The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-11-02

confession In open court OF our 1naDlllty 10
carry the elections upon our own principles
1t was q confession that we must make con-
cession in order to draw to US others who had
acted against us, but in making that concession
| it failed to place candidates before the people
| in harmony with that platform. Thus, While
some Democrats were disgusted at this conces-
sion, no Republicans were conciliated. Now,
my fellow-citizehs, to my view the future does
not look gloomy, even under the losses we have
suffered this summer and autumn. have not
single feeling of dependency.
| 1t is well understood that the Republican
party contains in itself seeds of discomfort, of
bitterness, of rivalry and disaffection, and it is
natural in these preliminary elections that
those who antagonize the nomination of Gen.
Grant should attempt to hold their position
within their party in order that their influence
may be used to defeat his nomination. know
that his nomination will not be defeated, at
least that is my solemn conviction; that he is
now dictator in the Republican party, and that
he aspires to be in the country at large. be-
lieve that he will dictate his own nomination,
but then I know that some of the most con-
spicuous, able and courageous men who stand
highest in the Radical party will leave the Re-
Burn their ship when they fail to defeat him
pains to defeat his reelection.
And again, instead of going for new de-
parture, would prefer to go for m: n who
represents the uew departure. would prefer
to give that guarantee to the disaffected Re-
publicans rather than to go back upon my own
principles. I would prefer to make choice of
Republicans, and go for man who should be
nominated by the disaffected Republicans, or,
what would be better, one who might be NOM
mated in the democracy, and thus draw to us
by much stronger guarantee than the mere
words of platform the support OF those who
are disafected with Grant and the radical par
ty. In other words, 1 don't see that we go
back on our principles in making choice be-
tween candidates neither of whom suit us. We
could all vote for Republican who was in ia
vor of universal amnesty against the Ku Klux
bills, and against the military laws. Why
the ancient Bourbon in the State of Alabama
could vote for such a Republican in preference
to q. S. Grant, and hold all the time TO his
very heart all that there would be of his Bour-
bonism.
| NV fellow-citizens the State of Virginia has
adopted the policy. That State which furnish
ed the ilustrious warriors who were the fore
most in the struggle for our independence; that
State which gave to us long line OF lllustrious,
Presidents; that State which in our unfortunate
war, after guiding the councils of the nation
for SO many wears, furnished the heroes and
statesmen of the Southern Confederacy; that
State which not even Radical reconstruction
could subject to a scallawag or carpet-bagger;
that State which was cleft in twain by the Rad
ical Congress to add to their power by duplica-
ting its Representatives in the Senate in order
to Cypress the South, and which the wise sons
of Virginia have erected into two fortresses for
the defense of their country. Shall the de-
mocracy of the South fail to follow the coun-
sells of the Old Dominion? Why we have ta-
ken hold of the example of Missouri: Tram
melcd with election laws, and distranchlsed, we
have risen and rent the bonds which bound U.S.
and I believe that the State of Missouri will at
the next Presidential election give large ma
jority than any other State tor the canoioate Oh
the Democratic party.
The men of foreign birth who have come here
are neither for the North nor the South; they
are not identified with any one section OF our
country in the sense in which those who are
native born are identified with the particular
section in which they were born; they came
and are made citizens of the whole country,
and all parts of it, and while upon the question
which recently divided us they sided with the
North, lit is natural that they should do so, be-
cause naturally they looked upon this country
as one and undivisible.l and now with the same
sentiment in their hearts, they cannot see why
one section of the country should be subject to
the other. In my judgment these are the men
to whom we have to look in the coming strug-
gle. They have come from countries where
despotism is practiced, and they know its badg-
es and signs better than we do, who have never
known them They know the subtle manner
in which tyranny will make its approach, and
already recognizing it in the leading man, the
ablest representative of our adopted citizens is
now nroclaiming his hostility to Grant and his
administration, declaring in the face of the
world that he has taken his departure and
burned his ships. do not think that any one
will fail to recognize the description. speak
of INV colleague in the Senate, Carl Schurz.
He it was, my fellow-citizens, who led the en-
fire German element of the State of Missouri
to break down the disfranchsing clause of our
constitution, and arrayed his sfellow-countrymen
rs one man against the administration and
despising the offices of Grant, despising his
patronage and power, resolved to preserve that
| free love which America had given to him and
his countrymen.
Now, my fellow-citizens, the Germans in
Missouri although Republicans almost to
man, have always voted against dlstranchlsing
those who were opposed to them during the
war. lncy neCu uO lllStl uSIoho VII 'ii.'o fo''
from ANYBODY, and they resolutely maintained
the doctrine that neither Congress nor the States
could by bill of attainder deprive men of the
right of suffrage. They maintained that posi-,
tien in the last contest through which We passed
in Missouri: they hold it good against the
Establishments and threats of the administra-
ton they stand firmly and squarely to day,
solidly to the last man, against all distranchise-
mcnt and for universal amnesty; they are op-
posed to the Ku Klux legislation, loud ap-,
pIlause,] against the suspension of the writ of
haJeas corpus, and, in my Judgment if the
Democratic party will now, instead Of the adoop-
ton of any "Iew departure" put forward a
man AS the candidate of the party, or accept
one who may be put forward by Others, who, is
sound upon these principles, he will receive the
support of the entire German vote in the Uni
ted States numbering as have been informed,
from 500, 600 to 100000 men.