The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-01-25

| to put forward candidate. and that we will
endeavor to elect him-as the most efficient,
the most efectual and certain method of call
ing halt upon the Radical programme for the
subjugation of the country and the final over
throw of the great principles upon which it was
| founded. think,it is the most thorough and
effectual method of checking the present sys-
tenn under which all Democratic principle is
disappearing from the administration of the
affairs of the Government. Why the idea of
consulting the Constitution to see whether
Congress has power to do this, that OF, the 9th
er. is no more thought of in Congress now,
when bill is introduced, than if there never
had been such thing as Constitution of the
United States. Powers are claimed and eXer-
cised at this day that would have startled the
Federalists under the administration OF the
elder Adams They would not, In the moment
of their greatest power, have hazarded an at
tempt to pass upon the country this Ku Klux
law. invading the States, seizing the inhabi-
tauts, trying them for what they call outrages,
which consist of assault and battery, in nine
cases out of ten. In South Carolina the de-
claration of martial law was made under the
act of Congress passed last Spring the troops
invaded the proclaimed district, men were ar
rested for ofenses which were alleged to have
been committed two years anterior to the time
the act of Congress gave the President the pow
er to declare martial law, and those men are
now being tried before Court, convicted and
sentenced and put to hard labor, and having
other sentences executed upon them for the
commission of crimes which were anterior IN
date by two or three years, to the hour when
Congress legislated that the Courts should take
cognizance of those ofenses. Why, sir, in any
other day of our republic, in the old times OF
Federal ascendancy, no such powers were
dreamed of or claimed if there had been there
would have been one universal outcry; these
men would have been hurled from their power
by Thomas Jefferson in 1900, for assuming ju-
risdiction in the crime of sedition, for which
two or three were imprisoned in different States
in the Union. Now, my fellow-citizens, the
condition of our affairs excite in me at least,
great apprehension. 1t may be known to some
of you that / do not concur in the opinion
which was held by many Democrats ana many
other people of this country in regard to zen;
Grant. never considered him that weak and
feeble and ignorant man that some have been
pleased to call him, and, no doubt think him.
I had totally different opinion about him,
and have STILL / am aware that he cannot
write newspaper articles, and for that reason
is not considered very great man by those
who do write newspaper articles. know he
has never distinguished himself as stump Or
ator. and is greatly looked down upon by those
of us who do make stump orations; but there
are other qualities which he possesses making
him the most dangerous man, in my opinion,
for the position which he now occupies OF any
man upon our continent. do not believe that
he cares q straw about our frame of govern
ment consider that he is man whose mill
tary education and military genius necessarily
make him arbitrary in his ideas OF government,
and that he places no value at all upon any
other government than that which is absolute
ly arbitrary and military. He has surrounded
himself with clerks who all wear uniform that
is very slight indication of the temper OF his
mind. But, nv friends, he has other qualities
in addition to that; he is man capable OF
conceiving most dangerous purposes, and exc,
cutting those purposes with infexible will, and
I think he has demonstrated since he has as
sumed the power of the executive of this ma
ton, that he will hesitate at nothing, and stop
at nothing, at no deed which will give him the
supreme power in this country, and L DO not
EXPECT him to halt or hesitate to do anything
to give him pre-eminent power in this coun-
try. except that he shall deem it most impru-
dent to attempt it. 1 do not believe at this
moment that if we elect Democrat he would
be allowed to take his seat as President OF the
United States; that is my conviction. be-
lieve the present Congress, which contains
majority of the supporters of the President, In
both of its branches, would count out any
number of States, the Southern especially, who
should cast their vote for the Democratic can
didate whom we should nominate-cast out
enough of them to secure the election OF their
candidate for the Presidency, and that their
President would be sustained, and they would
be sustained by the partisan spirit of these men
throughout the country, because they would
simply say these States were all carried by the
Ku Klux. recollect Mr. John Sherman-a
Senator ordinarily considered prudent man
among Radical Senators, by no means rash IN
his statements-that he asserted upon the noor
of the Senate, after the last election, that II the
vote of New York had given the eectlon to
Seymour it would not have been counted. he
made that declaration upon the floor OF the
Senate and Mr.. Wade, who was the presiding
officer of the Senate at the time that the ballots
were counted. distinctly asserted that he was
instructed to count the vote of Georgia because
it did not change the result and the lntimation
was clear and distinct by Mr.. Wade at that
time. that his instructions from the body which
he represented were to refuse to count the vote
of Georgia. except that it did not affect the re-
suit, :.
Now, my fellow-citizcns, this is another OBJ,
stacle. Many men, brave men, hot-blooded
men will exclaim at once, "Why, then, we
will take up arms; we will assert our rights;
we will not submit to these outrageous usurpa-
tons" ao My feilow.clizens, | do not know
what we will do under these circumstances. /
think it is best to avoid such contingency. If
we can save the country by nominating Lib
eral era Republican aud eiecting him by such a
decided majority that there will be no contest
in the court and very little contest i'll the CAM
pairn. it is our duty to do so, and prevent the
awful catastrophe which would arise from the
refusal of the Congress of the United States to
count Democrat into the seat as President II
he was elected, which would, perhaps, bring
about an attempt at revolution, and perhaps
successful overthrow of the tyranny OF the par
ty which seeks to establish itself perpetaally
npon the Government. Now, do not believe,