The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-03-07
The Skeleton in the Closet.

The Elijah Programs are blowing hard just
at present on the question of possible mar
with England. 1t would be most unfortunate
thing for England, say these asses, to 60 to war
with America. 1--WE could lick her so bad, !"
say they, "in three months that she wouldn't
know she ever was nation" While all this
| talk is going on nobody seems to bestow single
thought upon the attitude of the South-the
Ireland, the Poland, the Hungary OF AWerca
The precious set of Radical statesmen we have
at Washington have done this for us-they
have created and consolidated IN ten States of
this Union feeling of hostility to the stars
and stripes, the type of our nationality, that
will never die while radicalism rules. So deep
seated and bitter is this, that if England land
ed twenty thousand men tomorrow in the
neighborhood of Charleston hundred thou
sand Southern men would rise again in insur-
rection. 1t would have the same effect as if
France at war with England, landed a force
upon the shores of Ireland. Are we quite sure
we could lick England, with the South pressing
us at one side and the Canadians at the other
Yet, patent as this truth is, here are those Sem
atorial wiseacres at Washington defeating a
aealifed measure of amnesty to the Southern
rebels"
Craftsmanship would have long since reme-
died the frightful state of affairs at the South.
Had man like Chief Justice Chase been elect
ed in 1863 in place of the military stick who
now occupies the White House, we should not
be compelled to express the fears to which We
have just given utterance. The Union would
now be true Union in place of the sham it is.
Think of it for moment. Here was So
called rebellion, which intrinsically, had as
much right and justice in it as our own war OF
independence, and yet the canting spirit of
Radfcalisnl goes on forever proclaiming about
the magnanimity shown to the rebels, and
hands over to something worse than the gallows
these people of the South, to be governed BY the
very spawn of hell. Is it natural they should
love flag that symbolizes persecution? Is it
natural they should fight for it? Enthroned
in power in half dozen Southern States are
strangers from the North, who in no civilized
country under heaven could escape the peni-
tentisry or the hangman. Society there has
been violently Wrenehed from its normal con-
dition. -: ..nit $40
The tree has been plucked up from the roots,
and the branches and blossoms nave been buried
in the ground. Ignorance. vice and intamy
flourish over virtue and intelligence. Now we
want this people to love the magnanimous gov
ernment which has consigned to living death
the best and purest of their kindred. The pa
tience and fortitude they have shown under
their humliaSions 1iake tne Sranues. on"PUSi
of human self,control and stoicism that ancient
or modern history can produce. We cannot 60
to war with England while this state of things
exists. There is skeleton in the closet that
reminds us of our weakness. The whole South
would rally to arms once more if England lent
her direct aid. Where is the difference? Might
they not just as we'll try the terrible issue of war
az live and die under such an infamous rule as
that to which they are at present subjected
Draw ii your horns, Jonathan. When your
household is at peace it will be time enough to
think of quarrel with England.-M Y. 7sIe-
gram.