The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-08-26
HOYT & CO., Proprietors
sgulitits and 0ews.
Mississippi Politics.
A REVIEW OF THE RADICAL PARTY AT TIL
SOUTH.

ter written Dy JuOSe DenG, ol MlsSiesiPPi'
in reply to one received from President
Grant the early part of the present
month. President Grant, in the letter
referred to, gave his reasons for casting
the weight of his influence in favor OF the
Radical party in Mississippi and 1T is to
that part that Judge Dent replies thus :
Is it reasonable to suppose that peo-
ple having the free choice of their repre-
sentatives would elect for their rulers
class of politicians whose aggressive and
hostile conduct hitherto has rendered
them particularly obnoxious and disa-
greeable? This is the charge made by
tie people of Mississippi against the Rad
icals, or "bitter enders," as they are
called. This charge is not made because
they fought against the South and seces-
sion, for many of that class fought on the
side of the South. 1t is not made because
they are of Northern birth and educa-
tioS, for many men of Northern birth
and education, and of the Northern army,
are with us in antagonism to this obnoX-
ioas party. 1t is not because they are
Republicans, for their antagonists were
among the first in the South to organize
on the Republican platform and to advo,
cate the civil and political equality OF all
men; we're sent as delegates to Chicago,
and for their consistency and constancy
were rewarded by you with offices OF
trust and honor. But this charge is made,
as l have said before, because the proscrip.
tive anteceGents and aggressive policy OF
these politicians toward the people OF
Mississippi have made them objects of pc
culiar adherence. Thatpolicy consists not
only in the continual advocacy of pro-
scription, but in preaching TO the freed
men, in time Of profound peace, such
extraordinary doctrines as excite and d.
rect against tho white men of the South
and their families most dangerous ami
mostly, such animosity, indeed, as, with
continuation of the same fued, would in
evltably lead to black mans party and
Il war of races Neither are such doc
trincs preached with an honest desire to
amcliorato the condition of the freedmen
or promote the ends OF peace, or strength
cn the Republican party in the South, but
solely to alicnatc from the planter the
1ime.honored confidence and affection OF
this race, in order that the new political
element under the banner OF Republican
ism might be entirely controlled and sub
ordinated to their own purposes OF pow
er and aggrandizcmcnt. And to this
class of men, whom you have foied in
their attempt to force upon the people OF
Mississippi the odious Constitution rejec-
ted at the baliot-box, you now give the
hand, of friendship and support, and spurn
from you that other class, who, accepting
the invitation of the Republican party in
good faith, came in mass in Virginia and
Tennessee, as they will come in Mississlp-
pi and Texas, to stand upon its platform
and advocate its principles.
RESIGNATION OF AN INDIGNANT Office
HOLDER.
e. Gordon Adam, u. S. District Attor-
ney, has rendered his resignation in the
following expressive letter to President
Grant; namely:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, 1869.
Sir: 1 respectfully tender my resgna-
tion of the Office of Attorney OF the Uni
ted States for the Southern District OF
Mississippi.
Though the office is not of much i'm
portance, cannot retain it without be-
ing identified, to some extent, with an
Administration whose acts, 80 tar as they
relate to my own State, | cannot approve.
Major Woffard, an officer of the late
rebel army, who in defiance of the con-
tumely and reproach heaped upon him by
the Southern people, supported bravely
and almost alone in his district the recon
struction policy of Congress, has been re-
moved from Office.
From the late approved published state
ment of your views, am justified in the
belief that this is done in accordance with
the established policy of your Admins
tion. From the same sources learn your
confidence and support Of General Ames,
an officer who has degraded his position
as military commander of the Fourth
Military District, by exercising its func-
tions solely in furtherance of his own per
sonal and partisan ends, unhesitatingly
avowing that he desired TO use the high
Office of Senator from my State as step
ping stone to the appointment OF Brlga:,
dier General in the regular army, and
whose whole course in that State has
been marked by tyrannical exercise OF
power utterly antagonistic to the spirit OF
the reconstruction laws. AS resident
of Mississippi, and one of the founders OF
the Republican party in that State,
though never a political aspirant, would
be false to my State and to the Republi-
can principles which have always main
tained, if retained the Office to which
your kind preference has assigned me.
am, very respectfully,
Your obedient servant,
G. GORDON ADAM.
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