The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1869-06-17
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country that Offices n may bg gssinad. They
would make America a Mexico; peace
would be sent to Sleep with Turks and
infdels, and, instead of Union, they would
the wqfuiest division make that ever fell
upon this cursed earth.'"
Surely the Tribune should know its
own. Such is the character and such the
purposes which the Tribune ascribes to
the Grand Army of the Republic, one OF
the chief props and reliances of the tot
tering Radical party. That it paints in
proper eolors and draws with power and
truth the lineaments of this "seeret sol
dier association" is spontaneously attest.
ed by the better sentiment of the coun-
try. None who find satisfaction, and
prophecy stability from, the good temper
of people, and who hate turbplency as a
condition Of the public mindsthreatening
to the national welfare, can fail to see
that in this and other similar secret po-
litico- military organizations there is moth
ing good nothing inspiring, nothing hope
Fful, nothing that promises beneficial re-
suits, nothing on which to predicate peace,
union, harmony among the people, true
,republicanism in Republic, or perma-
Enency and solidity to the Government.
The motives, the feelings, the passions,
the purposes, the turbulence of temper
(which draw men together and unite them
lin secret oath-bound political organiza-
tions of the sort Of which we are speak
ing, were never yet prophetic of good
and good ordor to the people ond govern
.ment among whom and pnder which they
are found. On the contrary, they are the
very elements that combine, in troubled
times and when opportunity is given, 10
instigate and bring about revolutions and
overthrows, and arc usually marshalled
to their work of insidious destruction by
the most daring spirit among those whom
they league together, under the inspira.
ton of his inordinate and criminal ambi-
tion. As We said before, tho very exis.
tence of these combinations is prinaa facie
evidence of something wrong.
Had the Tribune any consistency or
conscience in the bitter and biting rebuke
which it administers to the Grand Army
of the Republic, and by necessity to its
own Radical party, for. endeavoring "to
keep alive "a war with brothers," and "to
perpetuate in our civil system the bitter
ness of war; for ssexulting in victories
over Americans;" for rejoicing over the
destruction of men in whose blue veins
runs the blood that courses in our own"
and for "howling for more blood, more
strife. more bitterness" we might hope
for some good results to the country from
the Tribane's influence with it's party to
stay that party's headlong course of vio.
lence, hatred, and revenge. But its sim
cerity is not to be trusted, and it is known
to be as shifting and irteliable as "fickle
:summer cloud" alternately condemning
and maintaining the worst acts and the
most fire -brandish ideas of the party to
which it belongs. Nevertheless, it is i'm.
portant as home testimony to the extreme
unrepublican and usurpatious designs of
the Radical party, as Indicated in the pro-
gramme of these secret political societies,
that the Tribune should be on the record
for so scathing rebuke of this Grand Ar
my of the Republic and kindred combi-
nations, to which it could never have
been pushed but, in a sudden spasm of
scruples, by the dangerous, wild, and
revolutionary lengths to which it's party
are going, as represented by these Csc
cret soldier associations" which are the
epitome of the party.-National Lntelh-
Qencer.