The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1879-02-20

East and West, has been wrenched from
its ante bellam status, and has grown into
new shape aud proportion-in many re-
| spects disproport;on. These thinga be-
| ing visible and palpable epgross our ct
| tention. We feel and SEQ aud know end
| regret them.
The moral evils, greater thau oil
others, are not seen 30 readily nor ac-
knowledged 20 willingly. What we see
of this world 10 but an infnitesimal part
of the whole. What we see OF the results
of the war arc small matters compared
with that which we do not eco Oh the
surface. What you can zee of the world
as yon otand ON come high hill may be
subtrected from the whole without appre-
ciable loss. And what you see on the
surface as the evil of great national
upheaval, you may epbstract from the
sum-total OF evils without being missed.
1t is absolutely impossible for al the
moIal evils Of great civil war TO be ag-
gregated. The Wer left none of us as tt
found us. Not man, woman or child
who was not more or less injured. Even
the children born since the bloody con-
fiict, have been brought up on both aides
by those who, either in feeling or in fact,
or both, engaged in it, and the sectional
prejudice and hates Of parents have been
inssilled into their children, and the
dreadful enrlity and strife Of 1880-1S66
is the inheritance Of the children. This
is hot all, go further. Children Of war
are morally unequal to children Of peace,
We beget cons and daughters In our
own image, and transmit to them the
miseries and sins and peculiar environ
ments of ourselves. leave this for you
to reflect upon.
What have been the results of the war
upon indivinual characterf At the be-
| ginning OF the coonhict our circulating
would buy gold dollar. During tho
war, gold ran up to 285, and greenbacks
| down to 35. Now, if the moral and re-
! ligious status Of the individual was par
at the beginning Of the war, then have
| not most of us fallen lower than 357 and
have not ante bcllum morals and religion
been higher than 2852 This moral de-
probation is not confined to any particu-
lar aection OF the United Staten. LIN the
South the T9r resulted in poverty and
misrule anu prejudice and "Ku Klux" So
cieties. In the North men were finan-
| cially enriched, but misrule and demoral-
| ization werc perhaps just as great. We
| have not forgotten "Black Friday" when
| the "Bnlis and Bears" on Wall street, with
Jay Gould, Fisk and Speyer, caused a
| fearful eruption in financial circles. We
have not forgotten "Credit Mobilier,"
'Tweed Rings" and other gigantic reve-
nue frauds, which were indexes on the
moral dial-plate. But recently "Rail-l
road Strike" threatened TO make the great
arteries of commerce useless, when Uni
| ted States troops were called out to put
down armed resistance, and many States
were in danger OF civil war. Irefer to
i the strike; on the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad and Connecting linea The Ire
quent robbing Of express cars, tho "Cosl
Strikes," "Oil Strikes Molly Ma
| guires" and other war-like combinations,
all go to show the low state of morality
in our land. How often have we seen
paragraphs in our newspapers headed
"Censcience Money" in which was re-
corded the fact that some one who had
ury had disgorged. Red hot iron applied
to the cuticle destroys it; iron picked up
cold and frozen does the Same thing.
1t is likely that tho conquered States
are better off to-day than those who
waged the war for the preservation of the
Union. With all their wealth and power
hI tuC 1NOEbA, tlSI0 GIO REGbt6g uAIR6IS
menacing tho social and political fabric
poverty and petty theft disturb the South,
Cur Northern brethren are besieged by
armies of "tramps" and "Communistic
Leagues" and it is gravely charged that
while the friends Of the present Chief
Magistrate stole the Presidency for him,
his opponent and his Democratic friends
tried to steal it for themselves. I do not
say these things are so; the fact that the
public gaEettes make the charges are sig
niicant.
Nor is this moral deterioration Pc
culiar to our late war. 1t is the con-
aequenco following all wars. France
and Prussia were lately arrayed against
each other on the ensanguined field, and
both the victor and the yanGuished are
now reaping the fearful results of the
suspension Of moral law. War is abnor-
NAL, spasmotlic, unnatural, aud it always
leaves IL hbiightiDg Effects on the people
engaged. ! need not say that as regards
, these European powers, Prussia is to-day
in worse condition morally than
France. Socialism" has assumed such
, proportions in Germany that BISMARCK
and the Keiser, and the whole ruling
power, are seriously alarmed, lest gen.
, eral uprising and revolution shall occur
!, ct any time. All wars, from that Of
words and blows among children, &c those
that shake the continents, leave theil
deleterious effects on those engaged
,, The earliest War of which We have any
account occurred betSeen Gain and Abel
J and the victor was worsted. the re-
boud injured his moral nature and lef
him an inquirer man than he was before
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