, every interest OF selfpreser,;
yation nrompts us to meet fully and
souarely in the face, if we would avert
their ruinous consequences. The danger
which now menaces the peace and integrity
of this republic is of this character. Inc
man who seeks to ignore OF deny its exls-
tence is guilty of the folly OF the ost5icn
Which, when pursued, buries Its head IN
the sand, and believes that its entire BODY
is concealed. 1t is the part of true patrl-
otism to expose the true. state OF asfalrs-
to conceal nothing and exagerate nothing.
When the country is in peril the people
should know it; and if knowing the facts
as they are they fail to use the constltu-
tional remedies within their reach, upon
their heads be the responsibility.
Every sane man in the United States
must realize the fact that unless the union
loving, peaceful, and lawabiding people
rise in their might, proclaim their undying
adherence to the Constitution, and their
immoveable resolve to crush the aggres-
sors and protect the aggrieved within the
limits of the Constitution and laws, the
days of constitutional liberty are number
ed upon. this continent, and that upon its
ruins consolidated despotism Under a
military dictator will be erected, subver-
sivc not only of the liberties of the South
ern States, but every State in the Union.
The question is not merely whether one
political party or another shall triumph
and ACQUIRE control of the Federal Govern
ment-whether the policy of one set of
men or of another shall prevail-but it is
whether a faction banded together for the
avowed purpose of subvertlng the guam
teed equality of the States, curtailing and
destroying the rights Of ten of the sove-
! reign commonwealth which compose the
Union, arrogating to themselves all the
powers OF. Government, both State and
Federal, shall be allowed to accomplish
their purposes; or whether the majesty OF
the law shall be vindicated, its superiority
over the promptings of passion, prejudice,
and fanaticism, or the more sordld promp-
tincs of selfislness and lust, of wealth and
dominion, shall be asserted, and the great
patriotic truth proclaimed, that no section
shall be permitted to invade the rights or
work injury to the interests of any-other-
section that the Constitution in its letter
or spirit shall be upheld; and that all who
attempt to violate Its hallowed mandates
and announce the doctrine of the prlgand,
that 'might constitutes right" shall be,
regarded as enemies to their country, and
receive q traitors punishment. The ques-
tion is one of union or disunon-of wrong
or right-of spoliation or peaceful enjoy
mcnt of legal proprietary and political
rights.
On the other hand is the Radical party,
organized on the policy of the Chicago
platform, which establishes the superiority
of the negro over the white man in ten
States, disfranchising thousands and tens
of thousands, Of the white men IN every
State; on the policy which requiresa huge
standing army, and 1recdmen's bureau
for its fultilmcnt, and on the policy con-
tancd in the speeches of the late Thaddcus
Stevens and his more infamous surviving
partner and compeer, B. L. Butler. The
acts of the Radical party since the Spring
of 1865 are tic best illustrations of its
purpose and consequences. On the other
hand is the Democratic party, composed
of the conservative, patriotic men OF all
the. old parties ofcvery section from the St.
Lawrence to the Rio Grande, from Della
ware Bay to Puget's Sound, whose policy
and principles are the same on the granite
hills of New Hampshire, and in The rich
savannahs of the Sontli-thc same in New
York as in Oregon. The policy and prin-
cipIes of the Democratic party arc those OF
the intellectual giants who framed the
government, and by faithful adherence
to which the United States assumed q
place in the front rank of nations. That
policy and those principles arc founded on
the Constitution. They uphold the equal
rights of all the people of all the States.
They protect every citizen in the fullest
and frccst. exercise of every privilege
which the Constitution allows him.
They insist on implicit obedience to law,
and they deny the right of any one of the
branches of the Federal agency to exercise
the faintest shadow of authority not dis
tiDctly conferred upon it by the express
terms of the supreme law. If those prin-
ciples and policy arc upheld and asserted
by the people, the danger which now
threatens us with ruin will be sure y avert
cd; but not otherwise, unless by the mi
racuous interpositions cf Divine Provi-
dence. The faction of Sumner and Wilson,
Butler and Bingham, and their heads,
Grant and Colfax, must be silenced by the
Just cry of Indignation and condemnation
uttered by the millions of American patri-
OTIS who inhabit this land, and who allow
no other consideration to control them but
that we are one people, living under the
agis of the Constitution, which "MUsr AND
SHALL BE PRESERVED"
1t is natural, then, that the conservative
men of the whole country should be
aroused and awake to the danger which
threatens the North quite as nearly as it
does the South. 1t is natural that honest
mon ,,ho lo,n thnir country and take q