Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1867-11-13
aving to take his pay in deprecated curren-

TO tho elect, that man money-ureenpacRp paper
rags shall be Legal Tender for all private debts,
no matter what the date of the contract no matter
in what language or from what fact the contract
may call for Gods money-spece. Sd, By tho
facile Supreme Court of tho United States, unax-
inlously declaring such monstrous act TO be con-
stitutional This abolition of the credit system,
by the means indicated, has made creditors every
where clamorous for the speedy adjustment of old
scores, before the day Of wrath, and the lawyers
arc now hunting up every poor devil of debtor
at the North, with as keen scent as Idread they
may, before many MOONS, be pursuing the sumo
class at the South, made so in too many cases by
no fault of their own, but by discharging duty to
the living and thc. dead, or by engaging in honest
Legitimate crr't business always incident to slave
institutions al the pursuit of agriculture. From
Maine to Texas it is now fast race of diligence
between debtor and creditor to try which shall
gain the most or lose the least by the "comlng,
coming, coming" crash of the Greenback Balloon,
compared to which, the collapses Of the South Sea
Scheme and the Mississippi Bubble were but tri-
fling affairs. Real estate is bringing unheard of
prices even in sterile New England, SO anxious
are Greenback holders to secure something before
the general smash-up. Such was once the case
here, when Mr.. Mcmmingcr's kites rose and fell,
and it was not long thereafter before they fell to
rise more. 49, o
Grecnbacks will never likely become as worth
less ms Confederate paper, but they are bound to
go far down the scale toward zero. 1t has been
the fate of all large Observation-Disclosures in tho
past, whether Governmental, Cooperative or Indi-
vidua, and must be in the future, as all such pa-
per money is merely the Philosophers Stone of
Modern Alchemy, a science, which will never
cease to flourish in America, with periodical
but iucalculable injury, until the Usury Laws
shall have been repealed here, as in Europe. All
prudent men at the North are boarding gold now,
to remedy us fur as possible the; evils they have
brought upon themselves by needing the Alche-
mists. The sar:e precious metal Is likewise being
heavily shipped abroad to pay interest on the
American Bonds held there. The drain of coin
in that direction, as we'll rs into the Golfers of
American Industry and Finance, so that there is
distrust, fear and trembling for the pecuniary fu
turc en- every hand. The cxhausting taxes,
amounting often to robbery, and in some cases 70
prohibition, that arc levied by the United States,
in their attempt to "carry" the public debt has
sadly reduced not only our home trade, but also
our foreign commerce, greatly to the disturbance
Of commercial exchanges throughout the civilized
world. Many occupations hero have ceased to
pay at oil, while private incomes and government
resources are diminishing daily, yet the Tax COL
lector (God bless him y is moro industrious than
ever in each nook and corner from Maine to
Oregon-from the st. Lawrence to the Rio Grande.
The Democrats among our Judges have taken
advantage of this state of matters, and as tho
Radicals forced the issue of universal Chinese
and Negro suffrage, so our ancient allies have
shrewdly rendered tho issue of Reputation to tho
extent of either Taxing the Federal Bonds heavi-
ly, (they being wholly exempt from Taxation,
now,) or rcdceming the Bonds with Grecnbaeks,
SO as to do away with all necessity for what are
called Internal Revenue Taxes, and at the same
time repudatc private debts to the extent of Civ
ing debtors an opportunity to pay what they owe
in currency that would be deprecated ultimate
ly by such proceeding to perhaps ten for one as
compared with Gold. Upon these tzo issues of
suffrage and repudiation, tho late canvass at th'
North was mainly conducted, and "Down with
the Niger" Up with Reputation" are now
the triumphant and swelling shouts Of increasing
majoritics every where among the judges.
Much more might bc said, as in very truth, the
argument is exhaustless, against our taking any
part il the Military Elections. Warming with
the subject, I have written far moro than had
intended. To close, counsel our people to have
nothing whatever to do with caucuses, addresses,
candidates., votings in negro elections; except
perhaps hereafter to vote for negroes as Congress-
men. Let everyone attend cnergetically tomend-
ing his broken fortunes while the Yankees and
Quashees arc mendiug our politics. Day is Break
ing aad i: will no. be long before the will shine
high and brightly over this sorely afflicted people.
Things Cannot 60 On much longer rs they do at
present There must bo solution, and that spec
dily. Tho Radicals cannot stand still. They
must .,2ye forward with renewed desperation, or
take steps backward. In either event they march
to the certain destruction Of their party. If their
former plant tool, Lincoln, occupied the Presl-
dental Chair, should seriously apprehend anoth-
CIR civil war caused by Radical attacks upon the
Northern State Governments, and by melting the
negroes against the whites at the South; but for
tunately the present Executive thinks and acts
for himself. At the worst: we cannot occupy our
existing painful and anomalous condition longer
than March 1869, and confidently anticipate re-
lief at much earlier day. President johnson
has emphatcally declared that he will sustain tho
Civil Courts, and look for some bold decision in
Federal Court ere long that will upheavc tho
Reconstruction Acts like the explosion Of volca-
no. Nor would be surprised shortly after Con-
grcss meets to find one Radical member after
another going over to the Conservative side, until
q majority even of tho Menagcric, called Con-
gress, shall have grown "as harmless Us doves"
because they have hitherto been Gas wise rs SER
penis" Even rats leave a drowning ship, and
but few men care to spit against the wind that
bears spoils on its wings.
ConGsca.ion is idle nonsense, if VIC be true TO
The President has pardoned, or Will
pardon every rebel, aud even if he had not, or
would not, before any land could be confGcated,
It's owner would first have to be convicted of
Treason by unanimous jury of hi, ncighbors,
Hhich could never be done, and if so convicted,
.onscation could only take place for the life time
If the present owner. But the Pardon OF the
Jury shields every body's land, which is all tho
property left to US.
Then away with tho unfounded fear Of confs-
.aton And lot my countrymen be Of good
heer, if they have any confidence in this hastily
written, but deliberately formed, opinion of