The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-01-08
TEE MILITARY CHANGES IN THE SOUTH.

THE MILITARY CHANGES IN THE SOUTH.
The following significant article is from the Na-
floral InteNigeneer of the 31s ultimo and deserves
careful perusual. Undoubtedly, President JoHx-
SON is determined to become master Of the situa-
ton, and tEisr expression by: the semi-offeial
journal betokens that brighter times ahead for
our oppressed people. Military satraps are not to
be longer tolerated, and the grand importance once
attached 10 these District Commanders will ere
long sink into insigni6cancc:
Although the designation of better men Mt an
earlier day for commanding Generals than some
who have dishonored and disgraced the positions
from which they have been removed, would have
fulfilled the popular requirement, still the changes
| in command of Sheridan or Pope are gratifying
in the highest degree 10 the people. If Generals
Meade and Mcdowell were disposed to correct tho
abuses that have arisen in the South under the
misrulc of the Freedmau's Bureau and numerous
officers of the army, whereby therhonest and true
registration Of the whites has been defeated, and n
false registration of blacks has been made, we
do not see that at this stage of the proceedings
they can effect any important result in the direc-
if they had powers in the premises, and should be
disposed to exert them, they would doubtless be
thwartcd by the black Radicals in Congress, who
have, it would seem, determined not only to take
mo step backward, but rather to make advances
in The line Of continued misrule, and still moro
intolerable oppression Of the whites of the South
1t is in the power, however, Of the Generals named
to undo much of the wrong as to men and things
that has been perpetrated, land also in an especial
manner to see to ihat hereafter the civic authori-
ties shall be justly regarded and respected. and
that the great multiplying usurpations and oppres-
sions in one or another annoying ve1atious, and
tYrannous form, under the color Of military au-
thority, shall.be at once brought to n full stop.
Society n.the South seems to be at almost the
point of dissolution. Anarchy is getting great
Roadway The blacks, governed by the uncon-
trollabls passions belonging to inferior and uncul
ti7ated natures, and ed;by some brutal men Of
their'o~u race; las well asby worse white men, are
more or less banded together to the neglect of the
pursuits of labor under condition of law and
order, and are to great extent, not only laying
violent hands upon property which may minister
TO present wants, but in the depths of the hate of
which they are inspired by criminal demagoguery,
are absolutely destroying what, at distant day,
will be necessity to all the people, whites and
blacks.
Rapine is getting to be the order of the day, and
unless it is speedily crushed out by the dsarment
of blacks, and therimmediate return to The peace
f:,l walks of life there is forcreling what fell
results in crime q day on hour may bring forth.
Viewed inthis light this fearfully e1igcnt, and at
this time almost supreme consideration, the de-
tachment of men from command who have precp-
tated the present awful dangers, and the substitu-
tion of those who certainly have the abilities, and,
we take it, the will l.torestore order out of chaos,
and thus. shed intense JOY and satisfaction upon
the minds of The people of the South, we'll as the
entire country, is act on the part of the Presi
dent which will. still moro deeply ingratiate him
with just men everywhere.
1t will be seen with lively satisfaction that Gen.
Meade is ordered to repair at once TO the seat of
his command, while in the long period that must
intervene before the arrival of General Irwin Nc
Dowel from the Pacific Department, the command
of the District of Mississippi and Arkansas will de-
vove upon General Gillem, whose thorough knowl-
edge and experienced ability give assurance of o
wise administration of affairs in the direction that
he has been lattery entered upon with decided en-
ergy and success by General Ord.