The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-04-13

a free people, whose best interests he has
striven to subserve, and can bear with patience
the censurc of disappointed men.
(signed) U: S: GRANT.
From the Ne,o Orleans Picayatne.
Pretexts for Hatred.
When oiir people see to what abuse Southern
occurrences are put-how distorted in report,
how perverted in application, how misunder-
stood and misrepresented as to cause-they
may be impressed with two convictions: First
that political feeling, prejudice and the recol-
lections of the war, will long prevent North
ern estimate of Southern character either iber-
al or just; second. that for our own peace and
good it becomes us to avoid actions and Ian
guage that can by ingeniehs handling be made
to appear dishonorable, unruly and criminal.
At this season, six years ago, all the twenty
people of the seeding States, and their feeling
towards us, as expressed in words or shown by
deeds, was full of anger, hostility and revenge.
The feeling was intense and general. The war
lasted so long that time was given to the young
to absorb hatred and to become educated in
enmity, and to those who were of mature age,
to be thoroughly inculcated with sentiment
to many quite new. The feeling was recipro-
Gated, as may be remembered. Can we reason
ably expect that feeling to subside in year or
q decade? Fifty years after the secession of
the British American colonies there were mil
lions of young men on this side OF the Allan
tic who though they had never seen scarlet
uniform hated the English with q hearty and
thoroughly spiteful grudge.
Three generations after the last Indian muir
der with tomahawks, the boys of New England
entertained for the coppcrskins an implacable,
bitter and loathing antipathy. All the annals
of nations show that war sows enmities which
grow for whole centuries, bearing fruits of bit
terness. In onr case, owing to the good sense
and general intelligence of both sections as
we'll as to the chivalric qualities mutually ez-
hibited and admired, the hatred may not be SO
intense nor lasting yet even with us, after all
the admonitions of wise and liberal men on
both sides, after the renewal of business con-
nections and social. intercourse, after numerous
and always welcome accessions of Northern
capital their many feecy crops have grown
over smoky and dusty battle fields, with all the
generosity of the really magnanimous to help
in the cause of peace, we must expect that the
ever-waning and lessening hostility will endure
and be manifest until the most of those who
saw, who felt and who shared in the great strug-
Gle shall have given place to another genera
ton. Should we not be patient, therefore?
Should we fret and chafe when cunning men
appeal to the latent or active hatred of those
lately our armed enemies? Should We be sur
prised that they magnify triaes to fill the spec
trum of their political show7 Should We
wonder that the posture-makers and scene
shifters of the Congressional drama should try
the last to extract sensational profit from his
tory so recent and so tragical?
Nor need we be surprised that the existence
of secret associations in the South should be
made the text of violent and efectual political
essays and harrangues. There are, or have
been since the close of the war, las well as any
time for the last forty years., sporadic bands or
cliques of men, rudely organized by tacit or
expressed pledge, but cooperating chiefly by
virtue of n common purpose, calling themselves
or called variously vigilance committees52s
Regulators" COMMITTEES of safety" or by
some local and peculiar name, having for their
object the riddance of the community, by ex-
pnsion or death, of notorious outlaws, or
known and dangerous characters who have
gone unwhipped of justice. These bands or
gangs arc rapidly formed, never numerous, and
extend their operations over the limited area OF
such of the ruder sections as invite outlaws by
the uncertainty and ineHicicncy of the repres-
sive and punitive action Of the criminal law.
These bands generally dissolve when the end
for which they were formed have been reached,
although it may sometimes happen that what
is illegal in its object and means becomes per
verted to violence for which no excuse can be Of
fcred But while in some rare instances good
men have been assassiated, the victims OF
these regulators are in most cases such rs de-
served the capital sentence from court OF
criminal iudicaturc. This extra legal, sum.
mary, secret violence is in itself criminal, and
wholly at war with the best interests of society.
These organizations are hideous, dismal de-
formity wherever they occur, far more dam-
aging to society than the few villains whom
they expel or destroy. No citizen who knows
the true value of personal security, as pledged
by the laws of the country can approve, coun-
tenance or uphold them.
1t is out of the gangs which We have, de-
scribed that the fertile fancics of the North have
coniured Ku Klux. 1t is out of those wholly
non-political, few scattered and Independent
bands that Sumner and his votaries have in
vented m association comprising all the. White
men in tho South, and pledged to secrecy, to
oppression and to bloodshcd. This slandcrous
and monstrous pervcrsion makes it more than
ever the imperative and patriotic duty OF all
good men in tho South to discountenance and
Suppress, by all available and legal means,
everything that can be suspected Of being orga-
nized for violence or for secret political pur-
pose.
Work IF You WOULD RIsE-Richard Burke
being found in a rcverie shortly after an ex.
traordinary display of power in tho House of
Commons by his brother Edmund, was question
ed by Mr.. Malone as to the cause. 81 have
been wondering how Ned has contrivcd to mon
opolze all the talents of the family, but then,
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