The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-02-03
from the ". 2. Journal of Commerce.
The Danger of the Time.

LIE Danger OF Ln6 Ilme.
With merely factious opposition to the
ruling party we can have no sympathy.
It proceeds in almost all cases from poll
ticians whose onl y ambition is to turn ont
the ins and take the Government spoils
themselves We would fain believe that
the Radicals do many things from sim
core belief that they are right and just,
and would hope that in the end some of
them will prove beneficial to the country,
So fair and moderate and disinterested a
view, in which the claims and interests
of parties are subordinated to those of
the country, no partisan Democratic pol
itlcian can in the nature Of things take ],
and, therefore, it is no cause of surprise
that the Democratic State Conventions
of New Hampshire and Indiana. recently
assembled, should have found nothing but
occasions for severe criticism and denun-
citation in the acts of the governing par
ty. The effect of these broad, wholesale
censures upon the policy and conduct of
the Radicals will hardly be what is ex-
pectcd by the authors of them. Old
party alliances are, aud should be, still
further broken up, and it is the height of
folly for the Democrats to undertake to
fight new campaigns on old issues, which
tho people have already decided. The
object of that party, representing as it
does the nucleus of opposition, should be
to detach the moro independent and con-
servative of the Republicans from the
connection that they now hold. The
Democratic managers understand this
we'll enough in theory, but they fail to
incorporate it in practice. Foparticular
ize single example of their want of tact
and adaptvenoss. They do not, in their
platforms, bring into sufficiently bold re-
lief the paramount evil of the doctrine
of centralization. This is new doc
trine, invented, patented and enforced by
the Radicals. 1t is the foundation prin-
cple of their policy, as developed from
time to time in Government measures.
1t is distinctively anti-Democratic, anti
Republican and anti-Anerican, offensive.
to the pride and dignity of States, and
must sooner or later make itself odious
to great masses of men who now vote
with the Republican party. For the
present we observe its effects chiefly on
the Southern unreconstructed States,
which are ruled from Washington with q
rod of iron rs mercilessly welded as that
of the Gar of Russia over the subjects
of his distant provinces. The outrage
upon the Georgia Legislature, the whole
conduct of Congress towards Virginia,
which will probably eliminate in the up
setting of oil that she4 has done to get
back into the Union, in violation of the
most solemn pledges, are the latest crop
pings out of the Capitalization movement.
The focal point is Congressman that is
the most alarming thing about it. The
leading spirits in the scheme in the Senate
and House are gradually absorbing the
powers of the Executive-so that he is
already but passive instrument in their
hands s-and they clearly aim to monopo
lize also the functions of the Supreme
Court of tho United States. Controlling
the patronage of the whole Government,
and debating the judicial decisions, bav-
inc at their beck and command vast
mGltitudcs of benefciaries and tools all
ovor the country, they hope and expect
to insure their reelection perpetually.
Capitalization is but another name for
ring. composed of the Radical master
noliticians, to whom the humber men,
bcrs pay fealty and receive their reward.
r. Is Unsuitable, and must continue to
grow in avarice and insoicnce, until it
extends @ it's balefnl effects over all the
States of the Union, or is broken up and
forever overthrown by an indignant peo-
plc. When the South is reduced TO a
perfcctly submissive and helpless state at
the feet of the centralizers, and her Leg
islatures do only what they are ordered
to from Washington, then will come the
turn of the Northern Statos-and there
the shoe will pinch. From debating to
Georgia and Virginia, Texas and Missis-
sippi. there will be but one step, and that
not long one, to issuing and executing
mandates upon the Legislatures of New
York, New Jersey, or any other North.
crn D Democratic State. The precedent of
turning out Democratic representative
from Kentucky and installing a Radical
in his place (for no earthly reason except
that the former was accused OF having
sympathized with tho rebclljon) may be
as properly followed in the case OF a men,
ber elected from any Northern State.
Congress has fully MS much power to do
il in one sense rs the other. If the people
of New York should, some year, get all
their Democratic Congressman sont back
to them, and their seats given to the
Radical contestants, they would then ap-
preciate the power and tyranny of cen
ttralization. But we would have them
find it out and combat it before it has
made such progress. To explain its evils
and fix the attention of the American peo-
ple upon the immediate necessity OF over
coming this fatal principle, should be the
main duty of the opposition. 1t will not
suffice to refer to it in word and then
dismiss it. as the New Hampshire and