The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-03-10
field will continue to stand.

field will continue to stand.
The New Orleans Picayune says: 1t is
taken altogether an able document,
and places the President upon much
broader ground than any Chief Magis-
trate has occupied since the war. The
transition from Grant to Hayes was,
politically, broadly marked one. The
transition from Hayes to Garfield is also
we'll defined. Hei President of q united
people, and while there is stroke of sec
tionalism in his reference to the will of
the party that elected him, there are
broad principles of government laid
down which clearly indicate that the new
President is firmly convinced that recon-
structive legislation and reconstruction
measures have forever gone by with the
past. His treatment of the race question
can excite no fears in the breast of the
Southern people.
The New Orleans Times says: The
new President talks like statesman and
a patriot. If bis administration of affairs
is as liberal as the temper and tone of his
address, he will be President of the peo.
pie rather than of u party. Taken as a
whole the address is calculated to inspire
confidence in the new administration and
secure for it the good will of the entire
country. Whether or not his admins.
!ration will be success depends on Gen.
Garfield himself.
The New Orleans Democrat says: In
speaking of this section of country he is
very conservative, and anything but stall
wart. He admits that negro suffrage has
brought many troubles, but defends the
Fifteenth amendment as absolutely neces-
sary to our form of government. So fur as
his authority goes he will protect the
negroes in their rights. This ia the sub
stance of his platform, and this is not
very "bloody shirt" or threatening. The
Message is comparatively short, and quite
clear and vigorous, dealing little in vague
and glittering generalities. Most of the
points of the Message-the improvement
of our public school system, the endorse.
ment of the Monroe doctrine, our indus
trial improvements, &c.-will not be op.
posed or objected to here.
The Columbus, Ga, Enquirer.Sun
says: The address is an excellent one.
1t is that OF man who, seemingly, pro-
poses to do his whole duty. AS we have
said, the South has no right to ask any
favors of the President. He was chosen
against the wishes and over the votes of
our people, yet none have disposition
to longer oppose his policy, if it be that
of statesman, in the interest of the
country. He advises the obliteration OF
old controversies. This the South hss
long desired, and if the President be sim
cere in his purpose, we feel assured he
will be cordially met by the Southern
representatives in the National Legisla-
ture.
The Jacksonville, Fla, Union says
The inaugural address of President Gar.
field is document of much force and
vigor. 1t is the production of scholarly
intellect and wide grasp, and evinces the
perfect familiarity of the trained states
man with public affairs. There is no
question that the new President is by far
the ablest man who has occupied that
Office in late years. As a military man
Grant is, of course, his superior, but as a
statesman Grant is q mere pigmy beside
Garfield. If Garfield the statesman will
always be Garfield the President, his ad.
ministration will necessarily prove one
of the most successful and brilliant on
record. There would be no reason why
it should not bring us, of the South, all
the good we expected from the success Of
Hancock, our chosen leader. But we
cannot forget that Garfield the statesman
has often surrendered to Garfield the
politician. He now occupies position
where he can and should deal with all
questions from the standpoint of the pa.
triot and statesman, and his inaugural
gives promise that such will be his course.
IF his administration is conducted in the
spirit which pervades in his address, he
will find no factious opposition from the
South, but on the contrary an earnest
desire to support him in every effort he
may put forth to make truce with time
by healing past differences and bringing
about complete reconciliation.
One Dissenting Voice.
The Knoxville, Tenn, Tribune says
There is no mistaking Garfield's policy.
1t is clearly foreshadowed, and is, OF
course, the policy of the Northern Re-
publican party. 1t can be summed up in
few words. 1t is simply Capitalization,
negro equality and oppression of the
South. Garfield strikes savage blows at
the cherished rights of the States, and
does not seek to disguise the fact that his
party would obliterate every State line
and trample under foot every States Con.
stitution. 1t is plain that the negro is
to be the pet of the present administra-
tion, and he will be held closer to the
hearts of the Republican party than ever
before.