The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1884-11-20
THE VERGE OF REVOLUTION.
New York's Condition Few Days Ago
A Vivid Description of Impending Dam
From the Ne,u York Herald.

From The NeW York Hcrdt0
This morning the Herald's assurance to
the people of this nation that "All's
quiet along Manhattan Island" will carry
tidiugs of equal significance to millions
of people interested to know the outcome
in the metropolis of the United States.
But it hasn't been so long.
WHAT WAS NOT TOLD.
The Herald is newspaper, but it did
not on Thursday tell all it knew. The
Herald goes not alone to men upon the
street and to women and children in their
homes. Its stories are read not alone by
LAWYERS and bankers and thinkers and
tailors, but by ladies in their stores and
shops, by passengers in the railway trains
and by walters in the depots. Had it
told hat it knew it would have said:
We are on the eve of revolution; the
official breast is disturbed; anticipations
of something more than idle talk and
gossip and bluster on the streets have
caused our officials to lay in ammunition,
to call out the police and put every man
on duty, either on the streets or in sta
tionhouse reserve! Such ideas once
started soon become pregnant, and in
their train come other ideas, multitude
7ously professional and dangerous to
degree.
Had the truth been told, not alone the
thousand roughs from Philadelphia and
their we'll termed "friends" from other
cities, not alone the gambling fraternity
from Boston and the bullies, who, strange
to say, make their nests along the rock
bound shores of the Hudson, but the riff.
raft from Jersey City and Brooklyn, the
rufians from Staten Island-absolutely
and literally the hordes of men who live
By their baser wits, would have come
.tumbling pell nell into the peaceable
streets ofTNew York, where, mingling
with the crowds already excited and
gathered in significant places. they would
have added fuel tothe pyre and furnished
the blazing torch besides. That would
have meant something besides "Hurrah,
boysI' The cries would not have been
Regards TO Mrs. Fisherp or "Blainel
Blaine the thief from Maine |" But,
."Where is the house of this rich man u.
Where the 1ank Where the well stored
magazine! Where the warehouse filled
with plunder The torch and axe and
.jimmy" would have taken the place of
the waving hats and shaking canes.
Could this story have been told
Not precisely.
But it was true, all the same.
1t was, indeed. And nobody knew it
better than tie Governor of the State,
and the mayor of the city, and the board
of police, and the United States marshal,
and the chief supervisor of elections,
and the men whose hands are upon the
helm of affairs deciding which way the
craft should steer toward an honest de-
termination of the votes of the people,
or dishonest twist of what would then
be farce-our popular election.
The wisdom of the Herald's course is
universally conceded. Enough was told
to show to the people who control those
things-for strange as it may seem these
things are controlled-that the danger
they were threatingly welding over this
metropolis was fully understood and ab-
solutely appreciated. Nay, more, that
had it come the responsibility would have
been laid at the feet and placed upon the
heads of those who had it in their power
to control it in the first instance.