Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-06-10

the rising of the sun to the going down thereof,
and never relinquish tho combat until his black
and bloody cohorts wero bafled and defeated, or
exterminated from the face Of the earth. This
illustrates precisely our position. We have in
our midst political element which is at war
with US. tits weak, blind, wicked and infatuated,
and capable of doing untold mischief, if not
opposed and checked. But wo are the su-
pcrior party in wealth intelligence, and in
all the requisites and appliances of the contest
We are to wage with them, only We are of q little
higher quality than they, and we fear that We
may get little soiled by the conflict we are 70
have with thom, and We must stand aloof; We
must preserve and guard our caste and quality,
if they do assume the mastery over us; if they
do pass aggrarian laws to govern US; if they do
reduce our wives to equality with their women;
if they do tax US to support their lazy drones,
and if they do overthrow the constitution and the
liberties of the country Great God protect us
from such quality and caste rs this! Vouchsafe
to US, for the sake of Hesyen, a little common
sense, and little practical judgment, and in two
or three years, at most, all will be well again
in the glorious Palmetto State. Let us organize
strictlyas q conservative party, nominate the
most capable and available men for Office, without
regard to our individual interests. Let personal
preferences and personal prejudices yield to The
public good, and let us gather in all the votes We
can from the ranks of the adversary, and by all
the legitimate means in our power. And in such
q strife, we need not be dainty as to the means
employed. We must fight the Devil with fire,
and in the moro forcible than polished language
of an old patriot, zacharinh Smith Brooks, Of
Revolutionary memory, "we will fight him like
He'll"
lam not vain ind weak enough, Fellow-Citi.
ssns to counsel resort to arms at this junoture,
and in our utterly PROSTATE, exhausted condition,
whilst we have agreed to suspension Of hoatili.
tisS and are trying to abide in good faith, atruce
or quasi compromise with our Northern bretheren.
Nothing but the lust extremity of distress, after
We have had recourse to every peaceable measure
Of redress, should drive US to this desperate and
cruel alternative. Neither would employ any
means of propiiating the negro, inconsistent with
the most unsullied honor, and the most spntless
integrity. We must have faith in our cause, but
work with indefatigable zeal and industry" trust
in God, but keep onr powder dry" In the main
tenance of great principles, in the accomplish
ment of enterprises of pith and moment, even in
the dissemination of truth ITSELF it is needful and
wise to avail ourselves of all suitable agencies and
instrumentali.es within our reach.
close alliance, therefore, without the sacrifice
of their dignity and independence, should be
formed by the conservative men of the South, with
tho Democrats or conservative men of the North.
It is true, that tho two peoples have different
conception, in some respects of tho genuine nature
of American Democracy. In the South, It is more
akin to conservatism, it is moro jealous of State
akin to conservatism, it is more jealous Of State
rights, of individual rights, Of infractons Of the
Constitution of the Republic, and in common par
lance, is more genteel than at the North. The
Southern Democrat worshipg the ancient liberties,
and the Constitution of his fathers, whilst the
Northern Democrat makes the Union, the God of
his idolatry. Harmony cannot be perfect between
US, because they smell of blood, and they pant for
universal equality, universal suffrage, and univer-
sal empire whilst those OF us here, who have
had the advantage of liberal education, enter
tain decided preference for qualified suffrage,
and would, by no means, reverse the general law
OF nature, as to mans equality, to make it con-
form to the Declaration of Independence, or sub
scribe to the dogma, that yankee Doodle" is a
greater manifestation of genius and musical taste,
than all the compositions of Mozart.
Still there are manypoints, and many vital con-
sttutional principles upon which VIC can cordially
affiliate. On these zoe have stood, and their
fathers and ours have stood, and fought shoulder
to shoulder ifvai er0- INSTRUMENTATION WV
ernment to this very hour. 1t was apparent, in
the very inception Of our national existence, that
the United States then had, and would continue
to have, two distinct and powerful parties, eter-
nally struggling for the mastery in the common
wealth,--onc of these was tho Federal, Radical,
Wing, or Republican party, that advocated a
strong central consolidated government, that pro-
claimed the will of the majority to be the supreme
law of tho land,-to be superior to the constitu-
ton itself,-to be the. voice of God; that would
invest Congress with all power and all authority
to the destruction and annihilation of the other
departments, and coordinate branches Of the
Government :. that would tax one industry to SUI.
tain another, and encourage Free Trade by high
duties on imports and prohibitory Tariffs; that
would impoverish and depress the agriculturisl
and producer, for the benefit and aggrandizemsnt,
of tho manufacturer and speculator; that would
make the rich richer, and the poor poorer; that
would ignore the rights of the States, nulliy the
constitution, and mock st the liberties of the peo-
pie; and that would squander the public money,
suspend the RuJeas Corpus and make arbitrary
arrests, and maintain large standing armies in
time of peace, and would establish in the land, q
despotism of numbers, moro odious and intolera-
BILE than that of the Gear of Russia, the Emperor
of Austria, or the Sultan of Turkey. Aye, ii
would do moro than all this. In the wantonnoss
of power, and in contradiction to all the humane
ma1ms of the age, and with refinement of cru
city, from which the bloody hearts Of. Nero and
Caligula would have shrunk aghast, they have set
up and established in authority over their white
masters, the black slaves, in ten of tho most gal.
liant States Of tbe Union. In tho declining days
of Greece, when her government had degenerated
even below an upbrided Democracy, and when
pre-eminont virtues were made, by miserable
rabble, the prote1t for ostracisng, and banishing
for period her best and noblcst citizens, and
when the malignant Greek would write the name
of Aristides upon tho she'll, because he hated to
hear him called the just his bnrbarity and injus-
tico shocked and astonished the surrounding ma
tiQns, and it has furnished the poet and historian
themo of satire for more than thousand years
But ostracism was harmless, ostracism was merci,
al r,incn of LnSned n1,t