The Fairfield herald. [volume] (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1849-1876, 1868-06-24
CFrom tho Now York Revolution. ]
Tue Republican Party Daguorreotyped
by Radical and "LoYal' Pen,

Tue Republican Party Daguorreotyped
4 by Radical and Loyal" Pen.
q Republicans elected Andrew johnson
tor party success; they impeached him
tor party success and since the day the
Fsceptre of power came into their hands
they have worked for party success
Father than the nations life.
4 While they have deceived the people
( with the cry Of constitutional amend
nent, loyalty. negro suffrage, impeach-
Ement, they have shown themselves dis,
loyal to tho grand principles of our
Government, by their attempts to drag
down the Federal Constitution to their
low platform; to force negro suffrage on
the South whlo rcpudiating it in the
Northern States; and after proving the
President guilty ofhigh crimes and mis-
demeanors, strangling impeachment
swith their own hands.
\ And now the handwriting OIL the wall
warns them that they are ,"weighed N
I tue balance and found wanting" The
Republican party stands to day with its
ranks broken, divided, distracted, bias,
ed. and the sccp're OF power has passed
from it forever. But this ls no cause Of
sorrow, Tor the sooner this party is scat.
! tered to the four winds OF heaven, the
sooner will the scales fall from the ewes
soi the people, and they will see ,ha,
their leaders have been bu, blind leaders
Of the blind.
Jeremy Bentham says "the people
cannot be too distrustful Of their rulers. "
/ When the American people learn thai
men and pal ties arc nothing unless bas.
sed on principle, and that whether under
Republican or Democratic dynasty, W,
! sh.ve the same results they will wax,
to tho responsibility Of scll-govern.
ment.
4 AS we turn over the pages Of history,
ave can see how other nations. grooming
;undcr taxation, lgnorance and poverty.
have been delugcd, blinded and destroy.
led, without dreaming that we ourselve.
sare to-day the thongh'less victims oI
ssellish aud crafty rulers who think onl,
sor their own aggrandizement. Just as
Rome, with fe,es and feas,s, with hol
days and deadly combats between man
! and beasts, and gladiatorial exhibitions
Sin crowded amphilhcalres turned the
peoples thoughts from their own wrongs
$50 do our rulers to day, with caucusscs.
conventions, campaigns, Impeachment,
4 trials and the coarse brutality of the
! press and politicians, amnsc the people,
I degrade the public taste, and destroy
I the virtnc Of the nation. Un,hinkine
{ leaders mflame the North against all
srebeldom, and damn every man who
dares put in plea Of justice and mercy
] to the South, with the unmeaning name
/ OF "copperhcad" 10 rouse the peoples
wrath their brave sires and sons bleach
; ing on all those Southern plains, forget
!; ting that with their own hands thev
built that sepulchre where our brave
] Edead now sleep. The chain that held
tho black boy in tho everglades OF
Florida and the slave girl in New Or
leans market was fastened around the
1 meek OF New Englands sons and daugh.
ters. Through our avarice and selfish
sness tho land of orange groves and flow.
Sers lies BILE. ding and desolate to-day
Blame not The South, but our own con-
Ss,iutions, creeds and codes
But while wo ended with tie sword
Sslavery of brute force, and overturned
tho Southern oligarchy, by cunning
Slesislation we have substituted another
form of slavery in our new system of
finance. In our NATIONAL debt and tax
aation, we havo placed TIE whole labor
Iof the country at the mercy Of money.
led aristocracy of banks. bondholders and
/ land monopolists. Having just escaped
from the yoke of 100000 Shareholders
we arc about to bow our necks to the
! yoke Of 400, 900 hondholders. Flushed
with conquest. these High Art Swim.
oilers" have bought up the nations vir
tue and choked our prophets who have
dared to speak.
q GRANT TYRANr.--Grant is essen.
ssenLially e tyrant. AS late as 1906, one
year after the war closed, he suppressed
tho Richmond (Va.) Examiner, because
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