The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-07-06
PARTY Politics.

We think we sec the signs of an early and
acrimonious agitation on Federal politics by
the Southern press. We regret this, and on
several accounts The first is, that we consid-
er it. unnecessary. Every man in tho South
holds substantially the same sentiments regar-
ding the political situation, and therefore it is
unnecessary. In the second place, agitation
implies that there are material differences OF
opinion when there are not, and is obliged to
result in harm. In the third place the people
need quiet, and should be kept free from all
excitement on public affairs. There is not the
slightest danger of their voting away their lib
critics, unless they are looked after and kept in
fernent, as some politicians seem to suppose.
The people are all right, and will remain so If
left to themselves. Fourthly, the South can
now influence nobody by political discussion,
except against herself. The very fact that we
mark out line for the government will be
sufficient to put the Northern people against it:
Mastery inactivity is our true policy. The
memories of the war have not yet passed away
with the Northern people any more than they
have with Us, and rs we arc i'll very small
minority we, cannot expect to dictate, nor to
have everything just as we would like it to be.
The great end and aim of every true patriot
is to overthrow the present revolutionary fac.
tion which has control of the government and
is hurrying it, with all the national interests OF
the country, to perdition. If be done at all, it
must be done at the North, and by q conver-
sion of some3of the Northern States that now
sustain the Radical faction. Without that
change our bondage will be perpetual with 1T
the liberties of whole people will be restored
and their government saved from overthrow.
So far as we are concerned, it matters but lit
tic how this revolution is accomplished. The
Northern Democrats may refuse to make issues
that will put them on the defensive and per
haps destroy them, if they choose; VIC shall
not quarrel with them on that account. We
know they hate Radicalism as ardently SIS we
do, and that they will do the South justice
when they get into power. With the Demo-
Gratis in possession of the government we have
nothing to fear from constitutional amend
ments. There will be no Ku Klux, anti-habcas
corpus, bayonet legislation. We feel we'll as
sured of this. 1t is this that hurts us, and not
the constitution. Whatever the constitution
may have been made to say by Radical usur-
patton and outrage, the Democrats will con-
sstrue it as guaranteeing federal form of gov.
eminent, the integrity of the State as political
soverelgnties, their absolute right to regulate
their own internal affairs, and the responsibility
of Congress to the people. We shall have no
imperial edicts no bayonets bristling around
inc DOLLS, no luYdSlOu VI Iuc poiSohai hpSisJ Va
the citizen, no upsetting of State governments
at the will of Congress or the President, be the
constitution what it may. There is not a SEN
sible man in the South that does not believe
this. Then, why quarrel with the Northern
Democracy about abstract theories and party
platforms. The latter may not suit the South,
but a Democratic administration aoiH, and that
is what we are after. This much achieved, we
certainly should be content, and not wrangle
about the road re travel to SO glorious con-
summation.
This appears to us to be the common sense
of the political situation, and however some
few politicians may differ from US, we have
pretty firm conviction that the great mass of
the Southern people are with US. Then, let us
of the South ceaseto dispute about the coming
Presidential election. It does no good, and
will assuredly do harm both among ourselves
and elsewhere. We have full enough bad men
in office, and bad laws on our statute books in
the Southern States, and poverty and thieving
enough to engage all our attention, and COM
mand all our energies for the next two Years.
Let us look after our immediate household
Savannah Republican,.