Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1868-08-12

and who yet are lying round here seeking
AID bargaining 10 get otfice from Legsia
ture which every line Of Democ.atic.principles
declares 10 be an illegal and illegitimate body,
shame, shame upon you. Ii this usnrpmg
Governor and Assembly had sufficient regard
for the countrys welfare to tender positions
to Democrats, even the acceptance of such
positions would present question for serious
consideration. Willie l will not. condemn
those who: differ with me, I must be permit
ted to say for myself that no earthly consid-
Grafton or power could induce or force me to
so far recognize them as to accept an Office ut
their hands For myself, hold them to be
nothing but wicked, willful and corrupt usur-
pers el power, by authority Of none but stran-
gers and deiuded negroes, and wanton con.
spirators to subvert the legitimate govern
pent of our State, and as such shall hold
myself in readiness to visit upon them, By
proper legal process, the penalties due to their
crimes. LIDO not ofcourse, include in these
remarks the Democratic members. These are
there to preusnt the mischiefs / announce.
Their positions are necessarily unpleasant.
But they are making sacrifices by the votes
Of Our people, anG are patriots, doing all the
good they can, or rather preventing all the
evil they can, and merit our regard. But
those who voluntarily come forward to beg
Office oil such body; above al, those Who,
either in the Legislature or out of it. make
bargains with Radical usurpers to get office
for themselves or their friends-to all such
repeat, shame, shame upon you!
One thing more will be necessary to 8
proper expression of the abhorrence of our
people for the infamous attempt TO destroy
the Union by destroying the equality oftbe
States, snd for the measures, authors and adj
vocatcs Of this whole scheme to degrade the
States and people of the South. When lib
erty shall return, W hen the law shall be again
respected, and good men shall again be our
rulers, We must gather all the Journals; and
constitutions, and enactments, and records of
every character of the conventions ard as
semblies, thus forced upon us by force, aud
fraud, aud usupation. and, catching fire from
Heaven, burn them up forevcr
And right here, my countrymen, want
you to understand that am candidate but
for one Office on Garth. Several voices shame
it and you shall have lt.;'l When the glori
GUS day shall come and the free women, and
the free men and the laughing children and
the proud youth of Georgia, shall gather to-
gether to fire the miserable, hdeous record
OF tiffany, let the office be mine to kindls the
flames. Tremendous cheers lasting several
minutes.l That is all want. I would have
my children know, / would have my children's
children to know, if my humble life shall be
remembered so long, that from first to last,
through thick and through thin, fought this
attempt TO disgrace our people, and that at
the sequel kiniled the fire that consumed
the infamous record Of its existence. That
will be proud day, my countryme:, that
will be glorious day when you and | can
look each other in ths face and feel as no
Grecian ever felt--as no Roman ever felt,
that We have. passed through the most trying
ordeal in the canals OF humanity, and, as q
people, have come out gold-pure gold. Take
courage, my countrylen, that happy day
shall come. The Union of equal States as
made by our fathers shall be ours again. The
disunion OF unequal States which Radical
treason seeks to make shall not be. With the
records of the vile attempt, We will build the
bonfire of the Constitutions triumph. By its
Around @ q t6e M & Burning pilsI We allga.her.onr
wives and little ones and strike up anew the
song of our deliverance, and3as the ascending
smoke shall rise high in the skies, it will wake
the notes of our heroes in bliss, and Heaven
and earth shall ring with the universal sym
phony well done! Well done! noble peo.
Pile! Through sorrows the most bitter, through
trials the most severe, through misfortunes
multiplied and prolonged, you have passed
with your honor unsullied growing brighter
and brighter. Enter again into tho joys of
freedom here and fiually into the realms of
the good hereafter
Mr.. Hill took his seat amidst the most
vociferous applause.