The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1868-01-22
gatslligsnter.
Surrender of Congress.

order that our readers might be fully In
formed as to the advanced views of the
Radical party AS heis Intellectually the
superior of many leading men of that
party, so is he among the boldest in de-
claring his opinions on the great ques
tions of the day Mr.. PnILLIps recently
delivered lecture at tho Brooklyn (N. y,
Academy OF Music, and for the gratihca
ton Of those desiring to know the ex
tremest intentions of the EXTREMIST poll
ticians, we willappend his remarks on the
political situation at the present time.
The attack on Congress and exposure OF
the pretensions of GRANT are refreshing
truly, and while we hope that neither the
one nor the other may bo influenced BY
tho animus that impels this assault, we
can erimly enjoy the castigation of both.
Here is the extract:
at is useless to talk about tho negro.
jTc are American men OF brains and en-
terprise; men who when one thing fails
turn. TO another; men never at fault, new
er checkmated, always able to achieve our
purpose somehow or other. The question
is. now, when we stand in a position such
as. many . nation has beenin before, shall
we follow their example, or, nervlng our
selves for Il nobler purpose-rislng to the
level of a n ore intellectual comprehension
shall we, the educated American peo-
pie, get above the smoke oi our prejudices
and deal with this problem 80 as to finally
settle it2 One side Of the Republican
party says no; the other side says yes.
The former arc represented by the PreSi-
dent. Yes, the President leads tho Trum-
bulls and the Shermans, and the Fesscn-
dens, and the Coalslings and all the other
conservative Republicans OF today. There
are but two camps; one holds that there
is no other exit from this difficulty but by
comforting tho ballot on the negro, and
the other still repeats the cuckoo cry.
This is white mans government fol'
lowing their leader, the President OF the
United States, the man who after five
years of war sends us paper dated De-
cember, 1867, which by mistake must
have been taken up from some drawer ct
Buchanan-the Rip Van Wrinkle Of states
manship-left uncmptied. he, too, tells
us. that this isa white mans government,
that the negro is to be treated with gen.
erosity, and is 10 have his interests kindly
arranged for him and then with en-
phatic propriety, with wonderful consls-
tency, it is Andrew Johnson OF the 4tb
March, it is the Andrew Johnson who
swung around the circle, who adds that
we are bound to be very careful of the
morals of the negro population. And
that is the camp, that is the flag under
which sails every man who undertakes to
postpone by measures OF concilarlon, the
graphing witlitthis question today, and
the ultimate settlement Of it. Congress
has now spent two years in pursuing the
avowed policy of cIheckmatng tho Presi-
dent on the ground that he could not be
trusted with the powers Of President.
The Thirty ninth and Fortieth Congresses
have spent every hour Of their lives,
which has not been wasted, in the effort
to put on the statute-book laws which
sl@nld take from the President the usual
powers of President They have sys-
tematicaly and incessantly been at work
building up a machine which omits the
President, omits him from all power such
as the Constitution endows him with.
And when we said to them, 'Instead thus
sof perpetnally worrying your victim, why
don't you strangle him at once? Why,
instead of like cat perpetnally plaguing
your captive, don't you cut his head Off!
sOh,' they said in reply, 'the public won't
bear it; we are going to follow the policy
of check kmatng the President, and then it
won't be necessary to impeach him. But
in pursuing that policy they have forfeited
all the support, and stirred up on the side
OF the President all the sympathy of the
nation. And at length the President, in
tho full face of the nation, dared to tram
pie the laws OF Congress under his feet,
and to take the very man in whose behalf
and for whose protection the Tenure OF
Office bill was passed, Edwin Stanton,
and put him out OF office. And Congress
leaves him out of Office, and / would not
bet sixpcnre that he will ever go back to
Office. There is no sign at Washington
that there is any courage in either house
to yindicate ts Tenure of office BILL
When the English Parliament met in the
days of Charles l., the very first hour Of
its session it took up the act which the
king had undertaken to violate. 1t lis
tened to nothing; it neither adjourned nor
asked for message I; it neither appointed
committees nor did any other of the usual
routine Of houses OF Common, but it's first
voice heard in the hall wao, Where is the
law we passed last session.? And if the
Senate had dared, if Andrew Johnson had
not covered them beneath his heels, the
first voice heard in November would have
been, Where is Edwin Stanton and the