Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-06-03

scat s entitled 70 IT, because no valid election will
have beon held in tho South for Representatives,
in the 4lssSspgress. :asa Radicals on the other
hand rilIstsHe. ground tha election has
been heldsahhd that as thesassR Relssger got
3msjprity SttHsyasss essosa9 tkap pedman's
B+pau, kss4o Iss Eafas the seat.
AEthe BSHs csAshmit orss ias members
ss{ pleasss tithA Jet or from any
Saaiter, a assajeis gu Sf 'und contested Abers from
sHs tNorslssSdaaia I've to,decidea 5ssher the Car
PCT Baggers or Democrats ssEodfd represent the
South.
iFf'lThe Radicals have resolved on controlling the
next House, or to leave nothing undone. As they
feel perfectly sure of the next Presidential cleo
ton by being able to count the whole electoral
vote of the South if necessary for their candidates,
they may also feel strong enough on the Presi-
denoy 20 attempti the next p0puiar elections at
the North to srOep Presideptial gptsi f9rc
sional votes, especially in close contest for Con-
gress but our friends there will be on the alert.
Another plan of theirg judging BY the past will
be to contest every Northern Democrats seat,
when the slightest pretext shall ofer. The small
lest rregularity and even close election will be
ground enough. Our friends there have been
swindled out Of too many seats in the present
Congress- not to observe every preoautiop for hay
ing q majority of uncontested members from the
North at the organization Of tho next Congress'
and we must see to it that in any event every
Carpet Bagger's seat from the South. shall be
called in question. II the Freedmau's -Burean
] should declare any Democratic Representative
elected at the South, as may be expected in few
cases from policy. the seat Of such Democrat
wOuld be contested, and he be turned cut if ip
their power, and if necessary to give the Radicals
control of the House. ....-... -,
Therefore we should never permit 6fty-six Car
pet Baggers to vote at the organization Of tho
next House to give themselves seats to expel our
Northern friends and complete the ruin Of tie
South. We can prevent it, and must do it, or be
traitors to ourselves. Nor would such course on
the part Of the Southern people be fighting the
Devil with fire. Itwould simply bc .using the
only Constitutional power yet left theIa except the
Supreme Court, to vindicate their rights. Then
once more, I beg every undisfranchised Democrat,
in every Congressional District Of the South to go
to the polls at the next Congressional election,
and vote for some brave honest man Who will not
fail to be at the organization of the next Hmse to
give ostle for ostle to his Carpet Bag contastapt
and as the Carpet Bagger's expenses will bepaid
by the Freedman's Bureau. or from some stolen
public fund, our people should subscribe money
TO cover the outlay of the contesting Democrat
The funds which may be raised by tho Demce ATTIC
Clubs can much better be expended in this way,
than in publishing documents to advocate quail.
fed negro suffrage, or than in buying badges Of
General Hampton's Executive Committee for me-
gro Democrats to wear, or than in footing. the
Bills of the Thomas Committee OF Washington to
beg Thad. Stevens for compromise. Except in
the weakness of their measures before the Su-
preme Court, the next House of Representatives
is the fesblest point in the Radical lines, and Iis
ihero that they must be assailed on every side Of
the Ballot Box, and at the organization Of the
House. tits only at the organization that the
Southern people MAJ be able TO take any effective
part. It is some consolation for Southern Demo
Gratis to know that they can give their friends a
the North fair play IN good fight for the mex
House, and that if the Northern Democrats gain
the House, the South will not much longer con
tinue undor the Despot's heel. 1t is 10 be hoped
therefore that our people will keep their eye'
steadily fixed on the next Federal elections, eapc
cially for Ehe House. These arc the gsand battle
fields yhcreon the liberties of the South are to be
lost or won, and not at the ptiable farcss of Bo-
gus State elections. That theso latter, and the
profored compromise of qualified negro suffrage
lately rendered to the Radicals, arc no practical
remedies for Southern wrongs, 1 will attempt to
show in subsequent papers.
CD. TILLMAN.