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Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-04-29

THE BANKRUPT "LAw."-No true Demo-
cra,, or friend to Washington's government,
of whatever party name, seriously believes
that the so.called Congress of the United
States, with ten States excluded for party
purposes, can pass any law that will bear the
test of constitutionality before any proper
court that is not in the interests of the Mon
prels, and will not make their decisions "out-
Side Of the Constitution !" nor will such de-
cisions be submitted to by the people, il they
are made by any such party court on the
bankrupt or any other question that is not
constitutional. Yet thousands OF men are
taking the benefit of the bankrupt law" all
over the land, and paying out thousands OF
dollars in greenbacks to the lawyers and otn'
er officers for playing out such "legar' farce
for them, that in the end will not protect
them particle from their debts. Verify, all
the fools and rascals are not dead yet. do
not mean to say that all are rascals who are
attempting to take the benefit of the bank
rupt @law," though large numbers doubtless
are such; but do say that all of them had
better wait until constitutional Congress
passes bankrupt law, that can bear the test
of constitutionality, before they spend their
money to lawyers and others to take 1t. II
they do not, they will have it all to do over
again at no distant day.-Cor. New York Day
| Book.
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THE DEMOCRATS OF RIcHLAND held an I'M
mense meeting in Columbia Saturday night
last and were addressed by several proml-
nent speakers. Although the excitement OF
the election had passed, the enthusiasm dis
played on the occasion, was very great ihe
following resolutions, amongst others, were
unanimously adopted:
Resolved. That the colored people through
ont the District, favorable to the party, be In
Wed as q mode of action more agreeable 10
themselves, to form cooperative Democratic
clubs. which clubs shall form and make up
the central organization of the District.
Resolved, That the colored people who
have attached their political fortunes to ours,
are entitled to our patronage and support,
and shall receive it; and that this patronage
and support will not be withheld from those
colored persons who may now come forward
and ask to be enrolled. amongst the faithful
in the Democratic ranks.
Resolved, That those colored persons
whu have voted to put upon the white mar
and the coored man of this State, an igno
min,ous Constitution, ruinous like to them
and especially so to us, have f'rfeited many
of their claims to our sympathy and aid, aa'
that the policy Of declining to give. WORK u
those persons, and especially to their Leaders
will be steadily ard firmly carried out by op
fellow. .citizens-due regard being had TO tn
moral and legal obligations of existing con
tracts. and each citizen being at liberty tt
discriminate in behalf of those we'll dispose
and conservative colored men, who may haV
been led astray by the devices of artful an
designing leaders.
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Not a Radical at Heart.

One of the leading white Radicals, who has
disgraced his State, and put blot upon his
own name, it will be hard to rub out, by his
connexion withthe so-called Convention which
recently adjourned at Charleston, was heard
to say, not long since, Immediately after one
of bis dangerous harrangues before a Mass
meeting Of negroes, that he was not Rad.
ical at heart.' This Delegate, except when
actually engaged in the dirty work required
by his party connection, and to do which he
sold himself for the consideration of money
and Office, seeks respectable company. The
humiliation is felt-is deeply felt, and hence
the effort to maintain respectability.
With the exception of the more abandoned
of the white men who are manipulating the
negroes, the delegate in question has no doubt
spoken the truth. They are not Radicals at
heart-tbey are no better friends of the ne
gro than the mass of our honest, respecta-
Bile, intelligent white men who refuse to have
any thing to do with this party Of corruption.
Sumter Watchman.
The aleading white Radical" above alluded
to, is none other than Franklin ]. Moses. Jrs
"a disgrace to his name, his District, and his
State.
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A Story from Paris.

A Paris letter tells the following story Of a
Twelfth Night fete in that city:
A wealthy family in the aristocratic lboule.
ward Malesherbes were amusing themselves
in seeking the Kings portion, or the ring in
the festival cake, when lady of the compa.
ny says to the hostess.
81 wish my portion to be given to the
poorest little boy we can find in the street."
The servant was dispatched on the freezing
night, and not far from the house he found a
ragged urchin, trembling with cold and hun
ger. He brought him up, was ordered. into
the saloon, where thousand Lights glittared,
and sparkling fire gladdened ard surprised
him. He drew his portion, which the benev.
olent lady had promised, and as luck would
have it, the little fellow found the "ring"
(beans they use in Paris unsteady and Of
course, he was King" They all shouted
out, that being King, he must choose
queen. he was asked so to do, and, looking
round the company, he chose the very lady
who had proposed to cede her portion of the
cake. He was asked why he chose her. He
said:
81 don't know! she looks the most like
mother"
Mother! whose mother?"
@My mother never saw her, but was
stolen away from her, and here is her por-
trait"
With this he drew from out his ragged
coat, likeness, which proved to be that of
the lady herself, who, in Italy, had her child
stolen from her, and now he turns up poor
little ragged Savoyard, dragging along a
miserable existence in Paris, while his moth
er, by an intuition, perhaps felt that in the
air near to where she was, was one so dear
to her.
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DRUNKEN CoNaREssMEN.-The Washing
ton correspondent of the Cincinnati Com
mercial, radical paper. speaks OF drunken
Congressman as follows:
There never was greater need than at pres
ent for vigorous prosecution against intem-
perance in high places. Whether Senator
Wilson has become discouraged or disgusted
know not, but he seems to have entirely re-
linouished his Christian efforts Of a year ago,
to reform his Congressional brethren through
the agency of his temperance society. One
gentleman who was an exemplary member OF
tie Congressional Temperance Society, a
wear ago, astorished and appalled, the boar
ders at Willard ; one morning last week, by
entering the breakfast room in his night shirt
at about 10 a. M; another was taken home
in hand cart, not many Sundays since
another, over whose conversation all the Ia
dies were year ago aaturating their hand
kerchiefs, (need l say that he is distinguish
ed Senator from the West?) has been, for
week or more, confined to his room and I
! diet Of picked cabbage to help him over
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F the Advertiser.
To the White People of Edscfcld Dis

trict.
The colorcd people of this District have al
most unanimously joincd the secret Loyal
League; they have sworn to vote and support
none unless they belong to their own League
either white or black. The colored people,
at the late election, voted almost unanimous
lv for the Union League nominations. They
intend that all offices shall be filled by mem
bcrs of their League; and ii they cannot
carry the elections by fair means they will by
foul.
Now what is the duty Of the white people
in this District? Is it to sit down and suffer
these coorcd people, and these while scala
wags who belong 70 the Union League to rule
this State? Is it not our duty to Immediate
ly form Clabs and pledge ourselves not 10
vote for one of the members of this Union
League, and not to employ them in any
capacity whatever. When our present con-
tracts with them expire, let us cease to give
them employment, either as farm hands, me-
chanics, or tradesmcn' of any sort; cease to
give them work let them look to the mem
bcrs of their League for support patronlze
only your friends There are plenty OF la
borers in the South, who do not belong to the
Union Leagues. If they refuse to work al
living prices, form Joint stock companies and
get them from Europe.
Let the Planters SOW down large port'ol
OF their.ands, cultivate but little, and manure
we'll. Nine.tcnths of the freedmen are no
worth employing; they are more oil an agsra
vation than profit. am aware that many
farmers merchants and shopkeepers think
will be for their interest to join neither Club
the Union League nor the white mans CLUB
: that they would make more money oy re
naming neutral. Well, if they. prefer TO b
ruled BY negroes and scalawags and to haV
their property and income taxed to support
, negro government, 1, for one, am not; and
, do not intend to be ruled by these Un'o
, Leagues. Show decidedly aud at once
these freedmen, who are cndeavoring to pu
; down white mans government and erect
, black mans government in the place. tha
you will not give them your influence nc
! patronage.
! 1t is time every white man should look tn
subject square in the face. If you fail
y make an effort now, you must renounce
a hope of living in peace with colOred people
!, and all hope Of getting Office unless you Jo
- the Union League. Ifycu sit. down and mat NJ
no effort to maintain !. white mans part
. YOU will deserve to be ruled by the bla'
> man aud deserve the fate in store for 20
il you prefer money to every thing else. =
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Mt. Willing, April l6, 1868.

Soururny MURpERs-WH COMMITS Them
Whenever any Radical firebrand, loyal lea
ouer or negro IS killed, or turt in the South
The Radical press and orators of the North
make r a terrible nose about it. They ring the
chaoges and howl day after day about reocl
outrares. rebel hatred and rebel murderers,
Init we never hear anything from them con,
cerninq the murdered Southern whit and
black ou,rages. The Radical papers are fuli
of sensation accounts and denunclatlons OF
the murder of Ashburn, in Georgia, but they
saw nothing about the one-aEmed ex, Conted
crate soldier who was shot dead on his horse
rec.ntly near Selma, Alabama, or OF the 9th,
or four white men who have been murdered
in the same vicinity since the war and no one
arrested for these murders No, we hear moth.
ing from these Radicals of the numerous 9th
er murders of the conquered Sou hern whites
and oulrages on them in other iocsiities OF
the South, because there is every reason to
believe this is the work of the black ioyal
lenguers. At public procession and meet
ing of negroes at Mac~n, Georgia, on March
30ath, the "loyal blacks' carried banner on
which the figure of negro, cut in pasteboard
hung dangling from galows, and to whlef
was 4 attached, on piece of white paper, the
following inscription :--"iEvery man tha
don't vote a Radical ticket this is the way w
want to do him-hang him by the neck;
These Radical loyal league negroes bold,
proclaimed, too, tha, the negro who failed t!
register Should receive thirty nine lashess;
he failed to vote at The election, two hundred
lasbes. and if he voted the Democratic ticke
he should be hanged. Need we be surprised
then, that white southerners are MURDERS
in every part of the South and that the mu5
derers are not arrested2 The Northern frleno
OF these black barbarians pretend not to kno,
ANYTHING about their nurderous dolngs.,
is Clear that the South under Radical rule
fast teading to anarchy and to- a worse COZ
dition than st. Domingo was ever I'm.
4 Herald.
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Expressive of Our Sentiments on the
Subject.

G. Washington Bricks, of the Louisville
-la4zuA " gets alt the following, to which we
staple or fancy dry goods, that I absolnteIv-
adore it is white petticoat-a very rfifsS-
one of course and if there is anything In the
same line that absolutely do not adore, but
{" so far from it on the contrary, qaite the re-
verse;" it is a colored one. have always
thought that snowy petticoat and pair OF
snowy stockings, with pretty girl concealed
in them, possess more gilded and sugar coat
ed enchantment for the refined and poetic
soul than any other objects upon which the
sun Shines or has ever shone. OF course this
presupposes q pretty foot and ankle with
eaiter boots-aot slippers-to match. Not
one in thousand of heavens last, best gilt,
can in the presence of artistic or critical taste,
wear slippers with any degree Of safety. The
foot and ankle must be the perfection Of sym
metrical beauty, or the slipper is nuisance
which should be abated, if it cannot be done
otherwise, by legislative enactment. When
nv appetite is unimpaired, can take drink
of we'll advertised bitters-not such as every
vagrant plank fence and vagabond wall. con-
stantly call upon me to "trY"-and enjoy a
good dinner very comfortably upon colored
table cloth; but if / were to marry the love-
liest of girls, and should detect her in the act
Of wearing colored petticoat, there is not
the slightest doubt, especially if we happened
to he living in Chicago, that we would find
ourselves involved in divorce suit before We
were ton years older; A girl who is ha6itu. i
allv addicted to the habit of wearing thing
of that sort, would, on goingto housekeeping
have all her plates and cups and saucera of
copperas color to hide dirt. No; as have
already rs intimated, wouldn't give a Cancelled
two.cent postage stamp for better grounds
for divorce, if were in want OF such
grounds, than the introduction into my family
Of colored petticoatand pair OF blue, gray
or lead colored stockings. They are part
of young lady's wearing apparel which mel,
ther gods nor men are said to permit, and
, girls should be educated to know it. There
IS not a more beautiful accomplishment, wher
, it il once known.
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Drifting.
;aloue.paiono Ion ouastarless,s sea- sea-


gAlong.yaaiono onastarless. sea
No rift in the cloud-no promise of day
And the hoarse waves mutter with cruel glee,
AS they lap the cold crags and moan for their
prey; 5
While driving before the pitiless gale, y !
/! With storm-rent canvass and straining mast,
My feeble cry, like an infants wall,
Is drowned in the roar Of the rising blast.
All weHFremember that halcyon time-
-, For Hope was eager and Youth was brave
WhenI launched my. skin in the summer primes
And drifted along with the smiling wave;
And, crownedwiagroses she 'knclt beside,
And I basked in the light Of her loving eyes,
And the lilies swayed on the rocking tide,
And life was dream Of Paradise.
5Bysunlis ssmeadoHs through groves Of palm,
Beneath skies 81 softest and binest weather,
Where the warm South breath'd like an Orient
balm,
Down that glorious stream We noated together,
Unknowing, unheeaing ofpain OF. .0fwrong, :
. Nor life had a care, NOR earth sorrow;
Each day was sweet as a lovers song,
And closed but to promise brighter morrow.
Borne gently on by perfumed breeze,
We glided away from the happy shore I
Like those who are waited on magic seas,
With no aid of helm, or Of sail or oar xxs
On and on to loves boundless main, - -
= Where loves star that sets in o roseate sky
But quenches his torch to relumc it again
In the fadeloss light ofeternity. - ~ I
And while we we're chanting loves sweetest
hymns,
And weaving garlands the songs between,
And slipping the bubbles that burst on the brims
Of flashing goblets of Hippocrene-
Nota cloud in the sky, not shade on the wave
With an arrow of lightning the air was riven,
And, before could stretch ont an arm to save,
She had passed on wing of flame to Heaven
Oh, God ! lift vain hands in my need;
cover and shrink in this desperate night;
Is there none to save, and none to heed /?
Will no headland burst into sudden light?
No rift in the cloud! no promise of day
Alone alone on starlesssea!
And the maddened breakers, that claim their
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think better Of the people of Edgefeld.
Let every neighborhood, every Beat Compa-
ny, every Battalion form Clubs. Go into
this matter with a determination to succeed.
Let the people have mass meeting at the
Court House on Saleday in May. Commence
at once; see your neighbors; get all to join
the white mans party. After getting twenty.
five names, call meeting in each neighbor-
hood, and adopt constitution. And next
sale-day let all turn out at the Court House,
and have this subject discussed.
Yours, Respectfully,
~ 49,. OLIVER.
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vicksburg papers give some account Of a
horrible and mysterious butchery, committed
on Saturday, near Omega, La. On that day
the people Of the neigh5orhood discovered the
house Of Mr.. Henry keenan, to be burning,
and on repairing to the spot, found that Mrs.
keenan, and her two children had been mur.
dered and burned. On further search, ihe The
body of Mr.. keenan, was found about 2V9
wards from the house, covered with leaves ana
bark from the trees, with ten bullet holes m
his back. There was no living person on the
premises.
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VOLUME XXyII.-No. is.
prolonged earouse terminating in the deli
RUNS. Nor is this all. Would that it were.
1t is not even the worst.
The True Gentleman.


'Tis he whose every thought and deed
By rules Of virtue moves;
Whose generous tongue disdains to speak
The thing his heart disproves.
Who never did slander forge,
His neighbor's fame to wound;
Nor hearken to a false report,
By malice whispered round.
Who vice, in oil its pomp and power,
Can treat with just neglect;
And piety, though clothed in rags,
Religiously respect.
Who to his plighted word and trust
Has ever firmly stood;
And though he promise to his loss,
He makes his promise good.
Whose soul in usury disdains
His treasure to empty;
Whom no reward can ever bribe
The guiltless to destroy.
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Estate Notice.

TT, persons having claims against the s.: Estate
a of ". r. MIDDLETON, decd, are notified
10 present tho same to the nae Esss are
delay, and those indebted to SAID hS'A'' a'' f'
quossod to pay up f1TthT1foj r hMTTpDrErou, Adn,or
os. o, 1857 q y. sly I 's' Il
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wD. J. Curtis. Freednan's Bureau agent
in Georgia, has beon Sentenced to pay o iine OF
,hreo hundred dollars, and to'aix moptas' impris-
oument for ualfeasanco in ofioo.
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children, seen but not heard, in all religious
matters, which, as I before said, are really
also political. Respectfully, :.
S. F. WALDRo."
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ns- Among tho two millions of people by
whom Jeddo in Japan is inhabited, there isnot n
beggar in the streets, not u maa unable to read'
not boor, not a drunkard, not q ruaian. The
women nre beautiful, the men are erobust and encr-
retic; there is no trouble about fashions; cduca-
tion is universal, books PLENTIFUL though there
are no newspapers; life is simple and easy, mar
riogo is universal, and the children 60 naked.
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BEEF MARKET.

I WILL CONTINUE TO FURNISH GOOD
REEF and MUTTON to the people of Edgefeld
IN Monday, Wednesday and Saturday mornings
a. reasonable prices, but STRICTLY FOR CASH.
"A. GLOVER, Agent
Jan % sizE@ 5ltf s.r'