The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-02-10
Onr Young Men.

With this class the hope of rescuing
the State from the clutches ofsthe politi-
cal cormorants who are now feeding upon
hervitals and ruling her to her to ruin,
mainly rests. Her tried trusty servants,
through the envious malice of an impla-
cable toe, have been. excluded from the
councils of the Commonwealth, and de-
prived of all opportunity of political pre-
ferment for the present. They have, al
SO, in majority of instances, being shat,
tered in their fortunes by the results OF
the war, been, and are still, absorbed and
perplexed in the praiseworthy endeavor
to extricate themselves from pecunlary
embarrassment. Such troubles fall with
crushing weight upon the gray haired,
and their thoughts are constantly centred
upon these interests. But that which,
far more than anything else, renders
those who in by-gone days controlled pub
lie affairs and under whose able and faith.
full guidance, Carolina attained degree OF
social political, and moral excellence un+
surpassed by any people known TO MS
tory incapable of graphing successfully
with the difficulties and dangers that now
environ us. is the fact that the present
condition of things is wholly at variance
with and repulsive to the sentiments OF
men of their pure and elevated character.
They have lived and labored in an atmos-
phere of true patriotism-when all was
done for love, and naught for lucre; when
ambition was directed 10 the securing a
place in the affection of the people, and
not in the public purse; when office was
sought for honor and the opportunity Of
serving the State, and not cloak tor
schemes of fraudulent speculation. BY
their wisdom and experience they will aid
and direct; but to tie young men the State
will look for the more active and vigor-
Gus efforts necessary TO her political re-
demption. Let them enter upon the work
with the same chivalrous devotion with
which they dedicated themselves to their
country's service, when the call to arms
was made; let them maintain the same
zeal, activity and fidelity; let them pre-
servo like high character for integrity
and unswerving faith in the political
arena as they did for dauntless courage
upon the field of battle. Hc who acted
from q high sense of duty in the one case
and he only was patriotic-must 6 feel
the same incentives in tho other. The
work is equally noble, the principles are
the same. The necessity of freeing our
native land from the thraldom of New
England Purnanism in the national gov
ernment was not more imperative thanis
the wrestling of our State government
from the hands of strange physicians,
apostate Hebrews, and such infamous
men as are "too low for heaven and too
mean for hell"
The sky of our political fortunes is
over.clouded, it is true, but the eye of
faith and patriotism will be able to discern
some stars of hope shining steadily,
though it may be dimly asyet. We urge
our young men to fix their gaze upon
them, and, while cheerfully discharging
the hard tasks of their daily toll, let them
not despair of the country, but cling the
more devotedly to her in this the hour OF
her supreme trial. The enormitics, the
excesses, the extravaganza, the corrup-
ton of the heterogeneous elements which
make the strange conglomeration mis-
called the State government, will infalli-
bly work it's overthrow in due time:
And when decomposition sets in it will
proceed rapidly.-Columbid Guardian.