The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-06-10
From the Nt0 York "Rerolution" Nay %.
The Republican Party Daguerreo-
tvped by a Loyal Pen.

Republicans elected Andrew Johnson
for party success; they impeachcd him for
party success; and since the day the scep-
tire of power came into their hands, they
have worked for party success rather than
the nations life.
While they have deceived the people
with the cry of constitutional amendment,
loyalty, negro suffrage, impeachment, they
have shown themselves disloyal to the
grand principles of our Government, by
their attempts to drag down the Federal
Constitution to their low platform; to force
negro suffrage on the South while repudi
ating it in the Northern States; and after
proving the President guilty Of high crimes
and misdcmeanors, strangling impcach-
mcnt with their own hands.
And Row the hand writing on the wall
warns them that they arc weighed in the
balance and found wanting" The Repub-
lican party stands to day with its ranks
broken, divided, distracted, blasted, and
the sccptrc of power has passed from it
forever But this is no cause Of sorrow,
for the sooner this party is scattered to the
four winds OF heaven, the sooner will the
scales fall from the eyes OF the people, and
thew will see that their leaders have been
blind leaders Of the blind.
Jeremy Bentham says "thc people can
not be too distrustful of their rulers. -
When the American people learn that men
and parties are nothing unless based on
principle, and that whether under Repub-
lcan or Democratic dynasty, we have the
same results-thcy will awake to the re-
sponsibility of ofselfgovernment.
AS we turn over the pages of history,
we can see how other nations, groaning
under taxation, ignorance and poverty,
have been delugcd, blinded and destroyed,
without dreaming that we ourselves arc
to-day the thoughtlcss victims of selfish
and crafty rulers who think only of their
own ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. Just as Rome, with
fetcs and fcasts, with holidays and deadly
combats between man and beast, and gladi-
atorial exhibitions in crowded amphithea-
tres turncdthe peoples thoughts from their
own wrongs-so do our rulers to day, with
caucusscs, conventions, campaigns, i'm
parchment trials and the course brutality
of the press and politicians, amuso the
people, degrade the public taste, and de-
stroy the virtue of the nation. Unthnk-
ing leaders intiame the North against all
rebeldom, and damn every man who darcs
put in plea for justice and mercy to the
South, with the unmeanng namo CT "cop-
perhead." To rouse the peoples wrath
they point them to the bones of their
brave sires and SONS bleaching OF all those
Southern plains, forgetting that with their
own hands they built that sepulchre where
our brave dead now sleep The chain that
held the black boy in the everglades Of
Florida and the slave girl in q Now Or
leans market was fastened around the ITeck
of New England's sons and daughters
Through our avaricc and sel1ishncss the
land of orange groves and flowers lies
bleeding and desclatc to-day Blame not
the South, but our own constitutions,
creeds and codes.
But while we ended with the sword a
slavery of brute force, and overturned the
Southern oligarchy, by cunning legislation
VIC have subtituted another form of slavery
in our new system of finance. In our na
tional debt and taxation, we have placed
the whole labor OF the country ut the mer-
cy OF moneyed aristocracy of banks.
bondholdcrs and land monopolists. ITav-
ing just escaped the yoke of 100000 slave
holders, we are about to bow our necks to
the yoke of 400, 900 bondholdcrs. Flushed
with conquest, these High Art Swindlcrs"
have bought up the nations virtue and
clicked our prophets who have dared to
speak.
- Only sevon debtors in Chester DIG