Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-01-16
From tho New York Day Bsok.I
Never Despnir,

The New York cypress makes remarl
which ought to sink deeply into every mans
mind. 1t says =" There is no more danger
Gus period in the history of free people, than
when they despair Of the future-as so many
now do at the South; or when they arc indif,
ferent to the future-as is the case with lens
of thousands both North and South" These
are words Of important warning. No Ameri-
can has right to be indifferent as to tie fate
of his country. In its future is bound up the
fate of his own children, and the welfare of
unborn generations. Nor ought any man
ever despair Of his country. So long as there
are enough true nen sincerely attached 20 the
glorious principles cf Republican institutions,
to support even one organ of public opinion,
they should not despair. The men Of this
generation have, no doubt, lost to great
degree the knowledge of those principles Of
government which were so thoroughly dis
cussed in our revolutionary period, and which
were thought to be forever settled. But the
unexamplcd prosperity which has attended
our country, aud followed our experiment Of
self-government, has made US unmirfoful Of
the causes which contributed to it. eve have
got to begin de noyo, and educate genera
ton to understand them. Events are soon
to do great deal in this direction, but no ef-
fort should be spared by true men to arouse
the apathetic and encourage the laggard.
People do not Yet see the real object Of the
Mongrcl politicians. They pretend to De the
friends Of Republican institutions, but they
arc their most deadly enemies. As contcm
porary truly remarks =
"These propositions to enfranchise negroes,
give women the right of suffrage, and to dis
franchise whole classes of white men, are to
disgust the people with republican insttu-
tions and lead them to seek refuge from COZ.
fusion and disorder in strong government.
in which they will secure themselves and
their party in the power Of the government
No set OF men, with any rational design to
support republican institutions, would act as
they do. The masses, it is true, have no
such purpose"
mo, surely not, and when they discover
the real purposes Of these men, they will be
torn into pieces BY popular fury, as they will
Justly deserve TO be. The persons who sup
pose that tlas immense country is to be gov
erned by despotic power, count without their
host. The land will breed Booths. Thenexl
man who inerferes with the freedom Of the
press, or arrests a man without warrant,
will probably be shot down in his tracks, and
then let a monument be raise.i to his memo
that shall last longer than thc:P Pyramids OF
Egypt. Is it any wonder that the public
mind has been five years under a pail, crushed
down by brute force, when Democrats stood
By quietly. and saw their newspapers sup
pressed, and the most resolute defenders ol
their principles dragged off to dungeons and
bastiles? Two.ihirdS OF the people of this
country are this day opposed to the present
Mongrcl faction. 1t is but u SHELL which only
needs vigorous blow in the right spot to
shatter for ever The Democratic party now
neither knows its strength nor understands
the principles which can lead it to victory.
When it docs, it shall make short work Of the
baseless fabric of fraud and delusion which
uow sways the destinies of our unhappy coan
trv. At all events, Whatever betides us, no
American worthy of the name will ever des-
pair of lis country, or refuse to aid in What
ever shall tcnd TO restore her to he's once
glorious position.