The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-06-13

| from him momentary expressions, anu p!lnI
them to mankind as his revealed and crltlcai
opinions. =, ,, eao,,
of the steamer on the way up the river. LIS
wife-much younger than himself, ouXom
brunette~seemed @ to hover round him with
affection and admiration. The domestic LIE
of the South, barring slavery, always comman-
ded the respect of Northerners. The women
were true and good; the men believed in their
wives. The best of slavery was the white mis-
| tress. -,
We arrived, at night, near Rockets, below
Richmond. There were gathered up great lot
of Gathering cavalry, the sole attempt OF the
United States to give monarchical gasconade
to small arrest. After the popular force sub
sides in this country, the representative crlmln-
al is shadow. A young man named James
Mcconnell cried out to me from the pier (he
represented the New York tribune > 49, -, .,
"Gath, you are the luckiest newspaper man
! alive"
| He supposed I.had been taking advantage OF
| Mr.. Davis. My annoyance of Mr.. Davis had
been circumscribed by looking at him half
dozen times when courtesy allowed. during the
daylight. If he sees this paper, he will be,
perhaps, for the first time, aware that ne tray
eled a whole day up the James river in compa-
ny with newspaper correspondent.
The next day was Sunday. A beautiful Sab
bath-day indeed, with the green leaves out on
the trees, and all the hills of Richmond grassy
fresh. 1t is beautiful city by nature-the
Montreal of the States, rapids and tide-water
meeting, heights and ravines all round about,
and in very little Southern town. We meet me
! together, Northern and Southern journalists,
as cordially as if the war had never been, using
the same phrases, 6on-mots, gestures, American
| isms. What bosh to try to make two States
out of the same man, two directions to the same
river, and lifelong enemies of two fellows
whom echo can not but confoundl We use
the same grammar, smoke the same tobacco, spit
and swear just alike, and do equally mean
things under the cover of party loyalty. Sey-
| eral of us rode out to see the old forts-mighty
works, and proof that the South was no more
lazy than the North, and full as enterprlsing
when it had necessity or resolve. Ihere
gaped the bomb-proofs; there yawned the
magazines; there black man was gathering
faggots from the abattis for tire-wood. Ihe
peace feeling was over all the white sky hung
out its cirrus standard; the water cooled the
eyes of man; the grass almost grew in cur
SIGHT to cover the scars of conflict in the land
scape. Did you ever think what great race
| of men live at the South, to have been subject
| to the licentious and prohgate contact OF slav-
cry for twenty generations, and still preserve
such energies and 80 much manly character?
| We miss them from our public counsels to-day.
How capable and direct they were in foreign
| diplomacy-courtesy and chlvalry, truth and
death in their address Then, Shareholders
as we were, the world knew that we SAID no
more than we meant. We did not needlessiy
irritate our peers among the nations with Is: sar-
donic sentences like Bancroft Davis. Wlth
| the glove in his hand, and the talk OF Kings
| herald the Southerner made his proposition to
the foreigner. Of him it might be said, as OF
Cromwell: J.,
"While he lived, no Dutchman swept the
narrow seas No Castlemaines dishonored the
high places Vice and folly trembled in his
eve, and all good things lay safe beneath his
mighty shadow
That Sunday there was good deal of negro
parading. Cufy was. out in blood-red uniform
and gold gimp, riding horseback at the head OF
his column, and taking malicious pleasure In
passing before Jef7s hotel. They have had the
good sense at Richmond not to be annoyed at
! this and now white troops and negro troops
salute each other there on Washington's birth
day.
Monday morning the United States granite
building was the town rendezvous: 1t stood at
the foot of the State capitol hill, where the
Davis Government ruled with brief but tle-
mendous energy, and where all departments
quarreied, and old JEFF. himself showed all the
weakness and strength of destructlonlst. In
this courtroom presided very forblddlng-
looking Judge, by name Underwood man up,
parently stunted and bleeched by wrongs and
fears, but, for all l know, o consistent and per-
sistent man-born in the North, welded to
shareholders daughter for whom he was tutor,
and now yery ambitious and uncharitaole to
his beaten neighbors. The charge this man
had delivered to the grand jury, q few days be-
| fore, was strong instance of merely tantaliz-
ing defamation, bad spirit, mean in lam
e. g1is' f. and without 'nS tone OF 'a'Sa' %
The grand jury was composed of whites and
blacksSthe usual intelligent jury existing IN
half-guilty dependence between the Judge and
the foreman. John Minor Bolts was on the
iury-a big-bellied, hale fellow, farmer polltl-
clan, two-thirds demagogue, and one third 0o-
stinacy, with the varnish and veneer OF eio-
ouence over all; a talker by profession, VINO
boasted that he had never read book since
boyhood, but lived on newspapers and other
stimulants He is dead, and carved his page
on the history of the country: What contrary
and heroic things men do for many years 10
get that page! ;
The light was fair in the court room, and, IN
due time, jeff Davis entered He wore COM
mon clothes, looked weak-eyed, was not an I'M
portant-looking man, and seemed to me not
worth SO much hating and fuss. He had been
yery unpopular in Richmond, but the people
naturally felt that he was now vicariously on
trial for them, and they Loyalty stood by him.
There are people, know, who want the South
ern people to behave as Bancroft DAVIS expect
ed England to behave-like weeping fiunkeys,
running over at the eyes and lips with apolo-
gies. Our fellow-man is no swindler: When
he carries Lis musket four years barefooted to
keep up the interests and save the necks OF
politicians, he is slow to cry on order.
saw theresCharles O'Conor, of New York,
who was afterwards to be so potential and indc,
pendent in prosecuting the Tammany ring, and
thus insensibly heading the fraternal reyolu-
tion; General Imboden, who was to write
very beautiful letter to the Cincinnati Gonyen- YEN