Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1867-09-12
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They frequently whisper, III confidence, These
military men, from Grant down, k,ao,o nothing a
Jott l1,o or Constellation. As for Pope, everyday
knows he is fool, and it is no trouble at Mito
manage hians And as for the Radical party, they
care nothing for the negro. All they want IS to
elect their President in 1868 and hold the otlces.
Let us help them to do that, and they will remove
all our disabilities and let us fix our State govern
ments just as we please:
But suppose every white man in the South were
to accept, and should vote, with such conrictaons
and purposes, for the Military Bills what good re-
suits could follow tell you, frankly, l do not
know respectable white man in the whole South,
who APPROVES the Military Bills as Constitution
al, or right or Just, or desirable Not one! do not
believe Gen. Pope knows of one. do not believe
there is single one who will, even for the reno
val Of his disabilities, put himself on record as sup
porting or defending these Bills as, an has opan.on
very many of those who accept the Bills openly
declare them unconstitutional, unjust and oppres-
sive. The uncandid accept the candid reject
none approve and all despise
Ithinl, as Gen. Pope says that three-tourths
of the negro vote will be "for the Convention, !"
and to carry out the Military Bills. They do not
know what the Constitution is, or what they are
voting for But they are taught by emissaries and
low oce-seekers that the Radicals are their only
friends, and they must give such votes to keep
their friends in power. They are also taught that
every white man who votes against Convention
is their enemy The negroes alone in the South
approve these Military Bills, and they approve from
false teachings, and in spirit Of hatred to the
aohite race Is any man, North or South, so stu
pid as not to see to what this will lead? Can even
force prevent war of races under such govern
ment2 Will the Northern people press this fate
upon us? Will they longer sustain party which
tramples thus upon every principle Of freedom,
every sentiment of right, and every guarantee OF
peace to perpetuate its own criminal existence Z
Will you, General, be the leader of that party p
Will you be the nourishing breeder Of hatred be-
tween the races, the willing instrument of op-
preston upon people who laid down their arms
to you, on your assurance Of protection so long
they obeyed ''the laws of the State in which they
lived" Will you be the grand executioner Of lib
erty for the continent2 For tell you no nation
which forces despotism upon ten millions Of peo-
pie can itself remain free. Despotism for all or
despotism for none is as just as truth and as iney-
table as destiny. In the Constitution is liberty for
all and forever Out Of the Constitution is bloody
anarchy and final despotism without hope. You
won no victory in the war if you lose the Constl-
ton now. Americans, from ocean to ocean and
from the icebergs to the orange groves, will re-
member, with sorrow and weeping the scenes at
Appomattox Court House, if you forget the Con-
stitution now. You led no armies for the Union
ifyou enforce these Military Bills for the Radicals
The Constitution or the Radical party must perish
Fame invites you to live with the first, and intamy
woos you to lead the last. =.
Who saves his country, saves himself and all
things, and all things saved do bless him. Who
let's his country die, dies himself ignoby, and all
things dying curse hsmF ....."