Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-05-20
HENRY,
The Future.


document. We copy such portions as must
prove entertaining and instructive, in view of
the tremendous future toward which we are
driving at such headlong speed. Col. Forsyth
says: a
"If Stanton could bar out of the War De-
partment an appointee, ad interim, of his
Lawful! chief it would seem that the President
could hold the White House against Ser
geaHt alarms or Federal marshal, who
should be sent to execute the judgment of the
the lover of peace, to the last extremity
will object that this is the beginning of rsvo.
luton. No: the revolution is already inau-
gurated, and is in rapid progress. What it
does is only to make taoo parties to the revolr-
ton, and not leave it as heretofore, to be run
exclusively by and in Radical interest. Ifa
party can afford to push the nation to the
verge of civil war to maintain its ill-gotter
power, the people can certainly afford to risk
it for the purpose of defending their cherish
ed Institutions of government and preserving
their liberties. These thoughts are busy in
mems minds-far more so than FIVE weeks
ago, when first came here. If you add to
these elements of conflict between govern
mental forces, the intense bitterness of per-
sonal feeling between the parties, you will
find as pretty an assortment of combustible
materials out of which to kindle civil war
as you might desire.
Sat q public dinner liable few days ago,
where was almost a total stranger, when
the Presidents trial was mentioned, a man
Il cannot call him q gentleman broke out in
profane and furious denunciation of Mr.. John.
son, and swore if he had his way he would
not eni depuse, but hang him. learned af'
forwards that this just person was very close
To Radical Senator, and thought this good
sign for A. J.'s acquittal. Forney has been
giving out some similar signs in his papers
lately, very desperate and very mad. Take
another instance of party hate:
ga few days ago the carriage of General
O. (who commanded division in Hancock's
eorps) was standing at q private door. An
army officer in uniform came along, and ask
ed the driver whose carriage it was.
Driuer-Gen. C's, and he is IN the house
with Gen. Hancock.
O6icer-And 90 you drive Gen. Hancock
about?
Drirer-Yes, sir.
"Ofcer-Well, instead of doing thai, you
ought to take the first opportunity to make
your horses run away, upset the carriage, and
break his ID copperhead neck.
Driver-I am hired to drive safely, and
not to break peoples necks. Gen. C. will be
down presently, and may be you had better
wait and tell him this.
"The officer passed on. This is an actnal
occurrence. Grant has become very bitter
himself, and, as he is the fountain of military
favor, the army officers on his side are catch
ing the fever, and tie timid and time-serving
are afraid to 90 about Gen. Hancock's head
quarters. The latter general has no personal
relations with Grant-disdaining all inter
course with him, on the declared ground that
General Grant had grossly iusulted him in
those New Orleans orders upon which he ask.
ed to be relieved of his command. If old
Ben Wade gets into the White House, fancy
the first order will be to send Hancock and
The plucky and fiery officers who surround
him lar away from Washington.
"To illustrate how every element Of cacu-
lation is drawn in to forecast the result OF
the impeachment, may state that the latest
discovery here is that there arr sixteen Ma
soas in the Senate, OF whom fourteen are Re
publicans. 1t is argued that, under the sa-
cred obligations Of Mason &c do justice to
brother and stand by him in his rights, it is
quite impossible for these Senators to vote
guilty, where the evidence has swept away
all suspicion of guilt. While I do not pin my
faith much to the theory, l may state that l
adhere to my first judgment, and !hat is, that
the President will not be deposed.
SIN u.tering the results of my own labor I
am able to speak cheering words to our peo
pie of the future. have not doubt OF the
verify of deep and widespread popular re-
action against Radicalism, ard, if nothing un.
toward happens to check its progress, am
prepared to witness revolution of the masses
next November, the like of which has not
been known in the annals of American poll
tics. The white stomach is sick unto nausea
Of the party deifica;ion of tho negro. 1t re-
volts at sharing the powers of government
With him. In Michigan, learn from Fede.
raj General distinguished i'll the late war,
there is a perfect aud compact organization of
$1,000 ex.soldiers, who will vote in solido
against even Grant himself, if he is weighted
with the abhorrent dogma of negro suffrage.
Michigan, remember, is the Massachusetts Of
the West, and you may infer the reality Of
what am told from the vote she cast last
mountaineering from Radical majority Of
10000 to $4,000 against State constitution,
because it had the Radical black idol in it.
The Radicals here feel the shadow of defeat
which is tbickcning upon them, and, worse
than all, they are losing faith in the prestige
of Gen.. Grant. With him as their trusted
and fatcd best bower, they fud their bark
dragging its anchor and drifting rapidly to
leeward. Iustcad of Grants popularity car.
rying them, they are beginning to find him a
weight TO be carried. The feeling broke out
in the late speech of so uncompromising a
Radical as Donnelly, Of Minnesota, who the
other day distinguished himself by the Gercest
and coarsest piece of invective uttered in the
House for many day. After representing
Grant as the hand-organ of Washbnrne, and
the whole Washburna family mounted on its
top, holding out their hats for pennies, he but
thinly concealed his satire Under the after
eulogium which he felt called on to pronounce
on the great Ulysses. The grand collapse is
coming, and, when Radicalism goes up,'
General Grant will 60 down to occupy very
humble niche in the Pantheon Of greatness.
"The Lesson from all this to our people is,
to summon up new stock of patience and
forbearance; and although know how hard
it is, when read of our fellow-citizens filling
Southern prisons by military order, with de-
NAL of bail and civil trial, end feel from
uly own heart how the blood must swell and
boil in their veins under provocations and
wrongs SO great yet l draw the argument Of
forbearance from the very enormity of the
provocation. We cannot afford, in an out
burst of unrestrained indignation, to throw
away the chances of full atonement in the
near future. There are wrongs that can wait
Let it always be borne in mind that these in
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