The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-04-23
GRETCHEN,
II MEAN GERTRUDE.}
From the augusta COnstitutionalist.
Louisiana and South Carolina.

The recent debate on the Louisiana case in
the United States Senate is very significant.
Very little hope can be entertained for the
people of the Pelican State from the present
Congress, but it is refreshing to hear that some
Senators consider that the integrity of State
Rights is infinitely of more importance than
the everlasting conundrum proposed by Mr..
Sherman on finance and kindred topics. 1t is
not at all likely that the Radical Republican
majority in Congress will do justice to Lousi-
ana, because such an effort would be too great
a stretch of magnanimty and involve the: in
a disqualification which might prove fatal to
their schemes. The proposition of Mr.. Bayard
is the true one, namely: to raise the blockade
of Federal power and intimidation, which
would Immediately permit the unhappy COM
monwealth to stand erect and robust. This,
however, is almost the last thing that can or
will be done. But indifference to the fate of
South Carolina and Louisiana will work bitter
ruin to those States which allow gigantic
wrong. Mr. Tipton, Senator from Nebraska,
sees the danger aud makes his point very en-
phatically thus:
"Tipton said he was not specially concerned
about the people of Louisiana, but he was con-
cerned about the people of Nebraska, and he
thoug ght the right Of the people to administer
their affairs was of more Importance than
questions of revenue, finance or anything else
which could occupy the Senate. He wanted to
know if hereafter faction in Nebraska could
appeal away from the constitution, laws and
ballot box of the State, whether handful of
men running the Custom House, United States
Marshals and United States Attorneys Office
could set up government Of their own, and
with promise Of support to some future Pres
ident could procure the support of the Federal
to pfoiy tho,,o t1,oir
Mr. Upton should evince great concern
about Louisiana, as preliminary step to pre-
serve Nebraska from the wrath to come; but
it is something for him to confess that, though
careless of another States degradation, he is
specially apprehensive for the welfare OF the
one he represents. Showing that the wrongs
of the South are obliged to react fatally upon
the East and West, the St. Louis Republican
says, 49, ct. - -
this terrible ordeal to which they have been
doomed by partisan policy and sectional hate,
their sister commonwealths look on Indifferent
ly and fancy that the gigantic wrong flourish
ing SO luxuriantly in South Carolina and Lou
isiana can never, by any possibility; invade
them. AS we'll might the man with cancer
fostering in his foot fatter himself that the
deadly poison will never spread through limbs
and BODY ana seize the citadel OF life. Ihls
Union of ours is welded, for good or i'll, into a
common mass. We are one nation, and must
stand or fall together No divorce of interest
is possible; the evil which afHicts one member
of the Federal family must sooner or later af-
feet the Others, and the tyranny thoroughly
imbedded in one section, however remote must
gradually creep in and overthrow the liberties
of all. Missouri and Massachusetts are struck
by the same blow which prostrates Louisiana
and South Carolina in the dust-and we shall
realize the fact when it is too late to avert the
lamentable consequences"