The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1873-11-27
The Approaching Session Of Congress.

than usual importance to the session of Con-
gress to assemble at the Federal Capitol next
month. Politicians themselves, carly in the
year, directed public attention to this session
as foreshadowing the men OF the future ana
the lines of succession in the ranks OF the
dominant party. But more recent events have
fixed that attention and invoked scrutiny,
earnest and penetrating, as to men ana meas
ures such as we have not witnessed for many
wears past. The sensational question undoubt-
edlv will be the annexation Of Cuba. The
time is opportune. Spain, rent by faction, over
whclmed by debt, and the theatre of internecine
strife, is unequal to her own home government,
mnch less the subiection of foreign colonial
possessions. The Government Of the United
States has long desired and essaved the peace
able acquisition of the key of the Gulf" and
on more than one occasion asserted, diplomati-
callv that it would not permit the Queen of
the Antilles" to pass from the possession OF
Spain to any other European power. Just
now 'little brush" with Spain would not be
at all unpopular with the tens of thousands
who have been trained in the art and practices
of war, and are yet without distinction or
without employment.
To divert public attention from evils at home
t., glory and spois abroad might be God-send.
TO sound the trumpet of liberty in aid of the
Cuban patriots who have so long and persist
entlv and so couragcously sustained their de-
mand for independence, in the face of the nexo-
rable and bloody DEGREES of Spanish misrule, is
Just that ud cnpfand'm argument which politi-
clans lust now stand so much in need Beside
the din of its blast would shut out from the
public ear the clamors of those whom, without
some such ovcrpowcrng excitement, it would
be dangerous to pass unhccdcd, and afford
ample leisure for unobscrvcd and unqucstioncd
action for retrieving lost ground in the settle
mcnt or postponcment of some knntty questions
which inconveniently thrust themselves for
ward imperatively for decision. There is the
labor question, and the bank question, and
the expansion question, and the wards OF
the nation, and the tariff and transporta-
ton questions, and loyal Southern govern.
mcnts, republican in iorm-all these and
many others, such as appcrtain to the dis
bursemcnls of public moneys and the manage
ment of the public debt and the state of ac-
counts of certain Executive officials and favor
ties, would be lost for time, and perhaps for
eternity, amid the excitement of war We
shall not be surprised, therefore. to hear that
the halls Of Congress, at the opening, rc>onnd
day BY day with iervent eoQuenct in behalf of
Cuba and her patriots.
The real question which must be met, but in
which there is neither gain nor glory, is the
financial one, and, if not over>hatowrd, will
dig the political grave for many who now long
to serve their country in places of high diStinc-
ton, only at their countrys call. There Is no
escape from the responsibilities of the si;ua-
ton There can be no plea in bar tnr the evils
ll.at oppre>> There is no apology that vii! he
received in mitigation of defects i'll policy, de
fects in legislation and defects in executive
a., linF in
prompt and effective rcmclcs-rcmcdies which
will restore work to the Iaboring man. conf
dcncr to the noncycd man. and security to the
conservative man. The debtor secs nnlhin"
but the ruin that starcS him in the face; the
!aburcr. starvation in idlrneS> III" con-crv:l-
tive man. chronic confusion and uncertainty.
and doubt and distrust. We have had 4 month
of preliminary discussion in the public Journals
and by leading public men. The chiefs have
spoken Mr. Sherman says, specie payments,
not sudden, but gradually by the Government
and the banks; Mr. Wells says, let us have an
EXPANSION in convertible bonds Gen. Grant
saws. pay out silver in driblets and establish
postal savings banks Mr.. Low says, ct Coy
crnmcnt redeem It's notes ir gold but with Il
right to Reissue them.
But it would be impossible to cnumcratc the
doctors or to catalogue the remedial agents.
There are advocates of expulsion, and adyo-
Gates of contraction, advocates of free banking,
and advocates OF government banking those
who say there is no hope save in specie pay
ments, and those who laud the grcenback cur
rcncv a> the best this our American world, not
vet ii century old, has produced in the best
government the world ever saw. Take it all
in ALL we think that the next Congress, witt.
no lights to guide, will be forced 10 delay ac-
ton and appoint :, Pcrpalctic Investigating
Committee to lind ont what is best 10 be- done.
and what they ought 10 do. for the good Of the
country and to save themselves, unless they
exploit the Cuba qnestion.-.i"g"St" Con<f'f"-
ti0nnltS.