The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-04-08
Special Dispatch to he Baltimore Sun.
Views of Leading Men on National Affairs

Special Dispatch to he Baltimore Sun.
Views of Leading Men on National Affairs.
VICE PRESIDENT WILSON AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS.
WASHINGTON, March 25.
The Vice President, it is evident does not
believe in saddling payed-out Congressman
upon the public treasury. In conversation ne
has expressed himself as not recognizing the
Government offices as asylums for broken down
and extinct politicians. He says what the he
publican party needs now is an infusion OF new
blood into its leadership. He thinks now there
is too much dead timber in it. At this very
time if one-third of the office holders in Wash
ington and throughout the country were dis
missed and their places supplied with new men
from the people, and more thoroughly imbued
with the spirit of Republican progress, it would
be of great party advantage. There should be
very general changes in the offices every four
years. The Vice President thinks that his
Springfield letter cured some of the demorail-
zation which has been overtaking the Repub-
lican party since last year. He thinks now
that if the energies of the Republican party
are properly concentrated upon general princi-
ples and issues instead of being divided and
split up on local differences, there would be not
the least doubt of success in 1876.
SPEAKER BLAINE ON NATIONAL POLITICS.
Speaker Blaine, in his conversations on po-
litical matters, leaves the inference that, al
though he has strong hopes of Republican
triumph at the next Presidential election, he
cannot regard it as at all assured. Mr.. Blaine
has not much to say in regard to the personal
attacks made upon him by a portion OF the
Radical press in this city and elsewhere be-
cause of the somewhat conservative attitude
which he has of late assumed He does init
mate, however, that he does not consider the
Republican party in that fourishing condition
which makes it wise Or expedlent to drive
from it those who have contributed to build 1t
up. 1t is also very certain that Mr.. Blame
does not believe that the Northern heart can
be fired BIZ the insane and mendacious rawlings
relative to a new rebellion in the South.
Shortly after the passage Of the Poland Ar
kansas resolution, Gen. Butler said to MIR.
Blaine, "Our people (the carpet-baggers and
negroes) will now be slaughtered" MIR. Blaine
replied that he did not for one moment believe
any such thing. He considers now that the
people, not only of Arkansas, but of the other
States of the South, are on their good be-
haviour, and that they are not likely to offer
any excuse for further Federal interference
with their affairs Without some overt action
on the part of the people of the South, the
North will sustain no more interference with
the internal affairs of that section.
WHAT SENATOR MORTON HAS TO SAY.
Senator Morton seems 10 take more gloomy
view of affairs than any other of the Republi-
can leaders. In private conversation he i'm
putes the same dreadful purposes to the South
ern people and the same murderous instincts
L. IL N
ces. He insists that he entertans no doubt
that the South means to inaugurate another
rebellion. He was asked whether he had any
fear as TO its being put down, and with gloomy
shake of the head, he said he did not know,
that the North might hesitate to pile up anoth-
er great debt and another load of taxation, to
say nothing of other sacrifices, even Tor the
sake of saving the Union.
Senator Morton may be sincere in his belief
in this ridiculous idea of new rebellion. lie
is certainly very persistent in the expression OF
such belief But it is we'll to record in this
same connection the words of another shining
light of the Republican party, expressed also
in conversation in the presence of witnesses,
"Unless we can get up another civil war the
Republican party is gone"
A New England Senator came to Senator
Bayard and said, "We (meaning the people of
the North) can never consent that the South
shall control this government again." 1t is
perhaps not unnatural that the Radical leaders
should view with jealousy and alarm the return
to public life of the cultured class of
SOUTHERN MEN
who yielded so much power in the national
councils before the war. 1t lessons measura-
bly, their own influence and Importance. But
if our free institutions are to last, and these
men of the South are the choice of the people,
their participation in State affairs cannot be
prevented, nor is it to the interest and we'll
being of the country that it should, nor is there
any reason to believe that the New England
Senator had the right to speak for the North
in what he said. On this point another North
ern Senator, Democrat, said to-day that it
forcibly recalled to his mind the incident told
by the old historians of
OLIVER CROMWELL AND JOHN HAMpDEN.
Charles I, proceeding from one arbitrary act
to another, finally issued an edict stopping the
emigration of those who were fleeing from his
tyranny to the American Colonies. 1t is rela-
Ted that Cromwell and Hampden we're on board
ship in the Thames, bound for Virginia,
when this edict was published, and they were
compelled to disembark. But for this edct
Charles would probably have never lost his
head nor his crown, and would have died in
obscurity in Virginia. So now, the Republican
leaders of the North, who waged q four years
bloody and terrible war to prevent the Southern
leaders from leaving the Union, would like to
inaugurate another war through the apprehen-
sion that these same men whom they would not
let 20 may become their rulers.
HELPING OTHERs.-It seems strange thing,
but it is nevertheless true, that sharing anoth-
ers burden will Tighten our own. If you be-
gin doing little things for your neighbor, it will
very soon be easy for you to perform great