The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-09-07
HoYT & CO., Proprietors
Republicanism ut the North and RadicaliSm
at the South.

great many complaints are daily made by
the Northern press that the Southern white
people contumaciously reject all political asso-
citation with the great national Republican
party. This party Incorporates within itself
fargely the wealth, cultivation and integrity OF
the North. 1t is the party of many OF the
most respectable classes of that locality. Ihese
are honest in their convictions that it is a party
of great ideas and of q progress suitable to this
advancing age. They are convinced that 1t has
done great works of good, and IS capable Of
continuing the same in the future: 10 such, II
seems wonderful that no respectable, dislnter'
ested white man can be found at the South VII
ling to attach himself to a political organiza-
tio1 so fairly constituted and offering such
promise of future good. Our consistent reec-
tion of both the principles and association OF
the national Republican party is set down by
these honest enthusiasts to sullen, rebelllous
feeling against the government of the United
States, and is viewed by them with great Ill
humor.
Apart from the fact that large majority OF
the people of the South have been educated to
think the principles of the Republican party
wrong and subversive of good republican gov
eminent, there are other considerations which
have brought about this result. 1t Is believed
at the South that the Republican party had Its
origin in an intention on the part of the popu-
lar majority of the country to govern every
thing by its own overpowering will, and to this
end. to 90 outside of the constitution and break
up all its checks and balances. 1t was Dehevea
that the rights of the States were to be entirely
ignored and subverted, and in its place to be
inaugurated a powerful central government.
However much such schemes are disapproved
by large majority of the Southern people,
vet there has always been respectable mlnorl-
ty lperhaps not so much in numbers as IN posi-
ton and inauence,) who favored strong gov
ernment and who would have acted politically
with any party which, in its creed, opposed las
they believed it to be) the foolish dogma OF the
right of secession. But men of this latter style
of thought and political opinion are no more to
be found in the ranks of the Republican party
to-day than the most Jealous secesslonlst fol-
lower of Rhett or Yancey.
And why is this? Because Republicanism
at the North and Radicalism at the South are
two entirely different things. 1t is very well
for the pions and respectable anti-slavery peoo-
ple of the North to cast up their eyes and thank
God for the abolition of slavery, and to take no
little I CT credit to themselves for having accom-
plished this end They may also go further,
and complacently rejoice, that besides the mere
liberation from the chains of slavery, they have
invested the former bondmen with all the
rights of freemen, and given them the ofportu-
nifty to take part in this glorious government.
1t is cheap sort of philanthropy which can
feed on a sentiment, and can find Its helds OF
labor not home but ut distance. This Ii
not an uncommon propensity of human nature.
We have known great many good religious
people who would rather busy themselves with
the Hindoo or Chinese than see the glaring de-
praYity and ungodliness every day practiced
around them. The good people OF the North
have for many long years been SO much absorb
ed with the sins of their Southern brethren as
to be entirely blind to the fact that SIN most
heinous can exist in their owh communities.
IF they were brought face to face with the hide.
GUS spectacle exhibited by the development OF
their great principles OF universal suffrage ana
progressive republicanism at the South, IL
would cause q revulsion as sudden as violent.
Move ten thousand thorough anti-slavery abo-
litionists of the Wendell Phillips school into
South Carolina tomorrow, and not one In
hundred of them would vote the Republcan
State ticket at the election in 1872.
Radicalism at the South has presented itself
in q very different guise. 1t is here not simply
q matter of fanatical sentiment, indulged IN by
wild enthusiasts and fostered by societies OF
Jealous propagandists it is sad reality, ac-
companied by every imaginable horror. Every
sentiment of propriety and decency is violated,
and ignorance and vice are elevated to the po-
sitions once accorded to education and virtue
1t was inaugurated by the bayonet, In the hands
of such worthy instruments as Daniel r.
Sickles. 1t has had as its apostles the camp
followers of the army of occupation. These,
combining with Ignorant and turbulent ne
groes, have brought the Southern States to rum,
and. what is worse, the most complete political
DEGRADATION. These States, to-day, or at least
such as are governed in the interests OF Radi-
calism, are simply fostering sores OF corruption.
Every imposition which depraved ingenuity
could invent has been practiced on these suffer
ing people. History presents no instances aV
ali parallel of brave, virtuous and indepen-
dent people being placed under the heel OF
brutal ignorance and despoiled by so greedy
banditti. No ruler, however despotic, in an
cient or modern times, can be found who has
practiced q revenge so barbarous, SO slow ana
Continuing, and one so well calculated to pro-
duce sullen despair. .,
But it is in the practical working of this
party of progress at our own homes and Irc-
sides that we see its most hideous form. For
instance, in our own county, we have been alb
solutely ruled over for two years by an lmpu-
dent, debased, turbulent and cowardiy muiatto;
He hes every vice incident TO his mongrei
condition. vet his voice was more potent at
Washington and Columbia than that OF I'm, the
most moderate and yirtuous citizen OF South
Carolina. He had his bowling followers al,
ways at his heels, procuring all the dlscord and
violence possible by day and making nlShV
hideous in their Leagues. by his influence,
acting with all the power and authority Of the
Radical party, he placed in Office the most
iynorant. turbulent and vicious of the negroes ;
and, to cuminate, he and two most villainous
foreign white men, put arms in the hands of
those they had excited to frenzy, and into whose s
hearts they had infused the most deadly hatred
against the whites. 1t seems like horrible
dream to revert to year back and remember
the feeling of utter despair in which our pe,o-
pie. were sunk by the overwhelming degrada-
ton of that time. 1t has passed, thank heav-
en- or at least the actual personal debase-
ment-when courage had, pcrtorce, to succumb