The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1888-07-12

new deal. Politics is just as much q
science as playing chess, and has about
as small field for the emotions that
give grace and truth to character. Then
what can man fall back upon but pa.
triotism-that patriotism-that patrio.
tism that begins at the freside, then
broadens to his State, then reaches to his
peculiar sectioh, and at the last stretches
wide its arms and takes the whole nation
in their embrace?
don't see any goodin the south abus-
ing Harrison nohow. The south is solid
for Cleveland and the battle ground is
up north, and the more we abuse him
here the more it will strengthen him up
there. This chronic abuse, this stereo.
typed slander that comes along every four
years, is shame. We vent to var be.
cause Lincoln was elected, and now re
say he was the very best friend the south
bad above the line. We denounced
Grant as brute and drunkard, and yet
the gfeat political leaders of the south
praised him alive and tncurned him
when dead and threw flowers upon his
grave. Lamar delivered eulogy on
Sumner, and general Gordon became
Grants personal friend. They fall out
and fall in worse than children at play.
They run drag net through each others
character, and then make ftiands and put
the net up in the loft for the next time,
and it is all foroffice. It was the same
way in 1S4O, when General Harrison ran
against vanBuren. Log cabins and hard
cider we're the watchwordss then, for the
general lived in the one and lived on the
other. His grandson has no liking for
either, they say, and SO we don't know
yet what will be his signboard.
The wings built little log cabins all
over the country, and hauled them about
on wagons and shouted for "Tippecanoe
and Tyler, too." I remember how the
wbig boys of our town crowded over JUS
when we we're beaten. They could
alwaysbeat US at crowding. I remember
that the SautAern Recorder was their
State paper, and ours was the Federal
Union. The Recorder generally had
about column of runaway negroes adj
vertised, With the little pictures attached
to each-a picture Of q. .bateheaded, bare.
footed darky, on the run, with one foot
up and one down, and q stick across his
shoulder with a bundle swinging from the
hind end of it. The "ad" was headed
"Ten Dollors Reward, and described the
negro, and the owners name vas attach.
ed. The Federal Union had but few
runaways to advertise, for its readers
were democrats and dident own very
many, and one day Iheard whig boy,
as he camegfrom the postofice with bis
fathers paper say to democratic boy !:
"Just look here at the runaway uiggers.
You old dimocrat paper hain't got but
five or sig. You dimocrats hain't got no
niggers to run away There we're feuds
and fights and all sorts of ISLANDERS than
| lust like there are now. Sometimes the
.whigs we're on top and sometimes the
democrats, but still the great ship ofstate
moved on and defed the storm.
After all it is not a mans politics that
establishes his character or his patriotism.
1t is his heart, his charity, his federation.
Ben Butler and Horace Greedy we're
never so great, so noble as when they
stood by and defended Jefferson Davis in
his prison life. Grantswas never greater
than when he refused General Lees
sword and paroled his army. The New
York World recently said some kind,
copsiderate words about Mr.. Davis and
his 80th birthday. Those words toucoeo
the southern heart asd revived our
slumberipg hopes aof reconciliation
| We wish thatit would come, for we are
tired tired of this perpetual strife,
What we needis to become acquainted
| Every northern man who comes south
and stays with us awhile makes friends
and. becomes, as it where, one of US
Why, there, is Governor Bullock who
came back under a cloud and is still 8
republican, and yet he moves in the best
society of Atlanta and is doing, more in
our defense by his admirable letters te
the northern press than a thousand dem
ocrats could do. And SO let US have aE
much as we can. Weahaye been very
fortunate of late; we have escaped the
trickery of Blaine and the malignity o.
Sherman, and are thankful. Ben Har;
rison is old Virginia stock, and it il
reasonably expected will behave himself
Sonorably during the canvass. He ought
@is ..e BILL ARP.