Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-11-13

would shun US IN ths world 10 come. Inc Gnost
of State Sovereignty will yet shake its CORY locks
ut thousands who have helped to murder its living
Tenement. Tie Radicals have bankrupted the
whole United States, and nearly every one, both
North and South, will soon be poor enough to be
comparatively honest once more in politics, as in
days of yore. Three Thousand Millions of public
debts, to say nothing of tho countless millions OF
private ones, will shortly dspel the illusion that
Government paper-rags are wealth, not debts.
Then let us hold our heads up like men, and
frankly admit that the Radicals having conquer
cd US, thcy have the right, according to our theo-
ry of State Sovroignty, to prescribe terms OF re-
construction. But let us also contend that We
have the reserved right either to accept their
"terms," or silently to submit to what we cannot
prevent. So far We have accepted Emancipation
and Common Law Civil Rights to tho negro, in
good faith and by that acceptance havc made
fast friends OF the president and majority OF
tho Northern people. Let US do o.more. If
worse must como let us protest in silence, and
compel our enemies to thrust it upon US, to be
patiently borne only until the Conservatives at the
North can get into power.
BY gracefully complying with tho two una
voidable cxactions of Emancipation and Civil
Rights to the negro, we have gratifed the pride
and appeased the anger of the North. It has
given our allies there firm ground on which to
stand and do battle for US. Without the aid of
those allies, secured ms stated, what would have
been our condition heretofore, what would be
would be our condition now, what would be
our condition hereafter, let those conjecture, If
they ever think, who still affect to believe that
the Southern people themselves abolished slave
ry after the surrender, and that but for our tears
then, emancipation would never taken place, ez-
cept with compensation. Talk of compensation
for four millions Of negroes, when the very debt
which was contracted to conquer tho Southern
whites will itself be repudiated; talk of o hand
full of men in Convention, by conquered con-
situcncy, being ablo to save slavery, when the
whole South, with arms in their hands, after four
years of hard fighting could not save it! But
digreas.
Mr.. Seward, who is universally acknowledged
to be '.the wisest, brightest, meanest of man
kind" 10 the United Statcs,-who is more res
ponsible than any other human for the late war,
and who can do more to defeat the Radicals than
any uan in America, and doubtless is doing more
to accomplish that end, was approached in 1866,
by distinguished Southerner, to ascertain what
the Rebel States must do to secure rcconstruc-
ton. The Little Bell" responded in substance,
il not in these identical words, "Do nothing
more than you have already dono Whenever
you all cease to try TO Lelp yourselves then your
friends at the North can and will help you, but
not BEFORE" Let US take this advice, given in
sncercity, even from tho arch -fend who raised
and guided the Storm that has wrecked US ALL
Although once our deadiiest foe, he is now our
political friend, because he cannot help it. Tho
logic of events drives him to it.
Really VIC can have no voice in the mighty
quarrel pending at the North. Nearly all par
tips there esteem US as great criminals on trial
ard awaiting sentence They they think it is our
Duty like that Of all criminhls, to submit to the
sentence-no. arguo with the Judge. In fact,
the undetermined sentence covers tho whole ques-
tion either as to ourselves, as to our friends, or
as to our foes at the North. We arc obliged to
submit, whether we approve or not The only
freedom allowed us is to preserve our sef-rcspect,
and tho respect Of an impartial world, by refusing
voluntarily to embrace ignomipious terms. The
Northern people arc as mass only divided about
tho sererity of our pending sentence. The Con-
scTTauvcs taerc are content With Emancipation
and Civil Rights to the negro, but the Radicals
are for Z" Organizing He'll in the Rebel States"
to appropriate the energetic language of Senator
Dooli.tlc.
As before said, the Radicals care nothing for
the country, North or South. They merely want
n party hero to ncu.rulizo the Democratic forces
in the South, and to get such party here, in Or
dor still to control the spoi, they would cnfran-
chise even our Tadpolcs. These Radicals have
the power to pass any act they please, until the
4th March 1859, and think you they will listen
either to Southern Caucuses or Southern Memo
rials 1t was tho Philadclpbi, Caucus and its ad-
dresses mostly n Southern affair, that partly anu
mostly gave the Radicals their tremendous ma
jority in the present Congress. That Caucus and
its Proceedings were resented throughout the
North, MS Southern impertinence, and yet We are
asked now to repeat tho blundcr on a smaller
scale in the cralle Of the Rebellion. South Caro-
lima send u memorial t. Thad Stevens praying for
mercy! The very thought ought not only to in
Huence tho indignation of the living, but rekindle
the ashes of the dead. Oh, but for one hour Of
Maxcy Gregg t, speak to his people on such
prop6s!ion
It is bad taste, and worse judgment even, for
au innocent man to talk when his listeners ii,
not care to hear him. but what shall be said of
the criminal who assumes to advise his Judges
how to try him, and what sentence to pass upon
him? INSIST upon it that we should be mere
spectators of the high debate raging at the North
Say or DO what we may, majority of our con-
qucrors will determine our political fate at last.
1t is no quarrel of ours. Let the happy family
settle their own disputes and say what must be
dono with the prodigal Sister States of the South.
predict that the fated calf will yet be killed to
celebrate our return in less than eig gheen months.
There arc abundant signs that large majority
o! the Northern people will shortly be willing to
a]mit our Representatives into Congress upon no
other terms than those with which VIC have al
ready complied. The Conservatives there arc
every whore alarmed at tho Radical attempt to
enforce Negro aud Chinese suffrage upon the
Northern States, and they arc still more alarmed
ut the hideous prospects of having negro Senators
and Representatives from the South to vote in
making Federal Laws for Northern people to live
under. Tho Conservatives there have likewise
become greatly concerned about TdaatiOn, and
oven some old Radicals arc beginning to realize
that Grcenbacks and National Bank Bills, so far
from being evidences of National and individual