Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-11-14
A Radical Threat..A Severe Reply.

A Radical Threat--A Severe Reply.
The New York Erening Past. conducted h,
Wilton Cullen Bryant, h.. dropicd i.F mod
crate zone, and now comes out iG the fietce>
of radical tareatenings: The following ex
tract from one OF its recent issues -we'Gnd ir
the New York Wold:s .--.: - s,.-.,,
Thus, with the rejection of the amend
ment, we shall enter upon another politica
struggle, more intense than that through
which we are now passing, more injurious tc
the country, and especially to the Southern
States-a contest of which the issue is HD
doubtful; for the 20,0O0,0O0 of the Northern
States will begin to see the unreasonabepes
of the Southern leaders, and will lose pa.
tehce with these men, who 30 stubbornly re-
fuse the mildest terms ever offered to beaten
rebels. Hitherto the country has wonderfully
restrained itself, but we advise no one to push
its patience too far. 1t is not at all impossible
it is not even improbable-if the amend.
ment should fail, through the obstinacy of the
Southern leaders, that The laws which are still
on the statute book. may be enforced against
the politicians who led their States into trea-
son and rebellion.
Hitherto we have given only mercy, but
justice is still alive. 1t seems monstrous
thing to the Southern politicians that some OF
them should be excluded from Office but,
suppose they were to be hanged for their
treason, as the law demands2 Suppose their
estates should be taken from them, as tha
law requires If they will take our advice.
they will think of these things. They arenoi
masters of the situation. They have no more
power now, nor strength with the country
than they had the day Lee surrendered t.,
Grant. Then they would have joyfuIv ac-
cepted the amendment-i. is great folly -
them to reject it now. Their attitude, 'he.t
conduct, their words, their pretentious claims
are all irritating to the Northern people, wla'
fought through four years to put down trea.
son, and now see the leading traitors aspiring
to the hgh@sr utlice-, aud demanding wher,
il they were pruicni, they would supplcai
aud if they were only reasonable, they woulG
accept in s!lcncc the large and free m,rc,
which is offered them"
Tn this and smitar threats, the RichmonG
Times publishes the following scathing reply
We have.read nothing more terribly severe i;
any newspaper article:
The brutal threat of the malignant fanat-
ic who edits the sew York Eveni1g Post.
that if the Southern people do not adopt the
constitutional amendment, their leading mel
shall be hanged or exiled, and their propcrt,
confiscated, is the most depraved and inf
nous specimen of cowardly and irhumaL
bullying which ever disgraced the press o.
any country. No brave, noble, but unforiu-
nate people were ever thus nenaced before.
and the threat of the Postis worthy only OF
the Greek brigands, who, when they have
captured. a tourist, and borne him to some
mountain fastness, inform him, that if his
ransom is not forthcoming by certain day.
he shall be fayed alive. The hoary wretcl.
who thus insults a disarmed people when he
uses the language of coarse menace, seems to
have forgotten'the immortal valor and patient
endurance which tie threatened section ex-
hibited during four years of unparalleled suf
terings.and privatious. He seems to forgei
that in that contest all vas lost save honor
bu. that, although crushed by people vii,
brought the aid CT every nation Of Europe t.
help them DO their work, tie South although
defeated, is today more respected aAd hon
orcd by ChristcGdom than our m:rciless anc
unfeeiing conqucrors.
''Aud The insult conveyed in this menace
is he more reprehenslbl because: while :sc
are called upon 20 sanction and aid in the sc
ccmpli5hnent OF cur own dishonor, we or,
promised not even vile price for our self
ai.a>en!eni ike thar .hicn Judas tool, a,pi
llen went aud hanged himself. We are eac
day called upon to, approve and ratity so,ar
fresh deed Of radical outrage, with no room
for hope that still greater humiliation dec.
not avail; us the next day.
SIN the bottomless Arcrnus of radical ma
lignaGcy, there seems always open, in the
very lowest depths, q lower deep still threat,
cning to dcvour Us, TO which the hell VIC sui
FER seems heaven This persecution Of a
disarmed people, this caaseless torture Of :.
roble race, which has proved itself so brave
and heroic, stamps the Northern victor as
less masnanimous than either the Turk or tie
Russian. This torture. protracted through
months and years, and constantly increasing
in ingenious severity, has no parallel save il.
the diabo'ism Of The inquistion. The Indian.
ercn, when be has tortured his captive for a
season, ends his agony by blow Of the
hn;chet; but the torturcs to which the Ges-
potism of the rabble is subjecting the South.
ern people, emit the mercy Of the tomahawk
from the programme ofunending persecution.
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