Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-09-09

the SlHccTe 1rlenu OF me negro, We f0tts H01
permit the white race to be degraded and
trampled underfoot by the negro, however
that race may be aided by the ingenious ma
chinery and devilish contrivances of the cor
rupt and wicked body which dares to call it
self the Congress of the United States. Do
this, and then this +" supreme rower' of your
country will welcome you back TO your peace
full and happy homes, and say that you have
done your duty, and may be added to the list
of the brave who have done service to your
God and your country; have saved your
Churches FROM being converted into the howl
ing halls of Fetish idolatry; or worse still,
from being disgraced by the radical .fanati-
cisn of Beecher and Wendell Phillips, who
have already raised the cry Of down with
Catholicism" and will next demand that all
shall be made to join them in their satanic
worship, of Abraham Lincoln, for the Fathe,,
--Thaddeus Stevens flr the Son. hate and des-
olation for the Holy Spirit the Chicago
Platform and Reconstruction Acts for the Law
of Revelation.
My fellow citizens, I do not exasgerate,-
Ircannot portray to you the approaching hcr.
rots if this Infamous abortion of the Recon-
struction Aots,--this so-called government Of
South Carolina, continues Of force. Look for
moment at its Features, and see for your
selves in what chaos you dwell. The ele-
mcnts ola government are the "Lcgislative," I"
the Judiciary" and the Executive" These
powers" are the elements Of human nature
are impaired by the Divine Law; are over.
lasting in themselyes-but pass from, man
as these men are chosen by the supreme pow
er-that is the people who constitute the gov.
ernmcnt; those are the people to whom the
territory, that portion of the surface of the
globe on which they live, properly belongs.
To whom does the State OF South Carolina
belong? You know too well, my fellow citi-
zens, that your ancestors received this portion
of the Ancient Palatine on which Great
Britain planted her banner. Your ancestors
had this acceded to them by Great Britain,
aud the world has recGnized our right siace
the war of l7I6. The Republican party
made our right inseverable by their war proc
lamations, claiming that South Carolina was
fastened 10 the Union by the Constitution, and
could not be severed as long as the United
States exists; but that as individuals alone
could we be at war. As II iividuals we have
been pardoned by the amnesty proclamations
of the President, performing the duties and
exercising the powers granted to him by the
Constitution. Such tcr::s we accepted, aud
under them we hold tie property under an
indisputable title; and are-and we alone
the "people of South Carpiina," whose right
it is TO frame the government. We did SO
frame it, in accordance with the terpis of sur
render and, in accordance with the Amend
mcnt to the Constitution, we abolished slave
ry and by ordinance Of convention con,
irmed the same. We gave up the right OF
ecession ; we kept our pledge like honest
men. For three years We have waited for the
United States to fulfil its pledge-to withdraw
its military satraps and their hired Cohorts !;
to declare their Congressional reconstruction
acts unconstitutional, and thereby relieve US
from intolerable oppression. But they have
gone on. They have proved the truth Of
Randolph's pi,hy sentence. Fanaticisrn has
no stopping place." .ofthe Stateman's warn.
ing sixteen years ago. at is vain to say
that such measures will be unconstitutional
Neither. fanaticsm nor power can be re-
strained by the privileges of Constitution
in parchment. No tyrant has ever existed
whose power to do evil was so great whose
disposition 10 do good so small,-a popular
tyranny of fanatics and low minded poiti-
cians,-a tyranny much the worse because it
is many-beaded. A popular tyranny, (evcn
when composed Of less foul elements,) iS
more ,debasiug tkan the tyranny Of mon
arch; in its appetite more inappropriate and
gross, and in its duration more lasting. 1t
,,crcr dies. The gloomy expanse Of time
which it covers is never irradiated by B. Ira
Jan or an Antoninus. There is an eternal
duration of its vicious qualities, and its rapa-
cous reign. Good God ! Is the proud South
to bow in submission TO such a government ?
Where IS the rxce of our great men ?"
| Born in the year l77G; strong in the war
mess in Congress Of 1872; born with free
dom leader in the war which attained fr
the United States The character which has
ever since been. its sword aud its shield )"
born with great country; OUTLYING the
glory of his country; piercing with the eye
of the prophet into The portcnding gloom ;
penetrating to the very depth of his conc p
ticn.-,he mind Of Langdon Cheves failed to
picture the horrors Of the radical tyrant's un
hampered sway.
Here we, the descendants of tie great
among the greatest Of America, stand in this
horrid chaos, surrounded by the fell powers
of insalt and iniquily; our constitution
erased our government over,hrown; our
people DISTINGUISHED. and . tyrant put over
US. The three n:emenls of power ordercd
By divine law, arc put int, the hands Of ruth-
less haters; Il tAr;fi!ess yagabonds from
abroad OF stupid eE. atures Of lower race |;
and worse, yet wore, perjured aud polluted
sons that like the bounds of He'll. of treason
begot, have turned fiiial love into fendish