The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1868-09-03
For the Camden Journal. 1
FAILURE OF RADIcALrsnd.

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90 terque quaterque beati; s.i.t.
Quis ante ora patrum, Trojm submenitus altis
Contingit oppetere!" =
/ am now reclaimed from the inf
del despair Of an Eneas, when even
amid the storm there is hope for the
Republic. speak Of, and for the
South; as long asa man is suffered
to live, / believe it is an intimation
from Providence, that he has some
duty to discharge which it's mean
and criminal to decline. IF I had
gone to pine in the obscurity. Of some,
distant retreat, which often desired
and even determined to do, if there 4
had heard of the present struggle Of
my beloved State, how my heart
would have agonized by the shame Of
desertion, nor would my suferings
have been mitigated BY q sense Of the
febleness of that aid which I could
render or withdraw. 1haye repenfed,
and / am rebuked and rewarded by
the hopes / now entertain. s.
When / reflect upon the moral, So
cial and political condition Of this once,
greatcountry, thehorrorso of a ciyilwar
if Radicals try to maintain the most
gigantic usurpation Of the rights and
liberties Of a free nation the world
has ever seen. When I behold the
past and present, foretelling the cer~
tain defeat of Radicalism whsn I
catch the throbs of anxiety which
beats not only from the Potomac to
the Rio Grande, but eyen,to the Lakes
of the North, I think like TulIya that
it should be written upon the heads
of each one what he thinks Of the Re-
public" and / am led by no ocommon
feelings of sympathy for an unfortu-
nate race, of love to my country and
hatred to traitors to mention the rea-
sons of my happier hopes for the coun-
try and people. They are embraced
in the wide-received and comprehen-
sive dogma, "failure Of Radicalism."
. Governments tend to decay like
other human institutions, and it re-
quires the greatest energy and watch
fulness Of the people, in whom all
government lies, and from whom it
should emanate, to prevent this
matrix of the greatest evils and bene-
fits from being corrupted. Shortly
since, there were only the signsaof
;incipient decay nboth our State and
General Governments; they we're inss
nowise counterbalanced by the symp-
-touso- oc 1.-.-lsl- -,--szsarA-sat;a Lflhe
people became reckless, and no efforts
were made to withdraw the blasting
current of Radicalism. ! abandoned
all hopes. But now, it cannot be
said "there is q party for Cesar, as
party for Pompey, a party for Brutus,
and none for Rome" The great
milldam OF Democracy is erected.
while the exertions Of the friends Of
true liberty give hope that the Re-
public will be immortal.
1t is hardly now fit or necessary to,
tell wounded man in battle "you
are shot," than to describe. here the
situation of the South, where inter-:
national law is disregarded by which
in all civilized nations the party sur.
rendering are allowed peace as laid (
down in the articles Of capitulation-s
where courts of justice and legislation
have become inquisitions of injustice
where ignoranse rules education,
-and~taxation is without representa-
ton, and not only property but life
itself threatened. AS to the cause Of
this situation, the principal misfor-
tune of the South resulting from the
war was comparative poverty; with
the hopes that we're left, this sor