Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1856-07-30

! their duty, their professions and promises, are
willing to lend it secretly, to support the very
measures which are both intended and calcula
ted for their ruin" See Road to Ruin, by John
! Lowell.
So odious did they make the war, that sub.
srcptons to the Government loan were made
secretly. The following advertisement is proof
From the Boston Gazctte, April IA, 1914.
THE LOAN
Subscriptions will be received through the
agency of the subscriber to the 25th instant, in
elusive.
To avoid eW"lhe Inconvenience of personal
appearance to subscribe, applications in writing
will be received from any part Of the State
Each applicant will name the highest rate he
will give, and if the loan shall be granted lower
than his proposal, he will reap the benefit; but
if higher than his offer, he will have no share
in it.
The amount. rate and ~ name of any ap-
plicant shall, at his request, be known only 10
ihe subscriber All the business shall be tran.
sacted and certificates delivered to the snbscri-
bers without expense JESSE PUTNAM.
The author of The Olive Branch we'll and
properly remarks that
(" Men in the moral and religious town of
Boston are q" obliged 10 lend their money to
their own Government by stealth.
"But in the face of day. within the knowledge
of whole community. rw they send specie to
the common enemy, to support him against their
own country
"Can human nature sink lower? They are
0T7.too moral and too religious to rejoice at
the vic ories of their feow.citizens; but they
are reither 80, moral nor too religious to
aid the enemy to victory. An age in penilcnce
in sackrlolh and ashes would not cfface this foul
blot from the esrulcheon Of Boston, Olive
Branch, page 3l2.
Not satisfied however, with crippling the Go
vernment and milking the war odons, the patri-
ntic State of Massachusetts aided the enemy
with money.
Pious Boston, patriotic Boston, Purtancal
Boston well may she eyclaim, thank God,
am not as others are!" Her prosperity mainly
resting upon the African slave trade, loans of
money to the enemy in time Of war, and snug
Cling, well may she bedizzeu herself with inery.
Nor was the pul pit in 1912 in Massachusetts
confined to religious duties. 1t then gave aid
and comfort TO the enemy as it now breaches i'll
surrec,nn. submit few extracts from some
of the cergymen of Massachusetts.
From the Rev. |. S. J. Gardiner, A. NJ, Rector
of Trinity Church. Boston:
It is Il war - unexamped in the history
of the world: .Y' wantonly proclaimed on the
OF most frivolous and groundless pretences,
against nation from whose friendship we might
derive the most signal advantages, and from
whose hostility we have reason TO dread the
-a,nst tremendous losses" Discourse delivered
July 90, 1912.
"What consequence IS it to you if they be
repealed or not, if vou are sold to Napoleon.
as you have reason to believe, by The slaves who
have abused yonr confidence ?'-lden.
"The Union has been long since virtually dis.
solved and it is full time that this part Of the
di>unled States should take care of itself."-
tdem.
From the Rev. Elijah Parish D. D.:
"'rhere il Il point-!here ia an hour-bcyond
which you will not ar."-Discourse delivered
at ByhcId, April Z, 1913.
New England, If invaded, would be oblige
to defend herself Do you not, then, owe it to
ynnr children and owe it to your God to make
peace for yourselves ?"-ldem.
How will The supporters of ~" this anti.
Christian warfare endure their senlence-endure
I,i ir oHn rcflerlions-sIy' endure the fire that
tho hosannas of tHraven-HSy' while the smoke
nf their tormcnts asccndS forever and ever!-
IIrm.
will close this chapter of the history of
Massachusetts with the summary OF Il writer OF
that day
ITO sum up the whole, Massachusetts was
energetic, bold, finn, daring, and decisive in
contest with the General Government. She
would not abate an inch. She dared it to con-
lict She seizrd it by the throat, determined to
sirangle il She was unamable rs Il lion, or
TIMER, or Il panther But she was long suffering,
md mild. and patient, and harmless, and molten
i've and gentle, aid meek, rs lamb, or Il tur-
tie dove, when she came in contact with the
enemy "-[Ove Branch. page 3l5.
AIr. Speaker, this portion Of my task has been
disrhargrd; vel! or III, it has been discharged.
Let il pass.
To turn, sir, from matters Of grave import 10
Il petty anatomy Of words. TO The marinum in
minimis, to the supremacy in little things, which
so truly commends itself to the filter capacities
Of the member from The Suffolk district-Mr.
Burngame-it would seem that the phrasing of
my remarks has found, in him, either an Aristar-
chus or ZoiIus for cannot, under the pre-.
text of his words, well define the part which he
is pleased to enact. If, however. my language
has been marked by characteristics which have
failed to secure his applause his, on the contrary,
ii not without some prculiarilies, which others
may not entirely approve.
The lizard and the snake, vi hch have exercised
the dull righteousness Of the member, even the
" snake with hands"-repliIes of that species,
Mr.. Speaker, are not altogether impossible in the
of natural history. and MASSACHUSETTS,
may, perhaps, claim the signal honor of supply.
inc such specimen to American herpetology-
The lizard and the snake, say, can safely 60 to
The members market and find no barren ground
for fair exchange.
Sir, whatever parallels the North may institute
disparaging to the South, am glad that the
rhetoric of South Carolina suffers little detri-
mvnt by comparison with the rhetoric of Mas>a-
chnsc,ts speaking through The members lips.
With the example before him, not in terrorem. it
would seem-of the snake with hands," with
one of his own, he "nants school house" in the
wilderness, like so many Weatherstield onions
in Il row; whilst, under the other, the "plant,"
like bcccE.wood into aulmegs, is convert d into
"sp2nglcs"-a real pinch-beck of hlassachu-
setts manufacture, alike credilatle to the inge-
nuily Of the race and the rhetoric of one OF its
representatives upon this floor.
But, sir, these licenses of speech are not con.
fined to planting school-houses," which are IN.
acrouniably turned into "spangles" over the
field of freedom. As the wilderness produces,
so must the concave arch itself bear specimens
of his rhetorical sprouts. The earth is too low
~ theatre for the ambitious reaches of his
speech. lie affects the "hcavens" themselves
for the very pretty diversion of filling" them
Il u L;;.n tou.nr, nf rnlininn md .irili,n