The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1875-03-11
The Radical Programme.

Private advices from Washington of the most
reliable character indicate that the conspiracy
for the Inauguration of war In the South mas
been matured, and that the adjournment of
Congress will be the signal for attack. Ar kan
sas is to be the first State to receive the blow
of the assassin. The plan is for Brooks to es-
tablish himself at Pine Bluff and summon to
his support as many negroes and as many OF
the rif-raff white adventures as possible, and
these are to be placed under the command OF
General Pagan. A proclamation is then issued
declaring the Garland government usurpat.oon,
and ordering the Governor and the authorities
under him TO disperse and surrender all preteIn-
sions to the positions they hold by virtue OF the
sovereign will of the people, freely and consti-
tutionally expressed Mt the polls This proc
lamation is to be followed by an application to
the President for troops, and that application
is to meet with prompt and favorable re-
sponse
In this way the legal government of Arkan,
sas, which stands upon the same constitutional
basis as that of Indiana, New York, and twenty
other States, is to be overturned. The fact that
it is lawfully established, and peacefully and
honestly administered, IS considered no valid
plea for its maintenance The fact that it Is
the wish of every respectable element OF the
State that it remain as it is, and the additional
fact that committee of Congress strongly pro-
test against any effort to overthrow it, dc not
seem to have feathers weig ght against the trea-
sonable designs of the conspirators. Though
Arkansas has Just risen from the havoc of dis
order; though, after much strife and blood,
shed, she is peaceful and prosperous, and
though the President himself contributed more
than any other person to the establishment OF
her present government, that repose is to be
wantonly disturbed, her prosperity destroyed,
and the President, like an angry savage, is to
pull down and shatter into ruins the structure
he has aided in erecting. And tor what SIM
ply to crafty the greed of the robbers who have
but recently been choked from her throat, and
to bring war upon his country IN the nope that
he may be borne upon its bloody waves to the
guilty eminence of absolute power.
The carping slaves of party may laugh at
the prospect, but we wish to place on record a
prophecy, that unless patriotism IS aroused,
and a powerful public sentiment, blazing with
indignation, be directed against the consum-
nation of the wrong, we shall in few months
he involved in war whose wrathful atrocities
have never been surpassed upon this continent.
We speak advisedly and mean what we say.
We say there will be war, because we still have
some faith in the Anglo-Saxon blood-ln that
noble spirit which has revolted against usurpa-
ton since it was first nursed among the rocks
of Scandinavia, which gave us Hampden and
Russell, and Sidney and Washington which
has not hesitated to cut the throats of kings,
and which has "made the knees of despots eve
rywhere tremble with strange and unwonted
| fear"
We may be mistaken in this, it is true, for
eyery other race has had its grandeur and
decay, its glory and its humiliation. The de-
generate Greek now cowardly sneaks about the
| battle-fields his ancestors made immortal, and
the Roman soldier bows in submission in the
presence Of the fiery Gaul. 1t may be that
Anglo- -Saxons, too, are ready to surrender the
trophies of their thrilling and sanguinary his
tory, but we will not believe in the sudden de.
generacy, nor are we willing that the grave of
their glory shall be dug upon continent they
have made illustrious by their triumphs But
we say to the unrehecting and sluggish people
of the North that they had better consider the
issue and resolve how it shall be met.
If they are weary of the institutions which
have made their country great, let them be
changed voluntarily and not in obedience to
the blows of the sword, or rather by the lacer-
atoms of the lash, for the sword is too bright
and noble weapon for the castigation of men
who are willing to become the slaves of a
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