Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-12-11

Our telegraphic news of yesterday says
fG' Gold closed steadily at forty. It is said
that Secretary Mccullough threw s25, 900, 600
on the market to prevent a panic" This is
the result of Congressional action within FIVE
days.
After the. late elections in the North, it was
reasonable TO expect, that moderation would
characterize the proceedings of Congress on
its reassemb!ing. But like the Bourbons, the
Radicals seem to learn nothing and TO know
nothing, from their adrersitics. They open
Congress with report from the Judiciary
Committee recommending an impeachment of
the President. They follow this up, with a
bill providing for. his removal from his high
Office, before bis conviction. No sign is given
of receding from their reconstruction policy,
whereby the negro is to be given dominion i'll
the South. On the contrary, Thaddcus Ste
vens is busy cutting mp Texas into fourStates,
to make votes for the Radical party in the
approaching Presidential election, after being
nerroized. The peace and commerce of the
country is thus unsettled; and distrust as to
the future, is not allayed..
A good deal of this policy, may be mere
bravado. They wish to show an undivided
front to the terrible political disasters which
have lately broken their power at the North |;
but the great motive is, to divert the atten-
tion of the people from their unpopular evil
doings to the more popular antagQnism with
the President. at the late elections Messrs.
Colfax, Logan and other Radical orators,
filled the ears of the people with the misdeeds
and treachery Of President johnson. They
tried to turn the elections in their favour, by
agitating bis impeachment, whilst they avoid
ed thedespotism they had put over the South,
aud lie war of races they were urging
throughout the United States, with all the
confusion and ruin TO commerce. such policy
must produce. They failed before the people
to make this diversion successful; but they
arc now practicing it in Congress. Thecoun-
try wants repose. a hearty, real uniou.is its
hope of salvation from financial and CONNER
cial convulsion. Yet here. hey are. still agi-
tati1g and threatening collision and violence
in the government. They would delight to-
morrow in an appeal to arms. War and blood.
are the natural elements of their exlstence-
peace and order, their natural foes. =,
J But can such policy'be sustained by Con
gress? 1t is difficult TO anticipate anything
of such a party,-the heated dross ol the
boiling passions Of the North. But the late
elections caruot be mistaken in their sientl-
cancy II this policy stops short Of violence
and revolution, when men may be made drunk
with strife-it must contribute TO their ruin.
Merely to keep the country unsettled and
alarmed. and thus to add TO The tremendous
embarrass,nents, they have already produced,
cannot errest the decline Of their popularity.
It. will only be hesping up wrath for the day
of wrath" alteration will become hate dis
appreciation. curses. And however popular,
in himself, their candidate for the Presidency
may be, the interests Of the country-tha life
of the country, may make The personai popu
larity Of any man., of not q feathers weight,
in settling The e-scales>of-power.N The course
of things in the Southern States, will not al
low them to keep in tho back ground, the
great principle OF which they have been. de-
feated-tlat these States sAaV be ratted 6y tile
,chiie race. -
Their scheme of ruling them by negroes, is
already disclosing its repulsive folly-or more
repulsiyc dangers Even the negroes Of South
Carolina seem to reject it; whilst the whole
white race of the South arerapidly gathering,
from race affinity, into one immovable mass
of stern opposition. Unless they invent in
Congress new tyrannics by new devices, to
force the negro over the white man b7 the
sword their RECONSTRUCTION Of the South will
b, all utter failure. Ard can going on with
new trrannies over the South help them? Is
not the whole world disgusted at their tsntas-
t;c.trlcks of hate and wi:kcdness over q gal
lant people, whom they cheated into subnis-
sion end have prosecuted with tie most re-
lentess oppression! When tie whale NOR
tally pierced by the harpOon rises for the last
time to breathe the sir-he is olten most for
midablc aiu. lis dying lurres.-Charleston
/ Mercury. 's r.