The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1867-09-11
NO.37..

VI ~ A1oA ~ ANSSA~S, SS11S~ &oN'
guarantees have been perfecting.
for eight hundred years. Many
have been the efforts to destroy it.
Often the English Constitution was
trampled on. Often the traitors
sought to substitute arbitrary will
/ for well-estabIished law, and often
have the people for a time beer
misled. Bnt thus far they have
always walked up and called the
traitors and factionist to account,
CHARLES the !. trathpled OH the
Constitution, He had judges who
decided that his will was the law,
and all who resisted that will and
defended the Constitution were
punished as disloyal. And it did
seem as if his power was irresisti-
bic. No doubt if you weak .kneed
Radicals. Of the South had lived in
that day you .would have said,
s:the Constitution is dead, and. We
must consent to what we. cannot
resist" But John Hampden woaEa
not consent. He resisted. He was
tricI=as' a crininals for resisting,
and was condemned. But what
was thc,seqnel? The people finally
asserted their power. Charles and
his ministers pefished. The very
Judges that condemned HaRpaer
we're themselves tried and. eeae
'dcmned-as criminals, and the very
officers even the sheriffs whoexe-
| cutcd the orders. Of Charles and
his courts, were. sued by the citi-,
zeps for. damages, and had to pay
nearly o million of dollars for, exc
cutting the processes ofa void, un-
constitutional law! For a time
traitors held the power and tram
pied on rights, but vengeance came
and perpetual imfamy followed. -
So Cromwell and his Parliament
violated the Constitution, and
thought they also Hourished for a.
season, they too were oVerthrowD.
So James II. trampled on the Con-
stitution, and had to fly from his
kingdonsa a fugitive for life = In aid
these struggles good men, fora
time suffered, and-bad men, for a
time, ruled, but the English race
have never yet failed to rescue
their C Constitution from the power
both of traitors and fanatics: az
:I-tell you tho American people
Will not always be deceived. They
will rise in defence of their, Con
stitutions and traitors wilFtremb4e.
They who rallied three million
strong to defeat what the consider
ed an armed assault on the Constr
tuition and Union, will not sleep
until a few hundred traitors from
|. behind the masked battery Of Com
gressjonal oaths and deceptive
pretensions of loyalty shall utterly
batter down the Constitution and
| Union forever. l warn-y on, boast
fuI, vindictipe Radicals, by ~the
history of your own: fathers, by
every instinct Of manhood, by
every right Of liberty and, every
impulse ofjustice, that the day is
coming when You will feel the
power Of an outraged and hetray-
ed reople.-IApplause.1 Go on
confscating! Arrest without war
rant or probable cause, destroy
habeas corpus; defFe your OWE
race, and fippantly say the Con
stitntion is deadt On, on, with
your work, Of ruin, ye helEberr
rioters in sacred things' bat re.
member for all these things the
people will call you to judgment:
prolonged applause.] Ali what
ain issue you have made for your
selves. Succeed, and you destroy
the Constitution Fail, and you
have covered the land with mourn
ing. Succeed and you bring ruin
on yourselves and all the country
Fail, and you bring infamy upon
Yourselves and all You defuded
| followers! Succeed, and you are
the perjured assassins of liberty
Fail, and you are defeated, de-
spised traitors forever. Ye who
aspire to be Radical Governors
and Judges in Georgia, Z paint. BE-
fore YOU this day your destiny.
TUnbounded applause.] You are
but towards and knaves, and the
time will come when you will call
upon the rocks and mountains to
fall on you and the darkness to
hide You from an outraged people
[Applausc.l
Does it do you good to trsHaple
on the Observation-Disclosures the
negroes and ruin the country! 1t
may be sweet now, but l tell you
the salphurous fires of public in
fanny will never be quenched on
your spirits. Applause. pity
You from my soul. Would that
the time had never come when I
had to stand upon ~Georgia's soil
and thus talk to Georgians- A
struggle is coming. 1t may be a
long and bloody one, and you who
advocate this wicked scheme will
perish in it, unless the people now
arouse and check its consummation-
Let every true law-loving man
rally at once to the standard ofthe
Constitution of his country. Tap