Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-05-08
q waschman What of the Nights,

fires of liberty.
JOHN RUTLEDGE.
" Wacchman What of the Night?"
Under this healing Hon. Erastus Brooks
writes his paper, tie New Ior,'i Eaprcss, from
Atlanta, Ga April 18th:
General Pope is here, and has made a sat
isIactoIy speech to the people. lflhcy obey
tie la~ OF Congress, well. If. not, then IL
may not be we'll. All the men he has !iere,
aud coming here, is but few over q tl.rl of
regiment; but one company would BE-.
enough to carry cut the law Of Congress, AID
as good as tcutlousand men. The mcst sub
dued men are some Of the vld secession lead +
ers-like Ex-Governor Brown, whose home
is here, and whose influence has been immense
throughout the. State. Such men eonnse!
submission to the law, and regard ityas irrevo
cable. Governor Jenkins counSels, not re-
sis;ance, butnpn-actlon, and lrotn all | sec
and hear, Will overrulcd by an immense
majority of The people. The heart Of the
people is broken, and .her spirit huGillatcd.
Two years of drenght, one season CT floods,
months of positive hunger, have followed four
years of war, made up"of bombardments,
sieges, fires, loss Of life and property. Con.
gress, with lis harsh policy Of negro suffrage,
military monarchics, registrations, arrcsta'
and punishments, stay laws-as in South
Cardinals an easy master OF the situation,
only YOU must not expect the smi ten4to love
the slniter, for. as blood l.: thicker than waS
ter, nature stronger than coercion, this ia,
sImply impossible "Do with US as you will,
and we will obey" is the general purpose,
and Georgia is good for it by 10000 or 10000
maiority Notwithstanding the letter OF Coy
ernor Jcnkius. II l were Southern man
with my home and friends destroyed, g war
prosecuted against me two years after | hac
laid down my arms, with 20 permanent peace
or sabili,yin prospect with a hope ofsome
thing permanent and established by further
concessions, would do the same thing; for
until there is an end Of cXactons by obedi
ence to decree, there can be no peace. Wan
Is not politics, but revolution. The South /.
in the hands Of Government Is clay i'll the
hands OF the potter. H. seeking 10 overthrow |
the Government of the. United States, it de-
stroycd itself. President Lincoln Las beer
overrued, President johnson Is oyerruled,
the Congressional policy OF '6l and 'G2 is
oyeuu!ol, and now all tic civil. provisional
and elec.cd. Governments Of ten States a:c
in the hands o. five u. S.. Militia y, Cover
nors. Writing here in sight OF Stone Noun
tain and Lookou: Mountain, and the kenc-
saw, watching where Gen. Sherman swung his
army in one direction, and Gen. Johnston in
ano.hcr-rcsting IT the headquarters OF Aocd
and Polk-waikirg over the ground where
the brave Mcpherson :el--Sseims- yet the
ruins of war all. along ilom the borders OF
the Tennessee to this Gate City," II thou.
sard miles above the sca-onc can better
imagine the necessities and penalties, thai.
upon nursirg under his own vine aud iig tree
NJ home. ] am not surprised, Therefore, al
he eager desire Of brave and mistaken men
to rebuild what has been torn down. The
needs OF thousands of widows aud orphaus
leInald this, even if there were 40 higher ap-
pals. {" You take nv life when you do take
he means whereby live," is a. ttu. at least
,f the Christian as Of the Hcbrew. There
fore, let no Northern man venture 10 blame
the South for submitting 10 inevitable neces
;ity The principle laid dOwa b. Blackstone,
hat "auy Government is better than none.
1t all" in this case decides the issue. Mill
.ary monarchy, in our part Of North Ameri
"a, is 50 rcpagnant to all onr ideas OF liberty,
hat any peaccablc means Of getting rid Off;
) cXou,able, it not cOmmendablc.
One thing, however, creates burning t.
yer at the South, and that's the demand made
lpo. the people, through the Constitutional
amendment. TO dishonor the leaders OF the
All these leaders were made 50
,y the rcople themselves, Or By their repre-
,an;atises II Congress chooses to dishonor
hem they vii! submit with becoming grace,
md tie end secured through this act, like
many others, will be in violation Of the Con.
l:tuti.n; but do not, they implore US, coin
,cI the, Southern people themselves to strike
l1wn men they placed in the front rank br
heir own acts. Such an appeal, surely, ought
% be appreciated, since almost every othe;
lemand, and ihdced, every other eXacuon,
Till be conceded. =
The conliscadon resolutions adopted at the
ate meeting of negroes in Richmond prove
he banciu effect OF the political teaching
which they receive from tue Hunnicutts Of the
,ytreme Radical party. In the eye of everT
heagh.iul man, conlisca,iop admits Of only
me Interpretation. 1t is the equivalent Of
,euc.a! spoiation, bloodshed and anarchy.
There oan be no liberty without order, and ID
,rdcr without ample protection for the rights
If property. Invade these rights, and incu-
ate the idea that one class shall be permitted 4
Q seize and crioy the lands and houses ef
.aother class, and from that momert the
south will become second San Domingo, to
md ouly in the extermination of whites CIR
blacks. This may be strong statement OF
he case, but it is the truth. And the men
vho go about familiarizing the negroes with
be demand, and persiading them Of its JUS
ice, should be dealt witn by the military
as nceudiGries.-New York
Times.
GENERAL SlcSLEs AND RELIsF MEASURES.
The admirable and bcnefccnt regulations
established by General Sickes, will do him
asling honor. Instead of using his high
powers to opprcss, he is using them for tie
and peace of the people. BE is
long what the Legislature Of South Carolina
,efused to do. He shows far more respect
or the suffering and distress Of the. county
han the majority Of the pablo men Of this
State. who, oop.rsr7 to manifest justice and
light, wiiiully continued the. heathenish law