The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1870-02-10
VOLUME 5.---N0. 80.
Progress Of Capitalization and Despotism

Progress Of Capitalization and Despotism.
Step by step, says the Baltimore Ga.
zette. the Radicals continue their policy of
Capitalization. Their design is to ride
rough s..od over the Constitution, and to
make the will of Congress the supreme
law. of. the land. They are bent on re.
ducing the Federal Judiciary and the Fed
eral Executive to the condition of ,subor-
dinate departments of the Government.
and under cover of law, and by means of
the machinery of law, are gradually but
surely changing our form of government
as it was established by the founders of
the Republic. They hold in their hands,
at this day, the purse and the sword. In
ten of the Southern States they dictate
who shall vore and who shall be deprived
of the elective franchise. BY putting a
false Interpretation upon the right of Con-
gress to Judge of the qualifications ofmem-
bers, they have expelled men who were
legally elected to the Senate and to the
House of Representatives, and have In
stalled their own creatures in the seats
thus summarily vacated. To swell their
bmaoritcs in the Senate they have erected
into States Territories which contain but
few thousands of permanent population,
and have thus crushed out the opposition
of the larger States where the Democra-
cy are in the ascendancy.
All the barriers which protected the in-
dependence of the States from Federal
encroachments are being thrown down
and lcvelled with the ground. Even the
equality Of the States as members of
common Union is no longer respected.
The work of reconstruction is still to go
on in tho States south Of the Potomac.
The most solemn pledges given by the
Radicals have been violated time after
time with imrunity. No sooner had u
Solthern State accepted the conditions
cxacted of her than fresh conditions were
imposed. Georgia was thrust out of the
Union after her members had been ad-
mitted to seats in the House of Repre-
sentatives. Virginia is only to be admit
ted on terms which are derogatory to hor
dignity as State, and to the manhood
of her people. No Southern State, unless
it be thoroughly and submissively Radi-
cal, can hope TO be represented in Con-
gress.
There is talk, even now, of putting Ten
nessee once more under military rule, and
of Radical interposition in the affairs of
Maryland, Kentucky and Delaware. Into
the new amendments to the Constitution
amendments which were carried in tho
Southern States by system of terrorism,
and in many ofthe Northern and Western
States by trickery and fraud-they have
incorporated clause which gives to Con.
gress the power 20 enforce them by what
is sarcastically called appropriate legls-
lation." Under color Of this authority
they can and will. before long, interfere
with the electoral vote in all of the States,
their purpose being to take from the lat
ter tho right of regulating the suffrage
within their limits Nor is this all. The
legislation of the States is TO be super
vised by Congress; the functions of State
Governors are TO be reduced below those
of pro-Consuls in the Roman times; and,
under the plea of the power of Congress
to regulate commerce, the right of emil
nent domain, which has always apper-
tanned to the States, is to be contcmptu-
ously disrcgarded, and the will of Con.
gress IS to set aside tho will of the people
Of State, even in matters Of local con- n.
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