The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1867-11-28
AN ELOQUENT SPECIE.

ILLUS, VI Liiulii'e, ">''
orator, and he came fully up to the
occasion, delivering speech rarely
exccllcd in power. We extract from
it the following sad but truthful delin-
cation of the oppression Of our coan-
try:
''In our school books VIC learned to
mourn over the cruel fortunes ofPo-
land, and to flame with Indignation
against her barbarial eNccutioncr; the
funeral and wailing shadow Of mm-
dered Hungary convulscd this contl-
nent few short years ago, and made
the name of Austria hateful to the
ears of the cililizcd world; the per-
turbed spirit of Irish liberty walks
the eartl at all hours, in Ill its dis
tant four quarters, adding every disc!-
pie of freedom in every cline beneath
the sun to their train OF followers,
and pointing to England as the ot'oys
assassin Of people entitled to be
free; but, at our own doors, under
the folds Of our own flag, vast and
magnificent portion of the American
Republic lays this hour in Il conti-
ton beside which Poland, Hungary,
and Ireland are the radiant homes Of
happy frccmcn-it lays there a VIC
tim to q needless, vengcful aid re-
morsclcss tyranny, beside which the
worst tyrannics Of the old world a:c
liberal and respectable forms Of gov
crnmcnt. Instead Of ten States cX-
isting in their original beauty and
strength, as our fathers made them,
we have Incorporated into the same
work of tic American Republic, five
military districts entirely unknown
to the Constitution, and utterly incon-
sistent with the first and pla!nest
principles on which our Government
was founded. Not vestigc Of civil
liberty remains beneath the shadow
of this stupendous usurpaticn. The
great muniments Of frecdom-tho5c
high and adamantinc walls Of person
al security for whose erection scncr-
ations have toilcd with bloody sweat,
have all perished under the dcstruc-
tive and reasonable assaults of Cor
eress. The right to the witt Of hebccs
Corpus thatrcsplcndcntright ofFrco-
men by which the hand OF unlawful
power can alone be restrained, ROW
lies dead, powerlcss and despised on
the very battle plains where its en-
ioyment was secured by the surrcn-
der of CORVALLIS to Washington
Trial by jury is mockery, adelu-
sion, and a snare at Eutaw Springs.
the Cowpcns and Guilford House.
Over the sunkcn graves Of the Revo'
-l--.:>.,-a atanlinn nrna5r =-+A---i--'-v7,
of Congress, controls elections and
dictates the use of the elective fran,
chisc at the mouth of the cannon and
with levelled muskets. Aye, the South
ern sky of the American heavens is
shroudcd in black. Once it was
filled with stars moro radiant and
lovely than Arcturus, Orion, or the
Pleiades. Our fathers Of immortal
memory planted them there. They
burned with the light of liberty reg
ulated bv law. But they burn no
more. Raylcss and qucnchcd they
wander in dark and trackless void.
The baleful wrath of Radicalism, COM
ing up thick and poisonous as the
"dimmest smoke of help has extin-
guished onc-third of the constella-
ton of the American glory. Who
will question the fidelity of this pic
ture? Who so bold as to deny that
Congress has overturned every insti-
tuition of free government in those
regions now held by military power?
And who dares to say that he finds a
warrant for this action in the Con-
stitutiofl which an oath requires him
to support? But the stable and mis-
cradle answer to this terrible accu-
sation is that the people of the South
have been in rebellion and deserve
no better at the hands of victorious
power. Does this fact, even il it
were so, justify revolution, usurpa-
tion, broken oaths and deliberate
treason on the part Of Congress? Ad-,
NIT that the South attempted to rev.
olutionize the Government and de-
stroy its institutions, docs that mlti-
gate the crime of the North in COM
pleting what the South laborcl for in
vain No! Nor can this destructive
and dcspotic policy be pursued with
impunity to the North itself. While
it is only your neighbor who ispros,
trate by the wayside, bruised and
bleeding, the priest and the lcvite Of
Radical vengeance will pass on heed
less of his groans. While the South
alone suffers in chains. the North