The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1874-09-24
The Terrors of Demand for IN Honest Gov
ernment.

The Terrors of Demand for IN Honest Gov
ernment.
In his elaborate and effective partisan ad
dress in support of the nomination OF Mr
Chamberlain for Governor, delivered before the
Radical Convention, Judge Mackey eXerted al
his powers to show the immlnence OF deadly
struggle for control of the political power o.
the State. It was, in his view, so threatening
as to be likely to imperil the common rights oi
the citizen and to lead to bloodshed. This WAS
the justification of himself and others for the
distribution of troops throughout the State, and
for the orders of the Attorney General to the
Federal officers in this State to see the strict
observance of the Enforcement Act Mr.
Chamberlain himself regarded the contest as
gigantic in the amount and character of the
elements of opposition which his party would
have to cope with. The party tocsin was
sounded, the changes were rung again and
again upon the endangered principles Of Re,
publcansm, and some huge underlined spectre
of disaster duly pictured as certain to occur, il
faithful relaxed in their efforts, if they did not
utilize every particle of the strength and ntiu-
ence of their organization. We believe we
represent the underlying thought in the efforts
of these speakers correctly. The same has
been harped upon in the newspaper organ till
everybody has it by heart. All over the State,
the cry is raised, that the Republican party is
in danger of being overthrown.
What are the facts? The Radical party,
Which has Just placed its banner in Mr.. Cham
berlain's hands, has all the machinery OF the
State Government under its absolute control.
1t has all the offices, including the Treasury,
and command of the Bank of the State assets
vet unstolen. 1t has a militia of $1,000 men,
armed with the best rifles, which has been for
several years past regularly drilled all over the
State. 1t claims 10000 majority of voters. 1t
has laws governing elections, which give 1t I'M
mense advantages in determining the result in
its favor. 1t has partisans whose highest sense
of duty is to promote and secure success by any
and erery means 1t is common saying with
them, that they would support the old boy
himself, if he should come up here in person,
and be, as of course he would be, their leader.
Not content with all this, they have procured
an order from the United States Government,
ordering troops here in certain emergencies,
which is intended and is calculated to inspirit
their followers and awe the spirit Of whatever
opposition there may be. They have raised
the cry of violence where peace and serenity
dwell they have invented terrors where none
exist Their representative journal asks pite-
ouslv. swho does not know that we cannot
hold an election with the smallest prospect OF
success without aid from the General Govern
ment?"
Look now in another quarter. There is no
political party in South Carolina standing in
political opposition to the Radical party at all.
There is absolutely none. We have not seen a
discussion turning upon political principles in
this State for years. State rights, internal i'm
provements, civil rights, hard money, imitation
whatever questions may exist elsewhere and
be discussed-are as unknown here in a party
sense as the Sanscrit language. Questions
which concern government and poity in any
enlarged sense are no longer questions for us.
They are luxuries denied to us. The action of
the people who are the victims of misgovern-
ment is limited to protests, memorials and rep
resentations of their wrongs, merely. They
pray simply that they may not be destroyed
utterly, that the gatherers of taxes shall not
take the last dollar that the State authorities
shall not confscate the remnant of their prop
ertv and drive them from homes which they
love in the State of their birth or adoption.
Their one exclusive idea, embodied in all the
public action they have taken, or propose to
take, is embraced in the demand OF honest gov-
ernmcnt in the hands of capable men. There
is no array of forces organized for any other
purpose. =.
Some cases require nothing more than fair
statement; this is one of them. The people
who support this State government, the pro-
cceds of whose tolls are poured to the amount
of nearly two millions into the treasury, who
see it squandercd and enjoyed by officials, who
see all the institutions of the State famishing
and declining merely by the demand for homes
tv In gorcrnn,ent, has struck terror into the
party in power, claiming to have at its back
the National Government, and holding subject
to its will for party purposes the offices, the
treasury, the sword, all the machinery OF State
and party organization, and the unquestioning
suffrages of a blind constituency, whom they
have only to lead whittier they will. We have
read of nothing like this in history, unless it
be what occurred at the great revelry of Bel
shazzar and his lords, when, with their wives
and eoncubincs, they impiously drank wine
from the "golden vessels taken out of the tenn
ple of the house of God" subject grandly
treated by the genius of Washington Aston.
AS the fingers of mans hand came forth and
wrote over against the candlc-stick upon the
walls of the palace had unspeakable terror for
the dissolute monarch, so the majestic word
honesty demoralzes the hosts of evil-doers, the
plottcrs against the peace and prosperity of this
State In that word sleeps the storm which they
fearwill overtakc them. With all their resources
they feel insecure while it flames in the van
PhGnir.
THE SuIpHuRIC ACID CURE FOR DTpH-
rurpIA.-The Hamilton Spectator (South
Australia) publishes details of the "creathead
cure for diphtheria. The disease is declared
by Mr. Greathcad to be of hydatid growth,
and that The germs of it, floating about
inc in certain impure atmosphcrcs, were inhaled
by human beings For a grown person, four
drops dr. Of sui phurc acid diluted in three-qq9ar-
ters ola tumbler Of water; with smaller dose
for children. :,
The effect of this treatment was said to be
instantaneous, the acid at once destroying the par
asitcs and the patient coughing up the OBJ
struction. The papers have teemed with ac-
counts of sufferers who had recovered IN few
thn n16O trout