The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-27

tnem Dy such comDlnatlon. we do not
object to being put in company with the
farmers of this County, and therefore we
will not enter into any extensive review
Of the arrangements already adduced to
sustain the general scope of the farmers
These resolutions, we re-
peat for the third or fourth time, con-
demned no company for increasing
prices, but the ground of condemnation
was the combination to run prices beyond
what was right and proper. The pro-
priety of the remoustrance of the farmers
has been shown by the reduction in the
cotton option price.
Throughout this article the Ne0s and
Courier shows an anxiety to stzike at the
INTELLIGENcER, and goes on:
The reason that the Ners and Courier
"lugged the Bond question" into the dis
cussion is that the language of the An
derson Resolutions and of the speech
es and articles of the Editor of the
and those who go with
him, are pitched in the same key. The
hebdomadal hints or declarations of the
INTELL1GENcER that "the people" will
never consent to pay the unrecognized
debt, even if the Courts declare it to be
valid, are of piece with the menaces to
the Fertilizer companies. They are diff
ferent expressions of the same feeling.
That feeling is, that the popular will as
expressed in the INTELLIGENcER or a.
County meetings, is higher than the law,
and beyond the Constitution. The In
TELLIGENcER heedlessly confesses this in
what it says of the election of q Chief
Justice to succeed Judge Willard. The
Editor of the INTELLIGENCER is a mem
Der of the Legislature, and he means to
vote, if he have the chance, for some
body who holds correct views upon the
State debt question" It is the desire OF
the INTELLIGENcER to pack the Supreme
Court of this State as the Radicals packed
the Supreme Court of the United States.
Judges are to be elected, not for their
learning or their integrity, but because
they hold "correct views )" and the men,
bers of the Legislature will be doing their
constituents "great wrong to vote for a
man who" in advance of the argument, and
free from The solemn obligations of hi, ju-
diciat office, sic known to hold the view
that it (the debit must be paid" Such
opinions, ne are confident, are not held
by the people of Anderson. They know
the importance of maintaining the inde-
pendence and defending the character Of
the Supreme Court. They are aware that
there is no safety for the individual when
the Judge is the creature of faction and
the instrument of q mob. In their keep
ing, the honor of the Supreme Bench is
safe from reproach.
The INTELLI1ENCER has never said
anything to indicate a defiance Of the
Courts or of the Constitution. We have
expressed the opinion that the people
will not psy the fraudulent debt, but the
News and Courier may content itself in
peace, for the Courts will be respected
by the people, and the payment avoided
by strictly legal means. Nothing will be
done, so far as we can foresee, that will
be outside of the plain rights of the
people, and all due respect for the Courts.
If our views on the debt question cores
pond with the views of the farmers on
the fertilizer question we do notregret it,
for we are sure the farmers of the whole
State are united on this subject; and if
it is to be the means of bringing them to
an understanding of the debt problem,
the agitation will subserve double pur-
pose. We have never indicated who we
will vote for to be Chief Justice, but we
are perfectly willing to be judged after
the election by the vote which we cast.
We do not expect to vote for man who
has declared his views to be in favor of
paying the fraudulent debt, and still We
intend to vote for the ablest, .purest and
most suitable person we can find for the
position. We do not believe that all of
the ability and purity in South Carolina
is committed to the payment of the dis
puted debt. The Nesrs and Courier does.
That is all the difference between Us.
Then come the grand finale of the
splenetic ebullition, and our contempo-
rary says:
The charges which the INTELLIaEN-
GER, for the hundredth time, makes
against the Mears and Courier, it is wei
coma to repeat in every issue. What is
true is no cause for either shame or re-
gret, and what is false does us no hurt.
It should be mentioned, however, that
the INTELLIGENcER, on this occasion,
adds to the usual stock in trade some
novel and peculiar lies of its own.
It is very easy matter to dismiss facts
by general denial and Characterization
as ies,i ,ibut then, unfortunately. .for..the
Neus and Courier, saying this does not
make it so. The Nears and Courier did
not publish our article, and as it has
thus characterized it, ne demand that it
publish it in full, and point out the parts
which it claims to be lies; or, failing. to
do this, we pronounce its statements to
be brazen ISLANDERS, intended to deceive
his own readers, and keep from them the
true position of the INTELLIGENcER.
Whenever any charge is made against
us, we publish it that our readers may
see what is said on both sides. If we
have proper position, and that charac-
ter which we ought to possess, they can
not injure by being published to our
readers. The Ne,us and Courier has not
done this, as we believe, because it knows
its readers would recognize the truth of
what we have said about it, and at the
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