Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1866-01-24


A Jswnins chasp, lics below .
q IN leaning oa ths ssriek;s
God save me from temptations lure,
sstSsssp hThatgu fthatabasrnrahofo3 spA9
Angsls, sweep tho drifts away, i'S-i
sTtey'rs hsavy at my door.
GlH4oai als Susasials. Ba.a.r +,
~ ais ABlaAss 4Arp 10 his cid Friend :
80 sMasJDHS HxPeE-SuR:gs -1sassst :'s1
.'IA lTSsntt %, write to you personally about
Sefsome things thats weighin on. me. / look
kaA upon yeR "A, freud, and. feel like droppin
lew lines by way Of uubnrthenin my ssor]
ssaroHful lrea.xtiops. For the last. few years
g you hayea.ravelleG round right sanart, sand
Ssesrsust have uiade:a heap ofiaminus aobserga:
.ions.a ffsEsarsyo6 are now wiirinsin Nashville,
where you can see all sides of everything,
Paradise lost without book, and see the
Devil and his. angels, witaout draxin on the
imagination, and thought may be you might
assigtsme a,smy troubled feelings. have
alwsys, Mr, Happy onaeagored to see the
bright side Of every pkter if it had any, but
there issoneaor txo snbjecks about which I
had nifty ghsginsit up. - Ss',-ss=-: =
want you 70 tell me: if you can, about
2whst time aresthe black republicans ssoih to
Sqait persecutia our Epeopssa slWh hat are they
are so eyerias ,rpad with us about Old
ssSkewbad ssJ Is for treason that we've gone
and doue, an, tiat I am the, slowest per-
seevin maa aver seed not to have found
sitout. ~ ~ - es'
SSN Now treason IS asmity bad thing, and any
man found guilty .ef<treason ought to be
talked to by preacher right under gallus,
and then be allowed to stand on notan for
l.. At e.
sonI mean. Treason where man slips
sironnds ON the sly in time of WAR and tskea
- sidesag his country. Just as thongh, for
instance, 7 should hare worked agin nay
rim State artsr she had seeded, and had stole
beripowder, or deserted her in her time Of
peril, while sne was defending herself agin
: & the combined assaults of the world, the flesh
and the devil. :, l. wonldn'ts have blamed no
body for hangin me for the like, would you?
But Skewball says we amt got no suvreen
States-that the war hav settled the queS-
ton agin us. On :ha: pint dosl think 30,
III n1y friend. I admit shat we amt nothin in
partikier now, but We did hay suyreen States
before fhesatr, and tie sword amt settled
nor unsettled no great principles. There
ain. No triaIof right or wrong by wager OF
war now SadsJs. For mighty nigh hu2-
Tzsdred years this country hsTe bsen q big de-,
:esEshatia s1cietyson these questions. From tho;
time of Hamilton and Jefferson down to lS6l,
tho right, ofg-State Co dissolve her own part
nership have been argued by powerful mind.
ed men, and there has been more for it than
agin it. More Presdents-moTe Senator'S.
Ss more ststesnen, mere Judges, more people,
C. Massachusetts and Connecticut were for it
ct une. time, and bellered round and paved
dirtaaazin. oigit toat, but they found ont
Bareus Hns wiilin, and they didn't 60. be-
GeYe, however, that old Nutmeg did stay out
about two hours and shalt
Well the South went on nifty unwillingly,
sEappy, us you know. She had been
. nifty nigh kicked out for . long time, and
:. = there was big party that wanted rs to go
SSS--out and stay. out. u Everybody knows that
we didens git along inpeace, 80 We eonciu-
dsd to do Exc Abraham and his brother In
Law; toSseperate our households, What
they wanted TO keep us fog I never eould see,
nasn9 csn'fsee it yet.s Iweuldent ;hagea mig
ger os d. dog 10 stay round me that dident
want TO. Soma say they wanted as to strengths
en- 'em sgin their eremies in case of g furren
F." war. Does any man ins bis sober senses eE.
~ cpecs ns to helpthe. sblzcka4republicnns whip
.<ssssanys sbody.a Hare NE gotany worss enemies
.seewreekoa If we don't want TO. We have foat
.snuf and made nothing b.. it bnt glory, aud
" ws aint goip,, 10 give another war to crafty
s.so s.osher people., podds says before he'd pull
80 trigger rShads Sfsvens,he'ds haEe.his soul
Ts Tsfrsnsmi grated tor. 81 bench leg'd Zee, and
"a yBzrk st1 his daddy mules 1000 yesrs. |
.wonderif the experience Of The. last four
- years amt satisfied them feers that our boys
70 are dangerous SET TO be turned loose IN the
sc :. time OF war. .We1ident you think that as
s mstseraof'policy they would soft soddorius q
little, and qnit their slanderin9 If we do
fight for iem, it will be on one condition Ger
,Gsaain they tmustss DO put eshese David put
Uriah, and onr boys mns. consent TO make a
g.ss1 ehsrge,or two behind 'em. with he pint ol
the: bzyonet, ~. "a .,s ;
s. -. Bot Iwan, Jon line, Johr, SC am right
about this bnsnesza sIsaaint al long story
I'll tell il tho way seer il. Old Pewrytan
vent Of one day wi. i some ships and took %
g.. few beads and juee hsrps. and bought rp'a
= = lot OF captured piggers from The Hottento,s
or some. .other tots; and stole aefew Inore on
s=afheeoast ofAfnky and bsaught 'cm over and
$3.50 educated 'em TO work in tho HsId, and cut
wood, 1nd. skeer bars and so forth, but NO.
= inciudin votin, nor musterin, nor the jury bns
mess and 30 forth. = ed
sgssg gWsl srtsT gbls they toiad lie cold
. winds, and codfiyh airs Of New England
dident agree With the niger, aud 50 they be-
gaasto slide EN- down south as fast As spossi
bles they hsd sold them and got ths
iasAes taeF jjined the church. and @beca.ne
ss:eiihed Il ut slaser5; serter like lfiei wo.
..,-s;i,a tbatsga ceayertsd and them gave al
Fs5 sels way to her 'uScohvetted sister
sess sii, aEo olf Doninion .lssa such her sonl
sshiinS Sgfon, aud Jefferson, and Madison
SSa 8ando;. bought EN- and worked ena se
satisfakatisa, wherespon Ole Pew got Jealous
and began TO preach agin It to break it down
The aeais they @Saaeat Siosk gsas in thei
sfaEtori6s & II :warfent so profitable, for they
-Ssgars sce1seiesa.ionssJ opposed. % everything
thgt dont put ,tnae5 iu thsif pockets AZ
ter saEiiie they y at into the striped alma
rac business, making bloody pik.eracf poo
lsssrsssd nigesss getsina AurdssS lashes fo
nsthisa, znd mourning for their 6rst born
.-s.9sbsca0ss tEsyiRera rot sFheuzFthsy startet
- sic staa7ing program, andzsdiie we mere try
% 81 an fho BIZ z and little courts 10 gi
bacli ono sikly melsttsr BY the aaths oI Rret
SkS, ,sasy uere steahR hsn HIP % Atsy