The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-03-04
VOLUME 4.---NO. 35.
Don't Give up The Ship"

Uon ulVe up LIE enlp'
The Mobile (Alo.) Register says that,
''in the battles of war, or politics, or lite'
men who fight without hope cannot hope
to win. Nor is the divine inspiration
which drives noble souls on to strugglein
storm and adversely, to be quenched by
one or IL hundred roverses. The great
soul rises from defeat, and great cause
broken and forced to earth. gathers up its
fragments, like shattered baltalions, to
reform and renew the battle Of freedom
which man cannot afford 10 lose and live.
Those who despair of the final triumph
Of the Democratic party and ofthe cause
of constitutional liberty which it bears ON
the points Of its spears, it seems to US, are
at sea without chart or compass, on an
aimlcss voyage. The motto of such should
be that which is written over the portals
of Hell:
"AJandon hope, all ye ,eAo enter here"
For our part VIC can sec nothing in the
signs of the times to push men to this de-
>pairng extremity. These on the con-
traiy Indicate that the Jacobin power
reached its eliminating point, and has in
it abundant elements OF rapid decline and
disintcgration. Corrupt and incompetent,
the leaders of this party have raised
storm they cannot guide, and all political
experience is ut fault If it is not their
doom to be swept away by it. A power.
full and united Democratic party is calmly
watching events and stands ready to seize
what it seems must he the inevitable OPP
portunity 10 strike its enemy staggering
under administrative difficulties, torn by
intestine squabblcs for place and angered
by bitter recriminations. Situated as the
Jacobin party is, it would be a miracle if
it should pass tl,rough the four years term
of Gen. Grant with it's organization un-
broken. Meantime, the great public is
looking on, groanng under taxation,
alarmed at the daily increase OF the ma
tionul debt, and either drcading or hoping
for collapse of the paper finances. Ev-
cry million Of debt-increase augments the
ranks of the repudiators. Radical policy
and necessity command the increase to
70 on, and the rcpudiators will grow ac.
cordingly. Reputation is death to the
party That is responsible for the debt, and
that death seems imminent. when the
party seems utterly incapable of manag-
ing it. Here is hope enough to keep the
friends of freedom out of the "portals" Of
despair. And yet this is but one OF the
rocks and shoals that lie thickly in the
parh of the Jacobin party. The spoils
questions, wheren.a hundred are soured
and disappointed where one gets place ; the
tcnure-oi.officc question, threatening an
open and bitter rupture between the
President and Congress, and, of course,
division of the party in Congress; the
gold payment bond question; the question
of tic assumed power of Congress to fix
the qualification of voters in all the States,
arc but q few of the dargers which
threaten the JacoJin party, and give tho
looked-ior opportunity to the Democracy.
There is no need or room for despair.
Responsible for none of the public evils Of
the land, the Democratic party is to be
the attacking party, and it patiently waits
for the gaps to sure occur in the cncmy's
line of battle, to break through and over
throw him. Why not, then, stand by our
arms, and wait, if only in the hope of vic
tory, when that victory will bear the fruits
of Southern liberation from carpet-bag
tyranny scalawag treachcry."