The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1872-11-28
can Assn in The Roses Of the Yictor.n

Such was the expression of the veteran
Thomas Ritchie when, in 1916, General :harrl-
son carried all the twenty-six States of the
Union except Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois,
Missouri, New Hampshire and Virginia, which
adhered to Van Buren; and the popular ma
iority Of Harrison, on less than two and half
millions aggregate vote, was 146, 900; and that
truly ''unterrifed" old Democrat declared that
Virginia could thus be denominated. Yet as
the Baltimore Sun, from which we borrow the
reminiscence, truthfully adds, in commenting
on the expression ; "Yet such is the instability
of politics that at the next Presidential cleo
ton James K. Polk, the Democratic candidate
for the Presidency, beat the greatest American
statesman, Henry Clay, and. the old mans
prophecy proved true. Now, as the same jour
nal adds: aFrom Maine to Mexico" and from
the Atlantic to the Pacific, there seems to be-,
with few exceptions, an almost unbroken cur
rent of Republican trinmnhs.a The30nly con-
ISOLATION for the defeated is shat which Gepr-
gia negro suggested to- .hismaster, whose plan-
tation had been sveptsoyer BY tornado The
negro was sent out to ascertain the extent of
of damages on the estate, and, after including
the surrounding farms in his observations, he
summed up his conclusions by saying: Mas.
ter, there's only one consolation ginerat
thing" e'-af .e'; .. i':'> i'f. : y - :. ~
To-day, Georgia occupies; in the. midst of
this general detection and desertion of the can
didates and platform of the party of, 1872, the
position precisely of that of Virginia in 1876,
with this difference, that she is supported and
sustained in her proud position Of unshakea
fidelity to the men and principles she professed
to support, byseveFsi of herz Southern sisters.
and a large and respectable minority of all of
them, whose voices were not stiAed, and could
make themselves heard,7 .-A ~ 2 ...rr,,.,,;.
I, Never was there truer utterance than that
of the poet when he said,
..Man spurns the worm, but trembles ere he
I wake
Theslpmbering venom Of the folded snake,"r]
Strength gaHguth and couraSe evesrt command RESPECT
and forbearance from power, when only exert
ed in defense or resistance to wrong; and the
South is stronger to-day, even after this defect,
brought upon us by the detection Of her North
ern allies, who dragged her into the position,
for which they now seek to hold her response
ble-than she ever has been since the war. ~
All that she asks now of the triumphant
party is to "Be Let Alone''-ito be permitted 10
tread the quiet paths of peace, and develop her
commercial and industrial. resources uadisr
turbed By the:mischievous intermeddling of the
Federal government, il, it will not help her in
so DOING and is determined TO keep her gull
outside Of the pale Of the benefits showered
with so liberal a hand on her more favored
Northern and Western sisters ''s "a eh:a
a H1agnaninous and patriotic policy may
disarm even the wasp of lits desire to sting; I;
and the South never has more .resembled her
own fattsshake than the Serpent Of Old Nile"
in this, that she never strikes except in self de;
Tense, and peaeeably pursues her own Path--
when let alone. ..sn :r ~ I, 81 = ~
Whatever the mutations of parties or politics
may. be within the next four years. when an
other great struggle for the prize of the Presi-
dency is to take place, it is at this moment too
late, and too early to trouble our people about
that matter, So, if the administration be pru-
dent, it viii make child's bargain with the
South and agree to let her alone-if wise, to
admit her to a share of the benefits and bless
ings of the common Union.-SaUGraah Repa6-
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