The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-09-15
Sec. Anderson Farmers Association.
Eloquent Tribute to the Reform Standard.
Bearers.

We CODY from an exchange the annexed
glowing tribute to our political standard-bear-
ers, extracted from speech delivered by Judge
John E. Bacon, candidate for Congress from
the Third Congressional District. 1t is strong
and truthful representation of the Reform
movement and does credit to the genius and
sentiment of the gifted speaker. Judge Bacon
will address the people of Anderson county on
saleday in October, and we are confident that
he will be greeted by a large audience;
political Reform is indeed the watchword
of the civilized world. The efete Dynasties
of the Orient are seeking it, and the giant Re
public of the Occident demanding it. 1t has
kindled into fame the patriotic fires of the
Marseillaise and added the laurel of Sadowa
to the glorious wreath around the tomb of the
Great Frederic. 1t has Lit up the fires that
cleaned red from the spires of Prague, when
the Vistua ran crimson with the blood of pa
triots and placed upon the shoulders of mil
lions of serfs, by the Don and Volga, the man
tie of civil and religious liberty. 1t has culmi-
mated in the United States with the 10Th amend
ment to the Constitution. 1t is coming up to
the rescue of our bleeding, but beloved State;
coming up from the far resounding sea, to
where our beautiful City of the Mountains sits
embosomed amidst her emerald green coming
ND under the banner of our chosen standard
bearers, incarnate with truth and justice, under
the leadership of Judge Carpenter, the great
Kentuckian, the chosen of the famous Douglas
in his eventful campaign for the Presidency,
and second only in his adopted State, to the
immortal Clay himself; seconded by the gal
liant Butler, the youthful hero of Trevilian,
around whose name cluster so many hallowed
| j Il ri
ly enshrined in the hearts of his countrymen.
Coming up to the rescue with the admired
Kershaw whose very name is Synonymous with
honor and integrity, and whom the youth of
the State have been taught to regard as par er-
cellencc the 'justum &C tenacem propositi virum"
of the age. Coming up to where the noble
Dunkin and Wardlaw and Glover, and Hamp-
ton, and Carroll, and Fair, like so many intel
lectual Carytides, are supporting the fair tenn
pie of Reform, whose pillars rest upon the
| foundation of eternal truth, against which
neither the glamour of anything that is grand
can prevail, nor the eXcellency of anything
that is great overturn.
Legions ofnobles spirits coming up to the beau
| tiful Temple of Reform, with brave hearts and
stout arms, strewing the altar of their devotion,
with the sacrifice of fruits and flowers fruits
wherein lie nepenthe, flowers that are flowers
of amaranthe. Z
| When see this noble host, worthy of the
better days of the Republic, marching on to
that inevitable victory which is ever the mead
of the great and good, I already feel the bios
soming of those hopes and affections, which
are garnered up in our heart of hearts.
When hear the fires of the burning 'elo-
quence of our great Standard Bearers, l already
hear the horn of the Paladin winding once
again through the vale Of Roncesvalles, waking
triotic appeals for the welfare of the great old
Commonwealth, think 1 hear the clarion note
of the intellectual warrior-rousing from its
lethargy the dormant spirits of the olden
| day. And when 1 listen to the manly denun-
Citations of the corruption now rioting in high,
places in the State, think 1 hear the loud
reuelhe of Reform beating to its standard the
good and virtuous of the land, bursting and
breaking into pieces the whited sepulchres OF
Radical corruption, exposing their 'rottenness
and dead mems bones;' and consigning them to
| merited disgrace and oblivion"