The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-05-28
Gen. T0Ombs and the President.

Courier. journal, eXpdtlates as follows upon the
significance of the recent interview between
Gen. Robert Toombs and President Grant. He
argues glibly upon the prospect of third term
for Grant, and hints strongly at the possible
ambition of the present occupant of the White
House to remain there forever, either in per-
son or through royal succession. We give
these speculations for what they are worth:
The visit of General Robert Toombs to the
President was doubtless meant to be simple
courtesy and nothing more. 1t was received
in all likelihood in the way of curious good
nature characteristic of General Grant. But
when it is remembered that General Toombs
is an earnest and outspoken imperialist, who
does not claim allegiance to this country, and
seeks nothing so ardently as revolution which
shall give it 8 master, the cordiality which he
met at the White House and the pleasure
which call, protracted much beyond the con-
rentional limit gave to the occupant OF the
White House, may be worth making note Of.
1t is straw which points southwark, where it
shows the existence of SMALL but, i'll cases of
emergency a resolute body of men, who, worn
out and disgusted by partisan misgoyernment
and malignity, regard third term as the be-
ginning of the end of both. This class has no
personal il-will toward General Grant. 1t re-
cognizes the many soldierly acts which marked
his conduct in the closing of the war, and the
many accessible and compacent features OF his
disposition as a man. 1t thinks, mistakenly
that any change would be for the better, not
seeing that under the personal government it
would set up for General Grant the present
abuses would be magnifed.
General Toombs is but the spokesman of
this element. He is at once most intrepid
and most brilliant man, and, however a sound
and rational republicanism may detest his de-
structive tendencies, am not prepared to set
him down as the reckless person he is described
to be- During thirty years he has been as
rashly advanced in his opinions and utterances
as he is to-day. I hope he is not now so dan
gerously prophetic. He destroyed the ,whig
oarty to make himself leader of the demo-
cratic party. He destroyed the democratic
party to make himself leader of the seces-
sion party. His destructive predictions and
prowess manifested themselves for the third
time lust as the Confederacy was on the eve of
its inherent destruction. He is by no means
too old to come again to the front as destroy
er of the Republic which, after his failure to
destroy the Union, seems to be sort OF sec.
ond choice with MIN. He is perfectly logical
in his views and aims; and, II the hight tor the
old traditions of liberty is lost in 76-for those
sentimental traditions whose extinction will be
the forerunneI of a practical and progressive
revolution in the government-we may see
Toombs once more the leader Of party, sup
porting court and squaring the old account
at last by the agency of a coup detat. The
capitalists want a third term. In the mean
time General Grant is backed by the capital
lists, who dread political changes of every kind,
and feel that they can rely on him, and by the
office holders, who ought to be strong enough
to command the forms of third nomination.
This secured, he can trust to luck, as ne has
always done, for the issue, and, in short, will
be the candidate to be beaten. AS time moves
us up nearer and nearer to the field, unknown
and unexpected objects may reveal themselves.
But in the midst of the prevailing fog these
outlines appear-the republican party is ruled
by the office holders, and the President rules
them by the common law of reciprocal inter
est; there is no one republican strong enough
to unite the party against its organizers; eacn
of the republican leaders is just strong enough
to make way with his next door rival and
thus, if the election were upon us, we should
find General Grant master of the only compact
body in the political field, equipped with mu-
nitions and money in abundance, with a
dispirited South, dcmoraized North and
divided opposition to stand between him and
his ambition. -,
The time may come when the South will
find no escape from malignant legislation and
misgovernment but by following Gen. Toombs
en- naasse into the imperial camp. But it should,
at least make one more fight for the old free
born signals The people of the North were
not conscious of the wrong they did them,
selves when they put the South in irons, and
they do not at heart support the scandal
lous outbursts of hate which every now and
then appear in Congressional legislation, and
NAV be heard every time such malignants as
Conkling and Hoar open their lips. The trou-
BILE has been that the South had no audience at
the North. The people of the North have re-
ceived most of their impressions from proies-
sional libellers of the South. Lamars speech
on Sumner surprised New England, as 1t re-
buked the hypocrites who, detesting sumner,
would have made a vindctlve radical JuDllec
over his cofin-lid. | declare, without the
least fear of contradiction, that the only really
sincere euloges on Sumner were those OF Lamar,
who represented the generosity OF the Soutn,
and Schurz, who was Summers private friend,
and neither contained a syllable offensive to
any patriotic national sentiment. One day
let us hope at day before it is too late-New
England will learn that such men as Hoar and
Hawley are her worst enemies. The South
should also know that the people of New Eng
land are as liberal as the Southern people are,
and as willing to reach good accord. Boston
would welcome Lamar with honors, and yet
Lamar only spoke in the name of the South,
obtaining by his eloquence and address the
audience which is often denied to men of less
genius Both sections should consider the cir.
cumstancc. 1t may, or it may not be of good
omen, but one thing is certain, if it is motif
the missionaries of ruin who walk abroad in
Congress and out of Congress, fomenting strife
and raising up mutual distrust, are not sup,
planted by better men, we may as well old
goodbye to the Republic, and say all hail to
Toombs and the Empire.
SENATOR MoRToN's ORGAN ALARMED
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