The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1877-11-29
VOL. XIII---NO. 90.

any Osher portion or tEs eofld. No.
where are the Gober checks of conserya.
tism so much needed, SO absolutely essen
tial to tho preservation Of Che very ele-
nents of liberty. '#F a.'E<
Every circumstance Of our condition
feeds and stimulates ~lr progressive dan.
gers; and the still small voice of home.
ly prudence is drowned In the loar of the
wheels which the national energies set in.
motion. We glory in oar untiring
strength, in our limitleos power. When
We work in the fields of peace, it Is our
pride that we excel all otheis; when we
war, even among ourselves, It Is o. battle
of giants, aud even when we steal Il Ia
with O colossal unity aud on q scale of
national megnifcence that shames alike
the petty larceny Of the Christian and
the Turk. t
Occupying the ,roadest and most fer.
tile strip of this earth which spreads be-
meath the temperate belts Of tho sun, be-
tween two great oceans, an empire Of
more than 100000 gauare miles in ex-
tent, not yet more than half eubdued to
civilization, the field of wealth and ply
sicai power which the vista ofthe future
discloses is grander than any which ever
old Roman or Spaniard gazed upon. Its
contemplation has bred a Wondrcus
energy and prophetic instinct which
evinces itself not only in great deeds and
greater boasting, but in, most reckless
disregard of moral means and most
| dangerous contempt of consequences.
In the major part of the Union this
feeling characterizea the teaching inn
parted to the young. A boy Is taught,
indirectly II not directly, that IL is more
important to acquire dollar than TO un-
deratnna and jealonsiy guard the free
Ei)od.bought institutions which enable
him to earn that dollar aud protect him
| in its enjoyment. The everlasting re-
frain rling into his ears 10 to develop
something by which money is to be made.
From the press, the school room, the
hustings, the rostrum, the store room, the
Workshop and the fire-side, comes this
ceaaelcas lesson whilst the exhortation
TO develop the noble and generous quail
ties of the soul, tho basis of personal and
national integrity, are left to the formal
drihhlinGss ef the Sunday seaoo. seii, oT tho tho
peridnctory routine of the pulpit, and
tho inculcation of the great principles
which underlie and sustain our liberties
are heard only occasionally from come
droning professors chair, delivered with
|
discourse on the ancient fossils and ailu.
-ian what-you- -call-ems. In other words,
our progress is not true progress we
are expending our energies in physical
development to the neglect of the intel.
lectual and m0.al; we are cultivatipp
| the vine for the production of wood and
leaves to the neglect of the fruit; We are
building cities, railroads and chip canals,
opening lands to cultivation Ada amass.
| ing wealth, but we arc building no new
bulwarks to protect free government
! On the contrary ge haye cas. sA.m.e c: .!he
| ancient ones down and tranpled them in
Tho Tii;Tv, and 0thheTo NO arc forgetting
| and remanding to the musty cabinets OF
the curious. Never ,stickle for the con-
stitution, they saw now; politics don't
pay the farmer; let us develop some
| thing; let us get rich. Verify I say SO
too. Let us indeed hst rich; not only
in houses and lands, In Aocks and herds,
in cities and towns, in ships and steam-
trayersed highways and gold and silver,
| but also in the un5peakable riches of the
| freedom wherewith our ancestors made
us free; in tie knowledge of our rights,
personal and State, and above all, rich In
tue courage and Integrity to yindicate
them; 80 rich in these virtues, in fact,
that an attempt to organize reelegisln-
ture by the use OF bayonets, aud to con-
| stitute sergeant of the guard judge OF
| the election and qualification of the
members thereof, shall blow all America
into volcanic flame, which, like the
fearful looking for of judgment shall
consume the adversary-its author-in.
stead of feasting him In the high places
of Europe and America, aud Wilt give
him the confinement of dungeon, IN
stead of the freedom OF an ancient city.
My word for it, my friends, thesa ore
the true riches of an American citizen
to struggle for these things il the lesson
! which should be taught our children nsxt
after they are able to lisp "Our Father
which art in Heaven" The absence OF
these teachings will result in the utter
perishing, as it has already produced the
grievous wounding, of liberty.
And nov to the destiny which hnys
announced chat it was my opinion yo,
had to fulfill. The chief business Of
these Southern Atlantic States Is, and
will for generations continue to be, the
cultivation Of the soil and cognate pur-
suits. The tendency Of these employ.
ments is decidedly conservative.
Looking at the history of the greet
Germanic families, 1t may be said, that
whilst cities and municipalities have been
foremost in asserting free institutions
rural and agricultural communities have
ever been most steadfast in maintaining
and conserving them. The enjoyment q
corporate privileges early taught their
p0ssessors Ia the towns the Importance oi
establishing also the rights aud liberties
of the nation at large. But the spirit o.
gain and the love of change also vel
coined tho approach of tyranny, an6
oyercrowded populations gave birth. X
riot, uocial disorders, and tue demagoguo
| the personation of all dangers TO law anc
liberty. It is yet 80. From the crowdeC
falleys and dark by-ways of cur ggea
cities, abodes Of hunger and crime, comes
forth the direst enemy with which oul
institutions must contend. The evil.
prophesied by Lord Macauiey have come
upon III long before our vast Western
plains have been filed up: and willis
there sre still homes to be had alinos
Tor the trouble or equatring upon then
and bread for the sowing Of the seed, the
war against property has begun on 9
scale requiring asmies to resist IL, anC
communicable incarnation of despat
ism and social chaos--is openly eateb
lished in the land. How, the sword may
temporarily check but cannot utterly sub
vert this spirit. The sword is evil az er
instrument of government, rs commun
iSm is evil, aud one evil cannog cure an
other. Moral remedies are alone perfna
aeHt and credisabie TO our civilization
This remedy Is found in the ballot box
-. Il Al n. ~