The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1876-11-30
MEssRs. EDITORS :

| 1lESSRS. EDITORS.
It is we'll in time of such unprece-
dented political excitement as at present
agitates the whole country, paralyzing
the industrial, mercantile, and CONNER
cial interests of the whole country, to
recur 10 the past and learn lessons of
wisdom from the teachings of history.
In tue Declaration of Independence
our fathers solemnly declared "That
all experience had shown, that man.
kind are more disposed to suffer, while
evils are suferable, than to right them
selves. But, when long
train of abuses and usurpations, pur-
suing invariably the same object,
evinces design to reduce them un-
der absolute despotism, it is their right,
it is their duty, to throw off such govern
ment, and to provide new guards for their
future security" Tyrants in all ages
have presumed much on the forbearance
of the people, and this forbearance when
it passes certain point ceases to be
virtue and becomes high political
crime.
That Gen. Grant possesses the low in
stincts, uncontrolled by virtue and judg-
ment and the arbitrary will which fit
him Tor the lawless assumptions of pow
er, the utter disregard of the rights of
individuals and States, and which cause
him to regard the constitution as by
word, the history of his administration
for the last four years amply proves.
The abuses of the power with which the
constitution invests him, has made the
government of the United States one of
shame and contempt. He has surroun-
ded himself with rogues and thieves,
and the Belknaps, Babcocks and Shep-
hards are his special favorites. Virtue,
patriotism and craftsmanship are un-
known to his administration. 1t is an
administration of vice, corruption and
the arbitrary will of one man regardless
of the rights of States, the requirements
of the constitution and the will of the
people. He has for years maintained by
the bayonet at the head of the govern
menls of some of the Southern States,
against the will of the people, bad and
corrupt men because they were his po-
liticai tools, and as such could be used
by him to accomplish his unlawful and
tyrannical purposes. He has encouraged
crime and roguery in the administration
of the government, by shielding men
high in authority by his own appoint
ment from the demands of justice, and
sustaining in power such men as Cham
berlain, who, without his assistance,
would find their residence in the peni-
Tertiary. He has arbitrarily subverted
State governments, making Governors
against the express will of the people,
and sustaining them in power with
Federal bayonets. He assumed control
of legislative body by sending troops
to take possession of the legislative hall
and forcibly ejectiug the representatives
of the people to give place to his own
vile and petty tools; and to-day he has
lawless possession Of the Capitol of
South Carolina, and by making his
troops, in contravention of the laws
and constitution of the State, judges of
the election of the. members of the Gen.
eral Assembly, has subverted justice,
overthrown the constitution, set aside
the will of the people, usurped their
power, and tyrannically established
government of his own.
Chamberlain is not Governor chosen
by the people of South Carolina, for they
have rejected him, but one appointed by
Grant and surrounded and upheld by
Federal bayonets. The so-called Repub-
lican Legislature which assembled in
Columbia on last Tuesday, is not com
posed of representations of the people,
but of individuals declared by Grants
troops to be entitled to seats. Gen.
Grant has not only thus set at defiance
the laws of the land, but he now designs
to make the next President of the United
States. By the bayonets Grant made a
Governor of Louisiana, now seeks to
make Governor of South Carolina, and
by his troops sent into three States and
concentrated in Washington City, mani
tests his determination to make the next
President in despite of the will of the
people at the ballot box. Are these evils
longer suferable? Do these long trains
of abuses and usurpation show design
to subvert constitutional liberty and es-
tablish despotism The people of the
United States must determine, and upon
this determination depends the future of
our Government.