Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-10-14
The Way to Peace.

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speech recently delivered at Dayton,
Ohio, by Hon. C. L. Vallandigham:
Depend upon it, gentlemen, no party
whose only ccmenting element is SYM
pathy of hatred, can ever be permanent
mi power, or even in existence.
With large multitudes of men, this
spirit of hate was the controlling motive
throughout the late civil war, and has
continued to govern them at every step
I'm their efforts at reconstruction. But
with smaller, yet far more dangerous
Eclass of politicians, the sole aim for the
| last three years has been the perpetual
ton of Republican rule, through the
negroes of the. South. 70 this basest
of motives and purposes the public
good and the pacitication of the country
has been steadily sacrificed; and. worse
vet, all constitutional limitation afto-
gether disregarded. Signally defeated
in their efforts to establish negro suffrage
and equality in the North and West,
they have now impudcntly in their
platform proclaimed that here each
State shall regulate suffrage for itself,
while at the South the elective franchise
shall be determined by the Congress Of
the United States. Acting upon the
double motive Of hate and the desire
| to maintain partisan supremacy, they
have disfranchised large majority OF
the white population of the Southern
States, and conferred upon the negroes,
by Act of Congress, the right to vote ;
and then at the point Of the bayonet,
have proceeded to establish seven State
Governments, controlled by negroes OF
white adventures meaner than they
mere soiourners, birds Of passage, and
very foul birds at that and have gone
through the farce of admitting them
into the Union and to the right of rep
resentation in the Senate and the House,
and full vote in the Electoral College
for President. In this manner gentle
men, tlrey expect to control the legisla-
ton and the elections of the country.
And these ignorant, british negroes Of
South Carolina and Florida, and the
other States, do. now; make laws and
levy taxes and create public debt fol
yon, white men of Ohio and they ex-
pect to overrule your choice for Presi-
dent.
I Yes, gentlemen, under these Repub-
tlican Reconstruction Acts, enforced by
an army for which you pay heavy taxes
out of your hard earnings, half mil
lion of negroes in South Carolina, rein,
forced by some thousands of adventu.
Iirous white loafers from the North and
West, will control as many electoral
! votes as million of white men in Ohio
Aye, and at this present moment the
Governor" so-called, of that State
elected by negroes, under an Act o
Congress, and through the aid OF youl
army, is a citizen of Ohio, having a le
gal settlement here; SO that if he would
become pauper-and South Caroline
is very poor now, and no Longer
able to enrich her satraps-the prop
Ell township in the county of Henry
in this State, could be compelled tt
maintain him as public charge. Anc
moreover, General Willard Warner,
noble confrere of his from Ohio, has,
observe, just been elected a Umtet
States.Senator from Alabama.
These are the doings Of the Republi
can party, and if not marvellous in youl
eyes, they are at least costly to youl
pockets. These are a part Of the bles
sings over which the Chicago platform
exults, and q, continuance, and, indeed
a multiplication of which they promis,
upon the election Of General Ulysses 5
Grant. y.
Now, gentlemen, suppose for mo
ment that the case were reversed, ant
the South had wagcd SUCCESSFUL wa
of conquest against you here In tn
! West. and had compelled, by force ant
arms, the introduction of slavery here
and YOU surrendered in good faith, un
der pledge and promise of all otbe
rights within the Union, under the Con
stitution; and that when you had NJ
further power to resist, a Southern
Congress. had, at the point of the bayo
net, forced constitutions, government
t and laws upon you against your will
and that victorious and insolent Soutl
Carolina had sent un here the meanes
and basest of her vagabond Sand Hill
citizens with carpetbags in their hands
to represent You, the once free whit
men Of Ohio, in the Senate and Hous
at the Federal Capital, and to usurp tn
places once filled by the Morrows, til
McLeans, the Corwins, the Ewinss, tn
Hamers, and the Aliens of this gloriou
= ..l,t mould hay.a hoo