The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1866-11-19
Lifting the Veil,

New York paper, of recent dato, thus gives
he Radicals Mr.. boutwell,, sand Massachusetts
in particular, some hard hits:
Now that the Radicals have had their way, they
arc very far from being anxious to keep on tho
afraid to drop. The Hon. Mr.. Boutwell,, in q re-
cont lecture ut Boston, had no hesitation in assur-
ing his audience that the foundations of our gov
ernment were laid i'll injustice, and that tho causes
OF tho lato rebellion were set in motion from it's
very beginning, SO TINT Washington, Franklin,
Madison, and all tho supposed great men who
framed tho Constitution, really deserve cxccration,
not reverence. This reversal of Contcmporanoous
Judgment t. and Of present Judgment, this demon.
which mon felt 80 indignant at seeing attacked
and became 80 enthusiastic to save, was really o
very bad government, which ought not to eaist,
States that they were hypocrites or fools.
1t would scarcely do for o rebel to venture upon
such on assertion, but Radical is entitled to lift
and to deride the dupes as bitterly as he pleases.
II MIR; Boutweu knew enough Of history to get
at the truth or had tho courage to tell it. he would
nave said: Men OF Massachusetts, tho lato rebel
hon existed because you had not tho least sense
OF justice nor the least conception Of good faith
veTy I've state in the Union has been held by you as
have the keenest appreciation of rights" of your
own, you have not the faintest appreciation of
whe Do nS Ssnt esS aou sn1
them to see. - fair equivalent you never
IL
give on equivalent do you ever willingly
pay it. You consider sweating the coin you arc to
pay legitimate, and you ring every coin paid you.
With fifty sects in your State there is but one real
creed-getting the advantage. You put up the
etStSes eeS Of y4nT anSestore who could readily
ooNe usurpatlon ana strike boldly against it.. You
pet those Of you who practice usurpation, and YOU
light bravely for it. There was one man whom
you ought TO inaugurate as your patron saint
Jonathan Wild the great. You have never been
satisfied to have Massachusetts, an equal in the
Union. You have always wanted her tho school
master, with an unlimited supply of BIRCH
You are just intolerant to-day as YOUR an
eestors were. when they whipped Quakers and
hanged witches You love to mako slaves
to-day just as much as your ancestors when
they sold Indians at homo and in the West
Indies. You arc o very active, Industrious and
intelligent people; and 30 long Us men generally
are weighing and balancing right and wrong, YOU
will always bent them, for you are always right in
your own eyes, and in the race of life he who car
ries scruples carries weight. You have always
been consistent, from tho time when one of your
delegates in convention said that Massachusetts
did not care for tho Union unless sho could gain
something by it, down to this minute, when YOU
love it because it enables you to levy tribute
There is party in this country known as the
Democratic party; it's principle is that this Union
means among other things tho equality OF each
State. Vote down this heresy, for it gives you no
advantagos, remembering that the Garth is tho
Lords, and the fullness thereof; that He has given
it to tho saints, and that you arc the saints.